Bush 9/11 Whitewash Commission: CIA Obstructed Investigation

AFP
January 2, 2007

The leaders of a US commission that examined the September 11, 2001 terror attacks accused the CIA Wednesday of having obstructed their investigation by withholding information about videotaped interrogations of terror suspects.

The goal of the blue ribbon 9/11 Commission, wrote chairman Thomas Kean and vice-chairman Lee Hamilton in The New York Times, was “to provide the American people with the fullest possible account” of what led to Al-Qaeda’s attacks more than six years ago on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

But Kean and Hamilton wrote that although US President George W. Bush had ordered all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the probe, “recent revelations that the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot.”

“Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation.”

They continued: “There could have been absolutely no doubt in the mind of anyone at the CIA — or the White House — of the commission’s interest in any and all information related to Qaeda detainees involved in the 9/11 plot.

“Yet no one in the administration ever told the commission of the existence of videotapes of detainee interrogations,” Kean and Hamilton wrote.

They said the panel made repeated, detailed requests to the spy agency in 2003 and 2004 for information about the interrogation of members of the Islamic extremist network but were never notified about the existence of the tapes.

The CIA revealed last month that in 2005 it destroyed videotapes that showed harsh interrogations of two Al-Qaeda members.

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  1. Donald F. Truax on January 2nd, 2008

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  2. Anonomous on January 2nd, 2008

    This is getting ridiculous, seriously.

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    Are you foolish people going to continue turning a blind eye to all this nonsense being delivered by the current establishment? That same establishment who rewrites the rule books as they see fit, or when it doesn’t suit them? That same establishment that thinks they are ‘above the Law?’

    Enough is enough of reading this jargon. Start showing us what the American people are doing to save their country from this preposterous Administration you call, ‘your Government.’

    -Start IMPEACHING!
    -Jail ANYONE in the Admin. who has lied ‘In the name of National Security!’
    -Jail ANYONE in the Admin. who has lied ‘In the best interests of Israel!’
    -Throw out the ISRAEL Lobby!
    -Take control of your Media!

    Seriously, what are you people waiting for? Your hands to be held? More buildings to fall? More civilian murders? More lies to be told? More torturing? More Secrets? More Tyranny?

    _Anon (from Australia).

  3. Mike on January 2nd, 2008

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  4. Sees Things on January 2nd, 2008

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  5. Patriot X on January 2nd, 2008

    Unfortunately the average American is to busy wondering who the hell is going to win the Super Bowl next season or lost in some stupid fantasy soap opera. The average american is a dam osterich with it’s head up its a##. Let’s keep pretending that everything is okay and it wont affect me. It’s a shame we have the weak leading the strong. In 1776 Bush and his administration buddies would have been hung from the street light poles. The American dictatorship has begun… Globalist elite come out of the shadows you cowards. Personally, I will never disarm no matter what the rest of the world does. 21st century is calling for another American revolution and the enemy is the same. How many scandals will be enough before some of u get wise and take a dam look at what is happening all around you. It’s downright shameful and pathetic. I’ll be waiting for disarmament… come and get some.

  6. ACL on January 2nd, 2008

    You’d better all wake up real fast because the BS that’s happening in America is so visible that any blind man by now, could see this. And to think that another Tyrannt Administation is about to be sworn in so easily. How can fools like Huckabbe, Gulliani, Macean, Hillary, Obama and in some cases even Thompson,etc, possibly be ahead of Ron Paul who is clearly the only one talking sense and preaching what people truly desire and America really needs and yet is hardly making it in the polls and the media. How can this possibly be ? Folks, you have go to know that the US is corrupt from head to toe. There is no denying it. Everybody else in the world knows this, when are the American’s going to know ?

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    It will take the police kicking in doors seizing arms before some of them get it.

  8. Barb Clark on January 3rd, 2008

    Speaking of spying. I think you need to look into the National Health Intelligence Network (NHIN). Look at Senator Ted Kennedy’s introduction of Senate Bill 1693. This is a dangerous bill and will establish data sharing and data mining technology. This means that your private confidential medical records will be reviewed by credit bureaus, banks, government agencies, etc. Hey dummies, wake up! See www.BarbClark.org

  9. Patriot X on January 3rd, 2008

    Take a look at Lucent Technologies latest project concerning the sharing of data. Lucent Technologies is playing a major player in bringing about a super computer system to track us all.

  10. S. Wolf Britain on January 3rd, 2008

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  11. S. Wolf Britain on January 3rd, 2008

    CORRECTION: “….And you have the nerve to think that I’m supposedly a “crank”!!”

  12. Sam Adams on January 4th, 2008

    Ron Paul still has 49 states to go, have a beer!

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