Reply #28: It's those damn $8/hr airport security workers that are to blame...

[milkyway]

along with Bill Clinton, of course. This whitewash will make the Warren Commission blush. Despite host Chris Bury practically begging Kean to hold the upper levels of the Bush White House accountable, Kean points the finger squarely at the lowest level workers he can find (airport security guards, immigration officials at the borders, low-level FBI people, etc.).*

The purpose of this commission is to convince the public that a massive, definitive investigation has found that, yeah, mistakes were made, and now they will be fixed. About the biggest thing that will happen will probably be that hapless George Tenet will mercifully lose his job.

The spineless Kean had to make sure that every time the Bush misadministration was mentioned, that Clinton was dragged into it also. Hell, why go back only to Clinton? If you really want the truth, let's investigate the Reagan and Bush sr. adminstrations when they first starting arming and training Osama. The WTC was first attacked 38 days after Clinton took office. The only difference between that and the 9/11 is that the terrorists failed in the first attack in 1993. They tried to knock down the towers by exploding a bomb at its base, but they fucked up. If they hadn't, 50,000 people would have been killed. Clinton certainly could not be held accountable for this intelligence failure only 38 days into his Presidency, so we must hold Bush sr. accountable for that. Looking at the Presidencies of Reagan, Bush sr, Clinton, and jr., only one of them ever did anything to try to prevent terrorists from attacking us before 9/11--Bill Clinton. He even tried to kill bin Laden a couple of times.

*Chris Bury rules! As I'm typing the first paragraph, he just ripped the shit out of Kean after the interview was over. He said the commission wasn't created to ferret out airport security workers who messed up, but instead to hold Cabinet level officials accountable if there were massive failures.