9/11 panel might hold government officials accountable ( keyword: might)

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9/11 panel might hold government officials accountable
Commission's chairman indicates report will contain major revelations about failure to prevent attacks
Thursday, December 18, 2003
By TERENCE J. KIVLAN


WASHINGTON -- The special commission investigating the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, is prepared to hold accountable government officials who failed to prevent the attacks, its chairman said last night.

"I mean, I believe this is not something that had to happen," said Thomas Kean, in an interview on CBS television.

Kean, a Republican and the former governor of New Jersey, said he believed officials should have been fired after Sept. 11. "They failed, they simply failed," he said.

But he acknowledged that, at this point, the commission lacks sufficient information to identify government decision makers who are potentially culpable.

Kean's words seemed to lend support to Sept. 11 victims' survivors -- who have long contended that U.S. officials ignored important clues to the attacks and missed opportunities to foil them.

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1. The buck needs to stop on Chimpy's desk...for this and a lot of other

crap...he is culpable in so many dirty dealings...