Live Thread - September 11 Commission, Day 2, Wednesday, March 24, 2004

CSPAN 3, CBS webfeed ^ | March 24, 2004

[TomGuy]

Live thread for Day 2 of the September 11 Commission Hearings.

CSPAN 3 seems to be the only CSPAN covering this in various formats. http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=

Also CBS webfeed opens Real Player. http://cgi.cbs.com/video/video.pl?url=/broadcast/*/livenews.rm&plugin=1&proto=rtsp

CBS news website may have other feed formats.

[prairiebreeze]

Email them now, huh? Perhaps because they are being flooded with indignant callers??

[Keith]

Most Americans get their politics from Jay Leno...we shall see.

[hoosiermama]

Probably want the e-mails so they have something concrete.

[arasina]

I now call him Dick Clarke-Kent for his superman image of himself.

ROFL!

[mwl1]

hardly matters at this point... you continuously advocate hardball from our side, and then assert that we should cave in to their lies about the Chambliss-Cleland race?

The Hell with them. Send any spokesperson we damn well please. Do you think we'll get "credits" from the media for sending a RINO?

[Keith]

relax...I heard the same stuff three weeks ago...now Bush is ahead in most polls...it's a long way to go...

[BigSkyFreeper]

Most Americans get their politics from Jay Leno...

Or SNL.

[Maria S]

New Chairman of 9/11 Commission
had business ties with Osama's Brother in Law
by Michel Chossudovsky

www.globalresearch.ca, 27 december 2002

The URL of this article is:

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO212A.html

Unknown to most, UNOCAL's partner in the Cent-Gas trans-Afghan pipeline consortium, the Saudi Company Delta Oil is owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans which allegedly have ties to bin Laden’s Al Qaeda.

According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz’ younger sister is married to Osama bin Laden,. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12 Nov. 2001 )

Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funnelled millions of dollars to the Al Qaeda network.(See Tom Flocco, Scoop.co.nz 28 Aug. 2002)

Now, "by sheer coincidence", former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean, the man chosen by President Bush to lead the 9/11 commission also has business ties with bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi.

Thomas Kean is a director (and shareholder) of Amerada Hess Corporation , which is involved in the Hess-Delta joint venture with Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia (owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans).

Delta-Hess "was established in 1998 for the development and exploration of oil fields in the Caspian region...In Azerbaijan Delta Hess is involved in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli PSA (2.72%) and the Garabaghli-Kursangi PSA (20%). It is also an equity holder in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline":

"An air of mystery hangs over Delta- Hess, which... is registered in the Cayman Islands. Hess is in no hurry to reveal the terms of the alliance, which it says are subject to confidentiality clauses. 'There's no reason why this should be public information,' a Hess spokesman says." (Energy Compass, 15 Nov. 2002)

Coincidentally, the former Governor of New Jersey is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, together with another prominent member of the board of directors of Amerada Hess, former Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady.

In other words, Delta Oil Ltd. of Saudi Arabia --which is a partner in the Hess-Delta Alliance--is in part controlled by Khalid bin Mafhouz, Osama's brother in law.

And former Governor Thomas Kean not only sits on the board of directors of a company which has business dealings with Khalid bin Mahfouz, he also heads the 9/11 Commission, which has a mandate to investigate Khalid's brother in law, Osama bin Laden.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Screw 'em. It was Cleland's fault for bringing up his war time past, just like Kerry. The fact Cleland brought it up, made it fair game.

[maica]

I just called, and the woman said that the next hearings will be public, and one gets to be in the audience just by going there. I think I will do just that.

[prairiebreeze]

the Dems have effectively tagged him as the fella who politically maimed cleland in ga

Oh please. Wasn't it the voters who put Chambliss into office? You need to take some deep breaths.

Prairie

[CyberAnt]

Hey, speaking of that type of action .. what was the disturbance all about when George Tenant was testifying. They stopped the hearing and security escorted the guy out (at least it sounded like a guy).

[BigSkyFreeper]

If you do go to the hearings, clap for our side. :)

[piasa]

Gerald Ford is the guy who signed the exec order not to kill foreign leaders. Ironically, after 9/11 both Kerry and kennedy were talking about lifting that order.

[arasina]

Where's your faith in cowboys, faithincowboys? :o)

[BigSkyFreeper]

Who knows, he probably was a Bush supporter, I couldn't tell you what he said since he sounded like he was in the back of the room. Truth be told, most of the audience should have been escorted out for disrupting the hearings by clapping, laughing, and generally disrupting the flow of questioning.

[jwalsh07]

Contact the Commission about the Soviet Show Trial Here

[eleni121]

Look, Tenet has been around for lots of years. But based on his performance today, he's a lightweight.

When questions got difficult he would pull the emotional tricks (loud voice, thumping the desk, referring to lost friends in 9-11 etc) out of his bag. This stuff may fool some but not me.

How a man as limited in intellectual stature as he seems to be has stayed in this position for so long is beyond me. There must be another angle.

[McGruff]

Zell Miller was on the Sean Hannity radio show. He said that Dick Clark's behavior is a transparent attempt to line up some type a position in a John Kerry administration(like that's gonna happen).

[faithincowboys]

No, I advocate hardball and competence, not abject stupidity. Chambliss isn't the guy. When I think how great Gingrich would have been on that Commission, I nearly weep. But I understand that the Left would have whacked the Hell out of him. You got to be tough and smart and self protective.

Armitage said today, "We could have moved faster on terrorism." Three seconds later it was on the permanent crawl. Armitage is being honest saying hindsight tells us that we had to move faster. A candid, self critical and ultimately admirable way to conduct oneself, but that isn't what these hearings were about.

This was bloody partisan warfare with Presidential election implications. Giving the Left a useful sound byte shouldn't have been done, getting old RINOs to take the court for the GOP was a bad move. Ultimately, Team Bush doesn't understand the Left. This was huge and they fell down on it, I say this with no joy. I say this as someone who has been frustrated and sickened by these hearings. This was the impeachment hearings in the Senate all over again.