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August 13, 2005
Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean can't keep their stories straight .... protecting Jamie Gorelick?
Captain's Quarters has an interesting post about Lee Hamilton's and Thomas Kean's memories:
The AP reports tonight that 9/11 Commission co-chairs Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton have changed their story yet again. Now the two say in a joint statement to the press that they do recall hearing that Able Danger had identified Atta, two days after Hamilton categorically denied it -- and for a man who had supposedly never heard of Able Danger, Hamilton's recall of detail of the briefing appears impressive.
"Commission: Able Danger Only Told Us About Atta," August 12, 2005
And John Podhoretz reminds us that Jamie Gorelick, a member of the 9/11 Commission, was one of the people in the government responsible for creating the wall between foreign and domestic intelligence agencies.
Here's my theory: Very early on, the commissioners decided that the Bush administration was their adversary. The Bushies didn't want to share documents or give them access to documents, didn't want anybody to testify, didn't want Bush to testify, and so on -- and they came to take this not only politically, but personally. . . . This development proved unexpectedly useful for Gorelick personally when the fact that decisions she had made in government were central to the Commission's mandate to describe why this massive intelligence failure occurred.
"The Gorelick Conundrum," by John Podhoretz, NRO, August 12, 2005
baldilocks has a good overview, "Commission Admission," August 12, 2005
Chris Muir has a relevant cartoon at day by day, August 13, 2005
Posted at August 13, 2005 08:29 AM | Categories: Politics , Terrorism
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