9/11 Panel Says Congress and White House Are Failing to Act

[Rose Siding]

The members of the Sept. 11 commission will sharply criticize the Bush administration and Congress this week in a new, privately financed report expected to single out the F.B.I. as having failed to act on many of the panel's recommendations to protect the nation from terrorist attack, members of the bipartisan panel and its staff said.

They said the report, scheduled for release on Thursday by a private educational group created by the 10 former commissioners, will also criticize the White House as not doing enough to defend civil liberties and privacy rights as it expanded the government's surveillance powers after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. A civil liberties oversight board created by the White House earlier this year is toothless and underfinanced, some of the commissioners said.

A Democratic member of the commission, Timothy J. Roemer, a former House member from Indiana, said the new "report card" would show that the administration and Congress had taken no action on many of the panel's central recommendations "and we're not going to get many more chances to get things right before the terrorists come at us again."
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Congress would be criticized, Mr. Roemer said, for having failed to follow through on the panel's major recommendations for an overhaul of Congressional oversight of intelligence and terrorism issues. In its final report last year, the commission described Congressional oversight as "dysfunctional."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/politics/19panel.html

[stepnw1f]

1. The Nail in Bush's Political Coffin!

Guten Nacht!

[TheDebbieDee]

2. A new, privately financed report .....................

The report, scheduled for release on Thursday by a private educational group created by the 10 former commissioners, will also criticize the White House as not doing enough....."

The 9/11 Commission had their chance to tell the people about the failures of the * admin with regard to national security.....and instead they gave us a powder-puff report about 6 weeks before the election.

FUG the 9/11 Commission. I can't hear them anymore.

La la la lah! La la lah!

[EST]

3. More voices crying in the wilderness?

The worms, their roots entertwined, all turn at once and go on vacation, I mean, attack the entrenched criminals.

[StrafingMoose]

4. AND...

The 9/11 _forgot_ to talk about Able Danger... "Here's the ball! No keep it! No YOU keep it!" ;(

[gumby]

5. The 9/11 Panel FAILED to act.

One group of failures trying to boss around another group of failures.

Yeah, that's the ticket. yawn....

[goforit]

8. Bada Bing!!!!....Covering their asses quick!!!!

[MichiganVote]

6. Sorry, republicans are in office to make money--for themselves

9/11, disasters, homeless kids, schools, infrastructure....these things exist only to line the pockets of the elite. 9/11 is their poster child and it will always and only be a poster. Issuing a "report card" to a juvenile delinquent is pointless.

[Kagemusha]

7. Deleted

Er, somehow a post to another headline ended up here.. probably my error.

[lovuian]

9. 9/11 panel covering their butts but still going to get exposed!!!

The Truth will find away!!!

[leesa]

10. There's no need for them to act...the criminals who did 9-11 are in the

White House. The commission's recommendations are a sham.