MTP - Mike McConnell
There was a line in what I thought was a cool movie called the Zero Effect. The line went something like this - If you are looking for something in particular then that is hard. If instead you are looking for anything then that is easy to find. The new Director of National Intelligence is basically quoting that line here.
Tim Russert, finally asks some relevant questions but doesn’t follow up. Why has Osama Bin Laden been so hard to catch? He gave Russert the Zero Effect quote, basically. Then Tim could have followed with how did we let him out of Kabul? Why did we not bomb the caravan of trucks leaving Kabul? Why couldn’t we corner Bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains. When we sent in troops why didn’t we drop them behind the Taliban lines so that our troops could fight down the mountains and effectively close of any escape route for Bin Laden? How many men do we, not Pakistan, we have looking for Bin Laden right now? Okay, I don’t need the exact number is there a brigade or a division looking for him? Unfortunately, we didn’t get any of these questions.
