Devil in the details

So can we really blame any one person or persons for the events that took place on 9/11? Apparently so, if this is to be believed:

The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.

"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."

The report, of course, is being withheld until some time after the election, so we the people cannot replace those that failed to do their jobs. Apparently its not about public safety and responsibility, but rather shielding those who failed to do their job from public scrutiny before the November elections. People should realize this is another example of Republican job security coming before national security, of political safety trumping the safety of the public.

Might I suggest a different leader this fall?