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someone just pointed out to me that "spooks and saudis and florida"
(our piece yesterday) is listed on the front page of "free republic"
today. but when you click to join the "forum," the thread has been
deleted.
i guess that's the difference between a "democracy" and a "republic."
if anyone knows more about this i'd like to hear it.
in the meantime, here's a snippet from an unlikely source: todays'
washington post...
Since Sept. 11, Congress has held off investigating the intelligence
failures that led to the worst attack on U.S. soil in history. That's
about to change. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-
Conn.) want to establish a 14-member bipartisan commission. Sen.
Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) wants a 12-member board.
But in the GOP-controlled House, and especially in the Bush
administration, inaction seems to be the order of the day. "The
President is focused on the war on terrorism," a White House
spokeswoman said.
Fine. But as long as this is a long, ongoing war, it makes sense to
have intelligence agencies that are up to the job.
Manifestly, that is not the case now. But the Bush administration has
become the captive of the very agencies it once wanted to smash. To
criticize the intelligence agencies has become the equivalent of
stepping on the flag.
As the catastrophe of Sept. 11 and the Hanssen case make clear, the
FBI and CIA simply did not do their job. That job is hard, but
failure is not acceptable. Robert Hanssen, for one, was allowed to
spy for a full decade before he was caught. Terrorism crisis or not,
it's time to catch the people who didn't catch Hanssen.
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