Did They Reveal the Absence of Confessions?
Why Were the 9/11 Tapes Destroyed? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS |CounterPunch.org Many Americans are content with the 9/11 Commission Report, but the two chairmen of the commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton are not. Neither was commission member Max Cleland, a US Senator who resigned from the 9/11 Commission, telling the Boston Globe (November 13, [...]
9/11 Commission’s Lee Hamilton ’52 and Thomas Kean Write of CIA Obstruction as Criminal Probe is Launched
DePauw University January 2, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. – Writing in today’s New York Times, 9/11 Commission co-chairs Lee H. Hamilton and Thomas H. Kean state, “the recent revelations that the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 [...]
CIA Tape Investigation: Another Whitewash in the Making
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2008/01/justice-department-appoints-insider-to.htmlAfter the co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission said that the CIA (and the White House) “obstructed our investigation”, attorney general Mukaseyappointed a prosecutor to conduct a criminal probe.Sounds good, right?Well, the prosecutor: “will not serve as a special prosecutor such as Patrick Fitzgerald, who operated autonomously” (AP) There’s nothing really “outside” about [prosecutor] John Dunham. He’s a [...]
CIA Tapes Were Kept From 9/11 Panel, Report Says
Agency Defends Its Role as Information Provider in Commission’s Investigation of Terrorist Plots By Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, December 23, 2007 Former members and staffers of the 9/11 Commission have concluded that the CIA withheld videotapes of harsh interrogation sessions even after specific and “very detailed” requests about the [...]
9/11 Panel Study Finds That C.I.A. Withheld Tapes
By MARK MAZZETTI/New York Times Published: December 22, 2007 WASHINGTON — A review of classified documents by former members of the Sept. 11 commission shows that the panel made repeated and detailed requests to the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 and 2004 for documents and other information about the interrogation of operatives of Al Qaeda, [...]
Hamilton sees obstruction
By Steve Benen/TalkingPointsMemo.com The CIA withheld information about its interrogation videos from quite a few people, but we can include the 9/11 Commission among those who are annoyed about having been misled. [I]n separate interviews on Friday, the co-chairmen, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, said they had made clear in hours of negotiations [...]
9/11 – the big cover-up?
Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission now admits that the official evidence they were given was ‘far from the truth’. Peter TatchellLondon Guardian original article Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history. What they [...]
