In some ways the hints coming out of the 9/11 hearings suggest the Commission thinks parts of it should have been enacted sooner. Most of the "walls" within the FBI and CIA that have been held responsible preventing people from "connecting the dots" and preventing 9/11 were originally enacted to compensate for those agencies spying on private citizens.

What do we do if the 9/11 Commission's recommendations support much of what's in the Patriot Act? Then what?