Steyn on the 9/11 Commission's Credibility

Mark Steyn artfully lays out what many of us have known from the beginning: the 9/11 Commission was completely useless. It's not surprising that many of Bush's advisors were opposed to the Commission from the start.

The problem pre-9/11 was always political: that's to say, no matter how savvy individual operatives in various agencies may have been, the political culture of the day meant that nothing would happen except a memo would get typed up and shoveled into a filing cabinet. Together with other never fully explained episodes -- like Sandy Berger's pants-stuffing at the national archives -- the Able Danger story makes one thing plain: The problem is still political.