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Of all the 9/11 anniversary coverage this morning, FNC was absolutely the best, letting the unadulterated tape tell the story of that savage September day.Of course, there were others, and as you might have guessed in advance, CNN's was easily the worst. Most notably, not once was Flight 175's actual impact into the South Tower ever shown. But one particularly ugly moment immediately floated to the top of the CNN bowl. Former Dem Congressman (he didn't last long) and former 'd-list' DLC hack Tim Roemer was given 5 minutes by CNN to make a free, but utterly tasteless & depraved...

I Repeat -- When is the 9/11 commission going to chastise the Senate for not passing the Patriot Act???

Since President Bush recently undertook the Herculean task of explaining to the American people after months of senseless silence that (1) he did NOT deliberately deceive them, (2) liberating Iraq was a good thing, (3) NOT liberating Iraq was too dangerous a risk to take after September 11, 2001, (4)the world's intelligence services all thought Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, (5) Saddam had refused to comply with seventeen United Nations resolutions and prove that he had destroyed his weapons of mass destructions and not acquired others, and (6) suppressing the terrorists and the insurgents in Iraq is not only...

It might be easier to take seriously the latest report of the 9/11 commission if it weren't filled with politically correct nostrums that will do little to protect us from terrorism. The bipartisan commission, which ended its official status as a government organization in July 2004 after the release of its "final" report, reconstituted itself as a private, nonprofit group. The panel's chairman, former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, says this is the group's last act -- but who knows. The members seem to relish their status as gadflies and love the limelight. But their criticisms and recommendations have not...

Jamie Gorelick: My 'Wall' Still in Place Former 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick is giving the Bush administration a bad report card for failing to implement post 9/11 counterterrorism reforms. "I think we are less safe than we were 18 months ago," she told ABC's "Good Morning America." "We have a tremendous agenda. And we have just not been about doing what we need to make us safe." But Gorelick's main complaint seemed to be that a rule she implemented as Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton - which barred intelligence sharing between the FBI and CIA - was still...

The three broadcast networks all did segments this evening on the former 9/11 commission’s report card released today. Though all three focused on the negatives, only the "CBS Evening News” ignored the good grades given by the commission, while also failing to mention that a key problem highlighted in this report is already being addressed by legislation pending in Congress (video link to follow). Bob Orr quickly gave a rundown of the “F’s” and the “D’s” given by former commission members for the government achieving a set of priorities they deemed necessary to avert another terrorist attack. However, as can...

WASHINGTON -- The federal government received failing and mediocre grades Monday from the former Sept. 11 commission, whose members said in a final report that the government has balked at enacting numerous reforms that could prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

SINCE the passage of the USA Patriot Act of 2001, the federal government has distributed more than $8 billion to help local police departments, firefighters and emergency medical technicians pay for equipment and training to prepare for terrorist attacks, including nuclear, radiological, chemical or biological strikes. In our report, the 9/11 commission recommended that this assistance "be based strictly on an assessment of risks and vulnerabilities." It seemed obvious to us that national security resources should be deployed where the threat is greatest.

NOT PREPARED FOR TERRORISM The still-useless 9/11 Commission has weighed in on the progress we as a country have made since Islamic terrorists murdered 3,000 innocent people on September 11, 2001. [related: 9/11 Public Discourse Project] Their verdict? Tom Keane, the former chairman of that committee, appeared on Meet The Press yesterday and said that "A lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just simply aren't being done by the president or by the Congress. What we're concerned about now is that these recommendations -- four years, more than four years after 9/11, are...

by Mark Finkelstein December 5, 2005 - 15:39. Someone, quick: buy the man a Valium. Make it a double! I'm sure most here remember the hysterics in which Shep Smith engaged while reporting from New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. He was back at it today, shouting, screaming and accusing as he zinged the government for its shortcomings as detailed in the just-released 9/11 Commission 'report card' on implementation of its national security recommendations. Thankfully, Shep had James Carafano, across the video lines, to hold his hand, burp him on the back and assure him that the sky wasn't...

(AP) The U.S. is at great risk for more terrorist attacks because Congress and the White House have failed to enact several strong security measures, members of the former Sept. 11 commission said Sunday. "It's not a priority for the government right now," said the former chairman, Thomas Kean, ahead of the group's release of a report Monday assessing how well its recommendations have been followed. "More than four years after 9/11 ... people are not paying attention," the former Republican governor of New Jersey said. "God help us if we have another attack." Added Lee Hamilton, the former Democratic...

Dec. 4, 2005 — The 9/11 Public Discourse Project will release a "report card" Monday on how well the government has implemented the 41 recommendations made by the federal 9/11 commission in July 2004 — and it's not going to be a good one, says former 9/11 commissioner Jaime Gorelick. "No parent would be pleased with this report card," she said. "I think that we're less safe than we were 18 months ago," she added. "We have a tremendous agenda and we have just not been about doing what we need to make us safe."

WASHINGTON - The government is still failing to enact many swift and strong security changes to prevent terror attacks, the former Sept. 11 Commission has concluded. More than four years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the government has not done enough to stop nuclear proliferation, give emergency first responders adequate communications systems and ensure that homeland security grants are going to the most high-risk communities, former commissioners said Friday. "We're taking small steps when we need a giant leap," said former Democratic commissioner Timothy Roemer, who is now president of the Center for National Policy at George Mason University...

...Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa. and vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, said Tuesday the men were identified in 1999 by a classified military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger." If true, that's an earlier link to al-Qaida than any previously disclosed intelligence about Atta. Sept. 11 commission co-chairman Lee Hamilton said Tuesday that Weldon's information, which the congressman said came from multiple intelligence sources, warrants a review. He said he hoped the panel could issue a statement on its findings by the end of the week...