Live 9/11 Commission Thread

April 14, 2004 | Vanity

[Peach]

George Tenet, CIA Director, is due to testify to the 9/11 Commission.

Later today the FBI Director, Meuller, will testify.

[goodnesswins]

Gorton now...."Do you believe you supplied Presidents with accurate enough intelligence".....

[Mo1]

Al D'Amato on Fox last night laid out some Al Qaeda/Iraq connections and had Susan Estrich squawking big time

Yep and Susan only squaks like that when there is something big to hide

Oh yea .. the liberals are worried :0)

[Howlin]

Here they are:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/trvl/pres/5188.htm

[texasbluebell]

Woolsey met with clinton twice before quitting (I think in disgust) in 1994.

Then I read recently that clinton met with Tenet twice as well.

No daily briefings from his intel guys, not for x42. He was much too busy.

[Bahbah]

I missed his first appearance, but I must say, on a very shallow level, I'm not sure just how much I would be willing to mess with the head of the CIA. Not much, I'm thinking. Not that I believe Tenet would misuse his position.

[Peach]

I was hoping President Bush would mention those connections as well.

And I did something I've never done before and sent him a letter 2 weeks ago telling him I thought it was a tactical mistake not to garner support for the war by discussing those connections more often and thoroughly.

Freepers could do a better job representing the president than the RNC and sometimes better than the president does himself.

[kabar]

Tenet should be replaced as soon as Bush is reelected. He is the consummate bureaucrat who has been a Senate staffer for Leahy and Boren. Bush should have gotten rid of him as soon as he got in office.

Tenet ingratiates himself with both parties by leaking info they want to hear. He passes his organization's massive intelligence failure off as being not his fault and the fact that he is not a policy maker. The CIA failed to predict the fall of the Shah, the demise of the Soviet Union, and the Pakistani nuclear tests--just to name a few. There needs to be some accountability.

[goodnesswins]

Gorton...3 questions....relate to Tenet's testimony....rhetoric is impressive, policy advice zero....but has to do with "fusing counter-terrorism"....do you mean with this statement that we have very good....oh,heck, I lost him....

[tractorman]

This whole charade is designed to distort the true horrendous Clinton legacy thereby not jeopardizing the viability of a Hillary candidacy while at the same time disparaging President Bush.

It will backfire and turn into W’s most masterful trap yet.

This summer many more truths will be known and more positive events will occur winning the hearts and minds of the citizens which will justly the actions of the President and will destroy the democRATic party and the liberal news media with a landslide victory this November.

[Quilla]

Estrich was extremely bitter last night. As the last thing I watched before turning in, I had the worst nightmares I can ever remember. Screeching harpies with dirty hair and filty jean jackets chasing me ... tt was horrible.

[ex 98C MI Dude]

Considering that AQ was formed partly in response to the spanking we gave Saddam in 91 (asin, a Christian army beat a Muslim army, and badly, with accompanying loss of face).

This idea that OBL was mad about Saudi Arabia keeping our troops on in the "Holy land" was specious on its face. Methinks Saddam had alot to do with the formation of AQ. He is/was a devious SOB, and would do anything to hit back.

[Peach]

Our freeper Kristinn went to the 9/11 Commission waiting room this morning before the hearings started and met with some 9/11 families.

Al Gore never testified about the airline security commission he chaired and Kristinn fixed that!!!! He distributed materials to the families regarding what Al Gore did and did not do with regard to airline security.

We owe Kristinn a big thank you; thread here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117427/posts

[OldFriend]

We refer to him as bent peniste!

[mabelkitty]

Gorelick is the weakest link.
Watch for more attacks on her until she bows out.
She can't hold up to the scrutiny, and she is too tainted to play the gender card.

[nutmeg]

Whoa, thanks for that link! How do you do that so fast? ;-)

[ride the whirlwind]

Slade must've had his Wheaties this morning.

[Howlin]

George Tenet has carried himself well through this drumming he's been taking.

I honestly believe that these people did the very best that they could.

I just want to ask the commission this: do they honestly believe that any one of these people, including Bush, would have had information that would have stopped that attack and NOT acted on it?

[kabar]

Yes and we know what he was busy with. However, he was a multitasker--he could talk on the phone with a Senator about Bosnia and receive ministrations from Monica at the same time.

[TomGuy]

Yep and Susan only squaks like that when there is something big to hide

During the primaries, Susan was kind of level headed and interesting to listen to.

After Kerry wrapped it up, she has become unbearable to watch and listen to. She sounds like she's had too much 'happy juice' (fire water) (Jack Daniels) before going on air. She doesn't make sense, rants, whines, interrupts, and seems clueless about details.

[KC Burke]

...that they can discuss it at another time

I actually think that was a reasonable response to two questions asking him to recommend the overall change in how intelligence might be taken from FBI internally, and then additionally how to change the entire structure of the CIA. Such speculation, out loud, would have taken the responsibility off the committee. They could have hung any wild ass scheme on an extrapolation of what he might say in a broad general answer.