Friday, November 14, 2003
Washington Post Nov. 12:The independent commission on the Sept. 11 attacks announced an agreement Wednesday with the White House that would allow the review of classified intelligence documents previously withheld by the Bush administration.
The 10-member panel will designate a subcommittee that will examine the most sensitive documents and report back, commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste said. The four-person subcommittee will review some of the documents, but only two of those four commissioners will review others. The commission has not yet appointed the subcommittee. . . .
Bush said last month that the dispute concerned "the presidential daily brief," a classified written intelligence report he gets each morning.
The White House confirmed last year that one such report in August 2001, a month before the attacks, mentioned that al-Qaida might try to hijack U.S. passenger planes. . . .
Another commissioner, former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer, criticized the arrangement, saying the panel should have issued a subpoena rather than agree that only some members will see documents. "Either the commissioners have access or they don't," Roemer said. There may be a possibility Roemer is somewhat serious about his job, though heavily compartmentalized. Anyone trying to bring information to the Commission would be advised to work through him, I think. .....---
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