The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election

[BBond]

Impeach Bush

There ya' go Morkinva!

 

[Steve Guilliot]

Of course, when this escalates to the point that Bush must respond, he'll just say "Executive Privelege" or "Osama's gunna git us" like he always does.

 

[DealMonkey]

If true, this doesn't surprise me. Not one iota.

 

[Bowfinger]

Originally posted by: BBond
Please sign the online petition requesting the release of this suppressed CIA report.

http://www.petitiononline.com/Tru911ci/

Bump for petition.

And I'm still waiting to see how the Bushies spin this. I'd love to know how one rationalizes willfully denying American citizens vital information relevant to the votes they're about to make. Sounds like some of our public servants need a refresher in the principles of democracy.

 

[slyedog]

if this were true, why has kerry not said anything about it? why has teddy not been pounding his
drunken fist on the table about this?



nice try, lib's

 

[chess9]

Eaglekeeper:

The Minority cannot authorize the issuance of a subpoena, as I recall. I believe that would have to be authorized by a full committee vote.

-Robert

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: slyedog
if this were true, why has kerry not said anything about it? why has teddy not been pounding his
drunken fist on the table about this?



nice try, lib's

If they did you'd be saying why are they bringing this up and pounding their fists on the table.

PS
A bit of friendly advice. With the dry drunk coke head you neocons worship in the White House you should really be more careful before casting the first stone.

 

[DealMonkey]

Originally posted by: Bowfinger

Originally posted by: BBond
Please sign the online petition requesting the release of this suppressed CIA report.

http://www.petitiononline.com/Tru911ci/

Bump for petition.

And I'm still waiting to see how the Bushies spin this. I'd love to know how one rationalizes willfully denying American citizens vital information relevant to the votes they're about to make. Sounds like some of our public servants need a refresher in the principles of democracy.

Oh I'm quite sure they'd blather on about how they oppose these sort of reports because they'll just be "politicized" by the left. Hannity was foaming at the mouth today, nearly short-circuiting his golden mike, spouting off about how Bush opposed the 9/11 commission for that very reason.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. :roll: Oppose the truth because it might make you look bad is more like it.

 

[Bowfinger]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey

Originally posted by: Bowfinger

Originally posted by: BBond
Please sign the online petition requesting the release of this suppressed CIA report.

http://www.petitiononline.com/Tru911ci/

Bump for petition.

And I'm still waiting to see how the Bushies spin this. I'd love to know how one rationalizes willfully denying American citizens vital information relevant to the votes they're about to make. Sounds like some of our public servants need a refresher in the principles of democracy.

Oh I'm quite sure they'd blather on about how they oppose these sort of reports because they'll just be "politicized" by the left. Hannity was foaming at the mouth today, nearly short-circuiting his golden mike, spouting off about how Bush opposed the 9/11 commission for that very reason.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. :roll: Oppose the truth because it might make you look bad is more like it.

Hmmmm. I probably missed it, but I don't remember the right wingers frothing about the Ken Starr report because it would be politicized. Double standard, maybe? Dare I say hypocrisy? Nah, can't be. They went after Clinton only because "truth" is their first and foremost concern.


On a related note, I just saw a bit that mentioned Congress only authorized $15 million to investigate the most heinous attack in our nation's history, yet we spent $70 million investigating consensual sex. What does that say about Bush & Co.'s desire to find the truth about 9/11?

 

[Ldir]

Originally posted by: BBond
Please sign the online petition requesting the release of this suppressed CIA report.

http://www.petitiononline.com/Tru911ci/

Signed

 

[kage69]

EVERY American P&N member should be signing this! C'mon you neocon fluffers, prove to the rest of us your country is more important than the agenda of your beloved energy-lobby goons. :|

 

[Darkhawk28]

Signed with great pleasure and sadness.

 

[conjur]

One signature away from 1000.

 

[conjur]

Hmm...no Bush supporters actually calling for the release of this report. I guess they think it's ok to suppress information and continue to govern in secrecy.

Oh, I forgot. It's MUCH more important to talk about Entertainment Tonight gossip BS as news. Oh my...someone mentioned a candidate's daughter is a lesbian (when it was ALREADY public knowledge.) Wow...the world is going to end because Kerry said Mary Cheney is a lesbian!

Every Bush supporter who doesn't sign this petition should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

 

[kage69]

'Honor and dignity' folks, 'honor and dignity'.... :roll:

 

[Darkhawk28]

Neocons have no shame, honor or dignity.

Edit: But hey, look at it this way.... the report could completely exonerate the administration.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: chess9
Eaglekeeper:

The Minority cannot authorize the issuance of a subpoena, as I recall. I believe that would have to be authorized by a full committee vote.

-Robert

That is possible.

I still wonder why the Dems on the committee are not screaming about it.

And as onother pointed out, Kerry is on the Intelligence Committee. This would make great political hay & gains for him to demonstrate nationwide that the report is being suppressed assuming that the report is damaging.

