Bush, Cheney face 9/11 panel for more than three hours
By Deb Riechmann — Associated Press Writer — April 29, 2004, 1:46 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney answered questions Thursday from Sept. 11 commissioners trying to learn how followers of Osama bin Laden pulled off the worst terrorist attack in American history.
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APRIL 28, 2004 — 2:36 PM
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WASHINGTON – April 28 – Green Party leaders renewed the party’s call for an independent commission, with full participation of surviving family members, to investigate the government’s handling of 9/11 and information leading up to the attacks.
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By Monica Gabrielle – LA Times — April 29, 2004
Monica Gabrielle is a member of the Family Steering Committee.
Website: www.911IndependentCommission.org
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…I want to know the whole ugly truth. My husband, Richard Gabrielle, died on the 103rd floor of Tower 2 that day; I want to know what was done beforehand to prevent it from happening, and I want to know what we’re doing to prevent it from happening again. My great fear is that their answers will never find their way to the public.
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What we’d Like to ask when Bush and Cheney take the hot seat
by James Ridgeway — Mondo Washington — Village Voice — April 27th, 2004 11:45 AM
On Thursday, Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will sit together and speak—off the record and in private—to the 9-11 Commission. Bush and Cheney can make a record of the interview, but the commission, under a bizarre agreement, is prohibited from doing so.
By refusing to appear separately or in public, the two may have taken the panel for a ride, but they can’t avoid the tough questions forever.
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by Kyle F. Hence – April 27, 2004
Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds could soon become the thorniest of thorns in the side of the most secretive administration in American history. Whether she does or not depends on whether or not the American public will stand up and challenge the Department of Justice’s attempt to quash the truth, avoid accountability and bury the facts behind lies, double speak and the National Security trump card.
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By Andrew Buncombe in Washington — 26 April 2004
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…she saw information proving senior officials knew of al-Qa’ida plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes. She has provided sworn testimony to the independent panel appointed by President George Bush to investigate the circumstances surrounding 11 September.
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The Bush administration has been put on the back foot by allegations that senior officials – perhaps even Mr Bush himself – were provided with considerable information warning of an imminent attack by al-Qa’ida and that they failed to act. Mrs Edmonds said yesterday: “What are they are afraid of? If I am not allowed to give evidence, the families will not get the information I have; that will be that.”
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by Tom Flocco
WASHINGTON — APRIL 27, 2004 01:30 ET — TomFlocco.com — Former FBI contract linguist Sibel Dinez Edmonds did not back down regarding reported evidence she uncovered implicating espionage in the FBI and State Department when we recently asked whether she thought the explosive information would ever see the light of day.
[see NOTES below for clarification from the editor based on follow-up with Edmonds]
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From Catherine Austin Fitts, former Asst. Secretary of Housing under George H. W. Bush.
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Our success hinges on supporting those inside the machinery of government who are willing to speak out. If we allow the government to gag Sibel Edmonds, we will be sending the wrong message to other potential truth-tellers. We need to let those on the inside know the movement [for the truth] will support them if they come forward.
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By PHILIP SHENON – The New York Times — April 25, 2004
WASHINGTON, April 24 — The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is expected to offer sharp criticism of the Pentagon’s domestic air-defense command in the panel’s final report and will suggest that quicker military action on that morning might have prevented a hijacked passenger jet from crashing into the Pentagon itself, according to commission officials.
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Marie Cocco – Newsday — April 22, 2004
There’s another tell-all Bob Woodward book out about the inner sanctum of the Bush war council and the storyline is getting tiresome. Still, I want more pages, but not from Woodward. Twenty-eight of them, to be exact.
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