One of Ours

...Now that we have had to sit through one of the most meaningless hearings in modern American government history--the 9/11 Commission--which reached its apotheosis of self-serving puffery with the Jamie Gorelickletter. In this apologia pro vita pomposa the attorney informed us thusly about the commission:

Its hearings and the reports it has released have been highly informative, if often disturbing. Sept. 11 united this country in shock and grief; the lessons from it must be learned in a spirit of unity, not of partisan rancor.

Oh, really? The commission has informed us of absolutely nothing, unless you have been inhabiting the Crab Nebula for the last three years. All I got out of it is the following: 1. Neither the Clinton nor the Bush administration did nearly enough to stop terrorism before 9/11. 2. The CIA and the FBI likewise did not communicate nearly enough before that date (to which Ms. Gorelick contributed in her small way) and 3. Various bureaucrats make nasty claims about other peoples' culpability. The other people disagree.

I could have told you all that for ten cents...