This was powerful television

Mrs. Datanerd and I watched NOW with Bill Moyers last night. "9/11: For The Record". It basically takes the 9/11 commission's report and analyzes it to look for who should be held accountable for this devastating failure of the government to protect its citizens. The report itself says that the system failed; the program looks at the report, at the testimony before the commission and finds that the Bush administration failed in key points to take the Al-Qaeda threat seriously. They were told many times, by Richard Clarke, Thomas Pickard, and others, and didn't want to pay attention to it.

I wish every Republican could see this. Granted, most would say it's all partisan and not let it interfere with their world view that George W. Bush is making us safer, but a few would see the truth, that this administration was only paying attention to "threats" that their world view believed in. Like Iraq. It's very scary when ideology trumps facts at such high levels.

According to the website above, this program will repeat on many PBS stations next week, Sept. 17, at 9:00 PM. There may be other repeats in your area. I'd advise watching it.