InstaPundit.Com: " JEFF TAYLOR looks at FBI ineptitude leading up to 9/11, a topic I've been writing about for some time.
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Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "As a small start-up company in Massachusetts sought to become a major player in the business of homeland security, it hired a lobbyist and attended a fundraiser for one of the most powerful members of Congress."
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Reuters: Top News: "Although President George W. Bush released an influenza pandemic plan with great fanfare last month, and even though federal health experts have been issuing dire warnings for years, little has actually been done to get the nation ready, according to the Trust for America's Health, or TFAH."
CBS News: "The former Sept. 11 commission is giving both the White House and Congress "more F's than A's" in taking steps to improve America's security."
ABC News: Politics: "Gorelick: 'No Parent Would Be Pleased with this Report Card'"
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "More than four years after the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. intelligence agencies still are failing to share information while Congress ..."
ABC News: Politics: "Former 9/11 Panel Members Say White House Has Made Little Progress on Their Recommendations"
CNN: Politics: "The former members of the 9/11 commission slammed the FBI on Thursday for the pace of its reforms, saying the agency has fought the changes more than expected and warning that "terrorists will not wait.""
Reuters: Top News: "The privately funded report, scheduled for release on Thursday, will also say the White House is not doing enough to defend civil liberties in the post-September 11 era, the newspaper said, citing commissioners and staff members."
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "Contrary to recommendations from his own internal watchdog, CIA Director Porter Goss will not order disciplinary reviews for ..."
CNN: Politics: "The Department of Defense "ordered five key witnesses not to testify" about a secret Pentagon unit that some claim identified several of the 9/11 hijackers more than a year before the attacks, Sentate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Wednesday."
Reuters: Top News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican chairman of the Senate judiciary committee accused the Pentagon on Wednesday of stonewalling an inquiry into claims that the U.S. military identified four September 11 hijackers more than a year before the 2001 attacks."
AP Politics: "WASHINGTON - Congress will investigate the "flagrant abuse" of a federal loan program designed to help businesses recover from the Sept. 11 attacks and make sure such problems don't occur with Hurricane Katrina relief, a key Senate Republican announced Friday."
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "CIA Director Porter Goss must decide whether to heed the recommendation of his top watchdog to hold disciplinary reviews for ..."
Toronto Star: World: "WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 commission knew that military intelligence officials had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a member of al-Qaida who might be part of U.S.-based terror cell more than a year before the 2001 terror attacks but decided not to include that in its final report, a spokesman acknowledged today. "
USATODAY.com News - Top Stories: "Members of the commission that uncovered the government's failures to share intelligence among agencies before the Sept. 11, ..."
Toronto Star: World: "WASHINGTON - The inability to detect the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacking plot amounts to a "significant failure" by the FBI and was caused in large part by "widespread and long-standing deficiencies" in the way it handled terrorism and intelligence cases, according to a new report released yesterday. "
NY Post: World: "The family of the late FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill and others affected by 9/11 have filed new court papers accusing several Islamic banks, charitable groups and individuals with being part of a terror-racketeering conspiracy."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "Suspect is scheduled to plead guilty Friday in a bizarre case raising questions about how justice system handles terrorism."
Washington Post: Today's Highlights: "The trial of Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas and two other men begins in Madrid on Friday after a 3 1/2 -year investigation into the role Spain may have played as a staging ground for the Sept. 11 attacks."
USA Today: Top News: "NEW YORK — Federal aviation officials received dozens of warnings before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, including some that mentioned airline hijackings or suicide attacks, The New York Times reported."
Christian Science Monitor: All Stories: "The Senate bill puts the best focus on strengthening the intelligence agencies."
NY Post: World: "A crony of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to kill Americans and Jews everywhere — using planes as weapons — in a book released just months before the Sept. 11 attacks. The hate-filled book drafted by Rifai Ahmed Taha was published in January 2001. It also said it's OK to kill innocent women and children in the cause of jihad."
Independent: World News: "Official investigation into 11 September admits US ignored obvious warnings and says attacks might have been prevented"
USA Today: Top News: "WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 commission concludes that a "failure of imagination," not governmental neglect, allowed 19 hijackers to carry out the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. The panel calls for an intelligence overhaul to confront an al-Qaeda organization intent on striking again."
Toronto Star: World: "WASHINGTON-The commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been told "a very prominent member" of Al Qaeda served as an officer in Saddam Hussein's militia, a panel member said yesterday. "
New York Times: International News: "The chairman of the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks reiterated that the inquiry turned up no evidence that Saddam Hussein had taken part "in any way in attacks on the U.S." (Susan Jo Keller)"
New York Times: International News: "LAST week, the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks released three reports, which offer a history of Al Qaeda and its planning for the attacks. (Peter Edidin)"
New York Times: International News: "The Sept. 11 commission asserted flatly that there is "no evidence" that the Saudi government financed Al Qaeda. (Douglas Jehl)"
New York Times: International News: "The commission called on Vice President Dick Cheney to turn over any intelligence reports that would support a close relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. (Philip Shenon and Richard W. Stevenson)"
BBC: World: "US air defence was disastrously unprepared for the 9/11 attacks, a special congressional report says."
BBC: World: "The US president insists former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein did have a relationship with al-Qaeda."
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