At 10:48 PM 1/1/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:Herein we see the kind of spin the Bush administration will use when the 9/11 commission finds that they were asleep at the switch.
Thank you for your substantive responses and critiques of the proposals presented and your refraining from baseless political attacks.
Youâre welcome. And thank you for substantiating your claim that the courts supported a "a right to privacy that protected one's right to do whatever one wanted".
And in case you missed my previous posts on the subject of 9/11 warnings, here are a few articles to peruse. If you want more, let me know.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/warningmemo020516.html
White House officials acknowledged that U.S. intelligence officials informed President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks that bin Laden's terrorist network might try to hijack American planes, and that information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml
(7/2001) All other Bush Cabinet appointees, with the exception of Interior and Energy with remote sites to oversee, fly commercial airliners. Janet Reno, Ashcroft's predecessor as attorney general, also routinely flew commercial. The secretaries of State and Defense traditionally travel with extra security on military planes.
The Justice Department insists that it wasn't Ashcroft who wanted to fly leased aircraft. That idea, they said, came strictly from Ashcroft's FBI security detail. The FBI had no further comment.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/12/23/timep.rice/
"With such high-profile testimony in the offing, it's no wonder the commission chairman, Republican Tom Kean, was telling reporters last week to expect major revelations from the investigative hearings expected to begin in late January.
He also suggested that the 9/11 attacks might have been prevented if mid-level government officials at various government agencies had done their jobs."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2003/12/18/03615.shtml
9/11 Commission Set to Blame Bush, Clinton Gets a Pass
The chairman of the independent commission investigating the 9/11 attacks is hinting that he's prepared to place blame at the doorstep of the Bush White House for not acting on evidence that could have prevented the catastrophe.
But commission chairman, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, has yet to examine key evidence indicating that President Clinton knew Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America but failed to take appropriate action to stop him as the 9/11 operation was being organized.
"[9/11] was not something that had to happen," Kean told CBS News on Wednesday, adding that officials in the Bush administration had failed to protect America.
"There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed," the top 9/11 prober said.
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