9/11 Panel Complains Agencies Are Slowing Inquiry; 'Intimidation' Of Witnesses', page 1

Originally posted by MaskedAvatar
Tyriffic

How do you think Bush himself bought his way out of being put under the microscope?

From www.dailytimes.com.pk -

FOREIGN EDITORIALs: Burying the Truth of 9/11

The Bush administration, long allergic to the idea of investigating the government’s failure to prevent the Sept. 11 terror attacks, is now doing its best to bury the national commission that was created to review Washington’s conduct. That was made plain yesterday in a muted way by Thomas Kean, the former New Jersey governor, and Lee Hamilton, the former congressman, who are directing the inquiry. When these seasoned, mild-mannered men start complaining that the administration is trying to intimidate the commission, the country had better take notice.

In a status report on its work, the commission said various agencies — particularly the Pentagon and the Justice Department — were blocking requests for vital information and resources. Acting more like the Soviet Kremlin than the American government, the administration has insisted that monitors from various agencies attend debriefings of key officials by investigators. Mr Kean is quite correct in objecting to this as a thinly veiled attempt at intimidation. Meanwhile, the clock is running for the commission to complete a full report to the nation by next May.

Too polite to use the word “stonewalling,” the bipartisan commission nevertheless warned the nation that thus far the administration had “underestimated the scale of the commission’s work and the full breadth of support required.”

The White House has repeatedly pledged cooperation while stressing the delicacy of protecting classified secrets. There are techniques and precedents for the commission to be extended access to critical information without compromising security. Two serious areas of dispute that should be quickly settled in the commission’s favor are access to the minutes of National Security Council meetings and to the daily briefing memorandums prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for President Bush.

Mr Kean assumed the chairmanship after questions were raised about potential conflicts of interest for the White House’s initial choice, Henry Kissinger. “The coming weeks will determine whether we will be able to do our job,” the commission warned in prodding the administration to protect the nation’s future security as passionately as it clings to its past secrets. —NYT, July 9

MA.........please, your using a Pakistani Paper and article to back up this claim? No US article, nothing else?

In retrospect:
A whole lot of people in the US are and have been questioning the failure of the government, more so the vaunted Intelligence Agencies of the US, in preventing or 'foretelling' the terrible tragedy of 9/11'.

You folks make like everyone in America is blind, deaf, and stupid. Far from it.....everything has a coarse that it follows called "due-process". It will get resolved one way or the other....count on it. Again, I mentioned it in another topic, but the main concerns on the minds of American's today is putting food on the table, clothes on their childrens backs, roofs over their heads, jobs, etc. Its easy when you can stand "outside" and scream LIES, etc. but American's are far from being blind, deaf, and dumb to what is transpiring in respect to Bush and elsewhere.

Priorities do take precedent over 'head-hunting'.

My two cents....blast away.

regards
seekerof