the 9/11 report is out
What did Rice-a-roni say? "No one could have imagined ..."
how could she have gone further out on a limb as she did during the congressional hearings? rice certainly knew the contents of the report would surface eventually. the white house has been sitting on this report for months waiting for the election to pass. were they waiting for the hearings to pass as well ? calling barbara boxer, calling barbara boxer...
The Brian Lehrer Show
What the FAA Knew, What the Administration Did
Friday, February 11, 2005
According to a classified report by the 9/11 Commission, the FAA had repeated warnings in the summer of 2001 that terrorists were planning to hijack a plane inside the US. Why is the administration blocking the release of more classified reports? Commission vice-chair Lee Hamilton has some ideas.
Kristin Bretweiser, whose husband was killed in the World Trade Centre, said yesterday the newly released details undermined testimony from Condoleezza Rice, the former national security adviser, who told the commission that information about al-Qa'ida's threats seen by the administration was "historical in nature".
She told The Independent: "There were 52 threats that were mentioned. These were present threats - they were not historical. There were steps that could have been taken. Marshals could have been put on planes that spring. Condoleezza Rice's testimony is undermined." To the consternation of members of the commission who published the original report last year, the administration has been blocking the release of the latest information. An unclassified copy of this additional appendix was passed to the National Archives two weeks ago with large portions blacked out.
408 comments on this at DK
highlights :
"Condi didn't testify under oath, so it's not perjury. But it's still a felony under 18 USC Sec. 1001."
'01 Memo to Rice Warned of Qaeda and Offered Plan 2/12 nyt
V word rumbelings
Blogger Digby has been complaining about Lakoff's formulation: that the Dems are the nurturing mommy party and the Repubs are the tough Daddy party. Politically, obviously that's a loser. Digby proposes Elliot Spitzer as a countermodel: that the Dems are the party of grown up sobriety and the Repubs are errant children who take risks but also cheat and fail if grown ups aren't around to protect them to remind them of the rules, and reality.
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- bill 2-10-2005 7:22 am
What did Rice-a-roni say? "No one could have imagined ..."
- mark 2-10-2005 9:07 pm [add a comment]
how could she have gone further out on a limb as she did during the congressional hearings? rice certainly knew the contents of the report would surface eventually. the white house has been sitting on this report for months waiting for the election to pass. were they waiting for the hearings to pass as well ? calling barbara boxer, calling barbara boxer...
- bill 2-10-2005 9:13 pm [add a comment]
The Brian Lehrer Show
What the FAA Knew, What the Administration Did
Friday, February 11, 2005
According to a classified report by the 9/11 Commission, the FAA had repeated warnings in the summer of 2001 that terrorists were planning to hijack a plane inside the US. Why is the administration blocking the release of more classified reports? Commission vice-chair Lee Hamilton has some ideas.
- bill 2-11-2005 3:09 pm [add a comment]
hamilton gave up nothing. basicly "you'll have to ask condi if she saw the memos." barbara boxer on terry gross yesterday made no mention of this report. she did mention that she onto the bush admin. getting rid of social security as an old conservative republican agenda and that she is taking that up as an issue.
- bill 2-11-2005 7:36 pm [add a comment]
Kristin Bretweiser, whose husband was killed in the World Trade Centre, said yesterday the newly released details undermined testimony from Condoleezza Rice, the former national security adviser, who told the commission that information about al-Qa'ida's threats seen by the administration was "historical in nature".
She told The Independent: "There were 52 threats that were mentioned. These were present threats - they were not historical. There were steps that could have been taken. Marshals could have been put on planes that spring. Condoleezza Rice's testimony is undermined." To the consternation of members of the commission who published the original report last year, the administration has been blocking the release of the latest information. An unclassified copy of this additional appendix was passed to the National Archives two weeks ago with large portions blacked out.
- bill 2-11-2005 3:27 pm [add a comment]
408 comments on this at DK
highlights :
"Condi didn't testify under oath, so it's not perjury. But it's still a felony under 18 USC Sec. 1001."
- bill 2-12-2005 1:23 am [add a comment]
'01 Memo to Rice Warned of Qaeda and Offered Plan 2/12 nyt
- bill 2-12-2005 9:42 am [add a comment]
V word rumbelings
- bill 2-12-2005 5:13 pm [add a comment]
Blogger Digby has been complaining about Lakoff's formulation: that the Dems are the nurturing mommy party and the Repubs are the tough Daddy party. Politically, obviously that's a loser. Digby proposes Elliot Spitzer as a countermodel: that the Dems are the party of grown up sobriety and the Repubs are errant children who take risks but also cheat and fail if grown ups aren't around to protect them to remind them of the rules, and reality.
- tom moody 2-12-2005 6:48 pm [add a comment]