Tuesday, March 23, 2004
All I caught was a few moments of Medeleine Albright's testimony, but reading Tom's take at undercaffeinated (he also live-blogged some of the testimony, just scroll up), it sounds like it was about what I expected - highly missable. Things are way too partisan these days for there to be much hope of anything useful coming out of such a commission - just legacy protection by former officials, ass protection by the current ones and crafted conclusions to be twisted by a partisan press. Besides, it's way too soon after the event to get out all the really secret intelligence information.
Everyone assumes it's a good idea to examine the government's pre-September 11th activities to see why the attacks were not prevented. After listening to Madeleine Albright "testifying" in front of the 9/11 Commssion this morning, I think the examination will be useless...