"Who watches the watchmen?"


Data backing Iraq war called weak

Leaders of the House intelligence committee have criticized the U.S. intelligence community for using largely outdated, "circumstantial" and "fragmentary" information with "too many uncertainties" to conclude that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda.

- Dana Priest, THE WASHINGTON POST via MSNBC -

To focus this investigation into the current Administration's case for war on the alleged failure and incompetence of the intelligence community is to lose sight of a larger and much more instructive picture. It is a picture which we may find includes , if we could just peek through the mist of lies which obscures the lines and details, the elusive architects of 9/11.

Has not the U.S. intelligence community also taken the fall, or much of it, for failing to prevent the attacks of that horrible September day?

Can you say scapegoat? We've got a big one here, folks, in the form of "The Intelligence Community". To whom does this goat belong? looks to me like this particular animal bears the brand The Bush Administration.

It certainly seems to me that George W. and his cabal have something to hide.

Bush's 9/11 Coverup?

While the administration of President George W. Bush is aggressively positioning itself as the world leader in the war on terrorism, some families of the Sept. 11 victims say that the facts increasingly contradict that script. The White House long opposed the formation of a blue-ribbon Sept. 11 commission, some say, and even now that panel is underfunded and struggling to build momentum. And, they say, the administration is suppressing a 900-page congressional study, possibly out of fear that the findings will be politically damaging to Bush

"We've been fighting for nearly 21 months -- fighting the administration, the White House," says Monica Gabrielle. Her husband, Richard, an insurance broker who worked for Aon Corp. on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center's Tower 2, died during the attacks. "As soon as we started looking for answers we were blocked, put off and ignored at every stop of the way. We were shocked. The White House is just blocking everything."

Another 9/11 family advocate -- a former Bush supporter who requested anonymity -- was more blunt: "Bush has done everything in his power to squelch this [9/11] commission and prevent it from happening."

- Eric Boehlert, Salon.com via Information Clearing House-

Even now, it must be pointed out, the so called "Independent" Commission trying to get over the Bush Administration's stone wall and into the truth at the bottom of 9/11 is chaired by a Republican hand picked by Bush.

Bush Nominates Himself to Chair 9/11 Investigation

It is vital in this to remember that the Bush administration thwarted this independent investigation for 18 months, until they got the two things they wanted. One was a requirement that any subpoenas would be issued only after six of the ten people on the commission voted for it. The commission is composed of five Democrats and five Republicans. If a particular subpoena seems to cut too close to the political bone, the Republicans on the committee need only stand shoulder to shoulder to stop it.

The other requirement the Bush administration demanded was the right to pick the chairman of the commission.

- William Rivers Pitt, TruthOut.com via Altarnet -