Bush's 9/11 Farce (washingtonpost.com)
Almost three years after the events of Sept. 11, 2001 -- the biggest intelligence failure in U.S. history -- and after his own administration went to war for reasons that did not exist, the president has ordered his crack staff to see which of the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations can be implemented fast and without congressional approval. Bush, you will recall, opposed the creation of the commission in the first place.
Surely we would have been better off to focus the war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda: "War on Terror" is catchier but has ultimately served to give the Bush administration a blank check to undertake whatever illegal or repressive actions it wished. Cohen now points out, again, what everyone suspected: the Bush administration has never been serious about domestic security.