11/23/2004 11:40:39 AM|||Toni|||OpinionJournal - The Western Front

I had a feeling this was a good thing that the House had done in rejecting recommendation from the 911 Commission. Turns out my intuition was correct.

The problems here are obvious. .......To use a current example, if this was already in place, soldiers fighting in Fallujah might not have had the satellite linkups they needed to study the changing battlefield. Money and technology aside, the military also feared the intelligence director would pull essential personnel away from military duties--something explicitly within his power under the Senate's plan.

There's way more to this story than what you are hearing from the pundits and talking heads!|||110123163964688689|||The House kills an intel plan that would have made fighting terror harder.