The Sound of the Crowd

I’m Sorry, What?

“The harshest criticism will be leveled at the FBI and CIA, with the panel citing poor information sharing and intelligence analysis as key factors that allowed the hijackers to carry out their plot. But it won’t make the broad assessment that the attacks could have been stopped.

In the end, the commission did not want to draw a conclusion on that major point, believing it could open the way to partisan sniping in a presidential election year.”

Translation: We don’t want to hit Bush too hard, and screw the truth.


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