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: chess9
Eaglekeeper:

The Minority cannot authorize the issuance of a subpoena, as I recall. I believe that would have to be authorized by a full committee vote.

-Robert

That is possible.

I still wonder why the Dems on the committee are not screaming about it.

And as onother pointed out, Kerry is on the Intelligence Committee. This would make great political hay & gains for him to demonstrate nationwide that the report is being suppressed assuming that the report is damaging.

This would be a windfall for Kerry, if true. The fact that Dems aren't screaming about it, and the fact that the source is anonymous makes me doubt its veracity.

 

[NeoV]

I have to question why this isn't a bigger story nationally...wouldn't be at all surprised if it were true...

15M to investigate 9/11
70M to investigate Clinton/Lewinsky

Someone please explain that to me.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: NeoV
I have to question why this isn't a bigger story nationally...wouldn't be at all surprised if it were true...

15M to investigate 9/11
70M to investigate Clinton/Lewinsky

Someone please explain that to me.

Value of reputation(s)

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: NeoV
I have to question why this isn't a bigger story nationally...wouldn't be at all surprised if it were true...

15M to investigate 9/11
70M to investigate Clinton/Lewinsky

Someone please explain that to me.

Utterly sad.

 

[conjur]

C.I.A. Is Accused of Delaying Internal Report
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10...attack.html?oref=login

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 - The Central Intelligence Agency has blocked, at least temporarily, the distribution of a draft internal report that identifies individual officers by name in discussing whether anyone should be held accountable for intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, members of Congress from both parties said.

The delays began in July, at the direction of John E. McLaughlin, then the acting director of central intelligence, and have continued since Porter J. Goss took over as the intelligence chief last month, members of Congress said. The delays have postponed the next step in the process, which calls for the draft report to be reviewed by affected individuals.

It is not known who is named in the report, conducted by the C.I.A.'s inspector general, an independent internal investigator. The review was sought in December 2002 by the joint Congressional committee that investigated intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. The purpose, that panel said, should be to determine "whether and to what extent personnel at all levels should be held accountable'' for any mistakes that contributed to the failure to disrupt the attacks.

In a Sept. 23 letter to Mr. McLaughlin, the top Republican and Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Representatives Peter Hoekstra of Michigan and Jane Harman of California, said they were "concerned that the C.I.A. is unwilling to hold its officers accountable for failures to meet the professional standards we know C.I.A stands for.'' On Tuesday, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, wrote separately to Mr. Goss, expressing concern "about the appearance that the inspector general's independence is being infringed.''

Neither letter has been made public, but copies were obtained Tuesday by The New York Times. In both letters, the members of Congress cited as evidence of the delays identical letters sent to the intelligence committees on Aug. 31 by John Helgerson, the C.I.A. inspector general. The members of Congress described the delays as a departure from normal procedure.

A C.I.A. spokesman declined to comment about the status of the report. An intelligence official said that Mr. Goss had asked to review the draft himself before it was distributed further. The official would not address the question of who might be named in the document but said, "No C.I.A. official, current or former, has been found accountable, because we're talking about a draft.''

Senator Pat Roberts, af Kansas Republican who is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, did not sign the letter that Mr. Rockefeller sent. A Republican Congressional official said that Mr. Roberts did not yet believe that the postponement of the report was a matter for concern and said the delay was "uncommon but not abnormal.''

Sarah Little, a spokeswoman for Mr. Roberts, said: "Senator Roberts is closely monitoring the progress of the C.I.A. inspector general's report on 9/11. Senator Roberts has already made it clear to the agency that he expects to see the report upon its completion."

That Mr. Hoekstra and Ms. Harman had called on the C.I.A. to release the report had been previously disclosed, but not the contents of the letter. In it, Mr. Hoekstra and Ms. Harman said that Mr. Helgerson had indicated that Mr. McLaughlin had broken with normal practice and directed him "not to distribute the sections of the report that identify individual officers by name.''

A spokesman for George J. Tenet, who stepped down in July after seven years as director of central intelligence, said that Mr. Tenet had not been interviewed for the draft report, had not been briefed on its contents and had not been asked to respond to it.

James L. Pavitt, who retired in August as the C.I.A.'s deputy director of operations, also said he had not seen the report and had not been asked to respond to it. Mr. Pavitt said in an e-mail message: "We failed to stop the 11 September attacks. It surely was not for lack of effort, lack of focus or lack of courage.''

"Given what we now know, in all the hindsight of the year 2004, I still do not believe we could have stopped the attacks,'' Mr. Pavitt added. "If there is to be blame, it belongs with me, not with the remarkable folks who worked the counterterrorism issue day in and day out."

Just imagine how much we're going to find out was being suppressed and hidden by the Bush administration once they are out of office!

 

[konichiwa]

Nice thread but get off the petition bullsh!t. When was the last time some lame "online petition" worked toward anythin besides bringing Futurama back to TV...