Butthefact that the Left would have remained unconvinced doesn't excuse the government's abject surrender of the truth about Chomsky to Israel's enemies on the Left who portray the MIT professor as a human rights activist and a great intellectual humanitarian.
Butthe very fact that official policy has remained so loose, for so long, has meant that the Bank has much less influence now on the cost of borrowing for households.
And the documents that were able to be declassified and released help provide information to Americans and people around the globe about the state of al Qaeda when bin Laden was taken out, thefact that that organization was under a great deal of stress, had been diminished, butremained a threat and remains a threat.