I've heard this on several occasions recently. In discussing the fact that the 9/11 attacks were a surprise, some self-important pundit lists the guilty parties: the Bush administration didn't know, the Clinton administration didn't know, the CIA didn't know, the FBI didn't know, the media didn't know...say what? Since when was the media an intelligence agency?
I know, I know, sometimes the best source of information is the news media. But in the sense of collecting intelligence information on the plans and actions of terrorists, since when has the media done anything besides report the announcements made by governments, or report on attacks made by the terrorists.
This pious acceptance of responsibility for not telling people about the dangers presented by Al Qaeda prior to 9/11 by various ego-inflated chuckleheads just shows how clueless so many of these people are.
I'll update with a direct quote from Lisa Myers on MTP today as soon as they post the transcript.
