What Happened To 9/11 Commission Investigating Bush After The Election?

[KittyWampus]

how did they manage to stop that?

And yet Roberts wants new hearings on CIA's use of cover?

"The Senate Intelligence Committee will conduct hearings on American spy agencies' use of cover to protect the identities of intelligence officers, the committee chairman said on Sunday.

The chairman, Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, said on the CNN program "Late Edition" that the committee was "going to go into quite a series of hearings in regard to cover." "

Now that we know someone in the Bush Administration played fast and lose with Plame's status... shouldn't we reconsider reconvening that Commission and finding out what he and his Admin. knew and why they failed to stop 9/11?

Were they too busy planning to invade Iraq to focus on terrorism?

[ClassWarrior]

1. Call your Senate-Critter and ask.

That's the gist, I believe, of Kerry's letter in the Senate. Whether you have Dem or Republicon Senators, call them and ask whatever happened to Chairman Pat Roberts' promise to the American people that he'd finish their business after the election.

NGU.

[DemInDistress]

2. Good question....

Have you visited Reopen911.org...if you do visit,please sign the petition to reopen the 911 investigations.Far more questions were raised after the 911 debacle,yet bsuh wont respond neither will many gopers.On 911 I gave bush the benefit of the doubt he said he didnt know who crashed those jets.Then as the weeks and months passed evidence suggested bush did indeed know the 911 attacks were on the way.America needs a new "Independent Investigation" but our chimp classified pertinent documents and videos.

[G_j]

3. Ask Pat Roberts, he canned it

funny I just got through posting this in another thread about Roberts telling lies about Plame.

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/7/5/113751/4591

<snip>
Last July the SIC finally issued its report, which did indeed focus exclusively on alleged failures in intelligence-gathering. It was a peculiar thing to do, as Senator Rockefeller said. The main allegations the Committee had to face were that the intel, once gathered, was subject to intense politicization to produce the results that would "prove" that Saddam Hussein had dangerous WMD programs and was directly tied to al Qaeda, as the Bush administration said was the case. The Republicans insisted on taking a roundabout route to investigating the real issues, arguing that the work needed to be done in two phases: The first phase, completed last year, looked at the gathering of intelligence. It found--no surprise--that the intelligence reports that were generated were defective. A second and separate phase was needed, the GOP insisted, into what many people suppose is the main question, how the intel was treated before the reports were generated.

Republican members of SIC wanted to divide the work into two phases, rather than simply looking into the problem as a whole, so as to postpone investigating what they believe may embarrass the President--the politicization of intel, the very thing that needs to be investigated. Ultimately the Chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, promised Democrats that after the 2004 election the Committee would investigate whether the intel was manipulated by the Bush administration.

At the time, many people decried the decision of the Democrats on SIC to go along with such transparent politicization of the hearings. If Bush manipulated intel to make a false case for war, voters deserved to know about it in a timely fashion. Many also feared that, once the pressure of elections was gone, the second phase would never occur.

And that is indeed what happened. Sen. Roberts has been hemming and hawing for half a year about when if ever the second phase will begin, as Pontificator's diary showed. He has declared that other issues are now more important than finishing the investigation. He has even had the gall to say that it "would be a colossal waste of time to replow this ground," as if the Senator's tractor has ever gone anywhere near this field. When pressed about his promise, he has retreated to vague assurances that it will be done eventually. Last Tuesday he was quoted by Chris Cooper in the Wall Street Journal as saying that he has no intention of re-opening the hearings. In other words, he is playing his fellow Senators and the nation for fools.

..more..

as we know the second phase never happened

[KittyWampus]

4. Wonder If Roberts Is Defeatable.

[G_j]

5. don't know, but I hope he is arrestable! n/t

[Disturbed]

6. Wasn't a CIA report regarding 911 spozed to come out

before the '04 Election? Did I miss that one?

[G_j]

8. I think you are right

that there was a report, and I don't think it ever saw the light of day.
worth looking into..

[WhiteTara]

10. The wonder woman Cynthia McKinney

is opening her own 9/11 commission asking if chimpy and co were involved. Go Cynthia!

[housewolf]

7. It was the senate itelligence committee led by Senator Roberts,

not the 911 Commission.

Senator Roberts has declined to initiate any additional investigation regarding the Iraq War intelligence.

In the past few days he's been on tv smearing Valerie Plame Wilson by disputing her cover status.

[G_j]

9. correct

thanks

[YvonneCa]

11. Here's a copy of Kerry's letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee...

...requesting that Part Two be completed:




<<John Kerry’s office has released a copy of his letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee requesting an investigation of pre-war Iraq intelligence failures (and the Downing Street Memo) to LightUpTheDarkness.org.

June 22, 2005
The Honorable Pat Roberts, Chairman
The Honorable John D. Rockefeller, IV, Vice Chairman
United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
SH-211
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Senator Roberts and Senator Rockefeller:
We write concerning your committee's vital examination of pre-war Iraq intelligence failures. In particular, we urge you to accelerate to completion the work of the so-called "Phase II" effort to assess how policy makers used the intelligence they received. Last year your committee completed the first phase of a two-phased effort to review the pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Phase I-begun in the summer of 2003 and completed in the summer of 2004-examined the performance of the American intelligence community in the collection and analysis of intelligence prior to the war, including an examination of the quantity and quality of U.S. intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and the intelligence on ties between Saddam Hussein's regime and terrorist groups. At the conclusion of Phase I, your committee issued an unclassified report that made an important contribution to the American public's understanding of the issues involved. In February 2004-well over a year ago-the committee agreed to expand the scope of inquiry to include a second phase which would examine the use of intelligence by policy makers, the comparison of pre-war assessments and post-war findings, the activities of the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group (PCTEG) and the Office of Special Plans in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and the use of information provided by the Iraqi National Congress. The committee's efforts have taken on renewed urgency given recent revelations in the United Kingdom regarding the apparent minutes of a July 23, 2002, meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair and his senior national security advisors. These minutes-known as the "Downing Street Memo"-raise troubling questions about the use of intelligence by American policy makers-questions that your committee is uniquely situated to address. The memo indicates that in the summer of 2002, at a time the White House was promising Congress and the American people that war would be their last resort, that they believed military action against Iraq was "inevitable." The minutes reveal that President "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

The American people took the warnings that the administration sounded seriously-warnings that were echoed at the United Nations and here in Congress as we voted to give the president the authority to go to war. For the sake of our democracy and our future national security, the public must know whether such warnings were driven by facts and responsible intelligence, or by political calculation. These issues need to be addressed with urgency. This remains a dangerous world, with American forces engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other challenges looming in Iran and North Korea. In this environment, the American public should have the highest confidence that policy makers are using intelligence objectively-never manipulating it to justify war, but always to protect the United States. The contents of the Downing Street Memo undermine this faith and only rigorous Congressional oversight can determine the truth. We urge the committee to complete the second phase of its investigation with the maximum speed and transparency possible, producing, as it did at the end of Phase I, a comprehensive, unclassified report from which the American people can benefit directly.

Sincerely,
John Kerry
Co-signers: Sens. Tim Johnson, Jon Corzine, Jack Reed, Frank Lautenberg, Barbara Boxer, Edward Kennedy, Thomas Harkin, Jeff Bingaman, Richard Durbin>>>


Contact your Senators and ask them to sign on !
:patriot:

[KittyWampus]

13. Thanks For Reposting This Letter, It Reflects On Me That I Didn't Catch It

when Kerry first sent it out.

[ladjf]

12. The Commission should be named the "Commission of Obfuscation"