Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election

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It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.

"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."

When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be delivered. "We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report," she said. "We are very concerned."

According to the intelligence official, who spoke to me on condition of anonymity, release of the report, which represents an exhaustive 17-month investigation by an 11-member team within the agency, has been "stalled." First by acting CIA Director John McLaughlin and now by Porter J. Goss, the former Republican House member (and chairman of the Intelligence Committee) who recently was appointed CIA chief by President Bush.

The official stressed that the report was more blunt and more specific than the earlier bipartisan reports produced by the Bush-appointed Sept. 11 commission and Congress.

"What all the other reports on 9/11 did not do is point the finger at individuals, and give the how and what of their responsibility. This report does that," said the intelligence official. "The report found very senior-level officials responsible."

By law, the only legitimate reason the CIA director has for holding back such a report is national security. Yet neither Goss nor McLaughlin has invoked national security as an explanation for not delivering the report to Congress.

"It surely does not involve issues of national security," said the intelligence official.

"The agency directorate is basically sitting on the report until after the election," the official continued. "No previous director of CIA has ever tried to stop the inspector general from releasing a report to the Congress, in this case a report requested by Congress."

None of this should surprise us given the Bush administration's great determination since 9/11 to resist any serious investigation into how the security of this nation was so easily breached. In Bush's much ballyhooed war on terror, ignorance has been bliss.

The president fought against the creation of the Sept. 11 commission, for example, agreeing only after enormous political pressure was applied by a grass-roots movement led by the families of those slain.

And then Bush refused to testify to the commission under oath, or on the record. Instead he deigned only to chat with the commission members, with Vice President Dick Cheney present, in a White House meeting in which commission members were not allowed to take notes. All in all, strange behavior for a man who seeks reelection to the top office in the land based on his handling of the so-called war on terror.

In September, the New York Times reported that several family members met with Goss privately to demand the release of the CIA inspector general's report. "Three thousand people were killed on 9/11, and no one has been held accountable," 9/11 widow Kristen Breitweiser told the paper.

The failure to furnish the report to Congress, said Harman, "fuels the perception that no one is being held accountable. It is unacceptable that we don't have [the report]; it not only disrespects Congress but it disrespects the American people."

The stonewalling by the Bush administration and the failure of Congress to gain release of the report have, said the intelligence source, "led the management of the CIA to believe it can engage in a cover-up with impunity. Unless the public demands an accounting, the administration and CIA's leadership will have won and the nation will have lost."


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Did Bush fly one of the planes into the WTC and parachute out. Wilm this can't be good on your heart. Do not watch the results come in election night.
 

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Don't worry about me. The election is over and Bush will be looking for work soon. I can't believe you are not able to see how desparate Rove and Co. are right now. Bush has no - I mean zero - shot of winning. Have a nice two weeks trying to figure out what is right there in front of you. Dubya is his own worst enemy and deserves to lose. Look for a BIG "no doubt about it" Kerry win in two weeks.



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Normally I would not waste my breath but I want to say I at least warned you ahead of time.
 

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Robert Scheer LA Times.....yeah that guy is the most unbiased socialist writing today....credibility is his middle name. LOL.
 

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Cvnt-face....you always have to have vomit spewing out of your azz don't you, miserable microbial waste.

Why don't you address the substance of this report? It doesn't matter one lick that facsism has taken over our gov't?

Let me answer, no of course not cause you are just a brainless drone. You have never addressed factual claims because you can't reason with truth. You are nothing more than the equivanlent of the village idiot.
 

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I don't know who is oging to win. I think it is a toss up right now and will come down to Ohio, PA, FL, WI, New Mexico, and maybe Nevada and Iowa.

But, there is no excuse for blocking this report. This is disgraceful but the American public does not care. The mainstream media does not care. Bush will get a pass on this.

It is classic american government that nobody was fired after 9/11. Even the idiots, whoever they are, who issued the visas to the hijackers months after their deaths. There is no accountability in american government. This is true whether the dems or repubs are in power.

I'd like to know when and where was the meeting where they came up with the concept that nobody in government could ever be fired for being incompetent. Once you are there for a minimum amount of time, you are tenured and set for life. All you need to do is show up and you can't lose your job. It's a giant welfare state.
 

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National Tracking Polls:
WP*-10/19: Bush 51, Kerry 46, Nader 1
Zogby-10/19:Bush 45, Kerry 45, Nader2
Rasmussen-10/19: Bush 48, Kerry 47
TIPP-10/19: Bush 48, Kerry 46, Nader 2
---------National Polls:---------
NBC News: Bush 48, Kerry 48, Nader 1
FOX News: Bush 49, Kerry 42, Nader 2
CBS/NYT: Bush 47, Kerry 45, Nader 2
Gallup: Bush 52, Kerry 44, Nader 1
Time: Bush 48, Kerry 47, Nader 3
FROM REAL POLITICS

Looks pretty close to me.....but WIL i guess you know more about this stuff from your Latin American outpost then these professional pollsters do. Incredible.
 

