This nation emasculated it's own intelligence services. We have reaped what we sowed.
This is the only place you will ever read that.
To this very day you can see the odd news clipping about how "Bush Really Won Florida", or "Bush Really Lost Florida", depending on the particular fishwrap you are reading.
And many (not you) forget how Bush's hands WERE UTTERLY TIED, NAY, MANACLED, for the first two to three months of his administration, as a direct result of Democrat election-cheating, then Democrat disinformation, in their futile attempt to steal the presidency.
Who knows if Bush had not just been left alone to field his team (including Ashcroft) if the cleansing process of the FBI and CIA would have been far enough along to pick up these guys before they murdered our people?
Remember, FBI and CIA agents like Hansen and Ames, are smart enough to avoid detection for years. They are the tip of a huge iceberg.
To me, that says, that there are tons and tons of Al-Quaeda and OPEC and Palestinian moles in both agencies, not to mention Chinese, Russian, whatever, and elsewhere in the Federal Government, hiding behind the cloak of EEOC/Affirmative Action/'He's a minority, leave him alone'; in other words, the mantle of Clintonism.
They act, and plan, with impunity.
And the superiors who squashed the investigations were probably on the take.
Both agencies need to be abolished, and start afresh, with new young screened people.