Sometimes it's helpful to see, all in one place, the list of useless and dangerous anti-terror institutions and laws that the Bush administration has rammed through since 9/11. All of this, mind you, even though not a single American has even been punched in the nose by an angry Muslim since September, 2001. Against that weak-to-nonexistent threat, the White House has mobilized vast resources. In a speech to WINEP, Juan Zarate, the deputy national security adviser for combatting terrorism, laid it all out:

Now, we have in place the structures -- like NCTC, the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, NORTHCOM, DOJ's National Security Divisions, the FBI's National Security Branch, and Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) -- that institutionalize the counterterrorism and homeland defense missions.

In addition, we have much of the legal framework -- based on the Patriot Act, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act (IRTPA), and other key administrative and legal provisions -- to fight this long war effectively. A key piece of legislation -- the modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) -- remains to be passed in Congress.

Whew! And more to come.