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Former 9/11 Chairs Criticize Handling of Xmas Bomber Case
January 26, 2010 ABC NEWS -- Former 9/11 Chairs Criticize Handling of Detroit Christmas Day Bomber Case
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/911-chairs-criticize-handling-detroit-christmas-day-bomber/story?id=9667640
The two former chairmen of the 9/11 Commission expressed concerns today about how security agencies responded to the arrest of alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and the decision to quickly charge him instead of attempting to gain valuable intelligence information.
Before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, former 9/11 Commission vice-chair Lee Hamilton testified there needs to be more urgency when confronting Al Qaeda, saying the terrorist group "is on the march, not on the run…the sense of urgency for terrorism has been too low."
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Comment: 9/11 Commissioners Kean and Hamilton NYT January 2, 2008 Op-Ed Article: "Stonewalled by the C.I.A."
Comment: 9/11 Commissioners Kean and Hamilton NYT January 2, 2008 Op-Ed Article: "Stonewalled by the C.I.A."
by Elizabeth Woodworth, January 11, 2008.
On January 2, 2008, the New York Times carried an op-ed article entitled "Stonewalled by the C.I.A." by 9/11 Commission Chair Thomas Kean and Vice Chair Lee Hamilton (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html).
It is difficult to understand why there has been so little follow-up to Kean and Hamilton’s emphatic charges that the CIA wilfully obstructed their investigation.
The tapes in question were destroyed in 2005, long after the Commission had collected its evidence in 2003 and early 2004.
This revelation constitutes a new and highly visible public schism between the Chairs of the 9/11 Commission and the CIA, the only agency they thanked twice in the Preface to their official Report.
Dec 24: Kean: CIA impeded 9/11 inquiry
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/12/24/kean_cia_impeded_911_inquiry/6109/
Latest Kean statements:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The chairman of the Sept. 11 commission Monday criticized the CIA, accusing the U.S. spy agency of interfering with the panel's work.
Former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean told CNN the CIA should have turned over tapes of agents interrogating suspected terrorists with "enhanced" techniques, including waterboarding. The CIA earlier this month admitted destroying several tapes and the admission has prompted a series of investigations.
"I'm not a lawyer and I'm not sure if they broke the law or not," Kean said. "But what they did do is, I think, try to impede our investigation, because we asked for legitimate -- anything to do with those detainees, because they were the ones who knew most about the plot of 9/11 and that was our mandate. And we asked the CIA for everything having to do with those and we asked them not on one occasion but three and four and five and six occasions, and those tapes were not made available to us."
The Next Catalyzing Event
In an article posted today :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702050_pf.html
Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, former chairman and vice chairman of the 9/11 commission complain that "The terrible losses our country suffered on 9/11 should have catalyzed efforts to create an America that is safer, stronger and wiser. We still have a long way to go.
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"Should have catalyzed?" Interesting word, catalyzed. When did we last hear that one?
Further, the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a
new Pearl Harbor.
Sept 2000 PNAC
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton seem to be saying that 9/11 did not work as well for the NWO as they had originally hoped it would. Is this a signal to go ahead with their next false flag event? Something even more "catalyzing" that Pearl Harbor and 9/11?
Or is this simply an admission that the 9/11 Truth Movement is having an effect?
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