9/11 Panel May Reject Offer of Limited Access to Briefings

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The White House has offered to provide a federal commission with limited access to Oval Office intelligence reports regarding the Sept. 11 terror attacks, but some members of the panel have described the offer as inadequate and are renewing the threat of a subpoena, commission officials said on Thursday.

They said the issue of a subpoena would be discussed on Friday, and possibly decided, at a meeting of the 10-member panel, which was created by Congress last year to investigate intelligence and law-enforcement failures before the attacks.

It will be the first formal meeting of the panel since its chairman issued a warning last month that he was prepared to subpoena the highly classified documents if the White House did not make them available.

Panel members are trying to obtain copies of the daily Oval Office intelligence report that President Bush received in the weeks before Sept. 11, 2001. The report is known as the President's Daily Brief and is distributed to Mr. Bush and a handful of his top aides every morning.

Officials said the White House, under pressure of the subpoena threat, offered over the last week to make copies of the intelligence briefing available to the commission's Republican chairman, Thomas H. Kean, the former governor of New Jersey, and Democratic vice chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, a former House member from Indiana.

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[KoKo]

1. Is it just me or are NYT's articles getting harder to understand lately?

I can't make any sense out of this. The WH says it's cooperating, Quote:


"Officials said the White House, under pressure of the subpoena threat, offered over the last week to make copies of the
intelligence briefing available to the commission's Republican chairman, Thomas H. Kean, the former governor of New Jersey,
and Democratic vice chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, a former House member from Indiana.


But, the Committee is going to meet to discuss issuing subpoena's anyway because this is inaequate?
What?

Then there was that article about Saddam making last minute attempst to stop the Iraq Invasion. That article was so confusing that Josh Marshall had to post about it and then try to clarify it.

What's going on here? Is it me? Or, is the NYT's deliberately writing these articles to confuse the reader?

[Rex]

2. Maybe the committee doesn't trust the WH perps to "make copies"

if they go along with it then it might end up looking like one big mark out with only a few readable words...national security et al.

[Kurt Remarque]

3. maybe they offered such important documents as ....

...the white house menus and the library of children's books read to school kids by dubya

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. "We don't know what happened, Mr. Chairman..."

"But those durn shredders sure look kinda like copy machines, don't they?"

[midwest_lurker]

4. alleged "fair reporting" n/t

[librechik]

6. wait, one of these tapes has an 18 minute gap!

fascist weaseling

[Noordam]

7. :kick:

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[leftchick]

8. kick

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