Amid feeble excuses the Pentagon refuses to allow key witnesses to testify in the investigation of destroyed counter-terrorism intelligence.

The military hopes to keep the press and public from this week’s long-awaited Congressional hearings about intelligence failures before the attacks.

Before all the media mavens break their arms patting their peers and themselves on the back, let’s call them on their latest lie – the one claiming some great journalistic ‘silver lining’ is emerging from behind Hurricane Katrina’s dark clouds. What you really saw on your television screens last week was simply the media’s true bias peeking through – not liberal, not conservative, but commercial and careerist.

The latest ‘Big Bang’ in information-sharing is free, and its flagship already gets more traffic than the New York Times and USA Today combined: Meet the ‘wiki.’