A Terry Eastland makes a good point that many of those who have denounced the failure of the FBI to detect and prevent the 9/11 conspiracy were instrumental in federalizing a lot of crimes that only serve to distract the FBI from its most important job. I'm not sure I agree that this had anything to do with the Bureau's failures pre-9/11, which I consider to have more to do with the PC attitude that had been inculcated during the Clinton administration.