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9/11 Commission unearths too much to be ignored
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason...omm/index.html -- Might
require watching a 30 second add extract April 16, 2004 | Bitter denunciations of the 9/11 commission suddenly flashed across the right-wing mediascape this week, marking the commencement of a Republican campaign to discredit the independent investigation of the terrorist attacks. With hindsight -- to quote a phrase often uttered by the commission's beleaguered witnesses -- the savaging of the investigative panel seems entirely predictable. All this is just another stage in the continuing conflict between the commission, whose bipartisan members seem genuinely interested in unearthing relevant facts despite their occasional quarreling, and the White House, which has concealed facts and stonewalled questions whenever possible. Back when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney conducted their first preemptive strikes against the commission's very existence, they clearly anticipated serious problems should an independent body get its hands on pre-9/11 intelligence. Whatever they may have expected, the reality has been worse. From the damaging revelations by Richard Clarke and other former officials to the breaching of the secrecy of the President's Daily Briefing to the humiliating flip-flop on Condoleezza Rice's testimony, the commission's proceedings have repeatedly embarrassed the White House. Now its friends in Congress and the media are striking back in anger. Spearheading the assault was Attorney General John Ashcroft, who determined before testifying that taking the offensive was the only strategy that might save him from sounding totally defensive. He was painfully aware, in the days before his appearance, that the commission's staff had collected copious evidence showing his neglect of counterterrorism issues during the administration's first nine months. Thomas Pickard, the former acting director of the FBI, had told the commission that in 2001, Ashcroft omitted terrorism from the Justice Department's top priorities, rebuffed his pleas for increased counter-terror funding and directed Pickard to cease briefing him on terrorist threats. |
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9/11 Commission unearths too much to be ignored
This entire opinion lacks intelligence. It is ignorant for you Jim to even
suggest such things. You certainly show your lack of knowledge, compassion, intelligence or any other positive qualities as a human being by even suggesting such. Do you know that the net lives saved so far is approximately 30,000 lives? Do you know that on average under Saddam's power, and his people's power, that on average, 35,000 lives were lost every year and now Bush has put a stop to that. No you didn't did you. So are you some type of a racist? Do Iraqi lives have less value than another nationalities lives? What are you, some type of a moron? And you have the balls (or lack of) to criticize Bush? GYHAS "Jim" wrote in message ... http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason...omm/index.html -- Might require watching a 30 second add extract April 16, 2004 | Bitter denunciations of the 9/11 commission suddenly flashed across the right-wing mediascape this week, marking the commencement of a Republican campaign to discredit the independent investigation of the terrorist attacks. With hindsight -- to quote a phrase often uttered by the commission's beleaguered witnesses -- the savaging of the investigative panel seems entirely predictable. All this is just another stage in the continuing conflict between the commission, whose bipartisan members seem genuinely interested in unearthing relevant facts despite their occasional quarreling, and the White House, which has concealed facts and stonewalled questions whenever possible. Back when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney conducted their first preemptive strikes against the commission's very existence, they clearly anticipated serious problems should an independent body get its hands on pre-9/11 intelligence. Whatever they may have expected, the reality has been worse. From the damaging revelations by Richard Clarke and other former officials to the breaching of the secrecy of the President's Daily Briefing to the humiliating flip-flop on Condoleezza Rice's testimony, the commission's proceedings have repeatedly embarrassed the White House. Now its friends in Congress and the media are striking back in anger. Spearheading the assault was Attorney General John Ashcroft, who determined before testifying that taking the offensive was the only strategy that might save him from sounding totally defensive. He was painfully aware, in the days before his appearance, that the commission's staff had collected copious evidence showing his neglect of counterterrorism issues during the administration's first nine months. Thomas Pickard, the former acting director of the FBI, had told the commission that in 2001, Ashcroft omitted terrorism from the Justice Department's top priorities, rebuffed his pleas for increased counter-terror funding and directed Pickard to cease briefing him on terrorist threats. |
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