Hindsight is 20/20 - they say... Today's NYT carries reports that with a little bit of 'connecting the dots' (whatever that means), the US government could have found out about the gathering threat of a bomber from Yemen... or the fact that a new law that aims to ferret out lobbyists in Washington mandated that these goodly folks publicly register themselves as 'lobbyists'. Guess how they flouted the law - they stopped declaring themselves as lobbyists on forms and regulatory filings.