This article provides a solid glimpse into what is likely to emerge as the main thrust of the 9/11 Commission's final report.
It seems that the emphasis will be that 9/11 was preventable, and if that's the case, and the Commission is unanimous, it's likely to end the "Bush the Protector" image the Rovians have so carefully cultivated, and will make Chimpy all the more unwelcome at the September RNC Convention in NYC.
Obviously, the Commission will look carefully at the opportunities missed during the Clinton/Gore years as well, but... they're not running for re-election, and our current nominee is not running on a Wartime/Anti-Terror/Protector platform, either.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/politics/11PANE.htmlExcerpt:
With new evidence made public almost daily to show how the Sept. 11 attacks might have been prevented, the independent commission investigating them says its final report will offer a book-length chronology of the law-enforcement, intelligence and military failures that stopped the government from understanding the threat of Al Qaeda until it was too late.
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Many of the missed opportunities are well documented, especially those in the months before the attacks: the Central Intelligence Agency's delay until August 2001 of raising an alert about two of the terrorists, who by then were already in the country; the Federal Bureau of Investigation's failure to follow up on a warning in July from a Phoenix agent that Qaeda terrorists might be training at American flight schools; and the bureau's failure to understand the significance of Zacarias Moussaoui, the flight school student arrested in Minnesota a month later and later linked to the Sept. 11 hijackers.
But members of the bipartisan commission say that the government's missed opportunities date back many years over several presidencies and involve other branches of government, and that they will all need to be explored in the panel's final report, scheduled for release in July.
"This was not something that had to happen," said Thomas H. Kean, the chairman of the commission and a former Republican governor of New Jersey. Mr. Kean has gone further than other panel members in arguing that the attacks were clearly preventable.
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