9-11 is over. Used up. Finished. Case Closed. Forget about it.

[mopaul]

http://usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-12-27-watchdog-role_x.htm

Congress has still not created a risk-based formula for the billions of dollars in homeland security grants it doles out each year. Major gaps in aviation security have not been closed: air cargo (carried under passengers' feet) is rarely inspected, and passengers are still not screened by the Transportation Security Administration against a consolidated terror watch list.

Progress to address the greatest threat — the threat of nuclear terrorism — does not appear to be a top priority. At the current rate, the U.S. government's effort to "lock down" nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union, so it can't be stolen or bought by terrorists, will not be completed for 14 years.

And the most difficult recommendation from the 9/11 Commission has been all but abandoned: Who will push Congress to reorganize itself to provide adequate oversight over intelligence and homeland security?

With the release of their critical but fair report card, the commissioners made their last stand, a call to adapt before the terrorists exploit our vulnerabilities again. ---
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---------that's it then, case closed, nothing to investigate here, we're all safer, that's the main thing, and we're at war, so it's cool.

[Slit Skirt]

1. 9/11 commission is only the first word

not the last word on 9/11....so says msnbc terrorist/analyst (hardball last night)

yeah, well I want a new investigation period....!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. I agree.

If it starts happening regularly, we have a problem. Right now, to me...anomaly.

[BushOut06]

3. Did you really think this was about 9-11?

Anybody who thinks this is about 9-11 or even terrorism is seriously deluded. If 9-11 were such a friggin priority to this admin, they would have enacted the reforms proposed by the bipartisan 9-11 commission. But Bush has failed to do so. So what does this tell you? He doesn't give a shit about Homeland Security (more on this in another thead). This is nothing more than a power grab, spying on his political enemies. He never expected all this to come out in public, thank god for journalists.

[marmar]

4. Exactly...

He could give a damn about stopping terrorism and boosting security. This administration has taken all the potential positive energy from 9/11 and used it in all the wrong ways.