Sept. 11 commission chairman says findings will be surprising

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 4/4/04 | William C. Mann - AP

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman of the commission looking into the Sept. 11 attacks said Sunday that some of its findings has surprised him and will surprise the public as well.

Thomas H. Kean also said he expects the commission's final report to be published before the November elections, possibly as early as July, even though the White House must clear it for intelligence problems.

The commission's deadline for submitting its report is July 26, extended from May 27 after complaints that the White House was delaying the turnover of necessary materials.

Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, said he expects no similar foot-dragging as the White House vets the report for security lapses.

"Nobody has any interest in having the report sitting around Washington during the election period and pieces of it leaking out. Nobody has any interest in this thing coming out September or October, in the middle of the election," Kean said.

"So I think it is in the White House's interest, our interest, everybody's interest to get this out in July. And I believe they will."

When it is published, he said, both its findings and its recommendations for preventive action will draw attention.

"I've been surprised by some of what we've found, and so, I think, (the public) will, yes," Kean said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"We will have things in our report on two ends: first the report itself, second the recommendations. We've got some very serious recommendations to make, and I think they'll be something of great value to the American people and also hopefully will make the country safer."

[NormsRevenge]

Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey

Does that mean he is a former governor or a former Republican, now sitting as the head of the "bipartisan" DC version of the Spanish Inquisition?

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[Spotsy]

This just in: The 9/11 Commission will use Richard Clarke's book promoter to plan a comprehensive marketing campaign for their report. Movie rights and scripts are currently in the works.

[MNJohnnie]

Notice all the little editorial comments disguised as news. "Foot dragging" Funny how that term was NEVER applied to the Clinton Whitehouse when they were slow to release material. Funny how National Security concerns are "foot dragging" but planned ofuscation of Clinton President misconduct never were!

[NormsRevenge]

I watched the first couple of minutes of MeeT the Press with Hamilton and Kean and turned it off.. this whole thing has become farcical..

If there are no killer punches to be announced, then the rest is just theatrics intended to misdirect fault for the sorrowful handling of this nations affairs for 8 years.

8 years that wreaked havoc on Our Republic. Our Republic, but not the Republic of China who did quite well, ironically enough.

Could some of the surprising things include evidence of support by some of our "allies" of our sworn enemies? That might include countries like Russia or China or both? hhmmmmm?

[Verginius Rufus]

You must mean the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China is the name of the government which rules Taiwan.

[NormsRevenge]

I stand corrected, Thanks.

My apologies to the legitimate Republic of China. ;-)

[cricket]

Ah yes, the delay. These politicrats are going to read 11,000 pages, right. Clear from their questions so far, few read the info they had.

[templar]

We've got some very serious recommendations to make, and I think they'll be something of great value to the American people and also hopefully will make the country safer.

Hopefully, they will include doing all that is possible to remove Islam in general and Islamics in specific (particularly the ME ones) from our country.

But, I know: that's just wishfull thinking and it aint gonna happen anytime soon.

[Truth29]

Republicans are just no dam*n good at political trench warfare. I am afraid that the Commission has simply become a vehicle to deliver the most damaging report possible to Bush. Clinton will get a by or a deemphasized treatment and the terrorists will take heart from America's divisive and weak response.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A Must Read:

Who Lost Osama? : Richard Clarke is far tougher on the Clinton failures than advertised.

[Lakeside]

I'm not surprised already. It's been a kangaroo court since the very beginning. I don't know why but it still astounds me the amount of hate & vitriol aimed at this administration.

Yet Clinton can play at being President(mostly for the perks involved) for 8 years and get a pass for treasonous activities. There is no justice in the world...good is bad and bad is "good".

[7.62 x 51mm]

Failed loser, voted-from-office, disgraced ex-governor, Thomas H. Kean (RINO-NJ) heads up this "Hate Bush Bunch". Scumbags, all.

[doug9732]

"Failed loser, voted-from-office, disgraced ex-governor, Thomas H. Kean (RINO-NJ) heads up this "Hate Bush Bunch". Scumbags, all."

Former Governor Tom Kean remains today the most popular politician in the State of New Jersey. Mr. Kean is descended from Robert R. Livingston, one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the man resposible for megotiating the Lousiana Purchase. No one in New Jersey doubts that if ex-Governor Kean had wanted a seat in the US Senate, he could long ago easily have claimed it. He prefers life as a college president in New Jersey, with his wife, the former Debbie Du Pont. Their son Tom Kean Jr. is now a State Senator, and a likely future Governor of New Jersey.

[7.62 x 51mm]

"... the most popular politician in the State of New Jersey..."

And you base that upon what? Considering it's all lib-dem scum running that sewer - I lived there for 17yrs - I stand by my statement.

[doug9732]

Correction:
Kean's wife is the former Deborah Bye of Wilmington, Delaware. I believe she is a member of the Du Pont family, and that both she and her husband are independently wealthy.

http://www.depts.drew.edu/pres/tkean/

Here are two quotations from the former Governor:

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.
Thomas H. Kean

The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we talk about statistically, but the one that a mother held briefly in her arms-he leaves an empty place in a parent's heart that will never heal.
Thomas H. Kean

[Destro]

This is a presidential commission not a congressional one - and Republicans control both estates. So why are we bitching?

[CyberAnt]

I saw Lehman and Roemer on Charlie Rose. Lehman was pretty straight forward about his concerns about Clarke's testimony .. and Roemer surprised me by saying that "the commission was already aware that Clinton ignored the embassy bombings and the Cole bombing".

Maybe these guys are surprised .. but I don't think the general public will be.