Chris Regan of Junkyard Blog writes on some of the revelations coming out of Iraq from captured intelligence data. While not part of that new information, I hadn't heard this one before:

Sadly, after that Cole bombing in 2000, Ambassador Barbara Bodine scuttled the FBI investigation into al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen that was being headed up by The Man Who Knew that al-Qaeda would soon try to finish the job on the Twin Towers. His name was John O'Neill, and he was thrilled about finally having the hot leads he had been waiting for his entire career. It's very likely that, had Bodine not locked him out of Yemen, he could have stopped the second WTC attack. Instead, the brilliant visionary was finally hounded out of the FBI, and no one filled his shoes. Information like terrorists training in flight schools just got filed away. He ironically died Sept 11th, 2001 when the Twin Towers crumbled down on him. It was his first day on the job as WTC Director of Security. A true American hero, single-mindedly dedicated to fighting the bureaucracy and stopping our "second Pearl Harbor."

As Spider Robinson once said: if a burglar is someone guilty of burglary, if a glutton is someone guilty of gluttony ... then God is an iron.

Referral via InstaPundit.