You may well be right. I'll bet you dollars to donuts the Commission compartmentalized the investigative duties, and left "Clinton-era" stuff to the Clintonistas.
I suppose this wouldn't be a problem if the various compartments were trying to do an honest job. But of course, honesty is at best a secondary consideration for Clintonistas, falling far behind such things as "legacy."
Spokesmen for the commission members said this week that although the staff was informed by the Pentagon in late 2003 about the existence of a so-called data-mining operation called Able Danger, the panel was never told that it had identified Mr. Atta and the others as threats.
In a final report released last summer called the authoritative history of the attacks, the commission of five Democrats and five Republicans made no mention of the secret program or the possibility that a government agency had detected Mr. Atta's terrorist activities before Sept. 11.