Oh my! Did we forget to wear our tinfoil today?

I agree with Spaw. This has all the makings of a Watergate and for all the same reasons. Instead of putting out the facts and saying "We screwed up", Bush like Nixon will lie, cover up, change his story and ultimately lose the support of the American people.

Had Nixon simply admitted that his men were a bit over-enthusiastic and let them suffer the appropriate punishment, Watergate would have been a two week scandal, now long forgotten.

A disaster on the scale of the World Trade Center was in the cards. Sooner or later the CIA, FBI, President, etc were bound to miscalculate. No doubt there were a dozen or more scares similar to 9-11 that never materialized and allowed leaders to become complacent. Keep in mind - this was not the first attempt to bring the towers down. So Bush can come clean, put all the information into the committee's hand, and deal with the flak for a week or two. Or he can stonewall, delay, tie it all up in the courts and prolong the agony while postponing the inevitable right up to the next election.

Hopefully, while we are all watching the sideshow someone will keep an eye on the terrorists.