It looks as if you said it first and better than I did and it is time for the Filegate issue to be brought up again and really dealt with this time. I can dream, right?
I think this has very little or nothing to do with filegate. The closed hearings are needed to protect the technological methods used by Able Danger, the DIA, and the CIA. (Think long term....long....term....like centuries into the future)
We all have to get rid of that 9/10 mentality. We are in a long term war against terrorists and the threat is greater than you think. There's a reason why Bush recently insisted on continuing to use the term "war on terror." This is a war and in a war you don't give your enemies ANY information that they can use to evade your intelligence methods. That's a very bad move, and we'll just have to find other ways to stop the Hildabeast in 2008. Besides, the msm will ignore any news from Able Danger hearings that is damaging to the Clintons.