Bush administration warned 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply
Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.
The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.
In the message, the officials informed its two senior-most members that doing so would “cross” a “line” and obstruct the administration’s ability to protect the nation.
9/11 Commission members Thomas Kean and Lee H. Hamilton wrote that although US President George W. Bush had ordered all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the probe, “recent revelations that the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot.”
The letter can be found on page 26 of the ACLU’s set of unveiled documents.
I do honestly doubt that you even know the context of the substance of the document you think means what you are pretending you know anything about.
The document in question was dated January 16th not January 6th as you mistakenly sighted in your commentary.
Oh now your going to do some research and look it up!!!!!
Larry Barnes - March 18, 2010 at 4:51 am |
Please feel free to share what you know of the context of the substance of the document.
moraloutrage - March 18, 2010 at 6:30 am |
I posted a draft on the subject.
http://badnewsbarnes666.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/%e2%80%9cbush-administration-warned-911-commission-against-probing-too-deeply%e2%80%9d-leftards-go-over-the-edge-again/
But I am stuck. I can’t figure out what you mean. If you post a story you should know what you mean and a reader should know what you mean.
I don’t. You appear to have copied the idea that the recent FOIA documents released by the ACLU “line” documents are somehow relevant, but have added your “probe too deeply” mystery.
Was “probe too deeply” contained in “mystery” document or in your mind?
If you think this is a new “issue”, read my opinion on the subject.
Larry Barnes - March 18, 2010 at 7:25 am
You make this comment”
“The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.”
But I read in “The Raw Story”s blog (http://rawstory.com/2010/03/revealed-ashcroft-tenet-rumsfeld-warned-911-commission-line-should-cross/)
“The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.”
I see the exact same text. The question is who is plagiarizing who? I see that one of you has not even the common sense to check the date of the material you are plagiarizing. The correct date of the letter, as I previously pointed out was 16 January. I checked, of course because the truth matters.
Larry Barnes - March 18, 2010 at 8:04 am |