…by the 9/11 commissioners they are back, in a front page USA Today article. They warn that their recommended changes aren’t being implemented quickly enough and may not be implemented before the next attack. Now, some of these recommendations seem necessary, even urgent–like more radio frequencies for first responders. But reorganizing congressional committees? Appointing a civil liberties board? Promoting American values in the Middle East (important, yes, but emphatically not a short-term project). The 9/11 commissioners are going to hold more hearings on all of this soon. If they had the guts to include border control in a high profile way, it might all be tolerable, otherwise this is going to be more insufferable, preening theater from people famous for it.
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Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.
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