9/11 commission leaders blast CIA on interrogation tapes

[sabra]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The leaders of a US commission that examined the September 11, 2001 terror attacks accused the CIA Wednesday of having obstructed their investigation by withholding information about videotaped interrogations of terror suspects.

The goal of the blue ribbon 9/11 Commission, wrote chairman Thomas Kean and vice-chairman Lee Hamilton in The New York Times, was "to provide the American people with the fullest possible account" of what led to Al-Qaeda's attacks more than six years ago on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

But Kean and Hamilton wrote that although US President George W. Bush had ordered all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the probe, "recent revelations that the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot."

"Those who knew about those videotapes -- and did not tell us about them -- obstructed our investigation."

They continued: "There could have been absolutely no doubt in the mind of anyone at the CIA -- or the White House -- of the commission?s interest in any and all information related to Qaeda detainees involved in the 9/11 plot.

"Yet no one in the administration ever told the commission of the existence of videotapes of detainee interrogations," Kean and Hamilton wrote.


Read more: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkgGt7abB4wH5eoRr7PDl6b9rDVQ

[pleah]

1. That's all fine and dandy, but are they actually going to do anything about it?

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Nope

just whine so they can claim they did do something when history judges them.

[sattahipdeep]

3. When people die you get more money

Former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center Cofer Black tells
the 9/11 Commission: “Unfortunately, when Americans get killed, it would
translate into additional resources. It’s a constant track either you run
out, or people die, when people die you get more money.” He says this at
the end of his prepared statement in a section dealing with what he says is
a lack of funds at the CIA for counterterrorism. 9/11 Commission, 4/13/2004


http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a041304blackmoney#a041304blackmoney


Chief counsel Lawrence Barcella told me later that he urged task force
chairman Lee Hamilton to extend the investigation several months to examine
this new evidence of Republican guilt, but Hamilton ordered Barcella simply
to wrap up the probe with a finding that the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign had done nothing wrong.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/123107.html

Vice chairman: Lee Hamilton
Former Congressman Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House select committee investigating
the Iran-contra affair, was shown ample evidence against Ronald Reagan and
George H. W. Bush, but he did not probe their wrongdoing.
Why did Hamilton choose not to investigate?
In a late 1980s interview aired on PBS 'Frontline,' Hamilton said that he did not think
it would have been 'good for the country' to put the public through another impeachment trial.
In Lee Hamilton's view, it was better to keep the public in the dark than to bring to light
another Watergate, with all the implied ramifications. When Hamilton was chairman of the
House committee investigating Iran-contra, he took the word of senior Reagan administration
officials when they claimed Bush and Reagan were 'out of the loop.'
Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and White House records later proved that Reagan and Bush had been very much in the loop. If Hamilton had looked into the matter instead of accepting the Reagan administration's word, the congressional investigation would have shown the public the truth.
Hamilton later said he should not have believed the Reagan officials. :puke:

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/research/911_intel_commission.htm

[pleah]

4. Thank you for the infor. I think I'll go throwup now.

[Supersedeas]

7. much sound and fury but the media has a Paris Hilton to catch

[avaistheone1]

5. Support the 9/11 Truth Movement

The American people deserve the right to know what really happened on September 11th. Furthermore, people need to be held accountable for their actions and lack thereof that day.

[Beam Me Up]

6. ditto n/t

[Supersedeas]

8. the Corporate Media really has done a bang-up job of making this public knowledge--not

[sattahipdeep]

9. WHO observed how that information was obtained?

What exactly did they show? What? and who? Administration? or Congress?

....
Motivated Destruction of Torture Tapes?

[Supersedeas]

11. this story was buried before it even had a chance.

[OKthatsIT]

10. YARITE...the Justice Dept and the 9/11 Commission - ROFLOL

please....spare me the psyop.