9/11 White House Subpoena Omits Classified Briefings (Wimps!!)

[kskiska]

Bush Administration Has Resisted Granting The Sensitive Documents

An independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks announced yesterday that it will issue a second subpoena for documents from the Bush administration, but the legal demand does not include classified intelligence briefings that have been the focus of an ongoing dispute with the White House.

The new subpoena, for Pentagon records about U.S. air defenses on the day of the attacks, follows a demand last month for similar material from the Federal Aviation Administration. The commission said in a statement that it "has encountered some serious delays in obtaining needed documents from the Department of Defense" and that "records of importance to our investigation had not been produced."

The Pentagon said in a statement that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has pledged cooperation and "has directed that the department be responsive to help ensure the commission can meet its deadlines."

But the commission acted more cautiously in its more visible fight with the White House, which has focused on access to President's Daily Brief documents prepared for President Bush. The documents include a briefing from Aug. 6, 2001, containing information about possible attacks by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. The administration has steadfastly resisted granting access to the documents, citing national security concerns.

During a closed meeting Thursday night, the commission rejected a proposal by former representative Timothy J. Roemer (D-Ind.) to immediately subpoena the CIA for access to the briefings, several members said. But sources said the panel also rejected an offer from the White House that would have restricted access to the briefings to a small group including the panel's chairman, former New Jersey governor Thomas H. Kean (R).

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[1songbird]

1. You know it is painfully obvious

that the 911 commission is tanking their own investigation purposefully. They never intended to find the truth and they are coming up with the convenient excuse of not receiving needed information in time. This all just makes me wonder about the true level of corruption in politics. It seems the Repugs are still protecting their "boy".

[aeon flux]

2. They already admitted their guilt

by refusing to cooperate with the investigation.
They are behind 9/11.

[mhr]

3. Republican Hypocrisy - Evil Incarnate

This behavoir is the reason many HATE the BFEE!

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[tkmorris]

8. Inanity personifed

First of all they don't need to release classified info to anyone but the commitee, not all of America, not the whole planet, not to aliens from Betelguese, k?

The problem with releasing classified info is that it can reveal methods and/or operatives, rendering the methods useless in the future and exposing the operatives. The commitee can deal with that, many have in the past. Simply line out names and don't release operational details. How on earth do you propose that 9-11 be investigated without viewing classified info? That's like studying dolphins while maintaining ones distance from the water.

Exposing Wilson's wife however served no purpose whatsoever outside the political sphere. It was done to embarass him, and frighten him. If you don't see the difference here I sure won't try to explain it to you, you need the Introductory Class, it's down the hall to the Right

[RapidCreek]

9. Your post doesn't make any sense..

Would you care to elaborate? Who disclosed classified information? When was it disclosed? Who has suggested that classified information should be disclosed? Are you aware that all members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have the same security clearance as it's chair?

You are either interested in completely investigating the intelligence presented to and used by the president prior to 9/11, or you are not. You are either interested in finding out who committed the treasonous act of disclosing the identity of a CIA operative, or you are not. Patriotic Americans believe we should find out both.

RC

[hang a left]

10. What is so top secret about the intelligence briefings now?

I mean, 9-11 already happened. Oh, I see, it would really cause a national security disaster if the world found out that the white house was warned that they were gonna hijack planes and fly them into shit the week of September 9, 2001.

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[leetrisck]

5. "Intelligence Briefing" - what a strange choice

of words to use when bush is involved. "They" searched thru Chelesa Clinton's underwear (for what I'm not sure) but we can't find out who told georgie what when.

[Flying_Pig]

12. Watch the commission dance the "dance". With members hand picked

by Bush, can this commission truly be said to be independent? Even the Dem members concern me, with the exception of Max Cleland. Lee Hamilton is an old BFEE crony, who let Papa off on Iran/Contra, and he'll not act any different here. And Max, I think I read somewhere that he was offered, and accepted, a post with some Fed agency, that will not allow him to continue as a member of the commission, so he's leaving.

This whole thing is set up as a white-wash, and will have all the effect of the Enron and IWR investigative commissions: None. The only way we'll ever get truth on any of the BushCo crimes, is to defeat them at the polls, and for the new Dem president to empanel actual independent commissions, and give them powers as broad as those of the investigative panels had during the Nuremberg trials.

[BeFree]

13. 9/11 started on August 6

And two years later the extent of facts are that if there was nothing to hide, we'd know what happened on August 6.

How do these people sleep at night? Gotta be the drugs. They all must be pill-popping druggies, just like oxy-Rush.