11 september Witte Huis werkt onderzoekers 11 september tegen 1 2 3 'The White House is battling to keep a report on the terror attacks secret' 'Cover up' van officieel rapport 11 september 01mei03 Newsweek bericht over een 'behind-the-scenes battle to restrict public disclosure of key events relating to the attacks' van 11 september 2001. 'AT THE CENTER of the dispute is a more-than-800-page secret report prepared by a joint congressional inquiry detailing the intelligence and law-enforcement failures that preceded the attacks—including provocative, if unheeded warnings, given President Bush and his top advisers during the summer of 2001.' Witte Huis werkt de waarheid tegen... Newsweeks artikel The Secrets of September 11 vervolgt: 'The mammoth report reflects nearly 10 months of investigative work by a special staff hired jointly by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and overseen by Eleanor Hill, a former federal prosecutor and Pentagon inspector general. Hill’s team got access to hundreds of thousands of pages of classified documents from the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and other executive-branch agencies.' Om te voorkomen dat de burgers niet geschaadt zouden worden door zoveel openheid wilde de regering er eerst nog even doorheen bladeren. 'More than two months later, the working group came back with its decisions—and some members were flabbergasted. Entire portions remained classified. Some of the report—including some dealing with matters that had been extensively aired in public, such as the now famous FBI “Phoenix memo” of July 2001 reporting that Middle Eastern nationals might be enrolling in U.S. flight schools—were “reclassified.”' Over de Phoenix memo en andere duistere zaken, lees je meer in deze DaanSpeak-special over 11 september. ... om de verkiezingen te winnen met '11 september' De aap komt uit de mouw als we lezen: 'The tensions over the release of 9-11 related material seems especially relevant—if not ironic—in light of recent reports that the president’s political advisers have devised an unusual re-election strategy that essentially uses the story of September 11 as the liftoff for his campaign. The White House is delaying the Republican nominating convention, scheduled for New York City, until the first week in September 2004—the latest in the party’s history. That would allow Bush’s acceptance speech, now slated for Sept. 2, to meld seamlessly into 9-11 commemoration events due to take place in the city the next week. Some sources who have read the still-secret congressional report say some sections would not play quite so neatly into White House plans. One portion deals extensively with the stream of U.S. intelligence-agency reports in the summer of 2001 suggesting that Al Qaeda was planning an upcoming attack against the United States—and implicitly raises questions about how Bush and his top aides responded.' Presidentskandidaat en huidig democratisch senator Bob 'Graham is “increasingly frustrated” by the administration’s “unwillingness to release what he regards as important information the public should have about 9-11 [...]. “There has been a cover-up of this.”'. De tegenwerkingen werden al voorspeld onder de laatste kop in vorige DaanSpeak in deze serie. Volgende delen voor deze serie zijn in voorbereiding en gaan over beloningen uitgedeeld na 'falen' op 11 september en over meer en meer vraagtekens die inmiddels opdoemen over 11 september. DaanSpeak |