Nuclear Beef

We Were Asleep

Commissioner John Lehman said he found it inexplicable that inspectors would let a group of Arabs with knives onto the airplanes. "It doesn't pass the common sense test," he said.

Did a member of the 9/11 commission really just say that he found it inexplicable that inspectors would let a group of Arabs with knives onto the airplanes? Someone seems to still be asleep.

I'm generally opposed to "racist" histrionics, but is there a non-racist explanation for Lehman's statement as quoted/paraphrased?

Props to Cyan on the hookup. She will bring the Nuclear Beef shortly.