I've heard that before

So the 9/11 Commission

identified nine "specific points of vulnerability" in the Sept. 11 plot that might have led to its disruption had the government been better organized and more watchful,

AP said on Friday. The as-yet unspoken meaning of that is that the TRAITOR Act is not actually about security for us, but about control by others.

Seems to me I already said that. On October 14, 2001, in fact, in a letter to my Senators.

The fact is, in the weeks since September 11, it’s become clear that as a security matter, the attacks didn’t happen because of a lack of police powers or security provisions but because of a failure to use those that already existed.

And as I added the following January (and have, I believe, quoted here before),

patient police work of effective investigation and intelligence has done and will do more to oppose terrorism than all our bombing sorties combined.

Footnote: The same article says that Bush "welcomed" the commission's recommendations as " very constructive" and assured the members that "where government needs to act, we will."

Translation: Don't call us, we'll call you.