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Forget Jamie Gorelick. The member of the 9/11 Commission who most deserves the boot — or at least the swiftest kick in the pants — is former Senator Bob Kerrey. The man who told PBS newsman Jim Lehrer four years ago that he needed to retire from political life because "it's time for me to breathe some private air" now won't stop polluting the public's airspace. In the past month alone, he has penned blabbermouth op-eds for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times and logged appearances on CBS's Face the Nation, CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports, NBC's Today Show...

As President Bush was appearing at a news conference on Tuesday night, the two leaders of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks were not behind closed doors dissecting intelligence documents. They were sitting at a CNN studio here waiting to go on "Larry King Live." One of them, Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey governor who is the commission's chairman, said he and his colleagues were so determined to be credible with Americans that they decided early on to conduct themselves in a very public manner. "We made a conscious decision, and part of it was under...

Attorney General John Ashcroft's statement prepared for the Sept. 11 commission, provided by the commission: It is with great sorrow that I join this commission today in reflection on Sept. 11, 2001. Even today, 31 months after the attacks, I struggle to learn the lessons of that day without being overwhelmed by the losses of that day. I feel sorrow for the loss of life, sorrow for the loss of promise, sorrow for the lost innocence of a nation forever scarred. My sorrow for the victims of Sept. 11 is equaled only by my rage at their killer. Osama bin...

<p>Former President Bill Clinton last week told the September 11 commission that he never admitted passing up a chance to have Osama bin Laden arrested — even though his words were caught on tape, NewsMax.com reports.</p> <p>Former Sen. Bob Kerrey, Nebraska Democrat, revealed the Clinton denial to WDAY Fargo, N.D., radio host Scott Hennen for an interview set for broadcast today, NewsMax said.</p>

In her own words, or merely re-airing Democratic attacks? Thursday night's NewsNight with Aaron Brown on CNN included a five minute segment that Brown promised would reveal "in her own words...what Dr. Rice said in some of the more contentious moments" of her appearance before the 9/11 Commission that morning. But the MRC's Ken Shepherd discovered that Rice's actual comments amounted to just 2 minutes and 28 seconds of the segment, less than half of the segment. Nearly all of the remainder highlighted the lengthy and adversarial questions to Rice from the most blatantly partisan Democrats on the panel, former...

After Bob (9/11 Commission) Kerrey has a swatting at flies snit fit during Condi's testimony, John Kerry bravely takes up the torch... err, I mean, the swatter! I'm sure Moqtada would approve, aren't you?

STATEMENT OF BOB KERREY, PRESIDENT, NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY, and FORMER UNITED STATES SENATOR MR. BOB KERREY: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Senator Wellstone, Senator Thomas, it's nice to see both of you again. Danny Pleka (ph) is very persuasive, and it's nice to have a chance to come back, especially to talk on this particular subject. Mr. Chairman, I have a longer statement that's a bit mangled, but I'd like to ask that it be put in the record. SEN. WELLSTONE: It will be, without objection. MR. KERREY: And I'll try not to drag this out too long. First,...

WASHINGTON — Condoleezza Rice's self-control, loyalty to President Bush and anger with a former aide who questions the administration's commitment to fighting terrorism all were on display when she testified Thursday to the commission investigating Sept. 11.

After the traditional morning blood dance over the current casualties in Iraq (with the mandatory views of American wounded and/or killed), The Today Show's Matt Lauer got right to it with former Senator "Senior Moment" Kerrey. The two faced a tough job of "putting the smear" on Dr. Condoleeza Rice's fabulous testimony from yesterday, but with the help of strategic video editing and omissions, they were able to do it. They actually were able to find a piece of tape where Boob Kerrey didn't call Condoleeza "Dr. Clarke", or where Kerrey wasn't wandering off into the wastelands of the "9/11...

WASHINGTON - Under contentious questioning, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice testified Thursday "there was no silver bullet that could have prevented" the deadly terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and disputed suggestions that President Bush failed to focus on the threat of strikes in advance. Bush "understood the threat, and he understood its importance," she told a national commission investigating the worst terror attacks in the nation's history. In nearly three hours in the witness chair, Rice stoutly defended Bush when Democrats on the commission raised questions about the administration's attentiveness to terrorism, and implicitly and explicitly rebutted a series...

