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- A Gulf War vet, Lt. Colonel Steven Butler says "Bush knew" about the impending terrorist attacks, but did nothing to prevent them. Butler was "suspended for writing a letter in which he called President Bush ''a joke'' and accused him of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks
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- Newsweek Magazine reports, "*** Cheney played a behind-the-scenes role last week in derailing an agreement to create an independent commission to investigate the 9-11 attacks. Last month the White House endorsed the formation of the panel. But on Thursday, hours after congressional negotiators hailed a final deal over the scope and powers of a 9-11 panel, Cheney called House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Porter Goss [to block] an independent commission to investigate 9-11." It worked. Goss told a closed-door conference committee he couldn''t accept the deal, citing instructions from ''above my pay grade,'' sources say." Cheney: Investigators, Keep Out, Newsweek Magazine: 10/21/02.
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- Intelligence agents reveal Bush turned a "blind eye" to terrorism by ordering our CIA and FBI to "back off" Saudi terror suspects - including Osama bin Laden''s brothers - operating in the US. See: Call it 9-11Gate, American Politics Journal: 5/17/02. Because of Bush''s orders, top FBI officials ignored warnings efforts to investigate and arrest the terrorists who later hijacked and flew our planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
A Gulf War vet, Lt. Colonel Steven Butler says "Bush knew" about the impending terrorist attacks, but did nothing to prevent them. Butler was "suspended for writing a letter in which he called President Bush ''a joke'' and accused him of allowing the Sept. 11 attacks." News sources quote Butler''s letter: "Of course Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama." DLI official removed for criticizing Bush, the Monterey County Herald: 6/3/02. - Reply to this comment
- Bush sent $43 Million to the Taliban. His administration supported negotiations with terrorists on behalf of his campaign contributors. These included corporations seeking to build a pipeline through Afghanistan. These multinational special interests employed his father and former Bush administration officials including James A. Baker III, the man who led Bush''s efforts to wrest the White House from Al Gore.
British media report that Bush ordered national security agents to "back off" the bin Laden terrorists. A former CIA agent appeared on BBC TV saying: "We were just told, ''You get caught spying on the Saudis or looking into their affairs, and you will lose your head!''" FBI And US Spy Agents Say Bush Spiked Bin Laden Probes Before 11 September, The Guardian (London): 11/07/01. Transcript: Did Bush Turn A Blind Eye To Terrorism? BBC Newsnight: 11/06/01. -- On Demand Video. - Reply to this comment
- Well if you want to be really stupid about things, how come there is no statute of Clinton in China. After all he gave China our technology under his Doctrine of Multi-Polarity. You are a very ill person. Warped in the head just like all the loonies on the left. Ugh.
Posted by mudrose at 01:43 PM : Jan 03, 2008
Drowing in the river of De-Nile!!! - Reply to this comment
- Wednesday, January 2 2008 - 9/11 Commission
Stonewalled by the C.I.A.
January 2, 2008
Op-Ed Contributors
Stonewalled by the C.I.A.
By THOMAS H. KEAN and LEE H. HAMILTON
Those who knew about those videotapes %u2014 and did not tell us about them %u2014 obstructed our investigation.
There could have been absolutely no doubt in the mind of anyone at the C.I.A. %u2014 or the White House %u2014 of the commission%u2019s interest in any and all information related to Qaeda detainees involved in the 9/11 plot. Yet no one in the administration ever told the commission of the existence of videotapes of detainee interrogations - Reply to this comment
- how come there is no statute of Clinton in China.
Posted by mudrose
now you''''re being stupid or contriving -
clinton didn''''t liberate china, bush liberated iraq.
where is the praise, the rose petals, solemn memorials.... nothing but silence and shame.
silence and shame.
Posted by neoconRcrazy
Bush Derangement Syndrome. Clinton gave away our state secrets and you don''t bat an eyelash. Our CIA destroys tapes to protect covert agents who waterboarded two mongrels that killed Americans and you''ve got a problem with it. Typical. Like I said. Bush Derangement Syndrome. It''s a disease you won''t ever recover from. Hahahaha. - Reply to this comment
a damning accusation but well-founded. and if one considers the fact that it took bush over 1 year to even allow the Commission to begin work, then hampered them by lack of financing - who knows what we will learn next.
I do not fear "islamoterror", but rather the terror from within our own.
Posted by neoconRcrazy at 02:10 PM : Jan 03, 2008
Senate Leader Tom Daschle said "I can tell you on January 24th, first, and on January 28th second, and on other dates following, that request [by Cheney and Bush not to conduct any Sept. 11 inquiry] was made." Daschle: Bush, Cheney Urged No Sept. 11 Inquiry, Reuters News Service: 5/26/02. Strangely this story is no longer available on the original site, but echoes remain on the web.
Cheney admitted "he would advise President Bush not to turn over to Congress the August intelligence briefing that warned that terrorists were interested in hijacking airplanes, and he insisted that the investigation into Sept. 11 should be handled by the Congressional intelligence committees, not an independent commission." Cheney Moves to Block 9-11 Probe, The New York Times: 5/20/02. Months later, the chairperson of the 9/11 investigation confirmed Cheney had carried out his threats.- Reply to this comment
- Those who knew about those videotapes %u2014 and did not tell us about them %u2014 obstructed our investigation.
Posted by mrconservatv
a damning accusation but well-founded. and if one considers the fact that it took bush over 1 year to even allow the Commission to begin work, then hampered them by lack of financing - who knows what we will learn next.
I do not fear "islamoterror", but rather the terror from within our own. - Reply to this comment
- Wednesday, January 2 2008 - 9/11 Commission
Stonewalled by the C.I.A.
January 2, 2008
Op-Ed Contributors
Stonewalled by the C.I.A.
By THOMAS H. KEAN and LEE H. HAMILTON
Those who knew about those videotapes %u2014 and did not tell us about them %u2014 obstructed our investigation.
There could have been absolutely no doubt in the mind of anyone at the C.I.A. %u2014 or the White House %u2014 of the commission%u2019s interest in any and all information related to Qaeda detainees involved in the 9/11 plot. Yet no one in the administration ever told the commission of the existence of videotapes of detainee interrogations. - Reply to this comment
Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
