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Skriven 2006-09-12 08:52:00 av Robert E Starr JR (8735.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: ABC backs down on 9/1
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>> 
>> I think you should read the 9/11 Commission Report. Either that or you
>> have interpreted it much differently than I have. Clinton wasn't as
>> preoccupied with Lewinsky as the Republican Congress was preoccupied
>> with finding dirt on him and Hilary. So much so that they refused to
>> grant him a legal declaration of war to go after the Taliban, al-Qaeda,
>> bin Laden, etc. following the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. As for
>> "several chances to get bin Laden," the situation doesn't appear to
>> have changed. bin Laden remains elusive with false sightings everywhere
>> (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14724112/). U.S. intelligence may have had
>> a line on him before, but sharing of information was prohibited, as
>> pointed out in the 9/11 Report.
> 

Any problem with the 9/11 Commission Report is a fundamental one:

From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091106Z.shtml


As part of its charter, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon
the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission) was prohibited from
pursuing a critical examination of the Bush administration's role. We have
no such restrictions and, as the Bush administration was the supreme
controlling American authority, we have reviewed their actions.

    We find that an examination of the creation of the National Commission
on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States provides powerful insight into
the role played by the Bush administration before and after the attacks of
September 11th.

    We find that the Bush administration used the power of the executive
branch for months after the attacks of 9/11 to block the creation of any
official investigation into the action of the US government. Further, such
resistance by the Bush administration to an official investigation continued
in the face of repeated demands by the families of the victims of the
attacks. It was, in fact, that very pressure from the victims' families that
forced the Bush administration to reverse their position and negotiate the
creation of investigative body. However, during those negotiations, the Bush
administration refused - again - to cooperate, until two demands were met:
The 9/11 Commission must agree not to investigate the executive branch, and
the Bush administration itself must be allowed to appoint - without review -
the chairman of the commission.

    Clearly the Bush administration used, from the start, the power it had
negotiated to protect its own interests. The appointment of former Nixon
secretary of state Henry Kissinger as 9/11C chairman drew immediate fire
from critics, who charged that Kissinger would be more likely to obscure the
truth than reveal it. Kissinger resigned less than two weeks later, after
refusing to reveal the names of corporations whose interests he represented.
The subsequent appointment of former New Jersey Republican governor Thomas
Kean was less controversial but ultimately subject to the final authority,
the Bush administration.

    We find that the objectivity and impartiality of the 9/11C must have
been compromised by being under the direct control of the Bush
administration. Further, such direct control of the 9/11C by Bush
administration officials renders the conclusions of the actions of the Bush
administration before, during, and after the attacks of 9/11 by the 9/11C
fatally discredited. In short: We find that there has been no meaningful
independent official investigation of the actions of the Bush
administration's actions before, during, and after the attacks of 9/11.

    We find that many high-ranking Bush administration officials hold
personal financial interests in the Middle East region. We find that the
attacks and resulting military campaigns did significantly enrich -
personally - many high-ranking Bush administration officials. Those
officials include, but are not limited to: George W. Bush, through his
family's oil and energy holdings in the region and their interest in the
international arms trade through the Carlyle group; and Richard Cheney,
through an ongoing relationship with the Halliburton Corporation and its
subsidiaries. In addition, Condoleezza Rice's free movement back and forth
between the job of National Security Adviser to Chevron director and back to
National Security Adviser again creates a conflict of interest.

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