Monday, April 05, 2004
BUSH LIES PLEASE Read This
Bush Says He Lacked Info on Sept. 11
1 hour ago
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Monday he will tell the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that his administration lacked the information needed to prevent the terrorists from striking.
The federal panel reviewing the attacks plans to meet soon with Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in a joint private session to determine whether anything could have been done to stop the attacks.
A date for the meeting has been set but neither the commission nor the White House has disclosed it. Bush said he looks forward to "sharing information with them."
"Let me just be very clear about this," he said. "Had we had the information that was necessary to stop an attack, I'd have stopped the attack. ... If we'd have known that the enemy was going to fly airplanes into our buildings, we would have done everything in our power to stop it."
After the attacks, "this country immediately went on war footing and we went to war against al-Qaida. And we're going to keep after them until they are brought to justice and America is secure," Bush told reporters while on a trip to North Carolina.
Bush also said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "knows exactly what took place and will lay out the facts" when she testifies Thursday before the 10-member bipartisan panel. "I'm looking forward to people hearing her," he said.
Rice's testimony was assured only after Bush changed course last week under pressure and decided to allow her to appear publicly and under oath. She met privately with the commission in February.
The Bush administration had been uneasy that allowing a top aide to testify could set a precedent of summoning top aides before a congressional panel to provide sworn testimony. Such a move would inhibit the willingness of aides to provide the president with candid advice.
Commission spokesman Al Felzenberg said Monday the decision to let Rice testify might have been influenced by a 1945 photo the panel sent to the White House showing a top presidential aide appearing before a congressional panel to discuss policy advice.
The Nov. 22, 1945, New York Times photograph shows Adm. William D. Leahy, chief of staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, appearing before the special congressional panel investigating the Pearl Harbor attacks.
Felzenberg said the commission's executive director, Philip Zelikow, faxed the photo the day before the White House reversed its position, showing the administration there was historical support for allowing a top presidential aide to testify under oath before a congressional panel.
"It deals with the historical precedent which the White House and we were concerned about," Felzenberg said. "You won't find a clearer case."
Meanwhile, lawyers for the commission on Monday were checking thousands of classified counterterrorism documents from the Clinton administration to determine if Bush's aides had improperly withheld them.
The Bush administration granted the commission access to the documents Friday after Bruce Lindsey, who was legal adviser to President Clinton, said officials didn't turn over all of Clinton's records to the panel.
The commission expects to know by Tuesday whether additional documents should be released, or if the material is, as Bush aides have said, is largely duplicative or non-responsive to the commission's requests, Felzenberg said.
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Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Bush Says He Lacked Info on Sept. 11
1 hour ago
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Monday he will tell the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that his administration lacked the information needed to prevent the terrorists from striking.
The federal panel reviewing the attacks plans to meet soon with Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in a joint private session to determine whether anything could have been done to stop the attacks.
A date for the meeting has been set but neither the commission nor the White House has disclosed it. Bush said he looks forward to "sharing information with them."
"Let me just be very clear about this," he said. "Had we had the information that was necessary to stop an attack, I'd have stopped the attack. ... If we'd have known that the enemy was going to fly airplanes into our buildings, we would have done everything in our power to stop it."
After the attacks, "this country immediately went on war footing and we went to war against al-Qaida. And we're going to keep after them until they are brought to justice and America is secure," Bush told reporters while on a trip to North Carolina.
Bush also said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "knows exactly what took place and will lay out the facts" when she testifies Thursday before the 10-member bipartisan panel. "I'm looking forward to people hearing her," he said.
Rice's testimony was assured only after Bush changed course last week under pressure and decided to allow her to appear publicly and under oath. She met privately with the commission in February.
The Bush administration had been uneasy that allowing a top aide to testify could set a precedent of summoning top aides before a congressional panel to provide sworn testimony. Such a move would inhibit the willingness of aides to provide the president with candid advice.
Commission spokesman Al Felzenberg said Monday the decision to let Rice testify might have been influenced by a 1945 photo the panel sent to the White House showing a top presidential aide appearing before a congressional panel to discuss policy advice.
The Nov. 22, 1945, New York Times photograph shows Adm. William D. Leahy, chief of staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, appearing before the special congressional panel investigating the Pearl Harbor attacks.
Felzenberg said the commission's executive director, Philip Zelikow, faxed the photo the day before the White House reversed its position, showing the administration there was historical support for allowing a top presidential aide to testify under oath before a congressional panel.
"It deals with the historical precedent which the White House and we were concerned about," Felzenberg said. "You won't find a clearer case."
Meanwhile, lawyers for the commission on Monday were checking thousands of classified counterterrorism documents from the Clinton administration to determine if Bush's aides had improperly withheld them.
The Bush administration granted the commission access to the documents Friday after Bruce Lindsey, who was legal adviser to President Clinton, said officials didn't turn over all of Clinton's records to the panel.
The commission expects to know by Tuesday whether additional documents should be released, or if the material is, as Bush aides have said, is largely duplicative or non-responsive to the commission's requests, Felzenberg said.
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On the Net:
Sept. 11 commission: http://www.9-11commission.gov/
Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Thursday, April 01, 2004
Bush Know And Did Nothing To Stop 9-11 and Well I am So Sorry To say The 3000 People Died Foir Nothing The Blood Of These People is On Bush Hands.
NPR interview excerpts regarding book and pending testimony before Sept. 11 Commission:
Regarding Bush's alertness about pending 911 attack.
"If you look at what the President said himself to Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter who wrote the book Bush at War, in an interview with Woodward, says, 'this was not at the top of my list or my national security team, I was not on point, I did not feel a sense of urgency about Al Qaeda.'
"Frankly, how he could not feel a sense of urgency, given the fact that he was being briefed every day by CIA about an impending attack, I still don't understand."
"The Clinton team, said in a very civilized way, to the incoming team, 'There are three issues that you have to focus on: one is Al Qaeda, two is the Israeli-Arab peace process, and three is the process we have created to negotiate with North Korea about the nuclear weapons program.'
"Somehow all three of those issues slipped to the bottom when the Bush Administration took over."
"George Tenant was briefing Pres. Bush every morning."
Interview and book also tells account of how Bush pressured Clarke to come up with evidence to link Iraq to Al Qaeda, and Clarke said their was none, and the Bush insisted "look again," and still there was none.
Recounts that war on Iraq was in planning long before 911, and that Rumsfeld called for war on Iraq the day after 911.
NPR interview excerpts regarding book and pending testimony before Sept. 11 Commission:
Regarding Bush's alertness about pending 911 attack.
"If you look at what the President said himself to Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter who wrote the book Bush at War, in an interview with Woodward, says, 'this was not at the top of my list or my national security team, I was not on point, I did not feel a sense of urgency about Al Qaeda.'
"Frankly, how he could not feel a sense of urgency, given the fact that he was being briefed every day by CIA about an impending attack, I still don't understand."
"The Clinton team, said in a very civilized way, to the incoming team, 'There are three issues that you have to focus on: one is Al Qaeda, two is the Israeli-Arab peace process, and three is the process we have created to negotiate with North Korea about the nuclear weapons program.'
"Somehow all three of those issues slipped to the bottom when the Bush Administration took over."
"George Tenant was briefing Pres. Bush every morning."
Interview and book also tells account of how Bush pressured Clarke to come up with evidence to link Iraq to Al Qaeda, and Clarke said their was none, and the Bush insisted "look again," and still there was none.
Recounts that war on Iraq was in planning long before 911, and that Rumsfeld called for war on Iraq the day after 911.
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