I wonder if it's official or if it's meerly "sources within the pentagon" who are saying this.
If it's sources then I guarantee that it's just spin.
If it's official then I want to know who made the call. If it was Rummy then I'm willing to go with the statement (depending on what is actually in it) as being in good faith, though I still want hearings and people under oath.
Wonder if this will come up at the Pentagon briefing today. That will tell us whether this is from smoke blowing Clinton leftovers or from the Bush heirarchy.
The fact remains that the 9-11 Commission never mentioned the data mining program during the late 90's and whether the mounds of information it uncovered was useful or not.
Its good to be careful of artificial rising expectations. ;-)
Pinz