9/11 Commission: a scathing indictment of the Bush Administration

The 9/11 Commission's report is remarkably fair and even-handed in its analysis of how the Clinton and Bush administrations have handled the terrorist threats against our country. Both governments receive stern criticism for not doing enough.

But the fact that the 9/11 Commission's report is even-handed and non-partisan does not mean that its conclusion is not a scathing, damning condemnation of the Bush administration's reaction to the events of 9/11. The very fact that the 9/11 Commission's report is so clear, so concise, and so furiously adamant that the government has not done enough to make us safer from terrorism is proof that, having had three years to do whatever necessary in the wake of the worst terrorist attack in history, the Bush administration has failed to do enough to make us safer.