And this guy is a Republican, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence committee.

(No on around here cares WHY they don't want you to know? National Security, maybe. Well, it's over, they did it, there are no secrets, except what they knew. And the more that surfaces, the more it smells really, really bad.

For the knee-jerkers, though, they like their heads in the nice, warm sand.

That's not sand, folks. Where you have your heads, and hearts too, for that matter.)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9

After months of work on a joint Congressional committee investigating the events of Sept. 11, Senator Richard C. Shelby said he feared that Congress would adjourn before all the facts are unearthed. As a result, he said, he would not oppose an outside investigating commission.
"Time is not on our side," warned Mr. Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. As he ticked off the few remaining months before Congress leaves for the year and the joint committee dissolves, he stopped just short of accusing intelligence agencies of slowing the flow of information to investigators as a way to beat the clock.
"You know," he said in an interview on Thursday, sitting at a conference table in his Senate office, "we were told that there would be cooperation in this investigation, and I question that. I think that most of the information that our staff has been able to get that is real meaningful has had to be extracted piece by piece."