Posted on 10/01/2006 6:32:15 PM PDT by indianrightwinger
October 1, 2006 9/11 Panel Members Werent Told of Meeting By PHILIP SHENON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 at which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to have warned Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, about an imminent Al Qaeda attack and failed to persuade her to take action.
Details of the previously undisclosed meeting on July 10, 2001, two months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, were first reported last week in a new book by the journalist Bob Woodward.
The final report from the Sept. 11 commission made no mention of the meeting nor did it suggest there had been such an encounter between Mr. Tenet and Ms. Rice, now secretary of state.
Since release of the book, State of Denial, the White House and Ms. Rice have disputed major elements of Mr. Woodwards account, with Ms. Rice insisting through spokesmen that there had been no such exchange in a private meeting with Mr. Tenet and that he had expressed none of the frustration attributed to him in Mr. Woodwards book.
It really didnt match Secretary Rices recollection of the meeting at all, said Dan Bartlett, counselor to President Bush, in an interview on the CBS News program Face the Nation.
It kind of left us scratching our heads because we dont believe thats an accurate account, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Understand something. The people doing the leaking are career people, GS rankers, placed there by the Clintons long ago. They can't be gotten rid of. That's the genius of what the Clintons did back in the nineties.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
It seems to me that with all the documents the 9/11 commission had .. someone would have known about this so called meeting
But Woodward makes a claim and everyone jumps
This book is nothing but another hit piece to get Rummy fired
All this blabber... who cares.. Clinton had 8 years to deal with terror and he didn't whatever he says with the wagging finger is a lie additionally, Berger stole documents from the National Archives that implicated the Clinton Administration could have done more about Bin Laden. So until they all come clean about what they knew and didn't know.. then we can all suppose what happened but the bottom line is we are at war with the terrorists not with each other like the Dems want us to be. America will see through it eventually.
The President can fire anyone he choses to fire.
It may not set well with the Washington crowd. But he has the power as executive to do about anything he wants to do.
As in the case of Sandy Burglar, he choses to do very little to stop the undermining going on.
You can blame the media, but the buck basically stops with the administration in office. There are many ways to do it. You can shift these people out of sensitive job areas...etc.
Why not shift them out of the sensitive areas? Into "other" cival servant jobs.
"The President can fire anyone he choses to fire."
No the President can only fire political appointees, not everyone. That is the law.
"It may not set well with the Washington crowd. But he has the power as executive to do about anything he wants to do."
The courts have ruled in cases like this, and they rule against the administration. It is not simply a "Washington crowd" thing.
"As in the case of Sandy Burglar, he choses to do very little to stop the undermining going on."
This was in the venue of the courts. It is part of why it is so very important to get good judges to adjudicate.
"You can blame the media, but the buck basically stops with the administration in office. There are many ways to do it. You can shift these people out of sensitive job areas...etc."
Yes, and those people who are moved can sue and the courts can decide to put them right back where they were with the ability to create more problems.
No, he cannnot. Stop posting crap like that -- you're showing your ignorance of how government works.
Don't blame others.
It was Bush's justice department that let all the Clintonista's off including Sandy Burglar.
If you can't fire them, shift them out of sensitive areas.
You got it?
Yeah, I got it that you once again do not know of what you speak.
If you can't fire them, shift them out of sensitive areas.
Bush actually tried this; they are civil servants and Congress said NO>
Got it?
And who controls congress?
They are CIVIL SERVANTS, dimbulb. We cannot change the rules to suit you.
I was waiting for your name calling to start.
The congress, senate and president can change any law they chose to change.
Why did the administration let Sandy burglar off with a wrist slap?
Foley may end up going to jail, yet Sandy Burglar goes free. Whats up with that?
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