[Seascamp]

We?ll have to see what the Commission findings are to see if there is something new under the sun, but I?m not waiting with baited breath for some new revelation. But maybe we?ll see some circumstances or situations we haven?t been media bombarded with from the time of 9/11 yet, but who knows.
What we have seen thus far is nothing short of a coliseum event in the best Roman tradition and I wonder why the various and assorted hungry carnivore critters haven?t been set loose to publicly devour the inquisitors and respondents alike for the entertainment and blood lust of the media and applause gallery.

My scary concern is that politicos on both sides of the chalk line are fully aware of all the sordid details leading up to 9/11. For reasons of security and/or political skullduggery we don?t hear a lot from them but they are, in fact, on any number of over sight committees watching out over this and that, so they know, and if they don?t, then shame on us for about the last decade and a half or more.

From Ruby Ridge to 9/11, the FBI has been an island unto its self and only scarcely and superficially under the supervision of the Justice Department, that?s nothing new and a continuing big problem.

During the bombing of Belgrade we hit the PRC embassy by mistake, that?s real bad. But worse is that the CIA used a telephone book to locate the PRC embassy and subsequently mark it off limits. The problem there is that the telephone book was out of date, the PRC embassy had moved and boooooom, scratch one PRC embassy. The claim by the CIA was that their funding had been reduced to the level where the only resource they had was an old Belgrade telephone book. Give me a break, more like malicious compliance and pouting it seems to me. Then we get on to the latest piece of Commission raw meat and that is the Justice Department memo/legal opinion that the CIA and FBI shouldn?t talk to each other and obviously they didn?t. Now we are squishing around in some excrement about the intent and application of the memo/ruling, yikes!!!!!, talk about a ball of snakes. So on and on it will go and at the end of it we?ll see if we?re any safer as a result.

I will reassert that the terrorists have us scoped out in detail and know where the chinks in the armor are, precisely how to get us jacked up, jerk our chain, get us into the political hate/slam-dunk mode and alas, enjoy their fermented goats milk while we cut off our nose to spite our face.

Given that reality, I don?t think the 9/11 Commission is going to give the terrorists or us anything that isn?t already known and yammered about endlessly by the media talking heads. My guess is that it will all end up as some ?Mikie done it? conclusion and for sure we gots us tons of Mikies inside the Beltway. Then we?ll once again see the Beltway coat of arms of crossed forearms and pointed index fingers pointing at the appropriate, hapless and probably guiltless Mikie, ta dot ta da.

Scamp