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To: kumar who wrote (62135)	12/17/2002 2:51:04 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

REASON If you're not sure why we need a clean, above-board airing of the 9/11 facts, consider the recent comments of FBI Director Robert Mueller, who doesn't want anyone actually punished for failures that may have lead to the attacks. "One cannot look at holding people accountable as a solution to these problems," Mueller told interviewers. He also fell back on the fail-safe position if more money had been spent on the FBI, maybe things might've been different. Such thinking reveals that all the institutional deck-shuffling in the world isn't going to fix what ails America's national security state. Accountability is a necessary building block for any large, effective organization. The alternative is micromanagement from the very top, which appears to be the bureau's preferred method. Far from some vengeful purge, accountability at the FBI would mean some objective standards of performance, something that recent charges of politically manipulated whistleblower investigations suggest is sorely lacking. Mueller may think he is shielding his agents from unfair reprisals. What he is really doing is guaranteeing that, sooner or later, they will be unable to do their jobs. seattlepi.nwsource.com