The Super Seekrit 9/11 Report
I know immy2g already linked to it, but I feel compelled to comment on that MSNBC piece about the 9/11 report the Bush administration is trying to cover up: The secrets of September 11.
I think it’s pretty obvious why that report is being kept from public view, and the answer isn’t “national security.” It’s just the latest step in the deft tapdance Bush and his handlers have been doing for the past 18 months, as they seek to carry out what has become the prime imperative of the Bush presidency: the deflection of blame for the 9/11 attacks away from the person who was manning the helm at the time they occurred: George W. Bush.
Hey, all you folks loudly proclaiming your elephantine memories of 9/11, along with your willingness to pursue those responsible wherever they may be found: I think you’ve already forgotten too much about the attacks. You’ve certainly displayed a pathetic distractibility when it comes to figuring out whom to blame. Bush keeps linking 9/11 with Saddam Hussein, as he did several times during his aircraft carrier speech yesterday, and you keep swallowing it.
Meanwhile, his team is hard at work making sure the public doesn’t learn about the mistakes that made the events of that day possible. Since, you know, the public knowing the truth might hurt Fearless Leader’s chances in the election. You have to have a sense of priorities about these things.
You know what I call that? I call it dishonoring the dead. Too bad Darryl Worley hasn’t written a country song about it. People might actually get upset in that case.
If we let politicians get away with conducting their business in secret, they will be only too happy to oblige. They will conceal, deny, and redirect the blame for every failure, while basking triumphant in a perpetual sequence of staged photo-op “successes.” That’s just what they do.
Three thousand innocent people died in an attack on US soil. New Yorkers are still traumatized by the memory of sweeping the ashes of dead people from their windowsills and doorways. And now we’re going to let some self-serving politician conceal the facts of those events just to protect his reputation?
That’s pretty fucked up.
May 5th, 2003 at 2:32 pm
Most of this report is a rehash of information that already got a good deal of publicity in all forms of media for months after 9/11. There were numerous allegations and discussions about how much the White House, aides to the White House, and various Federal agencies knew about various pieces of the puzzle and warnings of some form of terorist attacks. Hence, all the concern about various agencies not sharing or considering vital information to help put a more specific threat in focus. It was these cracks in the system that seems to have played the largest part in the Country’s failure to defend itself against those horrific attacks.
So a presiding Administration doesn’t want another wave of negative press over an earlier well-documented issue to rear its head again. Shocking.
As the article points out, there is no “gotcha” type of information to point directly at Bush’s Administration (as people seem to be straining themselves to do). I’d be more concerned that in all that time since 9/11 our intelligence and informational channeling process to more effectively recognise specific threats by terrorists does not seem to be much improved.
May 6th, 2003 at 10:29 am
more seekrits!
did you see the connections being made between halliburton and the axis of evil? this was posted on yahoo! today … any other postings that you guys know of (something more substantive … maybe more figures and citations?).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030506/pl_afp/iraq_us_company_oil_halliburton&cid=1521&ncid=1480