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Title: Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld Warned 9/11 Commission About ‘Line’ It ’Should Not Cross’
Source: RAW STORY
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/2010/03/reveale ... -commission-line-should-cross/
Published: Mar 17, 2010
Author: Sahil Kapur
Post Date: 2010-03-17 12:48:39 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 16280
Comments: 40

911twintowersterrorismairpl Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about line it should not crossSenior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.

The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.

In the message, the officials denied the bipartisan commission's request to question terrorist detainees, informing its two senior-most members that doing so would "cross" a "line" and obstruct the administration's ability to protect the nation.

"In response to the Commission's expansive requests for access to secrets, the executive branch has provided such access in full cooperation," the letter read. "There is, however, a line that the Commission should not cross -- the line separating the Commission's proper inquiry into the September 11, 2001 attacks from interference with the Government's ability to safeguard the national security, including protection of Americans from future terrorist attacks."

The 9/11 Commission, officially called the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, was formed by President Bush in November of 2002 "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks" and to offer recommendations for preventing future attacks.

"The Commission staff's proposed participation in questioning of detainees would cross that line," the letter continued. "As the officers of the United States responsible for the law enforcement, defense and intelligence functions of the Government, we urge your Commission not to further pursue the proposed request to participate in the questioning of detainees."

FireDogLake's Marcy Wheeler speculates that this was an attempt by the Bush administration to ensure that its torture of certain detainees, which has since been widely documented, remained secret.

"[W]hoever made these annotations appears to have been most worried that Commission staff members could make independent judgments about the detainees and the interrogations," Wheeler wrote on her blog. The official "didn't want anyone to independently evaluate the interrogations conducted in the torture program."

Eventually, the commission's co-chairs harshly criticized the administration for having purportedly "destroyed" tapes of its interrogations with terror suspects, as Raw Story reported last year.

9/11 Commission members Thomas Kean and Lee H. Hamilton wrote that although US President George W. Bush had ordered all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the probe, "recent revelations that the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot."

"Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation."

They continued: “There could have been absolutely no doubt in the mind of anyone at the CIA — or the White House — of the commission’s interest in any and all information related to Qaeda detainees involved in the 9/11 plot.

"Yet no one in the administration ever told the commission of the existence of videotapes of detainee interrogations," Kean and Hamilton wrote.

The letter can be found on page 26 of the ACLU's set of unveiled documents. (1 image)

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

(chuckle) Kooks are funny.

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-17   12:55:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Gen'rul Boofer (#1)

Page 26, Boof....

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   13:03:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Brian S (#0) (Edited)

Condi Rice so obviously perjured herself at that hearing that it spiked any chance that she might have for an elected position above the local school board. And for what? Rather...whom? An abject failure as POTUS.

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   13:08:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: war (#2)

Page 26, Boof....

It's the only way some concrete thinkers can deal with discomfort. Think of the little boy peeing on whatever he doesn't like.... that's boofer. Name calling from the side lines is all he has left.

He's all hat...no cattle.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-17   13:11:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: mininggold (#4)

...said the kook.

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-17   13:14:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Gen'rul Boofer (#5)

...said the kook.

...said the Boof...

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   13:17:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: war (#3)

Condi Rice

Condi who? ;)

Brian S  posted on  2010-03-17   13:23:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Brian S (#7)

The girl who sent Boy Blunder back to the Jim Beam...

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   13:26:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Brian S (#0)

"There is, however, a line that the Commission should not cross -- the line separating the Commission's proper inquiry into the September 11, 2001 attacks from interference with the Government's ability to safeguard the national security, including protection of Americans from future terrorist attacks."

Makes perfect sense. What's the problem?

dont eat that  posted on  2010-03-17   13:38:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: dont eat that (#9)

Its only a problem in kookland infected with Bush Derangement Syndrome.

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-17   13:41:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Badeye (#10)

Its only a problem in kookland infected with Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Sez the chief Bushbot here (who claimed he never knew one), trying out his mail order Psych degree. LOLOLOL.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-17   13:55:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: dont eat that (#9)

Makes perfect sense. What's the problem?

Israel keeps stirring the ME pot.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-17   13:57:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: mininggold (#11)

Only a bland kook thinks I'm a blind follower of the former President.

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-17   15:05:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Gen'rul Boofer (#13)

Only a bland kook thinks I'm a blind follower of the former President.

Please Boof...the LP database doesn't lie. (eyes rolling)

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   15:13:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Badeye (#13) (Edited)

Only a bland kook thinks I'm a blind follower of the former President.

Your posting behavior says otherwise, plus the data base doesn't lie. Most of the time you will be found spinning on the Bushbot side. Of course you did say "blind" which I doubt applies to anyone of any political stripe. lolol

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-17   15:15:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: war (#14)

Please Boof...the LP database doesn't lie. (eyes rolling)

He was sure to parse the statement with the word "blind". lol

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-17   15:17:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: mininggold (#15)

The most hilarious thing about his last year at LP is that he spent it claiming to oppose the GOP while not only hoping and predicting that they would maintain power but defending their record as well.

