9/11 Commission Report

[Racenut20]

Wasn't there supposed to be another section of this report that focused on the political side that they held until after the election?

[Pam-Moby]

1. Yes and I have asked about this a few times.

Everyone that responded to me had no idea. Sad

[rodeodance]

2. so have been asking and wondering but not a glimpse that I know of.

[rodeodance]

3. Bob Kerrey on this: interview in Zahn in Nov. 2004

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/08/pzn.01.html


KERREY: That's correct, because the president had a case, a very simple case to make: I am the commander in chief. I won the war in Afghanistan, even though John Kerry supported it, even though, by the way, there's a credible case that the president's own negligence prior to 9/11 at least in part contributed to the disaster in the first place.

ZAHN: How so?

KERREY: Well, the 9/11 report says in chapter eight -- now that it's beyond the campaign, so the promise I had to keep this out of the campaign is over.

The 9/11 report in chapter eight says that, in the summer of 2001, the government ignored repeated warnings by the CIA, ignored, and didn't do anything to harden our border security, didn't do anything to harden airport country, didn't do anything to engage local law enforcement, didn't do anything to round up INS and consular offices and say we have to shut this down, and didn't warn the American people.

The famous presidential daily briefing on August 6, we say in the report that the briefing officers believed that there was a considerable sense of urgency and it was current. So there was a case to be made that wasn't made.

(CROSSTALK)
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[neweurope]

4. Huh? Why did he promise to keep this out of the campaign? Why

does he promise Bush anything anyway?

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Nordmadr]

5. Because the American

people can not be allowed to make a presidential choice based on clear and evident facts. Are you insane? Do you know what kind of precedent that would set? That bad news could have potentially affected the election. Instead of giving the people of the U.S. the truth, we allow ourselves to be manipulated. We make decisions without information, or worse based on mainstream media propoganda. In a time when we need to shine, we are not showing ourselves to be an enlightened citizenry. We have become far too complacent.

"What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on"? Henery David Thoreau -1817-1862

[Al-CIAda]

6. Exactly olafvikingr...Why are we putting up with this????!! -eom

[Nordmadr]

7. Because...

we lack the leadership and confidence to do something about it.