The Kean Commission is a whitewash

[RBHam]

This is important! Lee Hamilton has covered for the BFEE before.

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/hamiltoniran-contra.htm

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/110500b.html

http://www.bartcop.com/parry-hamilton.htm

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:Gny7j9B_310J:www.onlinejournal.com/archive/01-18-00_Binion-Pt_3.pdf+lee+hamilton+cover+up+iran-contra&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/11-28-96/cover.htm

And Thomas Kean...

Why is a business partner of Osama bin Laden chairing the official 9-11 investigation?
http://www.oilempire.us/investigation.html

Listen to this blather...

Frustrated by Bush officials withholding key documents requested by the bipartisan Commission investigating the September 11th attack, 9-11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean, the former Republican Governor of New Jersey, is challenging President Bush's vow to "uncover every detail and learn every lesson of September 11th." Kean said yesterday, "Any document that has to do with this investigation cannot be beyond our reach."

Thomas Kean talks big, but the fix is in. Otherwise, why doesn't he resign in protest? After all, it seems alot of documents are certainly beyond his reach. redacted pages, edited briefing minutes...

WAKE UP AMERICA!

[oasis]

1. weekenders, take your time and give a look.

[cthrumatrix]

8. remember...they first appointed H. Kissinger to lead the panel before

people were absolutely outraged and saw this as too blantant of a whitewash....that's clue #1.

[Cleita]

2. Bookmarked.

Will give it a thorough reading tomorrow.

[G_j]

3. thank you n/t

[RBHam]

4. bed time

:kick:

[maddezmom]

5. kick

:kick: back to page one!!

[9215]

6. thanks for the work on this

Kean reminds me of the Saudis coming to Washington to ask Bush to investigate accusations of Al Qaeda being funded by Saudis. The mind trick is:

"Why would the Saudis ask for an investigation that could harm them"......"Well they wouldn't, they must not be guilty".

But if they already knew Bush was not going to investigate, which they most surely did, it makes them look like they really want to get to the bottom of the matter.

Kean asking Bush to supply all the details is the same gimmick. It gives Kean unwarranted credibility because, as you say, the fix is in.

This is the Bushista art of neutralizing any investigation into his and the Saudis complicity in 9/11.

[maha]

7. In Defense of Kean

Kean does have business connections to Osama bin Laden, but in the same way Saddam Hussein has connections to Osama bin Laden -- through a "six degrees of separation" game. I don't believe there's a direct connection. Kean also sits on the board of directors of companies that lost employees and offices in the World Trade Center. Why is that never mentioned?

In other words, to be fair, the charge about Kean's business dealing with OBL is flimsy. I don't doubt there is a fix, and that Thompson is capable of a cover-up. But I would be very surprised if Kean is in on the fix.

I suspect Kean was picked because he's a genteel old guy who wouldn't speak up, a college professor more than a corporate exec. He was the most non-controversial guy they could have picked. Kean is not a Bush family insider, although he does have close ties to Bill Clinton -- Kean and the Big Dog are buds going way back. Kean's not a right-winger, but more of an old-fashioned Rockefeller Republican. So let's not demonize the guy unless you have more than circumstantial evidence against him, OK?

[RBHam]

9. Hamilton doesn't want accountability

Notes From Beyond the Pale
February 25, 2003

Excerpt:
CFR Democrats will bend over backwards to take care of the Bushes, always have, always will. One need only examine Lee Hamilton's actions as an aider and abettor of the Iran/Contra coverup. Now he's the Democrat co-chairing the so-called investigation into 9-11. He's already declared that the panel won't be interested in "assessing blame" and that they're not looking for "heads on pikes." Interesting slip he made, eh? "Heads on pikes". In other words, if the truth actually did leak out through the Keans-Hamilton Cover Up Filter, "heads on pikes" might be a real concern.
http://members.shaw.ca/rb.ham/articles/03-02-25-notesfrombeyond.htm

[9215]

10. Yea, he's a fix it man.

That refrain of not wanting to put the country through another Watergate is a classic. He so much as states that that is what Iran- Contra would have done had it been properly dealt with.

I wonder if Hamilton voiced similar concerns when Clinton was being skewered? :eyes:

Good insight on an important topic as usual RB.

[RBHam]

11. sometimes priorities dictate

Excerpt:
Now suppose you were a congressman assigned to investigate the 911 terrorist attacks. As you begin, it becomes apparent that certain members of the US government had conspired to allow the attacks to occur. In fact, it's just lying there, slightly below the surface, right out in the open. You immediately realize you're dealing with the kind of people who would—at the very least, and simply to further a political agenda—look the other way while 3,000 civilians were murdered.

And if that wasn't troubling enough, you then get a 'friendly' visit from someone you've never met before, inquiring into how well your daughter is doing at that overseas university in Dorm Room 305, and if your nephew made it into that prestigious preschool at 735 S. 4th Street in Atlanta.

You might even get a little note in the mail—laced with a powdery substance—just to help you sort things out in your head.

The message is quite clear, and your priorities dictate. When the "investigation" is complete, no governmental complicity in the crime is revealed.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/120603Tomasi/120603tomasi.html

[jpgray]

12. It's a pathetic thing to see. (nt)