Feeling safe yet?

This Washington Post story exposes the Bush administration's ineptitude and dropping of the security ball as well as anything you'll come across:

FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills
33 of 12,000 Have Some Proficiency
By Dan Eggen; Washington Post Staff Writer

Five years after Arab terrorists attacked the United States, only 33 FBI agents have even a limited proficiency in Arabic, and none of them work in the sections of the bureau that coordinate investigations of international terrorism, according to new FBI statistics.

Counting agents who know only a handful of Arabic words -- including those who scored zero on a standard proficiency test -- just 1 percent of the FBI's 12,000 agents have any familiarity with the language, the statistics show. ... [O]nly six FBI agents ... scored a 4 for "advanced professional proficiency" in Arabic on standardized speaking tests administered by the Interagency Language Roundtable for federal agencies....

Here's the rest.

They're happy to stoke your fears, Mr. and Ms. Middle-America, but have little interest in actually confronting the dangers they ceaselessly cite.