URLs du Jour (8/11/2005)

  • Did the 9/11 Commission ignore key facts on hijackers? Michelle (ma belle) Malkin answers that question in a post entitled "9/11 COMMISSION IGNORED KEY FACTS ON HIJACKERS". Key quote:

    The 9/11 Commission was supposed to give the America people a complete, unbiased story of the government failures that led up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. But the Commission now admits its acclaimed Final Report ignored key information provided by a U.S. Army data mining project, Able Danger, which identified Mohammed Atta and several other hijackers as potential terrorists prior to the September 11 attacks. The Able Danger team recommended that Atta and the other suspected terrorists be deported. That recommendation, however, was not shared with law enforcement officials, presumably because of the "wall" between intelligence activities and domestic law enforcement.

    So there you go. She's all over the story, with plenty of links.

  • At Cato, David Boaz laments resurgent Republican statism.

    Republicans took control of Congress in 1994 by declaring that Democrats had given us "government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money." Now, intoxicated with their own power, they have forgotten those words. They too use the powers of the federal government to lavish money on favored constituents, summon us before congressional hearings to explain ourselves, and intrude into our most local and personal decisions.

    Someday, someone might be able to convince me that Democrats wouldn't be worse. That hurdle once looked insurmountable, but nowadays …

  • And George Will has finally lost patience with Jimmy Carter. (Says Jonah at the Corner: "Carter is on all fours looking for his teeth."


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