No Consolation
One must ask what the fuck is going on. Captain Ed says:

Tomorrow's New York Times reports that members of the 9/11 Commission reversed themselves and now acknowledge being briefed on the Army's data mining project, Able Danger, prior to the publication of their report to the American people. After over 24 hours of denying that anyone had told the Commission about the secret project, their spokesman now says that commission officials met with a uniformed officer who told them about the identification of Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 hijackers in 2000, over a year prior to the attacks:

The Sept. 11 commission was warned by a uniformed military officer 10 days before issuing its final report that the account would be incomplete without reference to what he described as a secret military operation that by the summer of 2000 had identified as a potential threat the member of Al Qaeda who would lead the attacks more than a year later, commission officials said on Wednesday.

The officials said that the information had not been included in the report because aspects of the officer's account had sounded inconsistent with what the commission knew about that Qaeda member, Mohammed Atta, the plot's leader.

This is pretty outrageous. What the hell was causing our former Commander-in-Chief to squelch this information? Captain Ed starts by blaming someone I enjoy blaming quite a bit:

And while the Clinton policy of enforcing a quarantine between law enforcement and intelligence operations came under general criticism, their report never included the fact that the "wall" for which Commission member Jamie S. Gorelick had so much responsibility specifically contributed to Atta's ability to come and go as he pleased, building the teams that would kill almost 3,000 Americans.

Keep in mind that the anti-Bush Left routinely excoriates our President for not paying attention to some goddamned PDB that actually says nothing that wasn't already known about al-Qaeda to anybody with a TV set or common sense. But, with this new revelation, it appears that our Government knew plenty about Atta and several of the other murderers a long time before the atrocities of 11 September 2001 ---and did nothing about it because the wretched animals were here legally. Yep. More of the old law enforcement stuff that the Dhimmicrats would like to sell you. Read some more (with my emphasis):

The firestorm began on Tuesday when Weldon, vice-chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, said a classified military intelligence unit known as Able Danger had identified four of the hijackers - Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Khalid al-Mihdar, and Nawaf al-Hazmi - as part of an al-Qaida cell code named “Brooklyn” as early as 1999.

Weldon alleged that the Pentagon had rejected Able Danger’s suggestion that this information be passed on to the FBI, the US domestic law-enforcement agency. According to Weldon, the Pentagon said the four were in the country on green cards - which they were not - and so information on them could not be shared.

“In fact, I’ll tell you how stupid it was, they put stickies [post-it notes] on the face of Mohammed Atta on the chart that the military intelligence unit had completed and they said you can’t talk to Atta because he’s here [legally],” Weldon said on Tuesday.

Dude, this is so fucking bad. If what Weldon is saying checks out, it's going to unleash a wave of recriminations against pieces of crap like Gorelick and Berger and Clinton that no amount of Big Media shilling will ever turn away.