Friday, November 28, 2003
Tom Flocco has been covering the 9/11 Commission closely. Excerpts from his latest report:Kean’s Commission has selected four representatives as its review team to “examine the core group of Presidential Daily Brief articles made up of those that are plainly critical to the Commission’s investigation . . .
Chairman Kean, Vice Chairman and former Congressman Lee Hamilton, Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, and Staff Executive Director Philip Zelikow will review Bush’s sensitive PDBs. . . . Only Kean, Hamilton, Gorelick, and staff member Zelikow may view their own notes--and only at the White House.
Jamie Gorelick currently serves as a Bush Administration Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) National Security Advisory panel member and also as a member of President Bush’s Review of Intelligence panel, thus providing the CIA with a direct or circuitous liaison on the Commission while also affording the Bush Administration with a direct link to the Commission and its flow of evidence procurement. . . .
Commission member and former congressman Tim Roemer revealed on a C-Span Washington Journal broadcast on Monday that the Commission had started to take testimony under oath behind closed doors, but not at the public hearings, indicating that the Commission was interviewing key players--requiring sworn testimony as opposed to current public hearings involving individuals unconnected to the actual attacks. . . .
Roemer told TomFlocco.com that “9-11 insider trading is on our list of issues to be covered and we plan to deal with it.” This, when we asked whether the commission would investigate the billions in pre-attack profits of death via criminal insider trading in world-wide securities markets. . . .
9/11 Citizens Watch Co-Founder Kyle Hence said "NSA 'minders' have been allowed to sit in on interviews and testimony taken by Commission staff; and Chairman Kean has been unwilling or unable to refuse this potential intimidation of witnesses." . . .
Former Georgia Senator and Commission member Max Cleland did not attend the hearing. Speculation by more than a few surrounded whether the Vietnam War hero was asked to stay home for remarking on CNN that “President Bush was scamming America” by denying public access to sensitive 9/11 intelligence documents in what amounts to a murder investigation. Cleland was removed from the Commission in short order.
Zelikow is as compromised as Gorelick.
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