Of course, it took 432 days to get a bi-partisan comission on 9-11, which bush tried to stop the congress to do it,
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Response: In my mind that made the commission
even more independent. In fact, the public damned
the whole idea of Bush asking Kissinger to chair it.
That was a really stupid idea. Kissinger has way too
much baggage and would be too careful not to upset
the official line. Kean and Hamilton, were great picks.
Both independent, and both reached across party
lines not giving a damn about any partisan matter but
what was good for the truth.
I've tracked those two forever in American politics
since I was little and have a lot of respect for their
sincerety and independence in thinking.
They've often proved you could get votes by being
your own man, and neither were afraid to lose an
election on principles.
You can't get better than that.
I really disapproved of Bush's initial stupid choice
of Kissinger.
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which bush and cheeney ask to appear together,
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That was certainly suspicious on the surface.
But that was the only way the Commission could
get those two foot draggers in for questioning,
which makes it another point for the commission's
independence and resolve of especially those
two chairman, Kean and Hamilton, who both
complained on the slowness of administration responses.
On the other hand, for psychological reasons, I like
to take both suspicious people at the same time, just
to see how they interact and react to each other.
Separating those two accomplishes nothing because
you know they've already compared notes anyway.
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withouth being under oath, and more importantly, no one in the world are allowed to know what was said inside, never seen in american history,
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It doesn't really work that way. You would think so.
But the reality is that bombshells are too good
to keep secret especially in front of two men like
Kean and Hamilton whose loyalty was often to no
one but their own principles.
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The Treasury Department rejected a request from senators and refused to release a classified list of Saudi individuals or organizations suspected of financing terrorist groups, the white house censored 28 pages of the 9-11 report … double the money was invested in monica lewinsky affair, than 9-11, more than 10 video near the pentagone was confiscated in a min that follow the crash in the pentagone by the fbi, and none of them are allowed to be seen to the public.
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The reality is that most of that information was given
to the the intelligence committees in the House
and the Senate, and by then the 9/11 commission
decided that they got as much as they could before
they changed direction at the end for an even more
worthy goal of prevention and explanation of
bureaucratic failure at every level of government.
Final thought:
It's a pretty damn good report in a damned imperfect world
and surprisingly avoids bureaucratese writing. You oughta
give it a second review.
