We deserve details of 9/11 failure
First published: Thursday, February 19, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Let us finally put to rest a widely circulated and grossly
inaccurate story that's been making the rounds: Rumors of President Bush's
cooperation with the panel probing the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
are unsubstantiated.
Unlike those Internet rumors that pop to electronic life and die a quick
death without fingerprints, this one is traceable directly to the con artist
in chief. The world thinks Bush is cooperating with the 9/11 commission,
because he says he is.
"We have given extraordinary cooperation," the President told NBC's Tim
Russert in his "Meet the Press" chat. "I want the truth to be known."
The truth? What's gone on between the commission and the White House these
past few months could hardly be called an unhindered search for truth.
"I've experienced two political bait-and-switches since I've been on the
commission," said Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator and current
president of the New School University in New York. And that's only about a
month. "The bait-and-switch in politics is a technique that is intentionally
designed to lead the public (to believe) that you're going to do something
that you're not going to do."
The latest subterfuge involves the President's alleged agreement to be
interviewed by the 9/11 commission, as its chairmen -- former New Jersey Gov.
Thomas Kean and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton -- requested on Friday. The
White House announced that certainly the President would oblige. Then the
backtrack began.
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