Zakaria: Why America Overreacted to 9/11
It’s clear we overreacted to 9/11.
Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden’s terror network has been unable to launch a single Full Story »
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US intelligence services started in 1789 with the Marshals Service and have seen more or less steady growth ever since. Whigs, Torries, Democratic Republicans, Democrats, Republicans, Federlists, War/ Defense Department among others have used and misused their services adding layer after layer. The myopic perspective of this piece tends to suggest this subject needs a journalist with a little better understanding of the historical size and scope of our intelligence community to create a credible or informative article.