Are You Safer Today Than a Year Ago?

For all the week's momentous agreements — the largest government reorganization in 50 years, an unflinching inquiry into government fallibility — Washington realists acknowledge that little has been done to prevent a terrorist attack in two weeks or two months or two years.

The changes now transforming government will improve its efficiency in three, four or five years at best; for the near term, feeling nervous is perfectly justified.…
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