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.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Is she drunk or stoned or flirting with Mueller?

All of the above?

[LisaFab]

LOL! Hamilton also looks somnambulent at times. I can't stand Gorelick's s**t-eating grin!

[mabelkitty]

Darn you Peach.
I was enjoying the very idea of Billinnaire George Soros micromanaging down to the last dime exactly how and where his bulk of cash would be spent destroying Mr. Bush.

I pictured him calling Palm Beach Condo Associations for the latest shuffleboard score and planning his media buying based on the early bird dinner poll!!

LOL!!

[BlueAngel]

I also heard her on Rush. She also said that she felt that Clinton was partitally responsible because he was busy playing sex games in the White House.

[Miss Marple]

I have a question about the FBI computer systemm. I have heard that it was antiquated and made communication between departments and field offices difficult.

How in the heck hard is it to buy however many thousand PC's you need and set up a data base they can access for information? I just don't get this.

[Howlin]

Pickard himself said yesterday that after Travelgate, nobody from the FBI was allowed to go to the White House without somebody from the DOJ, a minder, if you will.

[debg]

I heard that much of the software each used was incompatible.

[OldFriend]

I felt so badly that you might interpret my anger towards you. So glad you understood.

[RightWingMama]

LOL.

[LisaFab]

Right. I heard they were running different platforms.

[Howlin]

Kean asked Muller for the families why Ashcroft leased a private plane!

[justshutupandtakeit]

Presumption is my middle name. While I do believe Tenet has
acquitted himself well during these hearings and made the RATS look stupid, I agree that he likely would not be DCI. But I also hear Bush likes him so maybe not.

I do not believe the RATS would not have blocked any decent nominee. That certainly has not stopped them from blocking outstanding judicial nominees who they treat like they are Hitlers.

Wasn't Webster an FBI head?

[mabelkitty]

I'm not buying it either.
There was an absolute deliberate underfunding of the agencies for specific reasons - any number of them can be found on threads in FR.
However, the wall put up by Gorelick (in undated memo) manifested this: If McVeigh was working with Saudi nationals or Saddam, these "international" intel gathering folks were forbidden from working with "domestic" intel gathering folks who may have been following Nichols and McVeigh to the Phillipines.

That is the crux.

[TomGuy]

"The Families" are p.o.ed because Ashcroft used a private plane.

Well, if it that question doesn't smack of 'set up.'

[NautiNurse]

I can't stand Gorelick's s**t-eating grin!

I know what you mean. I got up and left the room this last time because I didn't want to damage the television.

[Miss Marple]

Do you believe that Kean asked about Ashcroft's plane again?

Oh, and now we have the "bin Laden charter plane" question!!

[BlessedByLiberty]

Interesting isn't it that the Clinton-Gore machine was constantly bragging and having photo-ops about wiring schools to the Internet, upgrading the WH with computers/Internet, but conveniently forgot to upgrade the intelligence community?

[OXENinFLA]

Here's the "SAUDIS left on planes after 9-11" question.

[Jrabbit]

So, the questions come from the widows? This is sickening.

[Howlin]

Yes. Number 3 at Justice!