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Commentary ~ October 28, 2003:
George Bush and his administration are blocking every attempt to
get to the bottom of what happened on September 11, 2001.
According to sources on both sides of the political divide, the
White House is stonewalling the federal commission investigating
the 9/11 attacks by blocking its demands for documents. In response,
the commission has issued threats of a subpoena. The 10-member bipartisan
commission has until May 27 to submit a report.
Democratic senator Joseph Lieberman, co-author of the legislation
that created the independent commission, said if the Bush administration
continues to refuse, he will urge the independent commission to
take them to court.
If the Administration has nothing to hide, why are they hiding
important evidence?
Some interesting information is starting to leak out about what
Bush knew and did not know prior to the attacks that destroyed the
World Trade Center. According to Agence France Presse and
Reuters reports of May 17, 2002, the FBI warned Attorney
General John Ashcroft on July 26, 2001 not to use commercial flights
because of hijack threats. Furthermore, Newsweek magazine
reported on September 24, 2001, that senior US military officials
had, on September 10, cancelled their flight schedules for September
11. The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
reported on September 14, 2002, that as early as June 2001, the
German Intelligence Agency (the BND) had notified the CIA that commercial
airliners would be hijacked and used to target American landmarks.
On September 15, 2001, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, told MSNBC
that the Russian intelligence agency notified the Americans in August
2001, that there was an imminent terrorist attack in the US that
would involve the hijacking of commercial airliners.
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