They also had a bad hair month.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

The news about the FBI has not been heartening. On June 6 came word that for at least two years before its computerized case management system crashed, there was ample evidence that it was a turkey. On June 7, members of the 9/11 commission, who have formed a private group to continue operating as anti-terrorism watchdogs, said, according to The Washington Post, that "the FBI has stumbled badly in its attempts to remake itself." On June 10, the Post said that according to a report by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, "the FBI missed at least five chances to detect the presence of two of the hijackers" before 9/11. On June 20, the AP reported that FBI managers admitted that "expertise about the Middle East or terrorism was not important in choosing the agents they promoted to top jobs."

George Bald, the FBI's antiterrorism chief, said "his first terrorism training came...