Not my problem.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Disaster at Crandall Canyon mine - Brief article

If you think the CIA's failure to notify the FBI that two of the 9/11 terrorists had arrived in the United States was an isolated incident, or only indicative of a lack of cooperation between those two agencies, consider a report made by the Bureau of Land Management inspectors before the Crandall Canyon mine disaster in Utah.

The inspector, Stephen Falk, warned that attempting to remove coal from the pillars that held up the mine roof would "result in hazardous mining conditions such as pillar bursts and roof fails," which is, of course, exactly what happened last August. The Bureau of Land...