[The Great Satan]

Al-Qaeda attacks have always been spaced out 18-24 months apart, so I wouldn't get too excited about the fact that there hasn't been another one just yet.

[marajade]

Mueller is doing okay...

Have you ever worked for the government? Its hard to change philsophies that have been in place for 30 years...

Mueller is working to do it ...

And then you have the Dems fighting for unionization of the new department...

[Hugin]

We were not taking away their main base of operations and private nation-state before. I cannot believe that they would sit by and do nothing while we killed and capured hundreds of AQ leaders and soldiers in Afghanistan, and derpived them of their major base of operations including such convenient things as their own passport office, state airline, national bank, etc. I also have to assume that at least a fair number of those 1,000 or so people Ashcroft is holding are in fact AQ operatives. We know there have been thousands of AQ operatives arrested worldwide too, with the FBI involved in many of those investigations. The FBI is not without flaws, including PC attitudes left over from the Reno-Freeh era, but I would give Mueller the benefit of the doubt. I certainly would not dismiss the whole FBI as a "joke".

[cyncooper]

It's also worth noting that there has not been a single Al Qaeda attack on America since 9/11,

Al-Qaeda attacks have always been spaced out 18-24 months apart, so I wouldn't get too excited about the fact that there hasn't been another one just yet.

Not for lack of trying. One instance we all know about is the shoe bomber. Al Qaeda, no? Prevention provided by alert flight attendants and passengers.

I tend to think there have been other attempts that have been foiled that we don't know about.