CBS: Just Call Him Old Stonewall

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/10/opinion/meyer/main562575.shtml

Just Call Him Old Stonewall

By Dick Meyer

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Now the 9/11 Commission has made some real news and it’s not good. In its first Interim Report, Kean and Hamilton warned that the commission is not getting the cooperation it needs from the executive branch (surprise, surprise). The report was especially critical of John Ashcroft’s Justice Department (surprise, surprise) and the Pentagon.

The investigators also protested the administration’s refusal to let government officials (essentially, the witnesses) be interviewed without “minders” from their agencies monitoring or “intimidating” them.

More broadly, the report said “the Administration underestimated the scale of the Commission’s work and the full breadth of support required.” Translation: without the White House cracking the whip of cooperation, agencies will cover their political posteriors.

This bodes badly for an independent examination of the intelligence and political marketing used to sell the war in Iraq to the public – and to the world.

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This week, President Bush petulantly declared that excavations into pre-war intelligence were “attempts to rewrite history.” Actually, they are the first attempts to write history. The 9/11 Commission’s interim report concluded, “we must look backward in order to look forward.” That is the wiser vision.

Dick Meyer, the Editorial Director of CBSNews.com, is based in Washington. For many years, he was a political and investigative producer for The CBS News Evening News With Dan Rather.

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1. Great Minds Think Alike.

This is a dupe -- but read the article. A great piece by Dick Meyer.

Nice to know one media exec has the guts to speak the truth.

However, the reference is an insult to Gen. Jackson, CSA.

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2. Locking, dupe

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