The 9/11 Commission and Bill Clinton

Note that in the Newsweek story here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4208768/, Newsweek reports that the 9/11 Commission is trying to obtain complete access to presidential daily briefs, or PDFs “dating back to 1998”.

However, as established in my article here http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10324, Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who carried the “nuclear football” for President Clinton, wrote in his book last year that he saw a PDF to Clinton in 1996 discussing the Islamic terrorists’ plot to use commercial airliners as weapons.

Assuming the Newsweek article is accurate, why isn’t the 9/11 Commission following up on this? Why isn’t the 9/11 Commission requesting access to the PDF’s from years before 1998, including 1996?

WHY aren't they asking?

It's easy to see why not - look at this ONE member...

Judge Patricia Wald...

...a graduate of Connecticut College (B.A. 1948) and Yale Law School (LL.B. 1951), was admitted to the Bar in 1952. She served, among other positions, as a law clerk to Judge Jerome N. Frank of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and as Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs in the Department of (Jimmy Carter) Justice prior to being appointed to the bench in 1979.

Judge Wald served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1979 until 1999, serving as Chief Judge of the Court from 1986 to 1991. She left the federal bench in 1999 to serve two years as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Judge Wald is a Council Member and First Vice President of the American Law Institute and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

She also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Judge Wald is the author of Law and Poverty (1965) and co-author of Bail in the United States (1964) and Dealing with Drug Abuse (1973), and she has also written numerous articles on legal subjects. Judge Wald is a member of the Executive Board of the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Institute and has sat on the Board of Editors of the ABA Journal. She has received some 20 honorary degrees and has been honored as well by the American and Women's Bar Associations and the Environmental Law Institute.

Judge Patricia Wald serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative !!

This is supposed to be an impartial judicial panel member?

www.soros.org/initiatives/osji George Soros OWNS a member on the panel!

Excellent point and this makes this commission look very suspicous!!

Dereliction of Duty
by Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson

Dereliction of Duty is written by Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who was an eyewitness to the account of how Bill Clinton endangered America's long-term national security. I have actually read this book, and it is a true shocker. Once you start reading it, you will not want to put it down! Here is the ultimate insider's account from the highest and most sensitive levels of the Clinton administration, revealing how the irresponsible use of power can lead to a terrible price paid by all Americans

Editorial Reviews by Amazon.com:

Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson was a military aide to President Clinton from May 1996 to May 1998 and one of five individuals entrusted with carrying the "nuclear football"—the bag containing the codes for launching nuclear weapons. This responsibility meant that he spent a considerable amount of time next to the president, giving him a unique perspective on the Clinton administration. Though he arrived at the job "filled with professional devotion and commitment to serve," he left believing that Clinton had "sown a whirlwind of destruction upon the integrity of our government, endangered our national security, and done enormous harm to the American military in which I served."

Dereliction of Duty is not a personal attack on President Clinton or a commentary on his various scandals; rather, it is a "frank indictment of his obvious—to an eyewitness—failure to lead our country with responsibility and honor." Lt. Col. Patterson offers a damning list of anecdotes and charges against the President, including how Clinton lost the nuclear codes and shrugged it off; how he stalled and lost the opportunity to launch a direct strike on Osama bin Laden at a confirmed location; how the President and the First Lady, and much of their staff, consistently treated members of the military with disrespect and disdain; and how Clinton groped a female Air Force enlisted member while aboard Air Force One, among other incidents large and small. A considerable portion of this slim book is devoted to the myriad ways in which President Clinton undermined the military, and hence the security, of the nation. He seriously questions Clinton's decisions to send troops to Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, and Bosnia to accomplish non-military tasks without clear objectives. Having participated in each of these engagements, Lt. Col. Patterson personally "experienced the frustration of needlessly wasted lives, effort, and national prestige" as well as the alarmingly low morale that Clinton inspired.

I can only guess, but my guess is that it's because the Democrats always play hardball and the Republican always give in. There must have been discussions on the panel where to start, what to cover, and where to draw the lines. The Democrats must have insisted that the lines be drawn in a way favorable to them, and after weeks of arguing and footdragging the Republicans gave in. They always do.

Moreover, Bush must have thought it was only fair to appoint a bipartisan panel. If clinton had been forced to appoint a panel, you can be sure that every member of it would either be loyal to him or blackmailable.

I don't know how you can pressure them to change course now; they are already going over their time limit, as I understand it.

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