SFGate: "A former U.S. Army sergeant who trained Osama bin Laden's bodyguards and helped plan the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya was a U.S. government informant during much of his terrorist career."

"Newsweek has learned that in the months before 9/11, the U.S. Justice Department curtailed a highly classified program called 'Catcher's Mitt' to monitor Al Qaeda suspects in the United States, after a federal judge severely chastised the FBI for improperly seeking permission to wiretap terrorists. During the Bush administration's first few months in office, Attorney General John Ashcroft downgraded terrorism as a priority, choosing to place more emphasis on drug trafficking and gun violence." [Heli's Heaven and Hell Radio]

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What I have seen of the 9/11 panel till now is just a scam. The Republicans blame the Clinton administration and tell us they "wanted to...", "warned about...", "were making plans to...".

We know the Bush clique wanted a war with Iraq at all costs. They lied and cheated to get the world behind them.
AZCentral: "National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice refuses to testify under oath, insisting that presidential advisers need not answer to legislative bodies."

Rice is one of those responsible for the 9/11 debacle. That's why she does not want to appear before the panel.
Richard Clarke: "There's a lot of blame to go around, and I probably deserve some blame, too. But on January 24th, 2001, I wrote a memo to Condoleezza Rice asking for, urgently - underlined urgently - a Cabinet-level meeting to deal with the impending al Qaeda attack. And that urgent memo wasn't acted on. "I blame the entire Bush leadership for continuing to work on Cold War issues when they back in power in 2001. It was as though they were preserved in amber from when they left office eight years earlier. They came back. They wanted to work on the same issues right away: Iraq, Star Wars. Not new issues, the new threats that had developed over the preceding eight years." [Heli's Heaven and Hell Radio]

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