How come there was no mention of the Hart/Rudman Commision

[opihimoimoi]

in the 9/11 Report??? Had Bush implemented the recommendations, 9/11 could have been PREVENTED!!!!

It was a gross omission....GROSS....

An ounce of Prevention is worth $850 Billion in Cure....?

WTF?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Seriously? It's not in there?

Maybe Hart will step up and say something.

[opihimoimoi]

3. I don't recall anyone mentioning it on the tube......

I think it was purposely left out hoping we would overlook the omission.

As the Leader of America, its his job to PROTECT US.... not let shit happen and then fix it. Thats Reactionary//// he was supposed to be in the Proactive Stage/Level....

This is what happens when we have a Myopic Leader who also suffers from Hearing, Comprehension, and Delusion....among other things.

[sandnsea]

26. 3 Rudman references

In the friggin' notes. I searched Rudman specifically looking for that report and when I got the name 3 times, in the NOTES, I stopped reading. If it didn't mention Hart-Rudman, it's total bullshit as far as I'm concerned.

[opihimoimoi]

30. Suspicions confirmed. its a white wash/cover up/ammnesia shit thing...

[Jade Fox]

2. good question

:wtf:

[opihimoimoi]

4. Something smells in Crawford......

[librechik]

5. yeah, and Olberman should do a segment comparing them

if not him ANYBODY!

I know, dream on

[opihimoimoi]

11. It sure looks like a massive /cover up/white wash/distortion/deflection

on the Pubs part. They influenced the report with tons of DILUTION.

[redqueen]

6. If anyone has a downloaded copy they can just search for it

if it's not mentioned that's HUGE.

[Solly Mack]

7. We're not supposed to remember that are we?

It changes everything....

[opihimoimoi]

10. Like the Hart/Rudman thing was a bi partisan attempt to address the terror

issue...for Bush to reject it and NOT implement a plausible Terror Prevention Program is MALFEASANCE of the Worst Order.....

I recall Cheney was supposed to address this....

[Solly Mack]

12. Cheney refused to address it, I recall...the report, that is...

He and Bush pretty much poo-poo'ed Hart/Rudman...and said they would set up their own thing w/ Cheney in charge...which they never quite got around to doing anything with...then September 11th happened.

but truly, you still weren't supposed to remember that...you just refuse to go shopping don't you? ;)

[opihimoimoi]

15. "Everyone should help fight Terrah, go shopping at WalMart...."

[Solly Mack]

16. Now doesn't that feel better? And it's all about feeling better

whether it really is better or not

Doncha feel safer? Doncha feel god working through Shrub?

Doncha just feel it? Doncha? Doncha?

sorry..I feel carried away....

[opihimoimoi]

21. If God talks to Bush, how come Bush don't get the answers???

The man is inept and a Peter of the Worst Degree.

[Solly Mack]

23. If god is talking to Bush, he ain't hearing it right

God tells Bush to clean off the shelf because "a rack over there holds bad weapons"

and Bush hears "Iraq, over there,holds bad weapons"

[opihimoimoi]

25. LOL "a rack" luv it.... Bush needs a hearing aid so he can hear God?

Gets the answers mixed up?

Sounds like Bush is Mixed Up from the Git Go... seems like guys are sneaking some Brownies into his "fixin's"...That way he don smell so bad like a drunk....just behaves that way....

[JHB]

8. Is it not there at all, or jus not in the executive summary?

"Executive Summary" is defined as: "That's our story and we're sticking to it, no matter what all the rest of the data says, even if it shows we're wrong (ESPECIALLY if it shows we're wrong)."

[opihimoimoi]

9. They sure as Hell not mentioning it cause that would indicate BLAME

and I wonder whose it would be???

[Generator]

13. Here's what Gary Hart said on CNN-on easter sunday this year

Why Easter sunday? Huh? Big day for the newswatchers huh? I happened to catch this show.

SERWER: Senator, quick last question. Any reaction from the Bush administration to your take -- to your story?

HART: Well, very little because I don't think the press has confronted them with this. You know, it's been a great mystery to me how the 9/11 Commission could get to the stage of it's work and not call on the U.S. Commission on National Security which forecast these attacks. And I don't think they're going to call on us for -- to find out why we issued these warnings unless some reporters and journalists ask them that question. Why aren't you listening to the commission that forecast this?

CAFFERTY: Have you ask them to appear?

HART: Informally. I've asked why they haven't invited us to appear. But, it's a fine line. I'm -- I don't want to be in the position of seeking any kind of publicity, that's not the point. I would be very happy for other commissioners on this commission to appear, but I think they have to do it publicly. It's been suggested to me if I wanted to drop by and talk to the staff behind the scenes they would welcome that, but that only after I had made the inquiry. I think it's totally unsatisfactory. This commission cannot be taken seriously, be asked to be taken seriously, as a commission, if it doesn't take its predecessor seriously.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/11/cnnitm.00.html
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There's also more about him talking to Rice five days before 9/11, and her saying, "I'll talk to the Vice President."

