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| | Jonah Goldberg on 9/11 Commission on National Review Online |
 | | Whoever was to blame for the sour relationship is irrelevant. |
 | | But by refusing to acknowledge, even rhetorically, the obvious fact that the government failed when the terrorists succeeded, they created the perfect incentives for political posturing, moral preening, and partisan grandstanding from the 9/11 Commission, the media, a tiny number of "9/11 families," the Democrats and, yes, the public. |
 | | As we've heard from so many witnesses, throughout the 1990s the CIA, FBI, and Justice Department were actively not passively impaired in their work to a scandalous extent. |
| www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg200404140853.asp (904 words) |
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