The one thing all intelligence gathering and law enforcement needs and will never have is sincere cooperation between agencies. And the way we are going, this will never happen.

(Here's an example of the lack of inter-agency cooperation. Bank robberies come under the jurisdiction of the the FBI. Our agency will the initial investigation, scene examination, interviews, et cetera. Usually, if there are no real leads, the investigation stays at the local level, however, usually if there are strong leads - we like to say, a case with a fingerprint, video tape of the incident with the suspect wearing no mask and easily identified, along with the suspect in custody and a video taped confession, the FBI will take it over.)

What must be done is a complete and open investigation of 9/11 and this will probably never happen, and this is not needed out of the drive for political embarrassment, but to find out what problems existed so solutions can be developed to prevent this again.

I can tell everyone, from experience, that there probably was ample information out there, that if property collected, analyzed and pieced together, 9/11 could have been prevented. However, what prevented this was the human condition. The sort of agencies involved in intelligence gathering and investigation are severly damaged by ego and career minded driven people out to protect their own fiefdoms and mainly their own asses.

The first thing the Bush Adminstration should have done, from the get go, is get a bi-partisan (if ever possible) panel together and tell them to go where ever their investigation went and give them unfettered access to ALL information. Instead, what we now get, and will probably have, is a group of bureaucrats and politically minded people who are trying to save their rear-ends from embarrassment and firing.

My point is, people appointed to these sorts of panels are rarely the types who can get the job done and instead are the types of people of are well known not to complete the job and will not rock the boat.

Where I am at, we, the ones who can do the job, get so frustrated over how important things go FUBAR because incompetent managers are not held accountable. Instead of counting the beans like they are supposed to be doing, they start sticking their noses in places they don't belong and muck things up. The worse thing is that they are never held accountable. (I can go on and on about administratively screwed up cases. It is offensive, disgusting and should not be allowed to go on, but it persists because adminstrators, like terrible doctors, corrupt politicians and incompetent lawyers create an environment to protect themselves.)

And this is why something like 9/11 will probably happen again. If those who want to be managers and adminstrators were held to the same accountability those of us who do the job are, then things might start to change. And ALL Americans should be outraged over this because 9/11 is an event unlike any other in our history.