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from NY Times of 4 April 2004
The White House has insisted there was nothing that could have been done to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks. The White House spokesman Scott McClellan said last month that charges by Richard Clark, Mr. Bush's former terrorism chief, that the administration could have done more to prevent the attacks were "deeply irresponsible," "offensive," and "flat-out false." Ms. Rice, in an interview on the CBS News program "60 Minutes" last week, insisted that the Bush administration regarded terrorism as "an urgent problem" before Sept. 11. "I would like very much to know what more could have been done given that it was an urgent problem," she said.
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But that is not what Governor Kean, head of the 911 Commission, is saying:
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from NY Times of 4 April 2004
Thomas H. Kean, chairman of the commission and former Republican governor of New Jersey, said that had the United States seized early opportunities to kill Osama bin Laden in the years before Sept. 11, "the whole story would've been different."
Mr. Kean's comments on the NBC News program "Meet the Press" echoed statements he made in December and January. But he emphatically declared that additional months of testimony and investigation had not altered his view.
"What we've found now on the commission has not changed that belief because there were so many threads and so many things, individual things, that happened," he said. "And if some of those things hadn't happened the way they happened," the attacks could have been prevented.
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Just another conclusion in direct contradiction to George Jr administration spin. Just another reason to ask why this administration obstructs the 911 Commission; starting with stifling the Commission's formation (as even the Jersey Girls claim), to nearly forcing the entire Commission to resign by refusing to provide necessary information, and now to the latest obstruction - withholding 11,000 pages of relevant Clinton administration documents while forgetting to even tell the Clinton curator that those documents were not delivered. One must ask how much more information has been stifled and why this administration is in cover-up mode; so much like the Nixon White House.
Keep these 911 revelations in perspective. White House cover-up appears more to be business as usual - as was the Watergate investigation. Those who did not follow Watergate "live" (those under 45) probably think Watergate was big headline news back then. Except for Woodward and Bernstein, most domestic press and public completely ignored the serious implications of Watergate. Most early Watergate relevations back then were not even reported by most newspapers. If you don't see the serious implications in this administration's spin, then you are reliving exactly how most of America understood Watergate - until years later after Judge Sirica, John Dean, and McCord basically blew a whistle even the press could not ignore.
Lies of this adminstration are as boldfaced and disturbing as were Nixon's Watergate lies back then. Only during Watergate Senate hearings did Americans finally realized how corrupt and how dispicable that Nixon administration really was - with full intent to undermine the US Constitution as necessary to promote their agenda. In particular I cite the Senate Hearing confrontation between Sen Erivn and John Erlichmann as Erlichmann even denied the meaning and intent of the Fourth Amendment. Agenda was more important than the nation, the Constitution, or even basic individual ethics. But back then, most Americans still thought Nixon was a good man.
Posted earlier was how a Saudi would visit a new American president, leave a briefcase of $1million (in $100 bills), and see if someone called to return that briefcase. Nixon did not. Would this George Jr administration return a briefcase accidentally left at the White House being as campaign contributions are so important? Is the agenda and needs for campaign contributions more important than basic American principles? If so, then they would also need obstruct those 911 Commisson hearings. Too many embarrassing facts are already being exposed.