The House of Representatives has passed the 9/11 Intelligence Reform bill with its sweeping new investigative and law enforcement powers:

The House voted Tuesday to overhaul a national intelligence network that failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks, combining under one official control of 15 spy agencies, intensifying aviation and border security and allowing more wiretaps of suspected terrorists.

Once again, a bill that won't make us safer, only less free. Anyone who thinks this bill will stop a future attack is in Dreamland.

Intelligence veterans...question whether more bureaucracy is what the nation needs, whether the new structure is well-suited to stop terrorists and whether the changes should come in the midst of a war. Above all, some doubt whether the bill will truly bring together the nation's intelligence apparatus to "connect the dots" - a phrase so common it's become almost cliche when discussing intelligence criticism post-9/11.

The Senate is expected to pass the bill tomorrow. It then goes to Bush who will sign it into law.

Update: Sensenbrenner extracted his due for conservatives: