9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on August 2nd, 2006 9:11 am by HL
Another story about a government investigation that was a sham from the start. (Aren’t they all?)
9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon
Washington Post
Excerpt:
Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources. Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the commission, hoping to hide the bungled response to the hijackings, these sources said.
In the end, the panel agreed to a compromise, turning over the allegations to the inspectors general for the Defense and Transportation departments, who can make criminal referrals if they believe they are warranted, officials said.
“We to this day don’t know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us,” said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. “It was just so far from the truth. . . . It’s one of those loose ends that never got tied.”
H.L.s Take:
I guess they’ve run through all the hush money they were paid, by The Bush administration and now they are looking for more. They just decided to refer the matter to people they knew would do nothing. Way to uphold the constitution, that you guys took oaths to do.