[Alberta's Child]

BTW, I've got my own bone to pick with Coleen Rowley. You don't write a memo eight months after 9/11, release it to the media, and have it held up to the public as a "smoking gun."

If she had any credibility she would have written the thing on September 12, 2001, not in May of 2002 after the sh!t had already started to hit the fan.

[Howlin]

Precisely. Why now???

[Steve_Seattle]

"if she had any credibility she would have written it on September 12th"

I agree completely. Her sending the memo (and leaking it to the press) eight months after the fact struck me as self-serving from the get-go. I think she has visions of being portrayed by Jodie Foster in the film "September 11th," coming soon [probably] to a theatre near you.

[Paul Ross]

She didn't release it to the Press. It was leaked by the usual suspects in the Congressional oversight committee it was delivered to. Have you read it? Taken at face value, she was hoping for an honest review of the internal screw-up at FBI HQ, and when it looked like it was all going to be swept under the rug, and the Al-Quaeda FBI mole (well, at least that is what FBI Mpls thought of Maltbie) get away with his running interference and get promoted to boot...all the while denigrating the field agents for 'screwing things up.' Yeah, like maybe screwing up his shot at an undeserved pension. Too freaking bad.