[HairOfTheDog]

We lived in a different world before 9-11. I don't want to see the blame for what happened placed anywhere but on the terrorists themselves.

We can't always stop bad people from doing bad things, and we need to stop pretending that we can, and if we fail, then we are culpable. We didn't know how to interpret terrorist activity in this country before... Nor how much weight to put on the thousands of tips received. We know a little better now. The fingerpointing is unhelpful, and I wish it wasn't happening.

If you want to put people's asses personally on the line for not predicting the future accurately, you will not get truth to learn from, you will get defense...

[YaYa123]

I think these televised hearings most often produce little more than showboating on the part of senators and congressmen, but this hearing is different. This hearing alerts all of us to the shortcomings built into our government, in particular, the immigration process, and most especially, how the different agencies of government were unprepared for 9-11. Without this public hearing, there would be no public outcry to fix what's broke, before our country is totally destroyed by our enemies.

This is a joint committee. The agents testifying are having to deal with totally stupid senators!! That needs public exposure too.

[YaYa123]

Unfortunately, the guy asking stoopid questions now is a Republican congressman from North Carolina. These elected officials should let Eleanor ______ do the questioning....she's the staffer who's done the investigating (their homework). She's the one who has already gotten answers they are trying so pathetically to get out of these agents, so they look really really smart.