Why would the 9/11 panel agree to NOT call other WH officials?

[keithyboy]

Just to get Condi to testify? Folks, we have been hoodwinked!! They should never have agreed to this condition. Who is it that the WH fears to testify more than Condi? Help me out here. I just heard this on Nightline.

[libbygurl]

1. What I don't understand is

how it's possible for the WH to "make a deal" with the Commission! I thought the Commission was independent and was not subordinate to the WH in such matters. Is that legal? Ethical? Can someone please explain to incredulous moi?

[BigDaddyLove]

3. I guess your first mistake was thinking..........

that the commission was independent.

[libbygurl]

4. Okay, so partisanship was not unexpected, but...

...the Democratic commissioners actually AGREED to this "deal"? Makes me doubt very, very much how truthful their final report will be.

This is incredible, but I don't know why every new outrage continues to shock me still.

[The Night Owl]

2. Who is it that The White House fears to testify more than Condi?

Who could it be? Just a wild guess here... The guy who needs Dick Cheney by his side just to get through the 9/11 commission's tepid questioning?

[Old and In the Way]

6. Dick is a ventriloquist.

You wouldn't want Dimson to sit there and say nothing, would you?

[Jim Sagle]

5. Because they're yellow?

[Festivito]

7. Rid of Cleland, their finances assured secret.

I wonder how much it costs to ignore 3,000 people killed on American soil.

I wonder how compromised their final report may be.