should not be surprised that the FBI, whose past performance and driving culture have obviously lacked a collaborative and cooperative spirit, is slow to change.

Still, in a stunning roll of the dice, Washington plunged ahead this summer designating the FBI as “National Security Service” with primary federal responsibility for domestic intelligence. And then, breaking every rule of chain of command and sound executive management, DNI John Negroponte was given line and budget authority over this in-house FBI organization.

It seems to me that our British cousins have the right idea: a lean and tough foreign intelligence organization, led by MI-6, and a stand-alone domestic intelligence operation under MI-5. Certainly very importantly, British political leaders put the national interest first and generally stand behind their services; sometimes even at political disadvantage.

And, I haven't even addressed the unctuous and pervasive political correctness enforced by our political leadership and media, academic, and cultural elites that undermines use of such important tools as profiling and prevents serious and intelligent national conversations about how to make America safer from terrorism.