You claim to have worked in the "national security community" & yet you still think Arab "terrorists" committed 9/11. Want us to read the 9/11 report - really? Let's clarify -- one Osama Bin Laden, a MULTIMILLIONAIRE Saudi who was trained & equipped by our CIA/military to fight the Russians who invaded Afghanistan, who has hundreds of suicide bombers slavishly devoted to him, who hates America with a rabid passion, who purportedly has or has followers who have the vision, skill & resolve to carry out a complicated, multi-pronged attack on US soil, has just decided to NOT ATTACK IN THE U.S. FOR 7 YEARS (with our southern border open to MILLIONS). --- Especially (1) after McNamara admitted that the Gulf of Tonkin incident didn't happen, (2) after Paul O'Neill (GWB's 1st Treasury Secretary) reveals that going after Saddam was topic "A" for Bush only 10 days after the inauguration - 8 months before 9/11 (thus, weapons of mass destruction = "false flag" operation), and (3) as it's becoming clear that Saddam's refusal to transact oil purchases/sales based on the U.S. dollar (thereby undermining the part the dollar plays in global economics) was part of the motivation to invade Iraq, it's apparent to anyone with half a brain that the biggest terrorist organization in the world is US (as in U.S.). "Lose track of the terrorists" - NOT -- can't lose track of something that doesn't exist. Such refusal to openly admit what is becoming clear to even teenagers undermines the credibility of any other points made by the poster -- and that is NOT fair to either the poster or to the readers. ---- We do NOT need any more BOGUS anti-terrorist protocols, federal departments/bureaucracies, etc. stripping us of our privacy and our freedoms. We DO need our public servants to serve US, not enslave US (North American Union anyone?). Do continue to read & study more, but please quit blowin' smoke. 'Nuff said. P.S. Yeah, I know, too much rant on a technology site but it needs to be said nonetheless.