LOUIS FREEH is getting an undeserved pass on pre-9/11 incompetence, writes Josh Marshall, who adds that “Freeh’s chief accomplishment as FBI director was to oversee an almost endless litany of fiascos while successfully ducking responsibility for all of them.”

Unfortunately, addressing this would make both Democrats and Republicans look bad, so nobody’s talking about it. But what about those two fearless independents, Jim Jeffords and Bernie Sanders?