Posted on 08/11/2005 7:29:46 AM PDT by doug from upland
Yes, we are. Fax machine is warmed up if needed.
"RINO's" like who -- John Lehman??
The weaselly little staffers didn't pass this stuff on to him. That's why Lehman is pissed too. I've said elsewhere I would not be shocked to learn that staffers did contact a Commission member like Jamie Gorelick, and that she was the one who spiked this without telling the rest of the Commission.
Thanks for that post.
In the end, the powerful will protect their own.
bump
Thanks for posting. I think I heard you on hannity lately also.
In any event, it's clear (as others have already pointed out here) that the 9/11 commission appears to have been manipulated (or the coverage slanted, or both) to bash Bush and sweep Clinton-era failures under the rug.
Always remember: the Democrats are not to be trusted with national security. they're not up to the job.
And wouldn't it be interesting to see 9/11 widows picket Clinton's home, as is happening with Cindy Sheehan in Texas? What would the coverage be like for THAT?
The 9-11 Commission took a very high-profile role in critiquing intelligence agencies that refused to listen to outside information. The commissioners very publicly expressed their disapproval of agencies and departments that would not entertain ideas that did not originate in-house. Therefore it is no small irony that the Commission would in the end prove to be guilty of the very same offense when information of potentially critical importance was brought to its attention. The Commission's refusal to investigate Able Danger after being notified of its existence, and its recent efforts to feign ignorance of the project while blaming others for supposedly withholding information on it, brings shame on the commissioners, and is evocative of the worst tendencies in the federal government that the Commission worked to expose.
This guy Weldon is really OK.
The accountability for this stops at the Commissioners. That's the way its supposed to work. If the staffers didn't communicate this information, then the Commissioners failed to create an environment in which this information could be aired before the Commission.
These revelations confirm my suspicion about this Commission. It also confirms why the Bush administration treated the Commision as it did. Bush offered a clarifying moment with Ashcroft b-slapping Gorelick, but the Commission did nothing.
Chickens are roosting now.
God bless for your service.
JAMIE GORELICK was one and there was another person whose name I did not get and do not recognize.
Those two were first to see the info and then it went on down to the next level.
GORELICK was clearly put there for damage control.
can start by contacting Gorelick at her DC law firm - http://www.wilmerhale.com/jamie_gorelick/ .
Now we know where the missing spine is in our Congresscritters. Rep. Weldon has it! Every Freeper needs to contact Congressman Weldon and express support for his dogged determination in this matter. We want the names of the Clinton Justice Dept. whose decision permitted 9/11 to happen and we want to know who stopped the 9/11 committee from finding out about Able Danger.
I agree as to why she was on the commission, but unfortunately the cover-up worked for some time.
Imagine if Kerry had won, and we found this out now.
The Republicans would have had only themselves to blame.
I expect this kind of deception from the modern-day Democrats. (And I WAS a Democrat for much of my life! This kind of crapola drove me out.) So my anger gets directed at the RINOs or whoever else it was who let her on the commission and didn't do their job.
I would not be so sure, what I read between the lines is "hey Broomhilda, catch"
So maybe you nail them for bad management in delegating too much responsibility to staffers. That's fine, although given the volume of information, I'm betting it wasn't possible for them to hear each witness and look at each document personally.
My concern is that Weldon raises a tremendously important point, and I don't want to see it shunted off by a tangential defense that the Commission members themselves didn't get that information. Yet, you can hardly blame members of the Commission for asserting that. I think our interests are better served by making the accusation as targetted and uncontrovertible as possible. Force them to address the substance of the charge -- the "wall" erected by Gorelick -- rather than permitting them to throw up the smokescreen of "the Commissioners never knew."
Whether or not they knew is beside the ultimate issue raised by the underlying facts.
Exactly right!
And I used to BE a Democrat for much of my life.
The party I knew does not exist and has not for some time.
A familiar story by now, for many . . .
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