No, today's 9/11 op-ed in the NYT isn't Trutherism

To state what should be the obvious, asserting that there was more relevant pre-attack intelligence than previously known, and criticizing the administration for undervaluing it, is an entirely different category of commentary than claiming that “Bush knew.” If Eichenwald is a “truther,” there is no evidence of it in this op-ed. Fleischer’s blurt is the kind of mistake that immediately calls to mind the phrase “reading incomprehension,” but I think it’s something a bit more insidious than that…

If anything, the disproportionate response to Eichenwald’s classified-documents-based argument could be read as a pre-emptive attack against the possibility of ever releasing such briefings to the public. Which would be bad for the very national security such moves claim to protect. Recall that Thomas Kean, chairman of the Sept. 11 Commission, said in 2005 that the failure to prevent the attacks were more attributable to overclassification and lack of information-sharing than anything else.