February 26, 2004
9/11 Commission
This is unsurprising.
But Hastert cast serious doubt on its prospects for passage in the Republican-controlled House. "He thinks the (commission's) report is overdue and we need to get the recommendations as soon as possible. He is also concerned it will become a political football if this thing is extended and it is released in the middle of the presidential campaign," Feehery said.I agree with Kevin Drum, Dennis Hastert is not even pretending that the decision is not politically motivated. Notice the "political football if this thing is extended and it is released in the middle of the presidential campaign" comment made by Hastert's spokesman John Feehery.
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong but in the article it say's that Bush has endorsed the extension, but isn't that a little misleading? I thought the idea was that he was endorsing an extension until long after the elections were over, not the 60 day extension that the commission is proposing and being discussed in this article?
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The White House originally wanted to shut down the commission. After they got a lot of bad press they stated they wanted the commission extended until after the election. I'm interested in what's going on in the meetings between the Republicans in Congress and the White House. I think Hastert has just given the DNC an issue to run on. I'm also wondering if the Republicans are shutting the commission down so Bush and other cabinet members don't have to testify.
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Not to derail, but (in other news) it's not the only thing that's been curtailed because it might be embarrassing. To summarise - the woman who leaked the details of the US spying on its allies at the UN has had the Official Secrets Act prosecution against her dropped, and it turns out that's because her defence team were going to use the trial (where there would have been no option but to find her guilty) to make public all the things that weren't 'within the remits' of Hutton or Butler... Sorry to stick this in here, but I didn't really fancy doing a "pile on Blair" newsfilterish FPP...
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9/11 panelist may quit over Bush secrecy
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Re: Flashboy's link - I'm currently applying for a job at GCHQ. If I get it I'm leaking all the sensitive information I can get my hands on here, obviously.
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Curiously, me and a few friends have been kicking around the idea of applying to MI5 recently - they have a few job vacancies right now, and frankly we're a bit pissed off that we never got 'approached' at university. We're worried that we might have a few problems with the "are you doing this just so you can then leak stuff to the Guardian/BBC/France/MonkeyFilter?" question (to which the answer is "yes, all of those"), but apart from that we seem ideal.
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"are you doing this just so you can then leak stuff to MonkeyFilter?" There is no greater act of patriotism.
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One hour.
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Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate. Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources... Although the commission's landmark report made it clear that the Defense Department's early versions of events on the day of the attacks were inaccurate, the revelation that it considered criminal referrals reveals how skeptically those reports were viewed by the panel and provides a glimpse of the tension between it and the Bush administration. ...and the shit continues to hit the fan, while it remains unclear whether anyone notices or cares.
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"A Pentagon spokesman said yesterday that the inspector general's office will soon release a report addressing whether testimony delivered to the commission was 'knowingly false.'" Damn
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9-11 Live: The NORAD Tapes
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"I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described," John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general who led the staff inquiry into events on Sept. 11, said in a recent interview. "The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years. . . . This is not spin. This is not true."
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...and the shit continues to hit the fan It has been spraying all over, ever since day one... we've been sloshing in it, still some people choose to believe it's chocolate. Mmmhh, chocolate...
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From rocket's link 8:37:56 WATSON: What? DOOLEY: Whoa! WATSON: What was that? ROUNTREE: Is that real-world? DOOLEY: Real-world hijack. WATSON: Cool!
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That moron is never going to regret any other word he says in his life more than that last one. Watson! I need you! Not to be such a prick!
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Yeah - though to be fair, having read the whole thing, I kinda wish I hadn't pulled that set of quotes out of context. Here's Watson later on... It is 12 minutes after United 93 actually crashed when NEADS's Watson first hears the word. Her voice is initially full of hope as she mistakenly believes she is being told that United 93 has landed safely. 10:15:00 WATSON: United nine three, have you got information on that yet? WASHINGTON CENTER: Yeah, he's down. WATSON: What—he's down? WASHINGTON CENTER: Yes. WATSON: When did he land? Because we have confirmation— WASHINGTON CENTER: He did—he did—he did not land. Here, on the tape, you hear the air rush out of Watson's voice. WATSON: Oh, he's down down? MALE VOICE: Yes. Yeah, somewhere up northeast of Camp David. WATSON: Northeast of Camp David. WASHINGTON CENTER: That's the—that's the last report. They don't know exactly where.
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It seems obvious that in the after 9/11 panic the military thought that they would be in deep for not responding fast enough. As a result they made up stories to cover their failure. The thing is they did the best that they probably could have done considering the procedures and stuff that were in place at that time.
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It seems obvious
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Thus does Berek pass the Fox News "standards in news analysis" test.
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the Fox News "standards in news analysis" test "Some people say . . "