Not only to reach a greater understanding of the aftermath of 9/11, the origins of the Iraq War, the torture regime that grew out of it, etc., but also to discover whether or not our awesome new national-surveillance regime really could have prevented the attack on the Twin Towers from occurring, or whether it was really just a marriage of convenience between some paranoid control freaks who wanted the power to spy on their political opponents and some opportunistic job creators who saw the initiative as a means to drive new revenue streams by providing the government with billions of bytes of gibberish. Because if the NSA spying program couldn't---and in fact, didn't---prevent the attacks from happening, it would be a good thing to know, don't you think?
---Baron V
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