If anybody doubts that Clinton seriously underestimated the threat Al-Queda posed and gave them more free passes then they deserved, in effect encouraging them, they're delusional. If anybody similarly thinks that Bush and company didn't get blindsided without a clue, again, they're delusional. Both administrations failed their most basic task miserably. There's no covering that up.

For Congress to step in and threaten to pull the license of a major network for telling a drama that is more true in the general than anything we've seen in the past 6 years, even if it is wrong in the particulars convinces me we don't need to worry about losing our free expression any more. That train has apparently left the station.