Live 9/11 Commission Thread [testifying today Freeh, Reno, Ashcroft]

April 13, 2004 | Vanity

[Peach]

9/11 Commission. Now on C-Span.

Chairman Thomas Kean has asked the audience to refrain from clapping.

Louie Freeh, former FBI director, up at 9:30.

Business matters being taken care of now by the Commission.

[Mo1]

Louie is mentioning that he serve on the Air Commission with Gore

[swheats]

Amen that truth is exposed so that a cleansing and healing can come to our nation.

[Mayflower Sister]

It's irrelevent. She has NO BUSINESS being on this commission. Period!

[lysie]

Thanks for the ping. Did I miss anything of any worth?

[Maigrey]

Hmmm Freh now brought up the Gore/Aiirline commission, and refering to it as fact. I wonder if he would be willing to bring up the fact that Gore took campaign funds from the airlines?

(crickets chirping)

Yep. war footing. The ACLU and other folks would have been screaming aabout infringing on civil liberties.

[Diogenesis]

"I won't call you Dr. Clarke so I won't look dumb.
Now there were about four terrorist attacks. Why did we let their Army into America? "

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Partial List of Terrorits who Declared War on US

1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered

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[jackbill]

Brit was talking about Ron Brownstain's piece in yesterday's LA Slimes:

That widespread belief has two major implications for the 2004 campaign. First, it means that based on the information available so far, most Americans recoil from efforts to blame Bush for the attacks. One leading Democratic interest group recently asked a focus group in Florida to respond to a potential television ad accusing Bush of negligence in failing to stop the attacks. The result was volcanic ? against the ad.

"They were so angry I thought they were going to turn the tables over," said a Democratic operative who watched the session. "It was a very polarizing ad, and it pushed people who were on the fence decidedly away from us."

[jwalsh07]

Kerrey knows that the mindset of Airlines and Air Passengers pre 9/11 was acquiesence, post 9/11 it is confront and kill or be killed. Kerrey had every opportunity to advance that cause pre 9/11. Why didn't he????

[JulieRNR21]

Wish Louie had said more about WHY not implemented....due to influx of airline money to Clinton/Gore 1996 reelection campaign!

[Peach]

The FBI pre 9/11 never had a plan to deal with terrorists, particularly those already in place in the US.

Freeh just said he served on the commission with Al Gore that dealt with airline security and that although good recommendations were made, NONE of them were ever implemented.

[Pegita]

Amen, swheats, Amen ...

[Jewels1091]

That cartoon is so right!!!! I mean the one of clinton

[Republican Red]

I called the 9/11 commission lady back armed with facts from their own website. I asked why she lied to me about the White House appointing the democrat members when it was in fact the dems who appointed their own.

She hung up on me.

I did write a nasty little letter to the commission though about the whole thing.

202-331-4060
info@9-11commission

[Peach]

I see that thus far all the hostility marshalled against the Bush administration has been tampered down for the former Clintonistas.

[Peach]

Freeh - Congressionally mandated freeze on hiring new agents for 22 months.

[mathluv]

FREEZE ON HIRING IN 93 -FROM Congress

[lysie]

Thanks, Peach.

[Frank_Discussion]

*choke*

Coffee missed the keyboard, but hit the desk. Where's those dang paper towels? Hmm...

[Cboldt]

One leading Democratic interest group recently asked a focus group in Florida to respond to a potential television ad accusing Bush of negligence in failing to stop the attacks. The result was volcanic ? against the ad.

Hmmm. Maybe it works in GOP favor to have some members of the 9/11 Commission continue to "accuse" the Bush administration of negligence in failing to stop the attacks.

[Howlin]

That's exactly the quote I heard.

I thought it was during the piece they did about the Fox News book, which was written by a guy from the LA Times.