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Let's see. President Bush has testified. Vice President Dick Cheney has testified. Bill Clinton has testified. One name is conspicuously absent from the witness list of the 9-11 Commission. Al Gore. What does Al Gore know about events leading to the disastrous terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001? Let me tell you the nation's newest media mogul contributed, in his own politically ambitious, selfish way, to the deaths of some of the victims of the terrorist attacks Sept. 11. Following the downing of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, Gore was entrusted by President Clinton to investigate airline safety. He was...

<p>Former Vice President Al Gore met with the September 11 commission privately yesterday, a day after President Clinton told commissioners that intelligence wasn't strong enough to justify a retaliation against al Qaeda for the 2000 bombing of a U.S. Navy ship.</p>

Former Vice President Al Gore met with the Sept. 11 panel privately Friday, a day after President Clinton told commissioners that intelligence wasn't strong enough to justify a retaliation against al-Qaida for the 2000 bombing of a Navy ship. Gore met with the 10-member bipartisan commission in a three-hour meeting it described as candid and forthcoming. "We thank him for his continued cooperation with the commission," the panel said in a statement. On Thursday, the commission interviewed Clinton behind closed doors for nearly four hours after the conclusion of national security adviser Condoleezza Rice's public testimony, broadcast live on national...