Bush Plays Bait-and-Switch With 9/11 Panel: Marie Cocco

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Marie Cocco

Bush Plays Bait-and-Switch With 9/11 Panel

February 19, 2004

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpcoc193677317feb19,0,1094494.column?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

(Warning: reading the entire article will make you angry.. The question remains: Who was in charge when 9-11 happened and who didn't do their duty to protect us? JB)


Article:
Let us finally put to rest a widely circulated and grossly inaccurate story that's been making the rounds: Rumors of President George W. Bush's cooperation with the panel probing the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are unsubstantiated.


"I've experienced two political bait-and-switches since I've been on the commission," said Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator and current president of the New School University in New York. And that's only about a month. "The bait-and-switch in politics is a technique that is intentionally designed to lead the public (to believe) that you're going to do something that you're not going to do."



Administration officials said any interview would be done in private. What's more, the president would not submit to questions from the full bipartisan panel, only from selected commissioners. Which ones? Only his damage-controllers know for sure.


Ah, the details.

Negotiated "details" have constricted the commission's access to the president's daily brief - a digest of intelligence for the commander-in-chief. Previous probes of 9/11 already have revealed that, in the months before the terrorists struck, the intelligence community screamed loudly about a planned attack meant to inflict mass casualties. Bush bragged in his NBC interview about giving the commission access to these briefings.

In fact, the full commission hasn't seen them.

The White House negotiated a convoluted agreement under which a handful of panel representatives were allowed to see the briefs and take notes. Then it tried to block these few from sharing their notes with other panelists. Finally - after the commission contemplated a subpoena of its own members' notes - a 17-page summary of the briefings, edited by the White House, went to all commissioners.

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1. Not close to good enough.

Why aren't the WH reporters yelling out the widows' questions????

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2. Bush acts more like a Born Again Satanist, then

a Christian. This man is simply evil.