Distribution via the Unanswered Questions Wire
Sign up for the wire at:
Unanswered Questions : Thinking for ourselves.
UQ Wire Link - CBS Evening News
9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable
NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2003
FULL ARTICLE…
(CBS) For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying
publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston.
"This is a very, very important part of history and we've got to tell it right," said Thomas Kean.
"As you read the report, you're going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn't done and what should have been done," he
said. "This was not something that had to happen."
Appointed by the Bush administration, Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, is now pointing fingers inside
the administration and laying blame.
"There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because
they failed. They simply failed," Kean said.
To find out who failed and why, the commission has navigated a political landmine, threatening a subpoena to gain access
to the president's top-secret daily briefs. Those documents may shed light on one of the most controversial assertions
of the Bush administration – that there was never any thought given to the idea that terrorists might fly an airplane
into a building.
FULL ARTICLE…
*******
STANDARD DISCLAIMER FROM UQ.ORG: UnansweredQuestions.org does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in the above
article. We present this in the interests of research -for the relevant information we believe it contains. We hope that
the reader finds in it inspiration to work with us further, in helping to build bridges between our various
investigative communities, towards a greater, common understanding of the unanswered questions which now lie before us.