Today on Uncommon Knowledge, NRO’s own Andy McCarthy, author of the brilliant new book, Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, describes the astounding bureaucratic lapses, particularly by the CIA and Department of State, that enabled Sheikh Raman to enter this country, travel at will, and set up the base of operations from which he directed the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. “Do you see any evidence,” I then ask, “that the State Department, the CIA, and other government agencies are systematically more alert to jihad in America in 2008 than they were in 1993?”

Andy’s answer will not, alas, altogether reassure you.