Post here what you think the 9/11 final report will reveal.

[The Backlash Cometh]

I believe one of the most obvious conclusions in the report will be that we have a security weakness in the transition between presidential administrations. Look at the evidence:

Within a month of Clinton's first term, we had the bombing of the WTC; and after nine months of the Bush Administration's term, we witnessed a total destruction of the buildings. It's obvious that our enemies have spotted a weakness.

I think the report will conclude that we need someone like Sandy Berger at the helm in the executive branch, holding daily briefings with the intelligence agencies; and that this person needs to stay on for a period of time during the next president's term.

[imax2268]

1. well...

we still might not know after the White House get's through "blacking out" page after page of information...

seeing how this administration handles things...it probably won't reveal that much...

[booksenkatz]

2. It'll be short and sweet

They'll conclude that both the Clinton and Bush administrations are equally culpable; that hindsight is 20/20; and that nothing, really, could have been done to stop 9/11. Nothing to see here, let's move on. Time to put all that nastiness behind us. We've got a war on terra to fight!
THE END
:puke:

[xxqqqzme]

3. Lee Harvet Oswald

acted alone. There was no conspiracy.

[MrSlayer]

4. They'll seal it up until 2079.

Give some crazy, implausible excuse for what happened which will be trumpeted over and over in the media and the full report will be sealed for 75 years. That's what they normally do in situations where the security was purposefully lax just on that particular day.

[rooboy]

5. In a nutshell...

whilst Clinton was president, it could easily have been prevented. After January 2001, however, there was nothing anybody could do.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. I agree that the 9/11 commission has to recognize that Clinton's system

worked and I do forsee that they will endorse it in the report. They may try to disguise it, but it will be there.

[patricia92243]

15. Aren't there several thousand pages of Clinton papers that the WH won't...

release. I guess they must show Clinton did good and Bush did bad.
We'll never know, will we? Just like JFK and Oswald!

[Rageneau]

7. The 9/11 Commission will give Smirk a gentleman's 'C'.

Since Lee (the fixer) Hamilton is involved, the report will do nothing more than point fingers at fingers. The GOP always relies upon Hamilton to cover over their dung trails.

So I expect the commission's conclusion to be that "mistakes were made" by both the Clinton and Bush administrations, but nobody was really at fault and it's time to move on.

[Guava Jelly]

8. that ink is cheap

we will get a few hundred pages blacked out partially with soviet style ink outs.
its a a sham

[Shoedogg]

9. It just so happens,

I have an advance copy.
(I'm an important man!)

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. lol!

good one!

[imax2268]

12. that's funny...!

[WillParkinson]

11. It's entirely Clinton's fault...

Because he couldn't keep his Big Mac in his pants and that gave the terrorists time to sneak onto our soil and fly into the twin towers even if that hasn't happened yet.

[No Mandate Here.]

13. The cynic in me agrees with these assessments, but

I was surprised to see this ...

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/politics/05PANE.html>

-snip- (describing the interview with Kean and Hamilton)

They also suggested that Ms. Rice, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, would be questioned aggressively on Thursday about why the administration had not taken more action against Al Qaeda before Sept. 11, and about discrepancies between her public statements and those of Richard A. Clarke, the president's former counterterrorism chief, who has accused the administration of largely ignoring terrorist threats in 2001.

"The whole story might have been different," Mr. Kean said on the NBC News program "Meet the Press," outlining a series of intelligence and law enforcement blunders in the months and years before the attacks.

"There are so many threads and so many things, individual things, that happened," he said. "If we had been able to put those people on the watch list of the airlines, the two who were in the country; again, if we'd stopped some of these people at the borders; if we had acted earlier on Al Qaeda when Al Qaeda was smaller and just getting started."

This, from AP, was even in my local paper

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. I think the point is, that we could have put it all together if Sandy

Berger had been at the helm.

[The Lone Liberal]

14. The commission was rigged from the start.

Bush and Cheney have rigged the game. The commission will rewrite history and the truth is dead stinking carp upon the beach in the moonlight it shines silver, but it smells like hell.

Remember Bush and Cheney's policy is lying and deception.

[Junkdrawer]

16. We need Patriot Act III...

That's been the result of every committee so far: faced with the contradiction that the FBI knew at the top and bottom, but obstructed at the level of middle management, legislators cut back on our civil rights rather that entertain any Bush Knew ideas.

[JCMach1]

17. It was Barney the dog's fault