9/11, and indeed all terrorist activity, are criminal matters, not political ones. I don't trust the whining spooks any more than I trust the fascist Republicans. After all, as Phillips points out in his new work, the "Bushysty" and the intelligence community have been in bed together for a long time. It wasn't that long ago that the CIA was running amok around the world. Things like MATRIX and ECHELON are not the creation of the radical right - they are generally endorsed solutions.