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Is the 9/11 Commission a Sack of Doodoo?
More catchy title? Okay, let's try again:
Because I really cannot fathom how it could be anything else. Anyone else follow this story about the Tenet Rice meeting revealed in Woodward's new book? Here's the gyst:
First was revealed that Rice was given an urgent meeting by Tenet and his counterterrorism guru on July 10th, 2001:
| quote: | They went over top-secret intelligence pointing to an impending attack and “sounded the loudest warning” to the White House of a likely attack on the U.S. by Bin Laden.
Woodward writes that Rice was polite, but, “They felt the brushoff.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/st...9p-384345c.html |
Pretty significant, especially when it was NOT reported in the 9/11 Commission Report. So Rice then makes the all-too-popular "I cannot recall" denial of the meeting ever taking place:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15102882/
And then things get wierd. Someone in this Administration turned on her, demonstrating that the records DID, in fact, show a meeting occurred between these 3 characters:
| quote: | A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said Monday.
The account by Sean McCormack came hours after Ms. Rice, the secretary of state, told reporters aboard her airplane that she did not recall the specific meeting on July 10, 2001, noting that she had met repeatedly with Mr. Tenet that summer about terrorist threats. Ms. Rice, the national security adviser at the time, said it was “incomprehensible” she ignored dire terrorist threats two months before the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/w...page&oref=login |
Flash back a day and you have a fierce denial by the 9/11 Commission of ever being told of the meeting, smelling somewhat of a cover-up by this Administration:
| quote: | Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 at which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to have warned Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, about an imminent Al Qaeda attack and failed to persuade her to take action.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/w...gin&oref=slogin |
But strangely, the very next paragraph to the former story I linked has this to say:
Also confirmed here:
| quote: | Nor is it clear why the 9/11 commission never reported the briefing, which the intelligence officials said Tenet outlined to commission members Ben-Veniste and Zelikow in secret testimony at CIA headquarters. The State Department confirmed that the briefing materials were "made available to the 9/11 Commission, and Director Tenet was asked about this meeting when interviewed by the 9/11 Commission."
The three former senior intelligence officials, however, said Tenet raised the matter with the panel himself, displayed slides from the PowerPoint presentation and offered to testify on the matter in public.
Ben-Veniste confirmed to McClatchy Newspapers that Tenet outlined for the 9/11 commission the July 10 briefing to Rice in secret testimony in January 2004. He referred questions about why the commission omitted any mention of the briefing in its report to Zelikow, the report's main author. Zelikow didn't respond to e-mail and telephone queries from McClatchy Newspapers.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/merc...cs/15663391.htm |
So it really does beg the question: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?
Who is lying about what, and why in God's name was this meeting scrubbed by apparently EVERYONE including the 9/11 Commission? And keep in mind, Ben-Viniste is a Democrat, so this goes way beyond partisanship bullshit now. What the hell, here folks?
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I yearn to shout,
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