Jon Stewart Takes On The 'Uncensored' History Of The 9/11 Commission

[Hissyspit]

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Jon Stewart takes on the 'uncensored' history of the 9/11 Commission
Mike Aivaz and Michael Roston
Published: Tuesday February 12, 2008

Jon Stewart hosted the New York Times' Philip Shenon on Monday night to discuss his new book, The Commission: An Uncensored history of the 9/11 Commission. The author described White House obstructionism in the course of the officially-mandated Sept. 11 investigation.

"It is remarkable the efforts that the Bush White House went through to try to prevent the 9/11 Commission from getting the information it needed," Shenon told Stewart. "The person who was most responsible for that tension was former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who was then the White House Counsel."

"Well he's really matured since then, I don't know if you've seen some of his work recently," Stewart joked in response.

Stewart also asked Shenon about Commission executive director Philip Zelikow and his relationship with Karl Rove. According to the author, "alarms" went off for the staff when they heard about multiple phone calls Rove had made to Zelikow.

"Then Zelikow calls in his secretary and apparently tells her to stop keeping phone logs of his conversations with the White House," Shenon explained.

"I'm sure it's all innocent stuff," Stewart quipped.

Reached by the Associated Press, Zelikow provided a 131-page statement with information he said was provided for the book. In it, Zelikow acknowledges talking to Rove and Rice during the course of the commission's work despite a general pledge he made not to. But he said the conversations never dealt with politics.

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[Yael]

1. Because if anyone can keep things from being politicized, its Karl Rove

They were probably just catching up on each other's American Idol favorites.

:thumbsup:

[FourScore]

2. I have it on my digital recorder.

I'll make sure to watch it. Thanks for the heads up!

[Winterblues]

3. I loved his take on torture

The US and the Hague tried and convicted eight Japanese officers for Water Boarding American soldiers. They were put to death. so we not only considered it a war crime but a Capital Offense as well. Bush* and Cheney say the circumstances warrant the US using torture because of the possibility of a catastropic attack. Say like an Atomic bomb set off on one or two of our cities...Like maybe Nagasaki or Hiroshima. It certainly was not okay for Japan to do that to learn about any attacks but Americans after all are a "Privileged" people and we can do things that the world condemn if others do them..

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. The same way they have to take our freedom to keep us safe.

[Johonny]

4. I thought it was pretty dull

John clearly read the book and tried to get the author to talk about stuff in the book. The author seemed very focused on a few bland stories. John tells one great Rove joke that totally knocks the poor guy off course. I felt like John (wanted/understood how) to sell the poor guys book better than the author.