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Originally Posted by Sommerset
Just for fun. Which part of the 9/11 commission report is crap? It seems to be to be an insanely detailed account of what all the terrorist cells were doing prior to 9/11 and how it came together. It also documents our intelligence failings, which would be kind of weird for a dishonest investigation.
The whole thing is crap. Maybe there are exceptions but it's hard to effect a partly crappy investigation when the subject is a crime. It's either going to be sufficiently thorough and documented or it's crap. Recall that our conventional standard of conviction is beyond a reasonable doubt. Usually there is only one way to reach that standard, which is all the way. The commission report isn't even close. It's glaring omissions (Jiggs has only named a few imo), half ass follow ups, and parroting of other agencies redacted reviews of their reports (not even original reports) prevent it from being thorough. It's withholding of original source material, names of liaisons and contributors, reliance on classified material, and inscrutable editing process make it effectively undocumented.
If you look back at my posts regarding the put options that pretty much sums up my position. It is entirely possible to include a lot of detail while leaving out the critical supporting detail that you need to draw hard conclusions. The omissions of the report are both material and in the supporting of the material that is included.
I haven't read the whole report and haven't read the section where they recommend changes to the intelligence agencies. That's just a farce on it's surface. I know what that part says without reading it. It says it was the systems fault, so no need to prosecute anybody. At least, that's what it means.