(CNSNews.com) - 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey began his questioning of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice by telling that he's very worried about the fallout from the war in Iraq. "I can't pass this up." Kerrey said. "I know it will take into my ten-minute time, but as somebody who supported the war in Iraq, I'm not going to get the national security adviser 30 feet away from me very often over the next 90 days. "But I've got to tell you -- I believe a number of things," Kerrey said. He said he thinks the U.S. underestimates that the war...

Heinz Seeks to Disavow Kerry Connection By CHARLES SHEEHAN, AP Business Writer PITTSBURGH - H.J. Heinz Co. has launched an election-year campaign of its own, this one to distance the ketchup maker from what is shaping up to be an acrimonious presidential race. The company has sent nearly 50 letters to radio and television talk shows nationwide to tamp down chatter on the airwaves and Internet suggesting revenue from ketchup sales will benefit the campaign of pending Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites). His wife is Teresa Heinz Kerry, heiress to the $500 million family ketchup fortune....

Viet Vet charges urges Kerry to come clean Vietnam Veteran Larry J. O'Daniel has today challenged former fellow officer and veteran, John Forbes Kerry to come clean with charges Kerry has made in the past. O'Daniel, a decorated combat veteran from Vietnam and Phoenix says that the issue is one that the Senator himself has brought on. Senator John Forbes Kerry is attempting to be our generation's Vietnam War hero, much the same way his avowed idol, John F. Kennedy was of that generation. Kerry falls short in many ways. I do not deny his heroism under fire. His Silver...

Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bob Kerrey is warning that Howard Dean has one political liability that he may not be able to overcome in any contest with George Bush: He's not an easy guy to like. "People need to like you," Kerrey told the New York Sun on Monday. "Howard Dean has a plus and minus there. ... He’s not likable." On the plus side, Kerrey said, Dean "photographs very well." But he added, "He’s got a big neck; he looks like a wrestler." The Nebraska Democrat, who now heads up New York City's New School, said that both...

By J. Michael Waller © 2003 Insight/News World Communications Inc. It's one of the unsolved political mysteries of 2003: Exactly who drew up the plan for Democrats to abuse the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, or SCCI, as a stealth weapon to undermine and discredit President George W. Bush and the U.S. war effort in Iraq? The plot, authored by aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., vice chairman of the committee, has poisoned the working atmosphere of a crucial legislative panel in a time of war, Senate sources say. It centered on duping the panel's Republican chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts...

<p>Washington -- Democrats, underscoring the national stakes in California's recall election, are sending their most popular figures to the state in an effort to rally the party's base behind Gov. Gray Davis.</p> <p>Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to campaign this weekend with Davis, followed next week by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, one of the party's candidates for president. Discussions are under way with a long lineup of Democratic luminaries including former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, several current governors including Washington's Gary Locke, Democratic consultants James Carville and Donna Brazile, and the rest of the Democratic presidential field.</p>

[ED. NOTE: Following are excerpts from the 1998 Congressional Record. They are EXTREMELY revealing as to who was wringing their hands over the danger posed to U.S. security by Iraq and its WMD just five years ago, and who was calling Iraq’s actions that year a "crisis." These debates led to passage of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, WHICH MADE REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ UNITED STATES POLICY. Please bear with this long post. It’s crucial ammunition for anyone who wants clear, unambiguous evidence of Democrat hypocrisy on Iraq and WMD.] [BEGIN EXCERPTS: Click link above to search the full...

Before you even read this piece, I want you to open a new e-mail and send the link to everyone in your address book. Yes, it's that big - and it's the kind of news you never would have heard about without the so-called new media. I've posted here a letter from the Senate Committee on Armed Services to President Bill Clinton on October 9, 1998. It reminds the president of the February resolution authorizing military force if Saddam failed to comply with UN Security Council resolutions "concerning the disclosure and destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction." June 5,...

Giuliani lifts Bush, Kerrey helps McBride and Sheen aids Reno By Mark Silva | Sentinel Political Editor Posted June 7, 2002 TALLAHASSEE -- Bill McBride, a decorated Vietnam veteran and Democrat running for governor of Florida, will campaign next week with another war hero: Bob Kerrey, the former governor and U.S. senator from Nebraska who earned the Medal of Honor. Gov. Jeb Bush imported former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to Central Florida for an endorsement in front of cheering firefighters Monday in Altamonte Springs. Watch for the scene with Giuliani, lionized for his leadership in the face of terrorism,...