One informed observer e-maiiled yesterday: “We indict Bin Laden in 1998 but do nothing to try to apprehend him;

our embassies get bombed a few months later and, instead of going to

war, we have one feckless day of a few cruise missiles that turn some

big rocks into smaller rocks; the Cole then gets attacked, and our

response is to do absolutely nothing; Commissioner Ben Veniste is

sitting about four chairs down from Commissioner Gorelick, one of the

architects of the wall that prevented criminal agents and intelligence

agents from communicating with each other and pooling information from

1995 through September 2001; and yet Ben-Veniste figures 9/11 happened

because BUSH didn’t read a memo carefully enough?”