"But [Wyden] did say that protecting individuals from embarrassment is not a legitimate reason for protecting the report's contents from public review." I wonder if protecting individuals from prosecution would be considered a legitimate reason?
"[Wydne] also said the decision to classify the report has nothing to do with national security, but rather political security." Does he really think that will fly? This administration is known for declaring anything and everything a matter of national security.
But, as I've said many times, it will be the professional intelligence employees of the US government that will actually save us from dictatorship. They hold the keys to the kingdom. And they are not all of one mind.
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Perhaps it might lay culpability at the feet of the Bush administration, who were told not only by the outgoing administration, but also by the intelligence community, that they needed to be on guard for threats from Al Qaeda?
That the Bush administration has avoided blame for their ineptitude in the months before 9/11 continues to astound me. If Clinton had been president, the Republicans would have stormed the White House and executed him on the front lawn.
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