It seems a particular agency based on the East coast could do some good by listening to some old fashioned, Midwestern common sense.

Coleen Rowley, an FBI agent based out of Minneapolis, says her superiors inside the Beltway didn't make it easy to investigate and subsequently arrest Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Rowley, who also acts as general counsel in the Minneapolis office, also said in a letter to FBI director Robert Mueller that the bureau tried shifting responsibility for the attacks, claiming there's nothing the agency could have done.

Now, after congressional inquiries into who dropped the ball on this investigation, it appears that FBI is trying to clean up its act and do more into combating terrorism.

We're not criticizing what the FBI is doing now. But the apparent nose-in-the-air attitude toward other field offices throughout the country isn't doing the bureau's image any favors.

Has the FBI learned its lesson, by vowing to listen to more to its field offices?

We'd like to think so.

And a good place to start is listening more to what people have to say.

Especially in places like Minneapolis.