Rich is getting too happy about this thing…as usual, much too long, but better written than the intel committee report.

The point about Congressional responsability is NOT that Congress dumped the work onto outside commissions, but that Congress created the restrictions that made it impossible for the intelligence community to operate effectively. So far, at least, there is not one syllable about the terrible roadmarks along the way: the Church madness, the Pike lunacy, the Levi misguidelines, the Clinton/Torricelli mumbo jumbo…

That is where Congress is enormously, even criminally culpable. They got the intelligence community they wanted. Well, okay, the one they got was even worse than the one they wanted, but you get my drift…