What, Me Worry?

U.S. spy agencies — and now even the 9/11 commission — continue to take it on their collective chins over who-didn’t-tell-what-to-whom about al Qaeda operatives before Sept. 11, 2001. Congress, meanwhile, has managed largely to escape responsibility for not riding herd on what the agencies were doing — or not doing, as it turned out — about Osama bin Laden, especially after the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998. However, putting aside the so-called blame game, a number of observers contend that intelligence oversight is still missing in action, resulting in troublesome developments in U.S. domestic counterterrorist activities, shared by a number of federal, state and local agencies, that are going unaddressed and are leaving the nation wide open for another terrorist spectacular.
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CQ Homeland Security (9/26/2005)