Are 9/11 Commission staffers lying when they say Shaffer didn't mention Atta during his discussion with them in Afghanistan in 2003?
This is an excellent example illustrating why I said Podhoretz's straining to be "fair" is off base because he is so reluctant to point a finger at the correct target. Any reasonable person watching the 9/11 Commission in action would not say it doesn't make sense that they would lie. It makes perfect sense.
That's not to say we can say beyond a reasonable doubt they have lied, but Podhoretz acting like it's a way out possibility is the type of thinking that puts the rest of us at risk.
Good grief, the commission saw fit to ask Rice and Ashcroft and the rest questions based on tabloid lefty rumors (one example: Ashcroft flying private planes before 9/11 hinting he was avoiding commercial flights because the administration really had knowledge of the type of attack in the planning and let it happen---completely outrageous, completely false, yet that is what they saw fit to "investigate").
You called it