The 9/11 Cover-up

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What did Bush know about the al Qaeda threat?
by David Corn


It’s fortunate for George W. Bush he has a mess on his hands in Iraq; otherwise, he might have to worry about a significant cover-up coming undone.

As matters in Iraq — rising American casualties, helicopter mishaps, and an abrupt Bush decision to hand off political authority to an Iraqi body to be named later — have dominated the news, a tussle between the independent commission investigating the 9/11 attacks and the White House did attract a short burst of media attention. It was noted on front pages that the bipartisan 9/11 commission and the Bush administration, after weeks of squabbling, had forged a deal regarding the commission’s access to intelligence briefings given to Bush before September 11, 2001. But the news reports generally did not fully explain what was at stake.

The White House had refused to turn over this material to the House and Senate intelligence committees when they were conducting a joint investigation of 9/11, and Bush took the same position with the 9/11 commission. But when the commission — headed by former New Jersey governor Thomas Kean, a moderate Republican appointed to the panel by Bush — raised the prospect of subpoenaing the documents, the Bush team worked out a compromise. It is permitting the 10-member commission limited access to these intelligence reports, known as the President’s Daily Brief (PDB). (It helped that family members of people killed on 9/11 had protested the White House’s lack of cooperation.) The arrangement was unprecedented; this is the sort of stuff administrations fight to the death to keep secret. But 9/11 is different. Two Democratic commissioners (former Senator Max Cleland and former Representative Timothy Roemer) and the Family Steering Committee, an association of 9/11 relatives, though, blasted the agreement for imposing tight restrictions on how the commission can use information and, most importantly, on what it can tell the public about the material it is allowed to see.

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1. Wow...Corn has been on fire lately.

He always has direct links to intel agents, so much so that I used to have a healthy distrust of him. Since BushInc. outed a CIA agent, though, he and his intel contacts have been scathing and relentless.