--- John Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is exactly where the focus has been. Read some > of the staff > reports. Also, for the most part, the commissioners > have been non > partisan in assessing what went wrong. And make no > mistake my friends, > the US government at almost every level bears some > responsibility for > the events of Sept 11, 2001, as does the media and > the citizenry. > Almost no one, with the exception of a very few > career civil servants > crying in the wind, paid attention to the threat > that Al Queda posed to > this country. > > john
That's not really fair...quite a few people _outside_ the government were saying things. The US government failed, catastrophically. What made Clarke's "apology" so galling was that what he was _really_ saying was "everyone else was wrong, and I was right, on everything, for my entire life, without exception." He wasn't really apologizing at all. I would agree with you about the commissioners in general, with the striking exception of Ben Veniste, who really does appear to be a hack, more interested in scoring political points than anything to do with terrorism. It appears to be rebounding on him, but we shall see. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/
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