An antidote to wonkdom

Sandy "Hotpants" Berger and today's report of the 9/11 Commission provide an insight into the day to day activities in Bureaucratburg that dulls the brain and glazes the eyes, except when you realize that they're supposedly charged with protecting the rest of us. Craig at Lead and Gold provides an antidote - Credit Where Due:

Many posts and articles on the Berger matter quote Richard Clarke's verdict that the Millennium plot to bomb LAX was foiled by luck. Luck, in the sense of a fluke occurrence, had nothing to do with it. A vigilant U.S. Customs Inspector followed up on her suspicions and searched the trunk of a car trying to enter the US at the Canadian border. She expected to find drugs but, instead, found the makings of one or more big bombs.

Her name is Diana Dean and she deserves to have her name remembered and get credit for her good work.

This just isn't a matter of giving Ms. Dean her rightful credit. It also points to an important lesson going forward in the WoT. No number of principals meetings in Washington or action plans by Homeland Security will protect a single American. The rubber meets the road at the street level where alert LEOs and dedicated investigators do their job.

And the pantywaists stay the heck out of their way. More by following the link.