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" There Is A Line " and " Remember Not " speak of personal ideals and putting them into practice . Mr. Kowalski : I may be telling you about my perception , but when you were talking about the history , maybe some people do not realize I was on the police force in 1974 , when still the fire department and the police were doing some of the ambulance duties here . We did n't define it . What we were doing before 9/11 was n't a whole lot different than what we were doing after 9/11 on the committee , it 's just the people were changing . I have been doing a lot of thinking about that letter in last month 's issue from the man in prison . Did you know that some parts of Antarctic continent are a desert . I did n't feel like I was using my gift and my talent in the most effective way that I could . When Joe Lieberman and I called for an independent commission , we stated clearly that it should n't be a witch hunt directed at one particular administration , one particular agency or particular individuals ; that it should be an honest , probing and thorough review and critique of U.S. policies , programs and practices spanning almost two decades and four administrations prior to September 11th , 2001 , with the goal of understanding what we did wrong , how we can learn from identified failures , weaknesses and vulnerabilities in order to make necessary systemic corrections . This came out of the blue and surprised you , as it did members of the opposition . The second area I wanted to bring up was the type of thing that we are doing which I hope will be instructive and helpful for you happens to be , serendipitously I presume , reported by James Risen in the New York Times . From here , it looks like the big newspaper company business strategy is " screw things up often , disrupt the business , and play a war of attrition . A similar ballad is " Rest Easy , " where the verses tell of a man realizing he is sinful and has not achieved the goals he set , while the chorus returns a sweet message from God : " Rest east / have no fear / I love you perfectly / love drives out fear / I 'll take your burden / you take My grace . Now let me say a brief word about what the Commission 's been doing .