Day 24 of Packrat refusing to register here. Day 22 of Boofer The One Eyed Wonder Bot refusing to answer: When is Blackwell going to have the recount? Jan 30, 2006 ... by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot...

war  posted on  2010-03-17   15:17:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: mininggold (#16) (Edited)

Blind can be metaphorical too... he's been claiming that we "won" in Iraq from the staged for Fox News statue toppling on...

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   15:18:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Badeye (#13)

Only a bland kook thinks I'm a blind follower of the former President.

You didn't earn the nickname boteye without just reason...(chuckle)

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-03-17   15:18:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: war (#17)

The most hilarious thing about his last year at LP is that he spent it claiming to oppose the GOP while not only hoping and predicting that they would maintain power but defending their record as well.

And calling anyone who disagreed with the Bush doctrine names and insinuations. Same with domer and the "Alaskan" bunch.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-17   15:20:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: mininggold (#15)

Obviously you've never actually LOOKED at the database. Run along kookie.

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-17   15:20:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Fred Mertz (#19)

Uh huh, you didn't earn the nickname 'mommies basement boy' for nothin...

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-17   15:21:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Fred Mertz (#19) (Edited)

(laughing)

His last year before his total meltdown was one case of Dueling Boofers after another...

"Why I won't vote GOP" to "I'm voting for Ken Blackwell who will win!!!"

"I will vote for the dem candidate against DeWine whoever he is" to "I am not voting for the dem candidate running against DeWine" and we all know goddam well that he voted for both DeWine and the GOP candidate for Congress.

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   15:22:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Badeye (#21)

Obviously you've never actually LOOKED at the database. Run along kookie.

The data base sez you will jump on anyone who was not a total Bush supporter regardless of the deceit you post.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-17   15:22:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Gen'rul Boofer, Fred Mertz (#22) (Edited)

Uh huh, you didn't earn the nickname 'mommies basement boy' for nothin...

Nobody calls him that, Boof. But "Boofer" sure seems to have struck a chord... (laughing)

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   15:24:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: Badeye (#22)

you didn't earn the nickname 'mommies basement boy'

Challenge!

Nobody calls me that.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-03-17   15:26:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: Badeye, Fred Mertz (#22) (Edited)

Uh huh, you didn't earn the nickname 'mommies basement boy' for nothin...

Since he "earned" it from you Neocon Bushbots in this post only, it's just considered another lie.

Fred can hardly hold a candle to you in that department. He doesn't post one hundredth of what you do and actually can post authoritatively on other topics.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-17   15:26:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Fred Mertz (#26)

Wait a miniute tho...since it's "Mommies" and not "Mommy's" it might not be a bad thing...

Got MILF?

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   15:27:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: war (#28)

Wait a miniute tho...since it's "Mommies" and not "Mommy's" it might not be a bad thing...

Got MILF?

More of Badeye's ESL stuff. They have a tough time with the slang.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-17   15:29:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: mininggold (#29)

More of Badeye's ESL stuff.

The idjit refuses to use the edit feature. Either that or he's too dumb to. Take your pick.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-03-17   15:33:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: Fred Mertz (#30)

Either that or he's too dumb to.

He wears Hagar suits.

...'nuff said...

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war  posted on  2010-03-17   15:34:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Fred Mertz (#26)

(chuckle)

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-17   16:21:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: mininggold (#29)

kookie, you have a tough time with reality.

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-17   16:22:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: mininggold (#24)

Like I said, and you just underscored, you haven't actually looked. run along kookie.

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-17   16:23:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: dont eat that (#9)

Makes perfect sense. What's the problem?

I don't see one. Makes sense to me too. It's a bullshit article.

So why do you bother soiling this site with your vacuous and inane commentary? ... yukon haha lots of laughing out loud

Biff Tannen  posted on  2010-03-17   18:52:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: Badeye, mininggold (#33)

kookie, you have a tough time with reality.

This is the irony of the day statement...(grin)

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-03-17   23:38:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Badeye (#34)

Like I said, and you just underscored, you haven't actually looked. run along kookie

Like I said before neobot, you don't have dibs on being the chooser here.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-18   0:33:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Fred Mertz (#36)

Mommy yell that down to the basement for you to post?

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-18   9:22:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: mininggold (#37)

Sure I do, kookie.

my anti groupie can't get through life without me.

Badeye  posted on  2010-03-18   9:22:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Boofertop (#38)

Mommy yell that down to the basement for you to post?

You are horribly unwitty to the point of painfully so, Boof.

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war  posted on  2010-03-18   9:34:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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