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Who is leading the 9-11 investigation? |
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| Clinton
and Gore have consented to public questioning without a time constraint
for the 9-11 investigation committee. President Bush and Vice President
Dick Cheney have agreed only to private, separate, one-hour meetings with
the commission's chairman and vice chairman, instead
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| President
Bush tried vehemently to prevent a 9-11 independent investigation of the
events leading to the tragedy of 9-11. Once the commission was formed
against his wishes, he has worked to stonewall them at every step, even at
times denying them access to their own notes. Originally Bush and Cheney
agreed only to
meet with the chair and co-chair in private and only for an hour. After
public outcry Bush
and Cheney agreed to meet with the full commission but without being under
oath and only if they were allowed to be questioned together. |
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| President Bush
and the bin Laden
family have been connected through dubious business deals since 1977, when
Salem, the head of the bin Laden family business, one of the biggest
construction companies in the world, invested in Bush's start-up oil
company, Arbusto Energy, Inc.(1)
Money connections between Bush Republicans and Osama bin Laden go way back
and the political and economic connections have remained unbroken for 20
years.(2)
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| 9-11
committee chairman Thomas Kean
Unknown to most,
UNOCAL's partner in the Cent-Gas trans-Afghan pipeline consortium, the
Saudi Company Delta Oil is owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans
which allegedly have ties to bin Laden’s Al Qaeda.
According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA
director James Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz’ younger
sister is married to Osama bin Laden,. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary
Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne
Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12 Nov. 2001 )
Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funnelled millions of
dollars to the Al Qaeda network.(See
Tom Flocco, Scoop.co.nz 28 Aug. 2002)
Now, "by sheer coincidence", former New Jersey
governor Thomas Kean, the man chosen by President Bush to lead the 9/11
commission also has business ties with bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi. (3) |
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| Vice
chairman: Lee Hamilton
Former Congressman Lee Hamilton, chairman of
the House select committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, was shown
ample evidence against Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, but he did not
probe their wrongdoing. Why did Hamilton choose not to
investigate? In a late 1980s interview aired on PBS 'Frontline,' Hamilton
said that he did not think it would have been 'good for the country' to
put the public through another impeachment trial. In Lee Hamilton's view,
it was better to keep the public in the dark than to bring to light
another Watergate, with all the implied ramifications. When Hamilton was
chairman of the House committee investigating Iran-contra, he took the
word of senior Reagan administration officials when they claimed Bush and
Reagan were 'out of the loop.' Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and
White House records later proved that Reagan and Bush had been very much
in the loop. If Hamilton had looked into the matter instead of accepting
the Reagan administration's word, the congressional investigation would
have shown the public the truth. Hamilton later said he should not have
believed the Reagan officials.(4)
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| This kind of thing is an old tactic for Bush. He's done the
same thing with the Iraqi WMD intelligence commission
he appointed to investigate himself. |
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