From an airplane high above the clouds: I'm using someone's laptop that has "wireless" and stuff so here's nothing. Direct quote: Rome is the dirtiest series I've seen yet on HBO. I can't wait. But...but...but...it's also the most boring, pretentious, educational series ever. On Slate. I'm in first class (don't ask) and there are a couple of Hollyweirdos across the aisle and we spoke for a minute or three. Sharp sharp guys. But they don't get it, they really don't get it. I asked about the box office slump and their responses included--stupid audiences unable to grasp subtlety, short attention spans so that plot construction has to be simplistic and therefore repetitive, too much computerized fake graphics (at least they got that right) and high costs---neither of them thought they were overpaid---of the technical help. When I asked about putting the war on terror on screen, both of them acted like I didn't get it either. The war, and Bush, could not be excused and it was the duty of artists to show this to the public..... Both are going to Florida to plot a movie shoot to be done in Right to Work state of North Carolina so they could do it without IATSE crews. That's why I buried myself into this lap top. BTW Kaus has both the fourth Atta, the second Weldon, the second Amir, and the solution to Able Danger. But very seriously folks, Front Page has a terrific overview of Able Danger and the Gorelick memo.....

"We believe that it is prudent to establish a set of instructions that will more clearly separate the counterintelligence investigation from the more limited, but continued, criminal investigations. These procedures, which go beyond what is legally required, will prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation."

This was put in to stop any investigation of the Chinese donations to the Clinton re-election campaign. Then there is this little gem:

Felzenberg now contends that no reference to Able Danger’s findings were incorporated into the Commission’s final report because it was “not consistent with what the Commission knew about Mohamed Atta’s whereabouts before the attacks.” In short, the Commission believes that Atta was not in Prague on April 9, 2001 but rather in Florida – basing this assertion on records showing that Atta’s cell phone was used in Florida that day. No proof exists, however, that Atta was the one actually using the cell phone.

No shit, Sherlock. Nobody but Atta can use Atta's phone??? It's very hard to believe that every member of the committee conspired to cover this stuff up, but as things unfold what else are all us morons to conclude? Read the piece, it is not only thorough but thought provoking. More and more Gorelick looks like the heavy in this, for the reason that she seems hell bent on covering up any conduct by the Clinotonistas in government.