Kennedy on rice/911/whitehouse/al qaeda - Kennedy smacks em down!

[The Straight Story]

KENNEDY ON REVELATION THAT RICE WAS BRIEFED ON AL QAEDA THREAT MONTHS BEFORE 9/11
October 3, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy released the following statement in response to the admission from the White House that Secretary Rice was briefed by the CIA about the Al Qaeda threat months before 9/11, as reported in today’s New York Times:

“The extent to which this Administration will go to cover up their own mistakes is breathtaking, and quite simply, dangerous. Each of this administration's failures has been compounded by a stubborn refusal to face facts and take responsibility. It is also increasingly clear that the Republican Congress has made it far too easy for this administration to avoid accountability to the American people. If the Republicans in Congress had taken their oversight responsibilities seriously, it would not have taken five years for these basic facts to come to light. Each day, it seems we learn of new facts demonstrating this Administration knew about the nation’s threats –whether it be 9-11 or on the ground in Iraq – and failed to take the appropriate action. Each day, we learn of a new sad and disturbing revelation for the nation."

[shain from kane]

1. "...new sad and disturbing revelation for the nation." And I thought

they believed in the Book of Revelations. Hypocrites.

[pauldp]

2. K&R!

Thank you Senator.

[malaise]

3. This is brilliant

Teddy KOs all of them -and he throws in the Foley scandal ever so subtly in the last line.

KO is about to expose all of Bush's lies.

[indepat]

4. Some think doing nothing in response to reported imminent attacks on

this nation rises to more than just a mistake. Historians will record the proper place for the 'puke Congress which did not fulfill its oversight role nor require any accountability but, in essence, were aiding and abetting accomplices.