Take A Bow
Geo. W. Bush was ahead of the curve on anti-terror. Surprising statement? Not when you consider that all of the facts coming out of the 911 Commission are pointing toward a failure of communication between the two top counter-intelligence bodies, the FBI and the CIA, as the major flaw in the system; and the Bush administration did not need the advise of this ill-timed and unbalanced commission to know what to fix. The problem was obvious, a culture of left-wing paranoia had steadily deteriorated the ability of the protectors from talking to one another, and the Patriot Act was the solution. Common sense told the Bush people that barriers to inter-agency communication had to come down, and so in an act of leadership, Bush had them do what was right; if not popular! The result is that we are on course to have a capable counter-intelligence umbrella: George Tenet told the 911 Commission screwballs that if we stay on the present course for five more years we can have our international intelligence network at an acceptable level at the end of that period, (the restrictions on the CIA had so severely decimated our intelligence service that it will take that much longer to repair it).
GWB didn't need no stinkin' committee to tell him that he had inherited a lousy intelligence service, 9/11 made that undeniably obvious, and he didn't no stinkin' committee to know the fix, tear down Gorelick's Wall. Take a bow Mr. President, this is just one more example that you have the right vision to get our defense in shape! You had the fix in place before the old time Washington pols even had the notion to waste our time, and insult our intelligence with a mock investigation. You da man!
