Dolemite wrote:
] Salon interviews former Georgia Senator Max Cleland about
] troubles the 9/11 Commission (which he is still a member of)
] is having in obtaining documents from not just the White
] House.
]
] ] Let me walk you through this thing here. First of all,
] ] we're not talking about a prescription drug plan under
] ] Medicare here. We're talking about the most serious
] ] assault on the homeland of the United States since the
] ] British invaded during the war of 1812. This is the deal.
] ] The joint inquiry made up of Democrats and Republican
] ] members of Congress, they issued a report [this summer],
] ] but they couldn't get at the PDB's. They kicked the can
] ] down the street so that the 9/11 commission could get at
] ] the full story. That's the reason for this independent
] ] commission, with the time and energy and staff to get at
] ] all of this. Had the Joint Intelligence Committee been
] ] able to do its job, there wouldn't have even been a 9/11
] ] commission.
] ]
] ] We're coming down to the final [months] of the commission
] ] and we're still messing around with access issues. This
] ] is a key item. I don't think any independent commission
] ] can let an agency or the White House dictate to it how
] ] many commissioners see what. So this "deal," we shouldn't
] ] be dealing. If somebody wants to deal, we issue
] ] subpoenas. That's the deal. That was the deal with the
] ] FAA, that was the deal with Norad.
] ]
] ] And the reason is principle. Clinton has agreed to
] ] cooperate with the commission and is eager to come before
] ] it. So why doesn't this White House, which was on the
] ] bridge when the ship got attacked, why doesn't this White
] ] House want to know everything that happened on their
] ] watch so that it can't happen again? Why they want to
] ] play games with this commission, to make deals, I don't
] ] know. It's information control. It's not transparency.
] ]
] ] I don't know if they're hiding something. But the public
] ] will never know and the 9/11 commission will never know
] ] because under the current deal, a minority of
] ] commissioners will see a small number of documents and
] ] then brief the White House on what they're going to tell
] ] the other commissioners. Wait a minute! That doesn't make
] ] any sense at all.

Well, "the truth" seems to be clearly anti-american. You must be a terrorist. So is max cleland. Please stay where you are... the FBI will be there shortly.

RE: Former Senator Max Cleland Interview: 'The President ought to be ashamed'