[knak]

I didn't read through all the possts on this thread but here is another article on this subject.

Kean on 9/11: 'Not something that had to happen'

[arasina]

Thanks for the link. Similar article with a little more detail. I found the last paragraph interesting:

"The commission is still culling through thousands of documents. In recent months, it has subpoenaed documents from some agencies that were hindering its probe, and after months of negotiations recently worked out an agreement with the White House to see several years worth of highly classified daily intelligence briefings given to Presidents Clinton and Bush."

[MJY1288]

Big difference in the way these two stories were written on the same subjest

[Dolphy]

From your link

Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, said government officials in decision-making positions did not do their jobs in the weeks and months leading up to Sept. 11, 2001, or on that day, and should be held accountable.

They failed. They simply failed, said Kean. He said if he were in charge, some of these people would still not be in their jobs today.

This does not sound good. Of course one doesn't know how he can analyze an event that was years in the making by zeroing in on a few months that preceded the tragedy. How does one separate September 11 from all of the al Qaeda events of the 90s? How does one not comment on the lack of leadership and response to those events and how that served to frame the intelligence operations for almost a decade?