Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’

[babsbunny]

Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/revealed-ashcroft-tenet-rumsfeld-warned-911-commission-line-should-cross/

By Sahil Kapur
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 -- 9:11 am

Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.

The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.

In the message, the officials denied the bipartisan commission's request to question terrorist detainees, informing its two senior-most members that doing so would "cross" a "line" and obstruct the administration's ability to protect the nation.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. And somehow, that didn't raise a red flag for any of the idiots.

[KansDem]

2. How much more of this crap are we going to have to take?

...doing so would "cross" a "line" and obstruct the administration's ability to protect the nation.

"Protect the nation?" Fuck you, neo-cons! You have no desire to "protect the nation." You're only protecting yourselves!

Bring these sons-of-bitches up on charges of treason and murdering 3,000 Americans...NOW!!!

[maxsolomon]

3. 7000+

iraq, too.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. We need a different President, first.

This one refuses to help.

[axollot]

12. Refuses to or unable? The jury is still out on that - it sure seems

like someone put a gun metaphorically to his head after inauguration. The Establishment wins again.

Cheers
Sandy

[FiveGoodMen]

13. There IS that question.

But either way, we're not getting what we need from his time in office.

[axollot]

14. And that is the saddest part. One can hope history tells it correctly.

But if TX continues to flood our school system with their textbooks then the working class of this country will be doomed. Thom Hartmann talked about these kids not being prepared for college science - imagine how unprepared on the global stage we'll be?!

Cheers
Sandy

[reggie the dog]

5. guilty as fuck they are

[Old and In the Way]

6. Have we ever gotten any intel from these prisoners on 9/11?

Or was the point just to have prisoners who could be labeled as 9/11 plotters, then keep them incommunicado so we'd never know the truth?

[Grand Taurean]

7. Of course there was a cover-up.

Bush and company are filth with their dirty hands in every criminal cesspool known.

[troubledamerican]

8. What would DUers say if this was happening in, for example, Colombia? "of course"

Organized crime + military coups can't happen here. America is exempted from history.

[Major Hogwash]

9. They should hang those men on tv.

Oh, they'll have a trial first, alrighty.
A fair trial.
Then we'll hang them.

Batches?
We don't need no stinkin' batches!!

[Blue Owl]

10. Such obvious guilt

and such deliberate denial.

You want terrorists -- look no further than Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, and Rove.

There's your FUCKING CRIMINALS folks, right there.

[G_j]

11. --

posted this yesterday morn and it got sent to the you know where.

important story and hard news at that.

[BeFree]

17. That's because...

...all the crazy truthers started weighing in. Tank gawd we aren't crazy truthers, eh?

[Echo In Light]

18. 'Crazy' is denying what lengths some will go to ------

[guitar man]

15. Tampering with a federal investigation

In light of this information I'm going to predict they will be arrested, brought to trial and swiftly punished.

:sarcasm:

[Echo In Light]

16. PNAC - inside job