Reply #5: I find this extremely believable

[paulthompson]

Though I will wait to hear more. The only thing is, the 9/11 Commission didn't need to be bribed since they already had their own motives in suppressing the truth about this and so many other things. Check out this Los Angeles Times article that came out one month before the Commission's final report for more on how much the 9/11 Commission knew much more about Pakistan's ties to al-Qaeda than they were willing to put into their report:

http://scoop.agonist.org/story/2004/6/20/132815/063

Here's my timeline entry about it:

June 20, 2004: 9/11 Commission Figure Says Pakistan Was 'Up to Their Eyeballs' with Taliban and al-Qaeda
“An unnamed senior staff member” on the 9/11 Commission tells the Los Angeles Times that, before 9/11, Pakistani officials were “up to their eyeballs” in collaboration with the Taliban and al-Qaeda. As an example, this source says of bin Laden moving to Afghanistan in 1996, “He wouldn't go back there without Pakistan's approval and support, and had to comply with their rules and regulations.” From “day one,” the ISI helped al-Qaeda set up an infrastructure, and jointly operated training camps. The article further notes that what the commission will publicly say on this is just the "tip of the iceberg" of the material they've been given on the matter. (Los Angeles Times, 6/20/04) In fact, the commission's final report released a month later will barely mention the ISI at all. (9/11 Commission Final Report, 7/24/04)