Finally, Bush 43 has agreed to give his 911 Commission more time to hand in their report on the 911 attacks. However, he and his staff are giving that same commission reason to think that the extra two months he gave them still may not be enough time to get to the bottom of things. This is because of 360 PDBs, or "Presidential Daily Briefs" are being kept from the commission. Logically, the commission MUST see these reports to know precisely what Bush 43 knew about Al Qaeda. But the Bush 43 Admin is treating them like the formula for Coca-Cola. The catch here is, those PDBs could do a helluva lot more than just quench our thirst for the truth. They could incriminate him as either being shortsighted or completely ignorant.
If the CIA did brief Bush 43 on just how nasty Al Qaeda was and that they could try something "big" like an airplane crashing into a building, then obviously, Bush would be viewed as negligent in not doing something about this possibility. If the CIA said nothing about planes, this will look bad, as well, since the Philippine government passed on intelligence that said Al Qaeda was planning to do just that. If it says nothing at all about Al Qaeda, then CIA director George Tenet needs to be fired.
So, in the end, it's a lose-lose deal for the Bush 43 Admin. Or a lose-lose-lose deal if you think about that fun little "election" coming up in November.
Of course, this isn't the only commission Bush 43 has been treating poorly. The commission he's just appointed to investigate Iraq intelligence failings is already getting "Dicked" and "Georged" around. First off, they're modelling this panel after the Warren Commission - as Jon Stewart noted on the
Daily Show last week, this is hardly a good sign, since the Warren Commission did
SUCH a good job of resolving the JFK assassination. Bush 43 has also said that this commission should concentrate on the flawed prewar intelligence, this is clearly a bid to keep them from investigating he and Cheney for what they did to that intelligence.
If Bush 43 was innocent of any wrongdoing and truly wanted the facts he would put few or no specific requirements on his commission aside from one: "Tell me why I thought Saddam had WMD."
Of course, we know why he thought Saddam had WMD. He's just like Fox Mulder on
The X-Files -
He wanted to believe.
Of course, Fox Mulder is a fictional character.
In a side note, apparently, Rumsfeld said last week to the Senate that while he did say in reference to Iraqi WMD "We know where they are" he didn't mean the weapons
themselves but in fact just the weapons
sites...
Read MSNBC's coverage of the 911 Commission getting "George and Dicked" around.Read the Chicago Tribune's coverage of the the Iraqi Intelligence Commission.