Howard Fineman: "I Sniff Some Politics". Same pattern, different issue. We need to know what the White House knew pre-911, but I'm not holding my breath for them to come clean. Says Fineman: "…a habit of disclosure isn't in the Bush genetic makeup. The son of a CIA chief, Bush has always preferred to operate with secrecy and surprise. Cheney sees Congress and the media as annoyances — at best. This view was reinforced by the advent of war. More than ever they tend to think that the public has a right to know only what the top guns think is worth telling them."