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TomKing said:
National Tracking Polls:
WP*-10/19: Bush 51, Kerry 46, Nader 1
Zogby-10/19:Bush 45, Kerry 45, Nader2
Rasmussen-10/19: Bush 48, Kerry 47
TIPP-10/19: Bush 48, Kerry 46, Nader 2
---------National Polls:---------
NBC News: Bush 48, Kerry 48, Nader 1
FOX News: Bush 49, Kerry 42, Nader 2
CBS/NYT: Bush 47, Kerry 45, Nader 2
Gallup: Bush 52, Kerry 44, Nader 1
Time: Bush 48, Kerry 47, Nader 3
FROM REAL POLITICS

Looks pretty close to me.....but WIL i guess you know more about this stuff from your Latin American outpost then these professional pollsters do. Incredible.
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New York Times/CBS News poll published on Tuesday. Bush's job approval rating was at 44 percent, one of the lowest during his tenure, and a majority of voters said they disapproved the way he had handled the economy and the war in Iraq, and that his tax cuts had favored the wealthy. Live with it boys - it's all window dressing now, the die is cast. Undecideds, first time voters, and plenty of Republicans along with the Democratic base will be voting Kerry. Can you say 60% for the Kerry/Edwards ticket. If you don't believe me then I can't help you. Just listen to Georgie on the stump it should tell you plenty.


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They do matter, unless you hijack an election like last time.

Wil is dead on. To have this slim a lead, if any, going into these final days marks the end to the hostile takeover of our gov't, thank God.

Its a fact that the incumbent will pick up no more than 1 point from his final polling data. The undecideds and the fenceline conservatives will reject his abortion in Iraq. A lot of women are furious over this war, and quite frankly the only reason that they would vote republican is cause their daddy told them too.

Kerry 52 Shrub 47


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Historically, when incumbents lose big, they do so for sound reasons: The public sees their policies as not working - or worse yet, as failures. That's certainly increasingly true of Bush today. From the chaos in Iraq to an uncomfortably soft economic recovery (if any at all) to the passage of an unpopular Medicare bill, to the tax cuts for the very wealthy, the White House is having a harder and harder time putting a positive spin on the effects of the president's decisions. In recent elections Reagan's approval was 54 percent and Clinton's was 56 percent. But even Bush's 45 percent may be softer than it looks. In the same poll, on seven of nine major policy issues--the economy, Iraq, Social Security, health insurance, taxes, jobs, the deficit- well less than half of respondents said that they approved of the president's performance.

Adios Dub.


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2000 Results

Electoral College

2004 Projected

Bush 213
Kerry 194
Toss up 131
Total 538
RasmussenReports.com

Olympic..............BUSH -160 KERRY +140
Pinnacle............ BUSH -162 KERRY +152!!

Any of you truly BELIEVE your guy Kerry is gonna win ......get down on him at any offshore book and clean-up. I got Bush at -117 right after the Dems Concenvtion.....but IF I believed, like Wil does, the he is "deadmeat" I would hedge + some on Kerry.

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Tom king you sound like you are from New Jersey. Regardless knock yourself out bet Bush all you want. I will waste my time one more time though just for you.
In the last 25 years, there have been four elections which pitted an incumbent against a challenger - 1980, 1984, 1992, and 1996. In all four, the victor won by a substantial margin in the electoral college. The circumstances of one election hold particular relevance for today: 1980. That year, the country was weathering both tough economic times (the era of "stagflation" -high inflation concurrent with a recession) and frightening foreign policy crises (the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan). Indeed, this year Bush is looking unexpectedly like Jimmy Carter. Though the two presidents differ substantially in personal style (one indecisive and immersed in details, the other resolute but disengaged), they are also curiously similar. Both are religious former Southern governors. Both initially won the presidency by tarring and attacking their opponents (Gerald Ford, Al Gore) with the shortcomings of their predecessors (Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton). Like Carter, Bush is vulnerable to being attacked as someone not up to the job of managing impending global crises or even worse growing economic problems at home.
Everyone expected the 1980 election to be very close. In fact, Reagan won with 50.8 percent of the popular vote to Carter's 41 percent (independent John Anderson won 6.6 percent) - which translated into an electoral avalanche of 489 to 49. The race was decided not so much on the public's popular impressions of the challenger, but on their dissatisfaction with the incumbent. It's gonna be deja vu all over again.


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wil.

I am just pointing out a chance for you to make some money. Plain and simple. No more no less. If you REALLY believe put your money where your chat is....those that are wagering on this....those willing to do that are on the other side......YOU have the best possible betting opportunity that anyone could ask for a "FOR-SURE" the other side is "dead-meat" dog WINNER..........jump on it!!

If I had your conviction about Kerry I would throw my Bush ticket in the toilet and bet 5X times as much on Kerry, are you kidding a +152 DOG LOCK.....hell yeah I would.
 
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BTW I am "from" California and live in Las Vegas....I have been to NJ once when I was visiting NYC a couple of months before 9/11 you guys do remember that day don't you?
 

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Bush 53% Kerry 46% Bush by atleast 70 electorial college votes, these polls are off. The media wants Kerry to win, therefore the real feelings of the majority are not heard.
 

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GAMEFACE said:
The media wants Kerry to win, therefore the real feelings of the majority are not heard.
ROTFLMAO......you missed your calling as a comedian.:umn:

What the majority of wife-beatin', animal abusing, skinhead rednecks? Yeah we all want to hear from them.:think:
 

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