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Before I saw this I didn't even know about Hart/Rudman?? No need to tell the American people anything is there? Easter Sunday-it's so fricking ovbious.

[opihimoimoi]

17. I know, its SO Damming its pathetic..... They had all kinds of warning and

the Bush guys refused to listen...Such is Arrogance and Myopia...

[whosinpower]

14. I was not even aware of this commission

But did a little research into the matter - see below - take note of the DATE!

http://www.emergency.com/2001/21stcentury_rpt.htm

snip -
A bipartisan panel led by former US senators Warren B. Rudman and Gary Hart on Wednesday called for the creation of a Cabinet-level agency to assume responsibility for defending the United States against the increasing likelihood of terrorist attacks in the country. The commission making the recommendation included high-ranking military and former Cabinet secretaries. Their report warned bluntly that terrorists probably will attack the US with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons at some point within the next 25 years.

The commission proposed a complete redesign of the National Guard to provide the proposed new "Homeland Security Agency" with U.S.-based troops to combat those who threaten a nation that for more than two centuries was isolated from attack by two oceans. The panel outlined a far-reaching reorganization of the Pentagon, State Department, National Security Council and other agencies, saying that they have become bloated and unfocused. The report even urged Congress to streamline its own committee structure to keep interference in national security matters at a minimum.

[opihimoimoi]

19. This was only days after the inauguration...Bush Co had oodles of time to

implement something...more so after the Aug Meeting in Crawford... but then, such is laziness/apathy/ignorance/and arrogance.....

Its sickening...

It could have all been PREVENTED

[ElsewheresDaughter]

18. because the entire 9/11 commission was a whitewash jiob from day 1

a total snow job and 95% of the sheeple are BLIND!

[opihimoimoi]

20. Sno jobs, no jobs. over come blo jobs...

[DemBones DemBones]

22. As I remember, we heard about Hart/ Rudman again

right after 9/11, but then the media evidently realized it made Bush* look bad. (It took them a little time to figure this out as they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer.)

Cheney was told to handle anti-terrorism but he "had other priorities" (just as in the sixties & seventies, when he couldn't be bothered to do military service.) His main priority, of course, was meeting with Ken Lay and other crooks to plan an energy policy for the Bush* administration. Has anyone ever heard what this policy is? I know they won't tell us who was on the panel, but I've never heard what the policy is.

[opihimoimoi]

28. Would that be the SECRET thingys they refuse to devulge???

I do wonder why they keep this hidden and use other shit as distractions?? Could it be they wish us to forget and move on??

[DrBB]

24. Hart/Rudman commissioners were not even interviewed

Hart has been complaining about this for months. Including doing so on the only reliable news program on tv, The Daily Show.

[opihimoimoi]

27. "Ain't that a Shame, Bush is the one to BLAME........."

Those Pubs sure know how to cover up a stinky smell. Tons of deodorants and smoke screens....

[tom_paine]

29. Damn, that's a good point. Thanks for dredging this out of da Memory Hole

Of course it was omiitted. And omitted purposefully.

Lee "Whitewash Bushfriend" Hamilton (a turncoat Democrat and Bushevik Loyalist) I'm sure said something like "for the good of the country, we cannot turn this into a partisan blame-fest during an election year".

And so it went.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

The ussual from Imperial Amerika, the New Totalitarian Managed Democracy like Putin's Russia.

[opihimoimoi]

31. It sure looks it......conviniently overlooked/forgotten/by passed

The Managed Society strikes again....we are such fools for sucking into this Pub Shit. Pathetic and sad....but more dangerous to our Freedoms and good way of LIFE.

[DemBones DemBones]

32. DUers need to remember this! Bring it up when talking with 'pubs,

and/or in LTE, calls to C-SPAN, letters to your senators & rep, etc.

ALSO remember that AL Gore was in charge of a committee that made recommendations about improving airport security, to which the GOP-dominated Congress said "We shouldn't waste the money -- there are no hijackers now."

That's TWO reports commissioned by the Clinton administration that were shot down and ignored by the GOP, reports that could have saved 3,000 lives in 2001, plus thousands in Afghanistan and Iraq.

When someone says "Have you forgotten September 11?" WE should we ready with "No, but do you remember the Hart/Rudman report and the Gore report???

Unlike Dick Cheney, Al Gore did what he was supposed to do when his boss said to look into security measures.

[opihimoimoi]

33. You got it man, I do it all the time and the Pubs I talk to have a dose of

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS when I mention/remind them of the Hart/Rudman thingy. This cannot be denied. It is a fact. So is the Aug Meeting with glaring headlines..."Osama is coming to America like real bad". So is the Clinton/Gore warnings and info passed along.

But the Bush guys had a dose of Superiority Complex and rejected good advice to meander along with their own shitty plans...which turned out to be..."Watch my Drive". Now they claim innocence, diffuse with "Its THEM TOO", and distract with deception.

Its mind boggling how Americans can fall for this shit.