Re: [CTRL] The Appearance of a 911 Conspiracy in the Bush Administration

[Sean McBride]

-Caveat Lector- Why else would the Bush administration stonewall so relentlessly regarding 911 unless it had something major to hide? Ms. Gorelick said White House efforts to withhold the documents were a "mistake." "It makes people think that there's something really nefarious in those documents," she said. At a bare minimum one suspects that George W. Bush and his top advisors will be found guilty of *gross negligence* in failing to take appropriate steps to protect Americans from terrorist acts on 9/11 that were predicted well in advance by the intelligence community. And that may not be the worst of it.  It is quite possible that sectors within the government, closely aligned with those neocons who were longing for a Pearl Harbor provocation to justify an American holy war in the Mideast against Israel's neighbors, deliberately permitted the attacks to occur. There is a mountain of evidence to support this interpretation of events, none of which, of course, the American big media will dare mention.  For the most part the American big media, including many "liberals" like Thomas Friedman and Joseph Lieberman, have shared the same strategic goals as the neocons and the government of Israel. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Rarey To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 7:28 AM Subject: [CTRL] 9/11 Panel May Reject Offer of Limited Access to Briefings -Caveat Lector- The coverup waltz. - JR   http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/07/national/07TERR.html?pagewanted=print&position=   November 7, 2003 9/11 Panel May Reject Offer of Limited Access to Briefings By PHILIP SHENON ASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — The White House has offered to provide a federal commission with limited access to Oval Office intelligence reports regarding the Sept. 11 terror attacks, but some members of the panel have described the offer as inadequate and are renewing the threat of a subpoena, commission officials said on Thursday. They said the issue of a subpoena would be discussed on Friday, and possibly decided, at a meeting of the 10-member panel, which was created by Congress last year to investigate intelligence and law-enforcement failures before the attacks. It will be the first formal meeting of the panel since its chairman issued a warning last month that he was prepared to subpoena the highly classified documents if the White House did not make them available. Panel members are trying to obtain copies of the daily Oval Office intelligence report that President Bush received in the weeks before Sept. 11, 2001. The report is known as the President's Daily Brief and is distributed to Mr. Bush and a handful of his top aides every morning. Officials said the White House, under pressure of the subpoena threat, offered over the last week to make copies of the intelligence briefing available to the commission's Republican chairman, Thomas H. Kean, the former governor of New Jersey, and Democratic vice chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, a former House member from Indiana. Commission officials said at least three other members of the panel believed that the White House offer was inadequate and planned to press on Friday for the commission to consider subpoenaing the White House for the documents. The official said the commission would also weigh subpoenas on Friday against the Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency for information that has so far been withheld from the panel. A Democratic member of the panel, Jamie S. Gorelick, a deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, said in an interview on Thursday that she believed the panel was in an "endgame" with the White House over access to the Oval Office documents. Ms. Gorelick would not describe the negotiations between the commission and the White House but said the panel was determined to have access to all White House intelligence reports that might relate to the attacks. "It's absolutely critical to our inquiry," she said, "and we are amenable to reasonable conditions." Ms. Gorelick said White House efforts to withhold the documents were a "mistake." "It makes people think that there's something really nefarious in those documents," she said. The possibility of a subpoena was raised last month by Mr. Kean when he said publicly that the commission needed access to all intelligence reports that related to the attacks, including the most highly classified intelligence reports that reached President Bush in the Oval Office. The White House has repeatedly said it wants to cooperate fully with the commission, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, said on Thursday, "We continue to work closely and cooperatively with the commission to make sure they have the information they need to do their job." Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company | Home | Privacy Policy | Search | Corrections | Help | Back to Top www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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