NYT: Administration Faces Supoenas From 9/11 Panel

[RichM]

MADISON, N.J., Oct. 25 -- "The chairman of the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks said that the White House was continuing to withhold several highly classified intelligence documents from the panel and that he was prepared to subpoena the documents if they were not turned over within weeks.

The chairman, Thomas H. Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, also said in an interview that he believed the bipartisan 10-member commission would soon be forced to issue subpoenas to other executive branch agencies because of continuing delays by the Bush administration in providing documents and other evidence needed by the panel."

"Any document that has to do with this investigation cannot be beyond our reach," Mr. Kean said on Friday in his first explicit public warning to the White House that it risked a subpoena and a politically damaging courtroom showdown with the commission over access to the documents, including Oval Office intelligence reports that reached President Bush's desk in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks.

"I will not stand for it," Mr. Kean said in the interview in his offices here at Drew University, where he has been president since 1990.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/national/26KEAN.html?hp

Things perhaps heating up a bit...

[Brucey]

1. Great! Wouldn't it be wonderful

to get Bush* on the stand and let him lie the way Raygun did!

[drfemoe]

2. thank goddess

that we still have some responsible representates willing to expose this CRAP.

..."He said that the White House and President Bush's re-election campaign had reason to fear what the commission was uncovering in its investigation of intelligence and law enforcement failures before Sept. 11. "As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted." ...

[KoKo]

3. Kick! Disillusioned as many of us are....and even about Kean's loyalties.

we must keep "hope alive." And, a story like this..does it!

[goforit]

4. One republican with their eyes open?........

But I must remind Mr. Kerns......you must arrest before you
prosecute with this barbarian crew!!!

You can not be civilized with the uncivilized!!!