9/11 report will detail mistakes, panel says

[Gloria]

The whole whitewash, previewed for your reading pleasure....


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/11/MNGPH63KNC1.DTL


9/11 report will detail mistakes, panel says
Chronology to cite errors dating back years

Philip Shenon, New York Times
Sunday, April 11, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
Chronicle Sections

Washington -- With new evidence made public almost daily to show how the Sept. 11 attacks might have been prevented, the independent commission investigating them says its final report will offer a book-length chronology of the law- enforcement, intelligence and military failures that stopped the government from understanding the threat of al Qaeda until it was too late.

Many of the missed opportunities are well documented, especially those in the months before the attacks: the CIA's delay until August 2001 of raising an alert about two of the terrorists, who by then were already in the country; the FBI's failure to follow up on a warning in July from a Phoenix agent that al Qaeda terrorists might be training at American flight schools; and the bureau's failure to understand the significance of Zacarias Moussaoui, the flight school student arrested in Minnesota a month later and later linked to the Sept. 11 hijackers.

But members of the bipartisan commission say that the government's missed opportunities date back many years over several presidencies and involve other branches of government, and that they will all need to be explored in the panel's final report, scheduled for release in July.

"This was not something that had to happen," said Thomas H. Kean, the chairman of the commission and a former Republican governor of New Jersey. Kean has gone further than other panel members in arguing that the attacks were clearly preventable.

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[wryter2000]

1. What I'm hoping

I think the report (if we get to see it) will show errors from many admnistrations. I just hope that it disallows the "war on terra" as a Bush strategy. Saying "I wasn't any worse than those other guys" doesn't make for much of a warrior.