Sunday, Jul. 06,
2003 Quizzing Them on
9/11 Bush and Clinton may be asked to meet with the independent
commission investigating the terrorist
attacks ByTIMOTHY J. BURGER AND MATTHEW COOPER
Will President Bush be summoned before the independent commission
investigating 9/11? It now appears very likely. John Lehman, Ronald
Reagan's Navy Secretary and one of five Republicans on the 10-member
panel, told TIME that he wants both President Bush and former President
Clinton to meet with the commission and discuss matters that could include
what their Administrations knew about the al-Qaeda terrorist plots—and
what was done to combat them—before the 9/11 attacks.
With the commission evenly split between Republicans and Democrats,
Lehman's position makes it all but certain that a majority will support a
request to interview Bush and Clinton. "I don't think any commission
should ever formally call a President to testify," Lehman said, "but I
think it is very much in the country's interest—and in both President
Clinton's and President Bush's interest—to meet directly with the
commissioners." Responded White House press secretary Ari Fleischer: "The
White House has been and will continue to cooperate with the commission."
Investigation fever is building on Capitol Hill. Richard Shelby, former
top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, who complained that
federal agencies like the cia and countries like Saudi Arabia hampered the
congressional probe into the Sept. 11 attacks, has a new angle. Term
limits forced the Alabama Republican off the intelligence panel this year,
but as new chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, he is setting up
hearings aimed at terrorist funding. A Shelby aide says the hearings will
have "the Executive Branch telling the committee what they've done with
the Patriot Act," the post-9/11 law that expanded the government's
antiterror capabilities. The aide says the hearings' focus will include
the CIA and the governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen—and what they're
doing to stanch the flow of terrorists' funds.
www.ctrl.org
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are
sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-
directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
<A HREF="">ctrl</A>
========================================================================
To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
