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The whole argument is nuts. When I saw that Richard Ben Venista was on the committee, I knew GW would be taking it in the shorts.

I tried to watch some of it on C-SPAN, but left when Max Cleland (drunk out of his mind) went on an anti-Bush, anti-Republican rant that caused him to tilt his wheelchair dangerously leeward.

This committee is a travesty and ranks up there with the Civil Rights Commission (P-tewy!).

I don't care if Condi Rice, Louie Freeh and Mueller had all gotten memos in their fortune cookies telling them where, when and by whom the terrorists would strike...they couldn't have done a thing about it. Nobody could have.

And even if the terrorists hadn't had box cutters, like Barbara Olsen and everyone on her flight, passengers on those planes would have thought that their plane being hi-jacked just meant they'd be late for dinner.

Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle AUGUST 2-8, 2002
New evidence that the Bureau quashed another terror probe before 9/11
by Jim Crogan: The Weekly has learned that Chicago-based special agent Robert Wright has accused the agency of shutting down his 1998 criminal probe into alleged terrorist-training camps in Chicago and Kansas City. The apparent goal of the training camps, according to confidential documents obtained by the Weekly, was to recruit and train Palestinian-American youths, who would then slip into Israel. Recruits at these camps reportedly received weapons training and instruction in bomb-making techniques in the early 1990s. The bomb-making curriculum included the sort of explosives later used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. And government documents state that two trainees came from the Oklahoma City area.

One alleged trainer at the terror camps is now fending off a government lawsuit to seize his bank accounts, car and property for alleged money laundering on behalf of the militant group Hamas. So far, no one has been prosecuted for these alleged terrorism-related activities.

The official government position is that Middle Eastern groups had no involvement in the 1995 bombing carried out by Timothy McVeigh, and that conclusion may stand the test of time. The FBI, however, never fully investigated leads suggesting a different verdict, according to law-enforcement and government sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. Congressional investigators are starting to re-examine the entire matter. There's also another troubling question: Why has the FBI dismissed or ignored evidence linking the Oklahoma City bombing to the Middle East? http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/37/news-crogan.php

Deb wrote: The whole argument is nuts. When I saw that Richard Ben Venista was on the committee, I knew GW would be taking it in the shorts.

They haven't got him yet and Rove is a shrewd customer, so I don't think Dubya & co would appoint people who would do them dirt.

However, if I were George Tenent and some other embeded Clintonistas I might be updating my resumé about now.