GUEST, am I talking to more than one of you? I'm not following all your posts.

If all that's happening is political finger pointing, no, the Commission isn't doing it's job. Finding fault this way doesn't address what needs changing. Changes are needed at the FBI and the CIA? Fine, wasn't that evident early in the Clinton administration? The changes they instituted weren't enough, let's do more. Neither administration did enough? Agreed. What do we need to do now?

I'm shocked at how differently we read this briefing. Bob Kerry implied this briefing is how the President was supposed to know that someone was going to use airplanes as missles? Where do you read that, I can't find it? Ben Laden wants to attack the US? Duh, what were the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Millennium bomb plot? Where's the new information? Terrorist want to hijack airplanes to get some of their people out of jail? This news? Why have we been going through metal dectectors for the last 25 years? Tourists were taking pictures of Federal buildings? How does that relate the Twin Towers? Should that have been a signal to protect the 5-6 hundred buildings that could have been terrorist targets?

I'm not basing everything I think on this document. Someone wanted me to think it's a smoking gun. All I've heard with this and everything else is a bunch of fragmentary points that, if they had been brought together by someone though as we do after 9/11, could have been used to predict 9/11. The world really did change that day. We don't see it the way we used to, remember? That's what's really wrong with most of these arguments.