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9/11 Chair Hamilton Slams Media Distortions
Newsmax.com ^ | 6/18/04 | Carl Limbacher and the Newsmax.com staff

Posted on 06/18/2004 6:31:03 AM PDT by kattracks

Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Lee Hamilton blasted the mainstream press yesterday for distorting the Commission's findings on links between Iraq and al Qaida before the Sept. 11 attacks, saying those findings actually support Bush administration contentions.

"The sharp differences that the press has drawn [between the White House and the Commission] are not that apparent to me," Hamilton told the Associated Press, a day after insisting that his probe uncovered "all kinds" of connections between Osama bin Laden's terror network and Iraq.

Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Lee Hamilton blasted the mainstream press yesterday for distorting the Commission's findings on links between Iraq and al Qaida before the Sept. 11 attacks, saying those findings actually support Bush administration contentions.

"The sharp differences that the press has drawn [between the White House and the Commission] are not that apparent to me," Hamilton told the Associated Press, a day after insisting that his probe uncovered "all kinds" of connections between Osama bin Laden's terror network and Iraq.



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911commission; deceit; leehamilton; lyingmedia; mediabias; medialiars
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1 posted on 06/18/2004 6:31:04 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks

LOL - you beat me by one minute!


2 posted on 06/18/2004 6:35:02 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: kattracks

A Democrat with scruples? Put him in a museum.


3 posted on 06/18/2004 6:36:20 AM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: kattracks
Meanwhile, Chairman Kean calmly read from his script during the press conference: "We learned that by the early 1900s bin Laden had a plan..."
4 posted on 06/18/2004 6:38:23 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Missing Iraqi botulinum toxin? Look at John Kerry's face)
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To: kattracks

The problem is that this will get no coverage at all from the main stream media.


5 posted on 06/18/2004 6:38:41 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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To: Piquaboy

well, Bush has a big hill o'cash and four months to straighten out the public regarding this story. Problem is - he will have to do this for lie after lie after lie that comprises a DNC/Media campaign. Kerry may as well take a vacation until election day with press dishonesty that were likely to see and have seen with this subterfuge.


6 posted on 06/18/2004 6:39:07 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: areafiftyone

As you said on the other thread before it got pulled, the MSM is burying this.


7 posted on 06/18/2004 6:39:36 AM PDT by PogySailor (Proud member of the RAM)
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To: Piquaboy

Exactly - The media will get away with saying that there was no link and that will be that and the public will believe them.


8 posted on 06/18/2004 6:40:01 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: CaptRon

there go all the 2004 wine and cheese cocktail party invitations.


9 posted on 06/18/2004 6:40:23 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: kattracks

Good for him!


10 posted on 06/18/2004 6:40:25 AM PDT by nuconvert ("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: kattracks
"Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Lee Hamilton blasted the mainstream press yesterday for distorting the Commission's findings on links between Iraq and al Qaida before the Sept. 11 attacks, saying those findings actually support Bush administration contentions."


This is really rich, after they made Richard Clarke their crown jewel and defiantly ignore their own "wall builder" Gorelick.

Talk about distortions, HELLO!!!!
11 posted on 06/18/2004 6:40:36 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: kattracks
And meanwhile, the anti-American scumbags in the DUmpster have dropped the subject....

LOL

12 posted on 06/18/2004 6:41:18 AM PDT by Petronski (Ronald Reagan: 1015 electoral votes.)
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To: PogySailor

Apparently Hamilton needs to get out there on the talk shows and talk to the media (but I doubt he will). Newsmax is not exactly mainstream - even DRUDGE won't pick up their stories.


13 posted on 06/18/2004 6:41:18 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: kattracks

Ok, but is The Perky One, Clinton Network, and The NY Slimes reporting this?


14 posted on 06/18/2004 6:41:51 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn
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To: epluribus_2

That big hill of cash pales in comparison to the free propaganda that the media gives to Kerry. Free airtime on TV alone could amount to billions of dollars.


15 posted on 06/18/2004 6:42:51 AM PDT by noDixieCan
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To: kattracks
Somehow, I doubt this idiot will apologize to the President, or to his readers:

Bin Laden's Doomsday plan (Bush's attempt to blame Hussein for 911 has been devastated!)

They should at least get their fifty cents back, if they bought the paper.

16 posted on 06/18/2004 6:43:10 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: kattracks

I posted the story in a local liberal group (Ann Arbor) The only response was the sound of crickets.....till the posting was removed.


17 posted on 06/18/2004 6:44:31 AM PDT by cripplecreek (you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
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To: Piquaboy

You are right. I was going to say exactly the same thing. The damage has been done and nothing will reverse it.


18 posted on 06/18/2004 6:45:34 AM PDT by Ima Lurker
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To: CaptRon

He's from the "old school" and I think he's been pretty honest and fair throughout the proceedings.


19 posted on 06/18/2004 6:46:13 AM PDT by nuconvert ("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: epluribus_2

If he has to answer every lie told, that would be a full time job and he does not have the time.


20 posted on 06/18/2004 6:47:09 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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