I know I just said I wouldn't be blogging again until tomorrow, but this Jeff Jarvis post is such a head-scratcher that I thought it required at least a brief response.

Jarvis: Bob Kerrey, self-styled attack dog of the 9/11 Commission, is in the NY Times Sunday saying again that 9/11 could have been prevented but without saying, again, how.
Kerrey: One episode strikes me as particularly important. On July 5, 2001, Ms. Rice asked Richard Clarke, then the administration's counterterrorism chief, to help domestic agencies prepare against an attack. Five days later an F.B.I. field agent in Phoenix recommended that the agency investigate whether Qaeda operatives were training at American flight schools. He speculated that Mr. bin Laden's followers might be trying to infiltrate the civil aviation system as pilots, security guards or other personnel.

Ms. Rice did not receive this information, a failure for which she blames the structure of government. And, while I am not blaming her, I have not seen the kind of urgent follow-up after this July 5 meeting that anyone who has worked in government knows is needed to make things happen. I have not found evidence that federal agencies were directed clearly, forcefully and unambiguously to tell the president everything they were doing to eliminate Qaeda cells in the United States.

Oh, well. As always, we report, you decide.

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