Today's "nobody's to blame for the troubles we've seen" report should come as no surprise:
The obstacles created by the Bush administration, however, were not the only problem. Another reason to doubt the commission's report would answer many questions was that its leaders adopted a very limited understanding of its task: "The focus of the commission will be on the future," said Vice Chairman Hamilton. "We're not interested in trying to assess blame, we do not consider that part of the commission's responsibility." The commission, in other words, evidently approached its task taking for granted the truth of the incompetence theory, so that the question of official complicity would not even be explored. Hamilton's words seemed, in fact, to imply that the commission would not even assess blame in the sense of incompetence. In saying that the commission's focus "will be on the future," Hamilton was apparently indicating that it would limit itself strictly to the question of how to make sure a "breakdown" does not happen again.
---David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11, (Northam, Ma., Olive Branch Press, 2004), pp 151, 152 (emphasis added).
It was a rigged commission from the outset. First, its very formation was stonewalled and resisted until public pressure, applied primarily by the Family Steering Committee, forced Bush's hand -- but Bush succeeded in narrowing the agenda of the investigation; then his minions granted it a paltry $3 million budget (compare to the $50 million spent on the Discovery disaster and $70+ million of the Whitewater witch hunt); then Bush held back key documents and testimony -- leading to this. "Intelligence failure." "Nobody's to blame." Move along, there's nothing to see here. And this will be spun Republican until our ears bleed!
Ever feel like you're being slowly, laughingly, screwed?
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