9/11 Panel May Not Reach Unanimity on Final Report

WASHINGTON, May 25 - Members of the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks have warned in recent days that the panel may fail to produce a unanimous final report this summer, with disagreements most likely over the panel's recommendations for a restructuring of the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and other counterterrorism agencies.



The threat of a split, with the possibility of separate majority and minority reports, is likely to be welcome news at the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and other intelligence and law-enforcement agencies that have been harshly criticized by the panel at its public hearings and that are almost certain to be targets of its final report.

In interviews this week, members of the bipartisan commission said they would strive to agree on a unanimous report before their congressionally mandated deadline of July 26. The commission is scheduled to meet privately throughout June to debate the policy recommendations that will be the centerpiece of the document.

The commission's chairman, Thomas H. Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, has repeatedly called for a unanimous report, warning that anything less could undermine the commission's ability to persuade the White House and Congress to follow through on its recommendations.

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more: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/politics/26panel.html?th

perhaps, they should all view Moore's movie before finalization.

actually address * culpability in 9/11? I thought that is what it was going to be about, but all I hear now is that it's about the Iraq war. I do think it is too bad that they can't be objective and unified in their conclusions. I feel more and more let down by this commission everyday.

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The documentary, which got its worldwide premiere at the Cannes festival last Monday, examines the period from Bush's 2000 election, through the September 11 attacks and the wars on Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Iraq.


It is scathing of Bush, portraying him as out of his depth and keen to further his family's links to Saudi families made rich from oil -- including with the relatives of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), blamed for the September 11 attacks.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040523/en_afp/afplifestyle_cannes_film_040523091958

But so does ClintonCo., at least.

It would be too embarrassing to America to actually find a presidential administration culpable in this, so it's the spooks' fault.

But that's what BushCo. was trying to get the Commission to do initially--lay it at Clinton's feet. When that didn't seem to be working, they used Plan B, which was to start pointing fingers at the intelligence agencies.

This reads as if the Commission has opted to take the easy way out and go with holding the intelligence agencies liable instead of the Executive Branch.

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At the commission's hearing on aviation safety last May, Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold, a retired NORAD commander, acknowledged under questioning that the jets could have intercepted Flight 77 if they had been sent sooner.


Felzenberg said the June hearing will focus on tracing the timeline of the FAA's notification, as well as when President Bush (news - web sites) delivered the order to NORAD to shoot down any hijacked planes.


In the days after the attacks, officials said NORAD had been notified of the hijacking of an American Airlines jetliner 12 minutes before it slammed into the Pentagon. Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said Bush had authorized the Air Force after the World Trade Center attacks to shoot down any plane that entered and refused to leave Washington area airspace. Cheney left unclear whether Bush's decision came before the Pentagon was hit.


"Some of the most intriguing and politically sensitive decisions were made on that day," said Democratic commissioner Timothy Roemer, a former representative from Indiana. "A decision was made to potentially shoot down a commercial American airliner on our soil full of Americans. That's very gut-wrenching."


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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=10&u=/ap/20040526/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_commission

or the Congress will follow through on it's recommendations?
That is a joke, right?
The White House will do what it wants, in it's quest to impliment fascism and will never ever ever admit it needs to change a thing re what it did on 9-11.