“Current noise?” Would that be white noise? Background noise? Gee, failure to act and the realization that a sense of urgency on the part of our security agencies did not exist is marginalized to a dismissive comment by our leading press secretary! I thought that a meaningful discussion about the whys and hows of September 11th might be greeted with a little more respect than that arrogant remark. The President followed up with a speech detailing a new bureaucratic revamping to be in place by January 1st. January 1st! You have got to be kidding. Does the phrase “rapid response” mean anything to this group? This is a war! So, I’ve been hearing and seeing all too vividly. Bureaucracies don’t understand the meaning of the word “urgent.”