Republican Thomas Kean and Democrat Lee Hamilton, have reported in a letter to the New York Times today, Jan. 2 2008, that their Congressional Commission into the 9-11 attacks was "STONEWALLED" and "OBSTRUCTED" by CIA officials who DID NOT PRODUCE DOCUMENTS and videos under LAWFUL DEMANDS AND REQUESTS by the 9-11 Commission!
The TENS of Millions of dollars that American taxpayers PAID to have a thorough and competent investigation of the 9-11 terror attacks, THE INVESTIGATION WAS COMPROMISED, made into a WHITEWASH FARCE, by LIES and DENIALS from CIA officials!
When the press reported that, in 2002 and maybe at other times, the C.I.A. had recorded hundreds of hours of interrogations of at least two Qaeda detainees, we went back to check our records. We found that we did ask, repeatedly, for the kind of information that would have been contained in such videotapes.
OF COURSE, ANYONE who has paid ANY attention to the 9-11 Commission KNOWS that it was a WHITEWASH FARCE in the first place, just from several outstanding facts that the whore American media (corporate/major media) REFUSED TO INFORM AMERICAN VIEWERS ABOUT.
#1. That former Dem. Indiana Representative (Congressman) LEE HAMILTON is the Republican's "Democrat of choice" for ANY WHITEWASH investigation or commission that the public insists on running.
#2. That the Republican DOMINATED Congress (both House and Senate had Republican majorities in the 108'th and 109'th Congresses) TRIED TO ASSIST the Bush-Cheney White House in OBSTRUCTING the creation of a 9-11 Commission, until public outrage, and the leadership of "The Jersey Girls" 9-11 widows forced the Congress to create a commission;
#3. That NOT ONE PERSON, ANYONE in the US Government, was DISCIPLINED, DEMOTED, OR FIRED for the GROSS NATIONAL SECURITY LAPSES during the 9-11 attacks... including the fact that United Flight 93 and American Flight 77 WERE STILL IN THE AIR and HOUR after the first airliner (American Flight 11) crashed into the North Tower.... AN HOUR after the first 9-11 attack, and longer than that after the first hijacking! - and THERE WAS NOT ONE US AIR FIRCE FIGHTER JET ANYWHERE IN THE SKIES over New York or the Nation's capitol! FOR A FULL HOUR after that first AA flight 11 crashed into the North Tower, (wiki) FOUR HIJACKED AIRLINERS WERE ROAMING AMERICAN SKIES, indeed, AA Flight 77 and United Flight 93 might not have been airborne before the hijackers siezed the first aircraft that day... AND THERE WAS NO NATIONWIDE ALERT OR ADVISORY PUT OUT!
#4. When (Vice) President Cheney and President Bush were finally forced to testify about what they knew before about a potential Al Qaida attack before the day of the attacks (9-11-2001) they testified to Congress, TOGETHER, NOT UNDER OATH, as if they were discussing nothing more important than a White House garden party! Of course under their 'conversational' testimony, they neglected to mention that THEY HAD BEEN WARNED, IN PERSON, by CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE TENET "As of July 2001, Al Qaida has NOT been punished for their SUCCESSFUL suicide bomb attack on the USS Cole in a Yemen harbor in October of 2000, and NOW THEY ARE PLANNING A BIGGER, MORE SPECTACULAR ATTACK _IN AMERICA"!_
#5. And of course the 9-11 Commission didn't even discuss or mention - much less INVESTIGATE - THE MOST DAMNING 9-11 evidence of all, the fact that then ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT was "ordered" to STOP FLYING ON PUBLIC AIRLINERS because of a (get this) "THREAT ASSESMENT" - but that neither Mr. Ashcroft, then-Secretary of War Don Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, nor President George W. Bush, BOTHERED TO INFORM THE AMERICAN FLYING PUBLIC or flight crews ABOUT THAT "THREAT ASSESMENT"!
Which we now know was, indeed, those FIRST PERSON CIA BRIEFINGS then CIA Director George Tenet GAVE TO RUSMFELD, ASHCROFT, AND CHENEY... IN PERSON!
And that DCI (Director, CIA) Tenet GAVE THOSE "TERRORIST THREAT ASSESSMENT" briefings to Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, and Cheney... AT THE SPECIFIC INSISTENCE of then NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR CONDOLEEZA RICE, who had been receiving REPEATED and URGENT WARNINGS about a potent Al Qaida terrorist threat froM ALL DEPARTMENTS THAT ANSWERED TO THE office of NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR!
To put the above "complex" (not!) three paragraphs into plain English, Vice President DICK CHENEY was INFORMED OF A POTENT, PERSISTENT, and beyond-planning stage TERRORIST ATTACK THREAT by AL QAIDA... and he DID NOTHING, EXCEPT TO YANK Attorney General Ashcroft OFF of those public airline flights... WHILE LEAVING THE AMERICAN FLYING PUBLIC AND AIRCREWS EXPOSED TO THAT THREAT, as "BAIT!"
"BAIT," that is, for an excuse for Cheney's real "priority #1." his desire to go forward with the PNAC proposed INVASION OF IRAQ!
In an amazing instance of ONE DOCUMENT showing the ABJECT FARCE of MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of US Government investigations and taxpayer spending being spent in an attempt to DISTORT, OBSCURE, and COVER UP BASIC FACTS, this CBS
created 5 years ago at the insistence of outraged Americans and the "Jersey Girls" 9-11 widows,
