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.

[Howlin]

More like this guy:

[Wait4Truth]

There's a new article posted about all the many investigations the Democrats have demanded. There are now nine other investigations going on of the Bush Administration that will be made big by the media. They are trying to take this administration down by constantly demanding this crap..they believe the constant drip, drip, drip that the media will report will ultimately damage President Bush enough so that he will be sent back to Crawford. I don't think many freepers understand just what is going on. This will not end before the election. That's why it's so important that we unite, bombard the media and take to the streets if we have to. The RATS/media are all clintonized and there is nothing they will not stoop to. They also have McCain and Hagel on their team now..traitors. Hagel was actually defending Richard Clarke tonight on Larry King and siding against President Bush and Condi Rice. He is Biden's best buddy just as McCain is the good buddy of Kerry and Lieberman. You can't make this stuff up!

[arasina]

I was thinking maybe...

[A Citizen Reporter]

I completely believe that this will be a nasty campaign. And I won't be surprised when more "republicans" who are compromised suddenly jump. I'm happy to lose them. I don't want them speaking for me, and if the dems are willing to weed them out for us, I say......BRING IT ON!!

[arasina]

Today I was trying to remember all the "stuff" the Dims have tried to get to stick. It has been one thing after another, even if the attention to each lasts only a week or two. It's a constant barrage, a negative firestorm, a mudslinging festival. I guess I need to make a list and refer back to it because some of the issues they try more than once.

I am NOT, however, going to let it discourage me. We have the debates to look forward to later this year and I know Dubya will do well then.

[tapatio]

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

[Wait4Truth]

What really bugs me is the lack of Republicans out on the airwaves defending the President. Instead, we get McCain and Hagel siding with the enemy. The Republicans in the Senate are wimps and they don't deserve any loyalty from Bush at this point. I'm really sick of those spineless whiners. Pukin Dog says some good news is coming regarding Richard Clarke so I'm going to hold on to that tonight. I hope the RATS/media/disloyal Republicans end up drowing in their own slop by the time the election takes place. I will defend this President with every fiber of my being. Like you said, BRING IT ON!!

[daybreakcoming]

If you saw her on Fox - her eyes were on fire but her voice was calm and cool.

[Wait4Truth]

You are so right! If they don't get a scandal to stick the first time, they wait a few months and bring it up again. That is exactly what they are planning to do in the coming months. Like I said, they are counting on the drip, drip, drip of every scandal they can invent. If we had an honest media, none of this would be happening. The media is just as corrupt as the Democrat Party. THIS IS WAR.

[maica]

As you should know by now, our side knows what they are doing.

The chorus of squealing by the Clintonistas on tonight's show - all with the same theme "Vicious attacks by the White House" tells me we are winning.

[auboy]

Thanks for the e-mail address for the 9-11 Commission. I just e-mailed the following to them, my two Senators and Rep:

The Chairman of the 9-11 Commission:

I am writing to complain about the obvious partisanship by some members of your "commission". Several members seem more intent on blaming President Bush and his administration, than learning lessons that will help protect American citizens today and in the future.

When is the Commission going to examine the law that forbid the sharing of information and intelligence between the CIA and the FBI? Who was responsible for the passage of that idiotic piece of legislation?

When is the Commission going to examine why human intelligence by the CIA was, at best, downgraded, at worst, gutted? I'd like to know the names of those responsible for crippling our ability to have eyes and ears on the ground on a global basis.

Dr. Rice has provided over four hours of private testimony to this commission. Yet, several members, through snide remarks and innuendo, keep insinuating that since she has not testified in the public phase of your investigation, she must have something to hide.

If you need names, they are Roemer, Gorelick, and Ben Vineste (sp). The last two have direct connection to the Clinton Administration. Why were they allowed to serve on this so-called fact finding commission? And why have they been allowed to continue to take cheap shots at Dr. Rice, and by association, the Bush Administration?

I would rate the Commission's performance so far, a K… K for Kangaroo. Your job is too important to America's future to allow partisan grandstanding, from your members, or from the audience.

