I am of the opinion Kean and Hamilton are engaged in a bit of stonewalling themselves. 9/11 family members Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie Van Auken, in a lengthy letter (link below) in the New York Times on Dec 26, point out the need for a real investigation of the events of 9/11. They were instrumental in getting the 9/11 commission to be formed at all, and have expressed deep disappointment in the shallow results in the commission’s findings. Perhaps the most damning criticism is the failure of the commission to exercise the subpoena power the commission was given. Phillip Zelikow, as executive director of the commission, heading up, it has been reported, 7 of the 8 working groups involved, made document requests, but neglected to use the subpoena power he had. These woman find this incredible.

They wrote: “A subpoena would have meant that the CIA would have had to answer the commission as to whether the documents and tapes existed, and the agency would have had to explain its reasons for not turning these documents and tapes over to the panel. We would have had a paper trail about the evidence.”

Numerous document requests don’t add up to actually going on record with a subpoena. Kean and Hamilton certainly know this.

While Kean and Hamilton say the CIA made a conscious decision to impede the commission, not acknowledging that the commission made a conscious decision to not use subpoena power but rarely to obtain documents, is hardly any better. The recipe for a cover-up if you ask me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/opinion/l26cia.html? _r=3&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&am p;oref=slogin

Don’t get me started.

Giuliani told Peter Jennings on air that “..they told me it would collapse, that I had to get out of there..”

Who told you, Rudy?

5x-5=20

x=5

Bush administration, minus all crimes going back to 1997, equals escape from prosecution.

Military Comissions Act absolves Bush, et al, of all crimes back to 1997, therefore, what crimes go back to 1997?

Don’t lose heart, people. American Democracy has not failed, yet. Only Bush has failed to keep his oath of office. Sooner or later, it will all come out and everyone will know everything, presuming we haven’t all been rounded up for thought crimes like believing in Justice.

I’m shocked! Shocked!

Sadly, once again we’re all preaching to the choir here. What’s even sadder is that nobody else is in the church. 

Those who aren’t surprised by these revelations (which includes all of us cynics below) remain sickened that even THIS event is unlikely to change anything. The road to impeachment is nowhere on the map. (Robert Giacobbe, I think Lady Justice left the room years ago.)

We who question this administration and demand impeachment procedings remain, in the eyes of most Americans, “haters,” “left-wing wackos,” “nutso conspiracy theorists,” “Bush-bashers,” “America-haters,” “Communists,” “left-coasters,” etc. (I’m sure I missed some, right Expat?).

And onward, down the tubes we travel....

To Expat:  I agree with you.  We must have dull representatives in the House and Senate.  Impeachment is off the table.  Don’t want to waste time reaching for Justice in the Crime against Iraq.

I agree with you.  We must have dull representatives in the House and Senate.  Impeachment is off the table.  Don’t want to waste time reaching for Justice in the Crime against Iraq.

What???!!!  You can’t be serious!!!  Oh my god!!!  Nooooo!!!!  Really??  You got to be shitten me!!  Are you f#*&ken;kidding me??!!  Not possible!!  Never happen!!  I don’t believe it!!!  Serious?  Somebody should do something!!!  How can that be?  Damn!!  Shit!!  F*&k;!  Son of a bitch!!  That’s commie bullshit!!  Can’t be true!!  Holy crap!!!  Hot damn!!  I knew it; they’re all a bunch of lying, thieving bastards!!  It’s a conspiracy from on high!! 

I probably missed some.

Yep rowdy,

That’s exactly what it means, and of course we’ve known THAT since it was published. The report could have just as easily been titled “Christmas Turkey” or “9/11 Whitewash”

Which leads me to say that I’m really not much impressed with this op/ed from Kean and Hamilton, these 5 or so years later. If they really did believe that they had a ‘mandate’ to uncover the plot, why did they settle for a disclaimer on pg 146 of the so-called report? They’re just as complicit as the rest of the gang.

And why did their ‘mandate’ not include some real basic stuff, (besides investigating ‘plots’) like the mechanics of the whole 9/11 operation? Why didn’t they acknowledge what was obvious to anyone with a set of eyes, which is the fact that the WTC was BLOWN up, and NOT brought down by airplanes?

Why didn’t they ask for some ‘receipts’ on those airplanes that were allegedly destroyed at the Pentagon, and in that field in Shanksville, Pa. Why didn’t they make any attempt to account for the lives lost in those incidents, if in fact they were?

Why didn’t they attempt to investigate any ‘plots’ that involved ‘terrorists’ OTHER than Arabs or Islamists? Why didn’t they investigate the REAL terrorists, as rowdy has suggested here? Why didn’t they tell us THEN, (instead of in the ‘disclaimer’ on pg 146 of the report) that the the CIA, and the Sec. of Defense, and the WH counsel told them, ‘this is all you’re gonna get?”

Why didn’t they tell us THEN, that the real terrorists were obstructing their investigation, instead of going along with the program, and using all of our taxpayer dollars to write and publish the proverbial Christmas Turkey?

What mandate have they fulfilled? I just see more belated ass covering.

so what this means is; the 9/11 commission report is as full of shit as the proverbial xmas turkey. 911 was an inside job and all of the “terrorists” bush has incarcerated are innocent. the real “terrorists” are still running the country. thermonuclear holocaust still sounds good to me. nuke washington d.c. and really get rid of them all.

Given that, I guess outrage is probably too much to ask for.

It’s just another day and we learn of more lies and obstructions.  How can anyone act surprised?  It is tedious and predictable.