[Eva]

Of course, the CIA and the FBI need a complete review and over-haul, but not now, not in public. We need to depend on the credibility of the CIA and FBI to prosecute terrorists. If we start to undermine the credibility of these agencies, we will be udermining the case against terrorism.

All we need to do is look at the history of such investigations to realize that they serve not useful purpose, anyway. Congress is not interested in reigning in out of control government agencies. All Congress wants to do is put on their little dog and pony shows to try to fool the public into thinking that politics can be morally correct.

[Plummz]

Maybe their crdibility *needs* to be destroyed if we're ever to see real progess against terrorism - especially if the 9/11 operation benefited from inside help, as so many "terrorist" incidents before then have.

[KirkandBurke]

We need to depend on the credibility of the CIA and FBI to prosecute terrorists. If we start to undermine the credibility of these agencies, we will be udermining the case against terrorism.

Their credibility is shot and this is not about terrorism.

[DLfromthedesert]

I respectfully disagree. American citizens are being mauled and robbed at airports by non-citizens in the name of "security"; we have people clamoring for national IDs; we've had a law passed that nukes our Fourth Amendment Rights; we have police watching us with cameras, all because of 9/11.

We have EVERY right to know who screwed up and why. Furthermore, I don't trust any of these clowns to round up terrorists. Notice how we've expelled all illegals after 9/11 ....NOT!! Au contraire, we have the Prez clamoring to make illegals legal, and our borders are as porous as ever.

[mindprism.com]

Of course, the CIA and the FBI need a complete review and over-haul, but not now, not in public. We need to depend on the credibility of the CIA and FBI to prosecute terrorists. If we start to undermine the credibility of these agencies, we will be udermining the case against terrorism.

So we postpone fixing the deficiencies in order to artificially maintain public credibility?

The popular illusion is more important than the functional reality?