Tomorrow's 9-11 Final Report

While none of us except the panel, Condi Rice, and White House legal chief Alberto Gonsalez know what is in the final report, there are many things we do know:

* Bush tried hard not to appoint such a panel
* Did everything in his power to ham string the panel once it was set (including originally appointing the former King of Secrets, Henry Kissinger (Cheney holds the title now)
* Only grudgingly granted a short period to answer questions to the panel, and then only with Mr. Cheney in the room
* That we're probably a lot less safe today for a variety of reasons

In other words, this report is something, but it's hardly completely non-partisan, was never intended to give us real answers, was very much carefully guided so as not to hurt Mr. Bush much before November, and probably will not satisfy many of the questions still held by 9-11 families and by the public at large.