Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Today's Scoop: More 9/11 Cover-ups
So the most secretive administration since Nixon is withholding yet another report--no news there, right? Still, this case is pretty disturbing.
Apparently the Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Here's what an intelligence official who has read the report had to say:
"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed. . . . The report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."
Why the Bush administration gets so much credit from supporters for its handling of 9/11 is beyond me. Here are a few facts:
1. President Bush fought against the creation of the Sept. 11 commission, agreeing only after enormous political pressure was applied by a grass-roots movement led by the families of those slain.
2. Bush refused to testify to the 9/11 commission under oath, or on the record. Instead he deigned only to chat with the commission members, with Vice President Dick Cheney present, in a White House meeting in which commission members were not allowed to take notes. All in all, strange behavior for a man who seeks reelection to the top office in the land based on his handling of the so-called war on terror.
And now this:
The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
Apparently the Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Here's what an intelligence official who has read the report had to say:
"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed. . . . The report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."
Why the Bush administration gets so much credit from supporters for its handling of 9/11 is beyond me. Here are a few facts:
1. President Bush fought against the creation of the Sept. 11 commission, agreeing only after enormous political pressure was applied by a grass-roots movement led by the families of those slain.
2. Bush refused to testify to the 9/11 commission under oath, or on the record. Instead he deigned only to chat with the commission members, with Vice President Dick Cheney present, in a White House meeting in which commission members were not allowed to take notes. All in all, strange behavior for a man who seeks reelection to the top office in the land based on his handling of the so-called war on terror.
And now this:
The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
