St.Pete Times gets Letter from Gonzalaz.... [View All]

[bluedog]

They printed this in the Ed sec..The times has been bashing bush as of late as the letter writers in our city...people are getting outraged at bush and have made their opinions known...and lo and behold here comes a letter from the WH...LOL

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/12/news_pf/Opinion/White_House_is_cooper.shtml

Re: Secrets and security, editorial, Nov. 5.

Contrary to the impression conveyed by your editorial, the president has clearly stated a policy of strong support for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, and the executive branch has dedicated tremendous resources to assisting the commission.

Because of the extraordinarily unique nature of the Sept. 11 tragedy, the executive branch has provided truly unprecedented and extraordinary access to the commission, including more than 2-million pages of documents, nearly 100 briefings and more than 300 interviews. The commission has had access to many highly classified and extremely sensitive documents that have seldom, if ever, been made available outside the executive branch, particularly on this scale.

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. We have discussed special access arrangements for only a small fraction of the most sensitive information and have consistently proposed new ways to facilitate prompt review of information.

We look forward to continued cooperation with the commission as it completes its work.


-- Alberto R. Gonzalez, counsel to the president, the White House, Washington, D.C.