On December 5, 2005, “the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a watchdog group established by the [9/11] commission…to monitor the Bush administration and grade it on its efforts to comply with their [41] recommendations [to improve national security], gave the administration seventeen F’s and D’s. They gave the administration only one A, an A minus at that, for efforts to stem the financing of terrorist networks. Commission chairman Thomas Kean said, ‘Many obvious steps that the American people assume have been completed have not been. Our leadership is distracted.’ ”
– Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Pages 211-212