[agrace]

"He needs to answer to his actions on Sept. 11," said Ms. Kleinberg. "When was he aware that we were under attack? What did he do about it?"

Lady, by 905 am EVERYONE knew we were under attack. With regard to sitting in his Pentagon dining room, just where was he to go? He was already in the Pentagon! How much closer could he have been to his command center? And if I recall correctly, Rumsfeld was helping to pull people out of the burning Pentagon for a while that day.

That said, I can't even begin to imagine the horror their families have been through and I feel deeply for them. My own husband used to take the Path train into the WTC station every morning before changing jobs six months before the attacks, my grandfather worked in the Pentagon for a decade right before retirement and my dad used to make frequent overnight business trips to the USDA offices in the WTC, so that whole day for me was full of nausea and prayerful thanks.

And is this "article" an editorial or what?

[Let's Roll]

Didn't grumble at the disingenuous ramblings of Madame Halfbright though, did they?

It's embarrassing to think she represented this country around the world. BJ always surrounded himself with losers to make himself appear competent.

[MrB]

It seems that leftists have 3 modes in "handling" crisis:

1) Ignore it, sweep it under the rug, etc. E.G. Clinton foreign policy.

2) Hand wring. Worry about it, but don't do anything about it. State your concern for it and claim that that IS doing something about it.

3) Randomly "do something" - anything, just to be doing something.

[Stultis]

They were not especially impressed with his testimony. In Mr. Rumsfeld’s opening statement, he said he knew of no intelligence in the months leading up to Sept. 11 indicating that terrorists intended to hijack commercial airplanes and fly them into the Pentagon or the World Trade Center.

It was his worst moment at the mike. Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste ran through a list of at least a dozen cases of foiled plots using commercial airliners to attack key targets in the U.S. and elsewhere.

THIS IS FLAT OUT LIE!

ALL of Ben-Veniste's examples of using planes to attack other targets (as opposed to just blowing up the planes themselves) involved PRIVATE planes, e.g. packed with explosives. THIS WAS A DISTINCTION THAT RUMSFELD EXPLICITLY MADE BEFORE Ben-Veniste bloviated. I.e. Rumsfeld acknowledged that there was intelligence (and he was aware of it) that explosive laden private planes might be used, but that there was no intelligence he knew of hypothesizing the use of commercial jets to attack targets on the ground.

Rumsfeld was accurate, correct and not embarrassed in the perception of anyone paying close attention and able to comprehend clear English, which apparently does not include the spin-mad NY Observer.

[swarthyguy]

Brave Women.

If they hadn't pushed, we probably wouldn't even have the hearings we have today, ineffective and timid as they have been.

Reminds me of the Monty Python skit on the comfy chair; apart from Kerrey and Lehman, have you ever seen such a bunch of softballs tossed?

And the commission even agreed not to ask certain questions.

What a farce. And they barely touched on the Saudi thing.

Laughable if not so sad.

[finnman69]

Kristen Breitweiser IS A PARTISAN BULLSH*TTER. She is out for blood. She lies when she say she wasnts America safer. Chris Matthews has a woody every time she comes on to slam Bush.