A new dispatch from the department of telling delays.
You’ll remember that the initial excuse which the White House and congressional Republicans used to oppose the 9/11 commission’s request to extend its mandate for two months was the claim that the information was just too damned important to let another two months go by before getting it into policymakers’ hands.
Along those lines, see this quote from a new article in Time about the president’s new commission on the Iraqi intelligence failure. “Five weeks after being appointed, the group has not met, and it is unclear when it will.”
