Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

Perle later stated that the two men indeed crossed each other one morning as claimed by Tenet but only later in the same week and not on September 12. Tenet testified before a public hearing of the Sept. pilots including checklists verifying target information and coordinates.

S. presidents of opposing political parties.