Airstrip One

State Failure

This reasonably fair minded assesment of briefingate is worth reading:

Is there a point to spending $30 billion-plus dollars a year for a sweeping intelligence system -- and Congress is in the process of approving a multibillion dollar boost -- if that system cannot discern and efficiently handle the nuggets it does manage to obtain?

Perhaps 9-11 will not bequeath us big government after all.