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Originally Posted by politicophile
Sorry Will, I didn't get the memo on that one. Why was the 9/11 commission a joke?
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MASSIVE bias. Philip Zelikow was appointed by Bush, serving on his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, spent at least 3 years on King George I's National Security Council, and co-wrote a book with Condaleeeeeza (I can never spell her name right). Thomas Kean served on the the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy, a long-time conduit of CIA covert operations internationally. Kean has links to Saudi Arabian investors who supported George W. and Osama bin Laden (such as Khalid bin Mahfouz). Kean is or was on the boards of Pepsi Bottling, Amerada Hess, UnitedHealth Group, CIT Group and Aramark. Freddy Fielding worked for several Bush fund raisers, and is a lobiest for Spirit and United Airlines. Slade Gorton (arch enemy to the Teen Titans) has many close ties to Boeing - the producers of the planes supposedly used on 9/11 - and his legal firm represents several major airlines, such as Delta. James Thompson is the HEAD of a firm that now lobbies for American Airlines, and has represented United. Richard Ben-Veniste represents Boing and United Airlines. Maxy "Dollar Sign" Cleland, the former US Senator, has recieved over $300,000 from the airline industry - and he resigned from the commission. Lee Hamilton is on numerous advisory boards, such as CIA, the Bush Homeland Security Advisory Council, and the US Army. Tim Roemer represents Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Jamie Gorelick's firm HAS AGREED TO REPRESENT PRINCE MOHOMMED AL FAISAL IN THE SUIT BY THE 9/11 FAMILIES!!! Al Faisel is widely accepted as being connected to the financing for 9/11.
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White House bullshit. Neither Bush nor Cheney had to take an oath before restifying, they JOINTLY testified, the testimony cannot be recorded or transcribed (and no one would be in the room while they gave testimony?). Afterwards, Cheney went on a duck hunting trip and accedentally shot the Constitution. He managed to hit several amendments, our nations dignity, and our international reputation.
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Highly suspicous Pentagon info. For well voer 2 years following the attacks, officials from NORAD and the FAA provided inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in testimony and media appearances. Authorities said that the US Air defences (if you can call them that) had reacted quickly! They were so fast that they flew right past the 747 that was about to hit the Pentagon. They even said that the jets had been scrambled in response to the hijackings and they were ready to shoot down flight 93 (the real Flight 93, not the one from the movie) if it threatened Washington D.C. Of course the commission found some tapes from NORAD and other evidence that the military never had any of the hijacked airliners in its sights and at one point chased a phantom aircraft -- American Airlines Flight 11 -- long after it had crashed into the World Trade Center. Yozwer!! Even though the commission really tried with the FAA and NORAD, basically all the information they got is suspect, and is generaly considered to be ridiculous and stupid (not just by me).
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The budget of The Blair Witch Project. The Challenger disaster investigation got about $50,000,000. 7 people died. IT WAS REALLY SAD, of course, but 7 people died. The 9/11 Commission was promised $3,000,000 by King George the Dubbuyuh. The Commission had to ask for an additional $8,000,000.
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