our derelict National Security apparatus under Bush

from Behind the Homefront "CIVIL AVIATION SYSTEM RESPONDED POORLY TO TERRORIST THREAT, COMMISSION REPORT SAYS. A 9/11 Commission report that has been suppressed by the Bush administration for more than five months has finally seen the light of day (with redactions), and it recites the Federal Aviation Administration's shortcomings in the months leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, The New York Times reported today. The report says the FAA received 52 intelligence reports (half of all intelligence reports received in that same period) mentioning Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the six months leading up to the attacks. The FAA's response was inadequate despite such warnings, the commission wrote, and the agency continued to occupy itself primarily with issues like congestion and flight delays. "