[sinkspur]

Kean's showboating.

Bush should stonewall on the records now, more than ever.

And fire Kean.

[don'tbedenied]

CBS goes for the juglar quickly after the capture of Saddam.
They deftly change from the pre-report to the accusations of the bereaved w/o missing a beat conflating the two concepts. Good hit job by Dan's boys.

[jimbo123]

I wonder how Mrs. Breitweiser feels about Bill Clinton's refusal to accept Bin Laden's extradition from the Sudan?

[glock rocks]

... and your opinion would be?

[Schatze]

The widows want to know why various government agencies didn't connect the dots before Sept. 11, such as warnings from FBI offices in Minnesota and Arizona about suspicious student pilots.

Want answers, ladies? Read Invasion by Michelle Malkin. She exposes how political correctness and the bleeding hearts put us in such a position.

[DouglasKC]

This is dumb. I would bet there's nobody in the world except a couple of rappers and a few dozen terrorists would even have considered the possiblity that people would coordinate an attack by hijacking 4 (5? 6? 7?) planes at the same time and flying them into prominent buildings. That's just nuts and nobody can predict nutty behavior.

[Papabear47]

Open all records now or else we will have another Watergate or worse.

[mondonico]

The DUmmies are having multiple orgasms over this.

[wizardoz]

Interesting timing.

[Tempest]

I'm wondering how much the press will leave out. I mean the part where Clinton had several opportunities to capture Osama Bin Laden but never did.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

What about the counterpoint?

[telebob]

I didn't see anything in this article that hasn't already been public for the last two years. What's the point of CBS packaging it up like this? It's old news...

[jmstein7]

Everything is "preventable". The question is, was it reasonably preventable? That is, was there negligence, or would there really have had to have been an extrodinary (unreasonable) effort?

Also, what would the timeframe for this effort have been? Are we talking a year to prevent (meaning that Clinton would have had to have started the effort).

This report conveys no relevent information.

[ILBBACH]

So is this investigation only going back to January 20, 2001? What about the 8 years of Clinton, or the Carter administration, or the 1972 Munich Games, or the Six-Day war, or maybe 1948 when Israel was founded?

I guess it all depends on who they want to blame.

[PISANO]

You got to be kidding me!!!! GW after 7.5 months in office is responsible for the previous 8 years of mis-management of our CIA, FBI and the US MILITARY. He wasn't even able to appoint a new FBI Director until ONE WEEK before 911 because of the election delay. If Chairman KEAN blames GW for this I will go balistic. I am sick of this!!

[cwb]

"The widows want to know why various government agencies didn't connect the dots before Sept. 11, such as warnings from FBI offices in Minnesota and Arizona about suspicious student pilots."

Mainly, because these "various government agencies" were prohibited from sharing informaton with each other prior to 9/11. I getta kick out these libs who bitch about the shortcomings in the system, when it is their paranoia and hostility that has created many of these obstructions, in the first place. These same people who moan about the intelligence failures are the same people who supported the decimation of these intelligence agencies from the Church Commission to the Torecelli Amendment.
Even now, as we make changes to the system to elliviate some of these errors, we still have the usual suspects up in arms, objecting to those changes.

[jmstein7]

Everything is "preventable". The question is, was it reasonably preventable? That is, was there negligence, or would there really have had to have been an extrodinary (unreasonable) effort?

Also, what would the timeframe for this effort have been? Are we talking a year to prevent (meaning that Clinton would have had to have started the effort).

This report conveys no relevent information.

[FReepaholic]

>>...we had FBI records from 1991 stating that this is a possibility...<<

Lessee....who was President for eight years after that??? And this guy's blaming Bush??

[Peach]

9/11 Chair says attacks were preventable. A ping for your reading displeasure.

[FairOpinion]

"There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed," Kean said.

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Starting with Bill Clinton. If he had taken Bin Laden, when Sudan offered OBL, 9-11 would never have happened.

Then we can go on, that if we never let a single Muslim into the US, the attack could also have been prevented.

Short of that, anything they say is all 20/20 hindsight.