Did the neocons dupe the 9/11 Commission?
A friend sent me a link to a TPM Muckraker piece from early October that provides further evidence the 9/11 Commission was duped. It points out that this now infamous July, 2001 meeting between Tenet and Rice recently reported by Bob Woodword was first reported in Time Magazine in August of 2002.Â
Friends, did they not have Lexus-Nexus at the 9/11 Commission?
We've written about Sec. Rice and this meeting here and here. The bottom line is that Senate and House Intelligence Committees need to convene as soon as possible, and certainly no later than during the November Congressional Session, and bring Phillip Zelikow, Sec. Rice and Tenet in and ask them under oath what happened here. Was there an organized effort to erase this meeting from the history books? And who participated? Certainly Zelikow should be first, as he was the Executive Director of the Commission, was present at Tenet's testimony to the Commission (where among other things he shared the presentation he did for Rice at the July 10th mtg), and now works for Rice.Â
And Rice needs to explain her repeated statements that the government would have taken action if they knew that Al Qaeda might strike in the US. But we now know that the she did know. We know that they knew in early 2001 that the Cole had been struck by Al Qaeda; that their counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke was sounding the alarm; that she and the President were briefed in the summer that Al Qaeda was ready to strike in the US; and that despite all this they did nothing. Why? Why did this Administration do nothing to stop Al Qaeda despite these extraordinary warnings?
Remember the US had already struck Al Qaeda in Afghanistan n 1998. We knew where they lived. Why did Bush and Rice do nothing?
And why should Rice keep her job if she has been repeatedly lying to the American people about a national security matter of this magntitude?
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