White House holding Notes Taken by 9/11 Commission

[candy331]

Surely the Senators running for election will be their to cast a no vote on this? They and we know this is just stalling to get past the election.



washingtonpost.com White House Holding Notes Taken by 9/11 Commission
Panel May Subpoena Its Summaries of Bush Briefings

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 31, 2004; Page A02



The White House, already embroiled in a public fight over the deadline for an independent commission's investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is refusing to give the panel notes on presidential briefing papers taken by some of its own members, officials said this week.

The standoff has prompted the 10-member commission to consider issuing subpoenas for the notes and has further soured relations between the Bush administration and the bipartisan panel, according to sources familiar with the issue. Lack of access to the materials would mean that the information they contain could not be included in a final report about the attacks, several officials said.

"We're having discussions on this almost hourly or at least daily," said the commission's vice chairman Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. "We retain all of our rights to gain the access we need. . . . This is a priority item for us to resolve, and we are working to resolve it."

The disagreement is the latest obstacle to face the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which is racing to

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[Nite Owl]

1. And if this were the

Clinton White House you can bet that the press would be having hammering on this every hour. I doubt that most people are aware that there even is a commission it is so under reported. How can we be expected to believe that we will get any kind of even near equal treatment during the elections.

[MikeG]

2. The right wing talk show hosts protect these people.

They think thay can do whatever they want.

[Old and In the Way]

3. 3000 people died - obstruction of the investigation - no justice

Every American should be outraged....if the people who were in a position to protect America failed, why should they be allowed to control the investigation/evidence?

What's it take for an open investigation? 30,000 deaths, 300,000?, 3,000,000?

We are not safe from terror until we can investigate all aspects of what happened before/during/after 9/11. Gross incompetence or LIHOP/MIHOP, these same people are still in charge, and no one has been held accountable.