NYT: Members of Sept. 11 Panel Press for Information on Terror Risk

[Carolab]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/politics/06panel.html?ei=5088&en=429cda243deb93d5&ex=1275710400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

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Commissioners say they want the information to prepare for a series of public hearings scheduled to begin here on Monday and to draft a privately financed report that will evaluate the government's counterterrorism policies in the wake of the commission's final report last July.

The moves, which may not be welcome at the White House or among Congressional leaders, represent an unusual effort by members of a high-profile federal commission to retain their political viability and to lobby for their recommendations long after their official investigation came to an end.

"We're going to ask a lot of questions," said Thomas H. Kean, who was chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and is now a board member of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a private educational and lobbying group. "There are a lot of our recommendations that have not been implemented."

Mr. Kean said that with terrorist groups threatening new attacks on American soil, "we don't have a lot of time left to act."

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ANYONE ELSE SMELL SOMETHING FISHY HERE?

[Kindigger]

1. First thought at 1am

Fishy?

"Give a man a fish, and feed him for one day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

* gave us one fish...pulled from polluted waters, never put on ice, unfit to eat, and a Carp no less. Even so, he tried to convince us we were having Brook Trout.

I talked to many people this week. People I didn't expect to broach the subject themselves. None of them are going to his next fish fry.

Not in this lifetime.