[1Old Pro]

Gorelick, Bob Kerrey, Bill Klintoon et al, they all did NOTHING. This commission should be behind closed doors while we're at war. Instead, it's a political partisan platform for the Democrat Bush haters.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Instead, it's a political partisan platform for the Democrat Bush haters."

True. We knew what the problem was more than a year ago - lack of communication between the CIA and FBI, the FBI dropping a couple of potential leads because of bureaucratic inertia, lackadaisical enforcement of immigration regulations, and a liberal sprinkling of political correctness. All this talk of high-level briefings, budget cuts, etc., is largely irrelevant. the current National Review summed it up concisely: the cumulative effects of our political culture allowed 9-11 to happen.