I caught a few minutes of Dr. Rice’s testimony this morning (you can catch the blog version at Powerline thanks to Hindrocket). I thought the best part was when the camera gave us her view – the commission members on their ridiculously raised dais (I guess they don’t realize it makes them look like a whole row of Mr. Potters) and packed at the foot of the wood paneling the mob of photographers with their own ridiculously enormous camera lenses all pointed at her.
I’m disappointed with the commission so far – rather than focus on policies and processes, they’ve focused on personalities and people. I don’t want blame assigned — we already know the terrorists are the ones to blame — I want ways and means on how to make us safer based upon the careful study of the 9-11 attack. The idea that we should always be able to successfully thwart attacks against us is flat wrong. Sadly, the hearings have become worse than a waste of time – they’ve become a diversion from the job at hand and a divisive partisan wrangle. Another illustration that a good idea can be ruined by lousy implementation.
