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The Talk Shows Sunday, July 25th, 2004 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M; Gov. Ed Rendell, D-Pa.; Chris Heinz, John Kerry's stepson. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Barack Obama, Illinois Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate; Sept. 11 commission chairman Thomas Kean and vice chairman Lee Hamilton. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Barack Obama, Illinois Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate; Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.; Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.; vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; Sept. 11 commission members Bob Kerrey and John...

Washington-AP -- Leaders of the Nine-Eleven commission say their differences with the White House over al-Qaida's relationship with Saddam Hussein isn't a major point of contention. The Bush administration used Saddam's alleged link with terrorists as a justification to go to war. A commission staff report says there were contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq, but they didn't produce a collaborative relationship. Vice President Cheney has said Iraq did respond to some of Osama bin Laden's requests for assistance. Commission vice chairman Lee Hamilton tells A-B-C commissioners asked Cheney if he had information they didn't have, and if he did, to...

SEPTEMBER 11th COMMISSION VICE-CHAIR LEE H. HAMILTON (D-IN): "I must say I have trouble understanding the flap over this [Al Qaeda ties to Iraq]. The Vice-President is saying, I think, that there were connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government. We don't disagree with that, so it seems to me the sharp differences that the press has drawn -- the media has drawn are not that apparent to me." (Lee H. Hamilton As Quoted On Fox News' "Special Report," 6/17/04)

 Media Suppress Hamilton’s Scolding of Misreporting of Iraq-Qaeda      The Republican Chairman and Democratic Vice Chairman of the 9-11 Commission on Thursday rejected the media’s widespread reporting that the commission’s report issued the day before had directly contradicted Bush administration statements about connections between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.      Yet on Thursday night ABC’s Peter Jennings declared that there “continues to be a discrepancy between the commission’s findings and the President’s on whether al-Qaeda has a link to Saddam Hussein,” and CBS anchor Dan Rather repeated how “the commission yesterday said it had found no credible evidence of...

Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Lee Hamilton blasted the mainstream press yesterday for distorting the Commission's findings on links between Iraq and al Qaida before the Sept. 11 attacks, saying those findings actually support Bush administration contentions. "The sharp differences that the press has drawn [between the White House and the Commission] are not that apparent to me," Hamilton told the Associated Press, a day after insisting that his probe uncovered "all kinds" of connections between Osama bin Laden's terror network and Iraq. Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Lee Hamilton blasted the mainstream press yesterday for distorting the...

Mansoor Ijaz will be testifying before the 9-11 Commission on May 7th. The Commission is keeping his testimony "Private". We need to have this testimony made "Public", so the American people can hear the truth. I urge all "Freepers" to send an e mail to the 9-11 Commission, telling them to make the testimony PUBLIC!! The e mail address is : info@9-11commission.gov

Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey and one-time Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton have destroyed what little credibility the 9/11 commission had left. Thanks to their premature departure from Thursday's White House evidentiary hearing with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, which the commission whined for months was absolutely vital to its work, Americans learned beyond any doubt that this investigation is merely bureaucratic wheel-spinning and political grandstanding. In the middle of receiving the testimony, Mr. Kerrey took a powder because he was due at Capitol Hill to twist arms for more dough for his New School University in Manhattan. Mr. Hamilton...

<p>May 1, 2004 -- Yesterday's Post.Democratic 9/11 commission member Bob Kerrey apologized yesterday to the families of the terror victims for dashing out in the middle of the panel's Oval Office interview with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.</p>

<p>Republican lawmakers said yesterday that by walking out of their meeting Thursday with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney early, some members of the September 11 commission did more damage to the panel's credibility.</p> <p>"It's amazing to me that after the focus that the commission has put on that meeting, the insistence that every commissioner be allowed to attend, and that the president give whatever time the commission thought was necessary, that commissioners wouldn't stay," said House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, Missouri Republican.</p>

Sept. 11 commissioners thought they were limited to 2 hours with Bush 2 hours, 19 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) - The Sept. 11 commission said Friday it went into its private interview with President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Vice-President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) with the understanding it would be restricted to about two hours. The disclosure, which came amid questions as to why two Democratic commissioners left the three-hour meeting early, appears to contradict the suggestion by the Bush administration in March that it wouldn't be setting time limits amounting to one hour each...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The vice chairman of the 9/11 commission has described a session with the U.S. president and his vice president as "marvelous," according to administration and commission sources. President Bush's comments were "very candid and forthcoming," Lee Hamilton said, according to the sources. "It was wide-ranging, it was important, it was just a good discussion," Bush told reporters in the White House Rose Garden, shortly after the closed-door session ended. [...]

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney answered every question on Thursday from the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, a meeting that both the White House and the 9/11 commission had billed as historic. The Oval Office session began at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 12:40 p.m., but two Democrat commission members -- Lee Hamilton, the vice chairman, and Bob Kerrey -- walked out before it was over! The stunning walk out -- after Democrats had complained that Bush was not alloting enough time for questions -- has ignited talk throughout official Washington. In a written statement, Kerrey said...

<p>April 30, 2004 -- In a stunning snub, two Democrats on the 9/11 commission yesterday abruptly walked out in the middle of the Oval Office interview with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Both early-departing panelists, former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey and ex-Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, insisted they had prior commitments - but their sudden slip out the side door of the White House left Washington and some fellow commission members in shock.</p>

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<p>WASHINGTON — Condoleezza Rice isn't the only one with a lot riding on her appearance Thursday before the Sept. 11 commission.</p> <p>If panel members appear politically motivated in their questioning of the national security adviser, it could raise questions about their credibility — and the findings in their final report this summer.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - A Republican congressman says members of the 9/11 commission should not be sharing their opinions with the media until their investigation is finished. "I have a problem with them prejudging before they get to the end of the investigation," said Rep. Max Collins (R-Ga.) in a CNN interview on Tuesday. Collins, a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, said he is troubled about recent media interviews given by some 9-11 commission members. On Sunday, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, one of five Democrats on the 9/11 commission, said the terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks...

How to become CIA director Posted: September 9, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com For years I've been wondering how someone as sensible as James Woolsey ever became Bill Clinton's CIA director. A new book, getting much acclaim on other points, "Why America Slept," by Gerald Posner, finally answers the question. Indeed, from Posner's account, it seems like it was a mistake. The story is fascinating for what it says about the Clinton administration's priorities and policies. Woolsey was a conservative Democrat, former Rhodes scholar and attorney who served as undersecretary of the Navy in the Carter administration. He...

WASHINGTON, May 18 — The ferocity of the White House counterattack this week, when confronted by criticism that President Bush and his top advisers knew more than the public about hijacking threats before Sept. 11, is a sure sign that they recognize the political danger should Democrats press the issue through the coming election campaign. Mr. Bush's political team appeared to sense that taking the question to the voters might backfire on the Democrats, with the president, and by implication his party, suffering no lasting political damage from the disclosures of the past week. The central question is where the...