9/11 panel seeks major changes (preview of report due Thursday)

[FlashHarry]

MSNBC story here

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The final report of the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks recommends a major restructuring of the nation's intelligence community and includes broad criticism of the White House, Congress and other parts of the U.S. government for failing to detect, thwart and better respond to the deadly hijackings, according to panel members and other officials.
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[fearnobush]

1. Bin Laden "sponsored" radical guerrillas fighting to overthrow Hussein

The panel also reported that bin Laden at one point "sponsored" Islamic radical guerrillas in Iraq who were fighting to overthrow Hussein and replace his secular government with a religious one.

Among other things, the final report will revisit the controversy ignited by Clarke, who charged in a best-selling book and at intensely watched commission hearings that Bush and his national security team had been slow, distracted and cautious about the bin Laden threat during the first months of 2001. Without adopting Clarke's argument, the commission staff has documented previously unknown meetings, memos, chronologies and messages from this period, many of which support Clarke's position or quote from classified warnings he issued inside the Bush White House.

Clarke's e-mails and memos culminated in a dramatic note to Rice in early September, in which Clarke poured out his frustrations and, in eerily prescient language that forecast the commission's work, urged Bush's policymakers to "imagine a day after a terrorist attack, with hundreds of Americans dead at home and abroad, and ask themselves what they could have done earlier."

Wow!!!

[FlashHarry]

4. Yep. That's a good-un. n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Disappointing: "more Warren Commission than Church Commission"

"Led by co-chairmen who have attempted to steer the panel away from partisan debate, and relying on a staff assembled without direct involvement by the two major political parties, the commission's published statements so far have struck a centrist, judicious tone. In many respects, the panel's work has been closer to the fact-finding, conspiracy-debunking Warren Commission of the mid-1960s, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, than to the reform-oriented Church Commission, which exposed assassination plots and CIA abuses during the mid-1970s."

From reading this lengthy article, it looks to me personally as if the Commission has sought, in the name of "bipartisanship," to blame Clinton as much as Bush, and, additionally, to absolve the Saudis. There is no bipartisanship with the Bush cabal; they're far outside the parameters of partisanship. The people need the TRUTH about these people, and about 9/11, and it doesn't look to me as if this panel has even tried to give us, and the 9/11 families, the truth.

[moondust]

3. Another layer of bureaucracy.

More chiefs is sure to get 'em. Oh yeah.






Hint: Hire sufficient numbers of linguists and analysts, pay them well, and don't allow their work to be distorted or misrepresented.

[freemarketer]

5. What the panel would like to say.........:

[newyawker99]

8. Hi freemarketer!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[readmylips]

6. 9/11 Panel Seeks Major Changes: US Regime Change....

Vote Democrat. Vote for Intelligence and Sunshine.

Kick bush and criminals out.

[leesa]

7. If they don't seek a change in the Prez, it's all a whitewash

I am dreading this because they will blame it all on the FBI and CIA and Iran and other 'dirty Muslims', as usual, despite clear information stating the CIA and FBI thought there was risk. They will ignore ALL the neon arrows pointing to the Bush Crime Family involvement and this will be the end of it. I doubt Kerry (Mr Anything for Israel) will do anything more. He will tell us we need to move on...into Iran.