"Hewitt" Show Focusing on 9/11 Commission Debacle
For our final day co-hosting the Hugh Hewitt Show, Peter Robinson and I are ready to cover the 9/11 Commission debacle.
We'll have some great guests and lots of commentary.
Check out this must read by Deborah Orin, and go here to listen live.
We'll have some great guests and lots of commentary.
Check out this must read by Deborah Orin, and go here to listen live.
posted by LadybugUSA at 12:24 PM
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Carol - Regarding the 9/11 Commission, Bush has some 'splaining to do. What is HE hiding?
Clinton and Gore have consented to public questioning without a time constraint for the 9-11 investigation committee. President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have agreed only to private, separate, one-hour meetings with the commission's chairman and vice chairman, instead of the full panel.
President Bush tried vehemently to prevent a 9-11 independent investigation of the events leading to the tragedy of 9-11. Once the commission was formed against his wishes, he has worked to stonewall them at every step, even at times denying them access to their own notes. Originally Bush and Cheney agreed only to meet with the chair and co-chair in private and only for an hour. After public outcry Bush and Cheney agreed to meet with the full commission but without being under oath and only if they were allowed to be questioned together.
9-11 committee chairman Thomas Kean
Unknown to most, UNOCAL's partner in the Cent-Gas trans-Afghan pipeline consortium, the Saudi Company Delta Oil is owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans which allegedly have ties to bin Laden’s Al Qaeda.
According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz’ younger sister is married to Osama bin Laden,. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12 Nov. 2001 )
Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funnelled millions of dollars to the Al Qaeda network.(See Tom Flocco, Scoop.co.nz 28 Aug. 2002)
Now, "by sheer coincidence", former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean, the man chosen by President Bush to lead the 9/11 commission also has business ties with bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi
Vice chairman: Lee Hamilton
Former Congressman Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House select committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, was shown ample evidence against Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, but he did not probe their wrongdoing. Why did Hamilton choose not to investigate? In a late 1980s interview aired on PBS 'Frontline,' Hamilton said that he did not think it would have been 'good for the country' to put the public through another impeachment trial. In Lee Hamilton's view, it was better to keep the public in the dark than to bring to light another Watergate, with all the implied ramifications. When Hamilton was chairman of the House committee investigating Iran-contra, he took the word of senior Reagan administration officials when they claimed Bush and Reagan were 'out of the loop.' Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and White House records later proved that Reagan and Bush had been very much in the loop. If Hamilton had looked into the matter instead of accepting the Reagan administration's word, the congressional investigation would have shown the public the truth. Hamilton later said he should not have believed the Reagan officials.
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/research/911_intel_commission.htm
And also remember, Bush didn't want to have ANYONE investigate. The 9/11 Mothers and families were the ones that wanted it.
You've got to be kidding me Jill?
Was it Bush who made Atta off limits, or was it Clinton's lawyers?
Was it Bush who had Gorelick to keep the various intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies from capturing and prosecuting hte 9/11 hijackers.
Was it Bush who disregarded outstanding intelligence information from "Operation Able Danger", or was it the Clinton Administration.
Was it Bush who decided to let Bin Laden run free after being offered his arrest from the Sudanese?
You know I can do this all day, Cookie.
You can twist this story however you want, but there is no denying the problem we had on 9/11/01 was created and increased by the lack of action taken in the Clinton years.
Which is why the real lesson of 9/11/01 is to make sure we are forever a 9/12/01 country, and never return to a 9/10/01 country.
Why do y'all always fall back on "it's Bill's Fault".
The 9/11 COMMISSION falls squarely on Bush's shoulders. He constantly uses 9/11 for political gain, he should do the same for policial failure.
YOU can twist the facts all you want but the truth remains that with this administration, we are all less safe than ever before.
You have hashish in them there cookies, Jill?
The 9/11 Commission was nothing but a way for both parties to wash their hands of that horrible day, and to push the fault to the intelligence community.
Look back at reality, and you will see there were many in the intelligence community who did their jobs, but were either hushed or shut out in their attempts to inform the Clinton Admin.
Bush inheritted this mess.....he didn't create it. --> And there's no way he could have prevented it with the dilapidated defense system he was handed by his predesessor.
Good cookies though, I'm sure.
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