Well, to be fair, The Wall has been known, but what hasn't been known is that intelligence had detected these people in advance and then got shut down by The Wall on flimsy grounds. Up until now, it had seemed that The Wall simply left us blind to anything, not deliberately suicidal.
One good thing about this is that even if Podhoretz's position is correct, and I don't say it is, it pushes the story into more than one yes-or-no area. There's a lot to look at here. I just think it's better to get all the facts together and THEN attack Gorelick and company, rather than wanting to get her so bad and then cobbling together some facts with half-truths.
good point.