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Uh-huh. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kissinger Will Disclose His Clients to Families of 9/11 Victims December 13, 2002 By DAVID FIRESTONE WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 - Henry A. Kissinger, President Bush's choice to head a panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, met with victims' families today and agreed to issue subpoenas and to disclose his business clients to them, family members said. A leader of Families of Sept. 11, Stephen Push, which lobbied for the establishment of the panel, said his group agreed not to discuss the details of the disclosure plan, including whether all the clients would be made public. Mr. Kissinger did not return a call to his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates Inc. in New York, after holding his first meeting today with 11 family members. Relatives of the victims said Mr. Kissinger also agreed to issue subpoenas, pledging that his panel would conduct a thorough investigation. "He said he has no interest other than to get to the bottom of this," Mr. Push said. "Obviously, we'll hold him to that, and if he does, the commission will be very successful." Mr. Push, one of several relatives who voiced concern about Mr. Kissinger's business ties when he was named chairman of the 10-member commission last month by President Bush, said: "He suggested the outlines of a disclosure plan that would at least satisfy the families' personal concerns about the conflicts. He said he would have everything worked out by the first meeting of the commission in January. If he does what he says he will do, that will satisfy us." Mr. Kissinger had resisted a full disclosure of his global business clients. He has represented some of the world's most powerful multinational corporations, including many with interests in American foreign policy. On Wednesday, the White House said that as an executive branch appointee, Mr. Kissinger was not required to make such a disclosure. That position has been at odds with that of Senate Democrats. Today, the senior Republican on the Senate Ethics Committee told the White House that all members of the commission, including Mr. Kissinger, were required to comply with Congressional financial disclosure requirements. The lawmaker, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, joined the panel's chairman, Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, in writing to Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel, to assert that under Federal law the committee, and not the White House, had jurisdiction to determine whether the commission members must file financial disclosure reports. In their two-page letter, the senators cited a 1989 opinion from the Justice Department to support their interpretation of the Ethics in Government Act. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, also released an opinion today by the Congressional Research Service that said all members were legislative appointees who must disclose clients who paid them more than $5,000 over two years. The opinion said that panel members fell under the jurisdiction of the Senate Ethics Committee for purposes of reporting their business arrangements. The issue may wind up in court, unless Mr. Kissinger's disclosure plan proves satisfactory to all sides. At today's meeting in Mr. Kissinger's office, the families gave Mr. Kissinger questions they want the commission to answer. According to Mr. Push, the questions include: �Why did the Immigration and Naturalization Service allow so many of the hijackers into the country to attend flight school? �Why did the nation's air defense command have no planes in the air on Sept. 11 to protect New York and Washington once the attacks had begun? �How many hijackers were on the C.I.A.'s terrorist watch list, and if any of them were known to intelligence agents, why were the F.B.I. and the Federal Aviation Administration not notified? Mr. Push said he was made slightly uneasy by a comment by Mr. Kissinger today that he wanted to learn the "mind-set" of the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. leading up to the attacks. He said he hoped Mr. Kissinger planned to get beyond such overarching theoretical issues and plunge into the details that most interest the families. "He said he would take up our question with the other commission members, so I guess we won't know until the commission really gets to work," Mr. Push said. "The jury's still out on whether they're going to do a detailed, specific investigation. Are they going to roll up their sleeves and do things like listen to the cockpit voice recordings? We still don't know." Seven of the 10 commission members have been appointed, including all five of the Democratic appointments, but Republicans must name three more by the Sunday deadline. The most closely watched appointment is the one yet to made by Senator Trent Lott, the Republican leader. Under the agreement that created the commission, that appointment can be vetoed by Senators John McCain and Richard C. Shelby, two Republicans who have favored an aggressive investigation. 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