Like its predecessor the Warren Commission, the 9/11 Commission was, in the words of 27 year CIA veteran Ray McGovern, a joke. History repeats itself -- but the people are too busy sending their friends electronic hamburgers on Facebook to care. Just remember what Plato said: the price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men. -- KM


“Did they obstruct our inquiry? The answer is clearly yes,” says Lee Hamilton, who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, in the wake of reports the CIA destroyed videotapes of interrogations of two al-Qaida suspects. “Whether that amounts to a crime, others will have to judge,” adds Hamilton, a 1952 graduate of DePauw University, in today’s Detroit Free Press.The article details demands by congressional Democrats “that the Justice Department investigate why the CIA destroyed” the tapes.

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