I suggest the Commission clean up its act. I am one American who believes America deserves better.
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God Bless America,

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P.S. I have one question for the Commission's "star" witness. Ask Richard Clarke this: if he has been truthful in the past, how can his testimony today be judged to be truthful? He seems to be contradicting himself. In some circles, that's known as lying.

[BARLF]

Mark

[maica]

I hope, when I am out there scaring passengers, you folks will remember to stay positive.

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As secretary of your fan club, I will faithfully remind the other members, if we start to see wobbliness while you are away.

[dalebert]

Liberals pan Conservative books at Amazon all the time. I doubt they read them.

[CyberAnt]

Excuse me - here is the post #2979 - I don't know where you got the other stuff I wrote - that it was not 2979:

Jim Angle just explained it to Brit! This was a background briefing on a conference call with 5 other newspeople. The NSC agreed the media could use the wording "NSC official" as the source. Jim remembered the interview, dug it out and took the tape to the NSC. They agreed to life the restriction of "NSC official" to "Richard Clarke". So, according to Angle, the same people who put the restriction on, lifted the restriction off, and Fox did not use the tape until then. Jim Angle also said that the other 5 media people were told by the NSC that the restriction had been lifted.

Bob Kerry is full of cr@p!!!

[CyberAnt]

You have enough hot air - I don't see a problem!

[CyberAnt]

Hey, thanks much - that is a great website!!

[Utah Girl]

I was really worried when I read the news on my lunch hour about Richard Clarke's remarks. But after reading this evening, I am more hopeful. After all, even CNN has a story about Clarke's testimony in 2002 and his testimony today, which time was he lying?

[lainde]

Great way to go to sleep bump....Thanks Jim Angle!

[TomasUSMC]

Part of Clarke's blah blah transcript.

In 1993, when the truck bomb exploded at the World Trade Center, we didn't know there was an al Qaeda. No one had ever said that. In the initial reports, and I mean initial by the sense of about a year or two, the initial reports from the FBI's investigation of that attack, suggested that the attackers were somehow a gang of people from five or six different countries who had found each other and come together almost like a pick-up basketball team, that there was no organization behind it.

Eventually, in retrospect, the FBI and CIA were able to discover that there was an organization behind it and that organization is what we now call al Qaeda. Most of the people directly involved in that conspiracy were identified and tracked down by the FBI and CIA, were arrested or snatched and brought back to the United States. Mr. Yasin was the one who wasn't. And the reason he wasn't was he was an Iraqi. He was the only Iraqi in the group. There were Egyptians and there were other nationalities. He was an Iraqi and therefore when the explosion took place and he fled the United States, he went back to Iraq.

And we were, obviously, for obvious reasons, unable to either snatch him or get him to be extradited to the United States.

But the investigation, both the CIA investigation and the FBI investigation, made it very clear in '95 and '96 as they got more information, that the Iraqi government was in no way involved in the attack.

And the fact that one of the 12 people involved in the attack was Iraqi hardly seems to me as evidence that the Iraqi government was involved in the attack. The attack was al Qaeda; not Iraq. The Iraqi government because, obviously, of the hostility between us and them, didn't cooperate in turning him over and gave him sanctuary, as it did give sanctuary to other terrorists.

But the allegation that has been made that the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center was done by the Iraqi government I think is absolutely without foundation.
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WHAT?
Unbelievable. The Iraqis refuse to give up a terrorist to us and we just shrug our shoulders? This WAS proof that Iraq was aiding and abetting the Terrorist in the FIRST 911.

This showS the mindset of Dumbocrats. One of the bombers of the WTC in 1993, fled to Iraq and the United States Government under Democratic Control tried to - EXTRADITE HIM! Were talking less than 2 years after the Gulf War! We had Iraq totally decimated and we could have given Iraq the same Ultimatum we gave Afrubblestan concerning Osama, Give him up or give up your country.

Thats the difference between Dumbocrats and Republicans. When our country is attacked, the Dumbocrats ask the U.N., they ask for extraditions, and they ask politely. Thats how you lose - in the War on Terror.

Republicans DEMAND WITH ULTIMATUMS. Thats how you win - in the War on Terror.