Reply #53: Yeah, I ask lots of things of power, dude...

[SDuderstadt]

Have you ever heard the expression "hindsight is 20-20"? Do you understand that things are always easier to sort out after the fact?

No one is saying there weren't intelligence failures. But neither you nor anyone else has demonstrated MIHOP or LIHOP. But what conspiracists do is isolate bits and pieces out of a much larger whole, stripping them out of context in the process. The problem with you guys is that you want us to believe that no one in government is conscientious enough to care about getting to the bottom of things.

For nine years since 9/11, you guys have breathlessly announced smoking gun after bombshell, only to have both types of revelation turn to dust under hard questioning and, often, embarrassingly so for you guys.

Your credibility issues are no one's fault but your own. This is no "there", "there".