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.

[kassie]

Rush was talking about this ad earlier. It is despicable.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"How is it that EVERYONE from the Clinton administration has such a poor memory?
Because "I do not recall ever saying that" cannot be nailed as perjury or treason."

Well I'll have to remember that if I'm ever in trouble I'll just say I'm a Dem.(choke) therefore "I do not recall". I should get off without a hitch.

[freeperfromnj]

Thanks. I'm going to look him up - If I recall, a lot of information about terror cells came out during the Ramzi Yusef trial and he warned the FBI about it back in the 90s.

[Grampa Dave]

The left is despicable and their buddies, the pseudo conservatives who whine "There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats are even more despicable."

[Howlin]

Kristen is on again saying that people from the Pentagon canceled flights for the 11th because of a heightened alert.

Is any of that true?

[BigSkyFreeper]

What a waste of time.... Nauseating.

Agreed, I was getting pretty lightheaded this morning watching the Clintonites get kid glove treatment from the Clintonista's.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Kristen is on again saying that people from the Pentagon canceled flights for the 11th because of a heightened alert.

If that were true, the fighter jets called up from Langley AFB wouldn't have been 16 minutes late getting to the Pentagon like they were on the 11th.

[freeperfromnj]

Kristen is on again saying that people from the Pentagon canceled flights for the 11th because of a heightened alert.

Oh - I didn't know she did half time shows too

[an amused spectator]

Right. And let's highlight that fact to the terrorists by exposing all the vulnerabilities via live televised hearings. That way the terrorists get an executive summary of what to after.

Don't it just blow your Freepin' mind?

[Mo1]

Kristen is on again saying that people from the Pentagon canceled flights for the 11th because of a heightened alert.
Is any of that true?

That rumor has been floating around since 9/11

Is it true?? ... I have no idea

But I will say this ..

If it was true .. THEN WHY WAS BARBARA OLSEN ON THE PLANE THAT HIT THE PENTEGON???

Her husband is the Solicitor General

[kassie]

When does the commission get started again?

[an amused spectator]

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

So, did Kean cure Kristen notsoBreitweiser of the clap? ;-)

[foreshadowed at waco]

Listening to Louis Freeh testimony on tape--he just called him John O'Neal (O'Neil). One thing I remember reading about the Ramzi Yusef trial was that the Washington Post leaked some information from the trial about tapping bin Laden's satelite phone wherein bin Laden stopped using the phone and it cut off our ability to monitor him. One of the weaknesses of treating terrorists as criminals is the defense's ability to access prosecution data.

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

I thought some of you might be as confused as I was who some of these people are from the panel so I found this on Fox News. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,116545,00.html

Fast Facts: Sept. 11 Commission Members
Associated Press
Thursday, April 08, 2004

WASHINGTON — The 10 members of the Sept. 11 commission, formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States:


— Thomas H. Kean (search), Republican chairman. President of Drew University in Madison, N.J., former governor of New Jersey. Appointed by President Bush after Henry Kissinger resigned in December 2002 over potential conflicts of interest.

— Lee H. Hamilton (search), Democratic vice chairman. Director of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, former U.S. representative from Indiana. Appointed by Democratic congressional leaders in December 2002 after former Sen. George Mitchell resigned, citing a reluctance to leave his law firm.

— Richard Ben-Veniste (search), Democrat. Partner in law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. Former Watergate prosecutor.

— Fred F. Fielding (search), Republican. Senior partner at law firm of Wiley, Rein and Fielding. Former counsel to President Reagan and deputy counsel to President Nixon.

— Jamie S. Gorelick (search), Democrat. Partner at law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering, former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.

— Slade Gorton (search), Republican. Attorney at Preston, Gates & Ellis, former U.S. senator from Washington.

— Bob Kerrey (search), Democrat. President of New School University in New York City, former U.S. senator from Nebraska. Appointed by Democratic congressional leaders in December 2003 to replace former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., who left to become director of the Export-Import Bank.

— John F. Lehman (search), Republican. Chairman of J.F. Lehman & Co., a private equity firm, Navy secretary under President Reagan.

— Timothy J. Roemer (search), Democrat. President of the Center for National Policy, former U.S. representative from Indiana.

— James R. Thompson (search), Republican. Chairman of the law firm Winston & Strawn, former Illinois governor.

[mewzilla]

Kristen is on again saying that people from the Pentagon canceled flights for the 11th because of a heightened alert.

Oh, for God's sake. Barbara Olson was on the plane that went into the Pentagon. If the government knew enough to cancel flights, Ms. Breitweiser, don't you think Ted Olson would've kept his wife off that plane?!

There just aren't words for this kind of obdurate stupidity.

[Skywarner]

"Kristen is on again saying that people from the Pentagon canceled flights for the 11th because of a heightened alert."

It didn't take long for 9/11 Professional Victims, Inc. to get on the air today, did it? Doesn't this lady (or any of the other three) have a paid job?!? The DNC must be breaking out the checkbook again...

[prairiebreeze]

Edna and Kerry ought to get a knock on their doors by the friendly Sec. Service dept.

FRENCH JOURNALIST TAKEN HOSTAGE IN IRAQ PER FOX

Prairie

[SierraWasp]

Yup! Mrs. Waspman was just telling me how DESPARATE the DEMS are getting by what she heard RUSH reporting on this!!!

She says to me... "Rush is so right about this stuff!" I responded with, "Well... He sounds so right because he contrasts so well with how miserably wrong the rest of Liberalism is!!!"

Even Democrat Phil Hendrie on KFI last night was trying very hard to explain to fellow Demos how desperately wrong they were to support the desperate positions of Kerry and Dashole, et al!!!

It was a pleasure to listen to him be serious for a change. I usually listen to him for outrageous comic relief as he is TRULY OUTRAGEOUS, normally.

[Mo1]

Kristen is on again saying that people from the Pentagon canceled flights for the 11th because of a heightened alert.

Also on that matter

Yes there was a heighten alert with the airlines in the summer of 2001 and lasted a couple of weeks till the alert passed

Kind if like how we deal with Yellow Alerts now

[mewzilla]

Thanks for the info! Pity FNC doesn't list various members' conflicts-of-interest as well.