911 Commission

This week FARC got Punk'd; More of the Same McCain got even more so by putting a Rove acolyte at the controls of his campaign; and Condi Rice showed how limited her imagination is, saying the Iraq war has been "tougher than any of us dreamed." Actually, Madame Secretary, many people were wide awake before the war and warned that it would be a nightmare. Of course, Rice has displayed her tragic lack of imagination before, claiming no one "could have predicted" terrorists flying airplanes into buildings before 9/11 despite the fact that, in the words of the 9/11 Commission, such a "possibility was imaginable, and imagined" by multiple government and law enforcement agencies. Perhaps upon her return to Stanford, she can enroll in some imagination expansion courses.

There were other significant pre 9-11 dots that the Bush administration was not eager to share with the public, and which the Senate Intelligence Committee conveniently swept under the rug.

Shenon doesn't attack government ineptitude for 9/11 head-on. He reveals the terrifying extent of it through a series of gripping vignettes.

Let me share this recent comment forwarded to me by Monica Gabrielle of the September 11th Advocates

Congressman Bennie Thompson, an African-American Democrat from Mississippi, endorsed Barack Obama in a conference call a few minutes ago. Thompson is...

Not only did the congressional Gang of Four fail to inform the public about the use of torture by our government, but it also kept the 9/11 Commission in the dark.

Destroying videotaped evidence of CIA personnel torturing Al Qaeda suspects is no small matter. There must be a special select committee formed right now charged with getting to the bottom of this.

The 9/11 Commission was a whitewash designed to protect the reputations of incompetent, bloated bureaucracies and a distracted White House.