Just taking the obvious opportunity to play on your reaction to a post on that other thread. Comedy may be mostly timing, but opportunity is important, too.

In answer to your other question, no, I don't see that the Commission was charged with answering the questions you ask. Then too, some of them are a bit odd.

"Or, 'Well, if intellegence is so important why have we driv4en such a wedge with the For-Us/Against-Us which has done lots of damage to our ability to buddy up to folks to collect intellegence?'"

You see, the people we're most interested in collecting intelligence on are the guys we think like us least. What you observe is true in all of the best examples. Of course, even our best friends get a little ticked off when they think we're spying on them.

I'll leave getting real answers to your "intellegent" questions to you, though.