WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 - Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency has fewer experienced case officers assigned to its headquarters unit dealing with Osama bin Laden than it did at the time of the attacks, despite repeated pleas from the unit’s leaders for reinforcements, a senior C.I.A. officer with extensive counterterrorism experience has told Congress.

The bin Laden unit is stretched so thin that it relies on inexperienced officers rotated in and out every 60 to 90 days, and they leave before they know enough to be able to perform any meaningful work, according to a letter the C.I.A. officer has written to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

Feeling safer yet?

Not that killing him will solve anything- as Bill Maher has pointed out, McDonalds didn’t go out of business when Ray Kroc died.

Bush has flip-flopped all over this one though… first he’s wanted dead or alive, then it doesn’t matter if we ever catch him.

Well… it’d be good if we caught him, but it doesn’t appear fighting actual terrorists is on our current president’s radar.