Gore Meets Privately With 9/11 Commission

[cal04]

Former Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) met with the Sept. 11 panel privately Friday, a day after President Clinton (news - web sites) told commissioners that intelligence wasn't strong enough to justify a retaliation against al-Qaida for the 2000 bombing of a Navy ship.



Gore met with the 10-member bipartisan commission in a three-hour meeting it described as candid and forthcoming. "We thank him for his continued cooperation with the commission," the panel said in a statement.


On Thursday, the commission interviewed Clinton behind closed doors for nearly four hours after the conclusion of national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites)'s public testimony, broadcast live on national television.


Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska and now a member of the commission, said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America" he believes Clinton should have been more aggressive in going after al-Qaida following the ship attack.





http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=2&u=/ap/20040409/ap_on_go_pr_wh/sept_11_commission_clinton

[Florida_Geek]

1. As I remember from the Clarke book

Clinton and Clarked wanted to go after al Qaeda but the FBI/CIA were not 100% sure it was them behind the attack.

[worldgonekrazy]

5. The CIA didn't want Clinton killing their best "asset"

Plain and simple. They sabotaged his efforts time and time again.

[K8-EEE]

2. You Mean Clinton And Gore Can Go In Individually...

without holding each other's hand? Wow! How grown up of them.

[rfranklin]

3. Bush is such an incompetent he can't appear without Uncle Dick....

It should be repeated again and again and again. He's trying to run on what a great leaders he is. His lack of enough manliness to do what Clinton and Gore could do on their own, should be trumpeted far and wide.

[Old and In the Way]

4. I wonder how much Al is enjoying this?

I'll bet he's volunteering a whole of information to the commission...Al may have the last laugh on the 2000 election.