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Sunday, April 04, 2004
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[AP Politics] By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration gave the federal panel reviewing the Sept. 11 attacks access Friday to thousands of classified counterterrorism documents from the Clinton administration.
Bush officials granted the Sept. 11 commission's request to review the material after Bruce Lindsey, former legal adviser to President Clinton (news - web sites), said the administration failed to turn over all of Clinton's records to the panel.
The commission's lawyers will begin reviewing the material Monday and should know within a day and a half if additional documents should be released, said commission spokesman Al Felzenberg. The panel isn't making prejudgments until then, he said.
"There's a lot of paper flying around," Felzenberg said. "We'll know quickly if there are materials we should have or if they are duplicates."
Lindsey said Thursday that the commission isn't getting a full picture of Clinton's terrorism policies because the Bush administration had only forwarded 25 percent of the 11,000 records it wanted to provide the panel.
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A review of White House actions in the summer of 2001 shows an impulse to deal more forcefully with terrorist threats that peaked July 5 and leveled off until Sept. 11. By David Johnstonand Eric Schmitt. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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By PHILIP SHENON and DAVID E. SANGER
The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton's White House files from being turned over to the panel's investigators.
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Monday, March 29, 2004
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Condoleezza Rice acknowledged that on the day after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush asked Richard A. Clarke to find out if Iraq was involved. By Eric Lichtblau. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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Saturday, March 27, 2004
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Under mounting pressure from Democrats, the White House offered to have Condoleezza Rice answer more questions. By Adam Nagourney and Richard W. Stevenson. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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The White House has finally stepped over the line. After doing everything in its power to obstruct the work of the 9/11 commission, the Bush administration is now manipulating the proceedings by feeding questions to the Republican commissioners. Here'... [Kicking Ass]
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Thursday, March 25, 2004
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[Washington Post: Nation and Politics] By Dana Milbank
The Sept. 11 commission shed its bipartisan spirit and turned a Senate hearing room into a courtroom yesterday for the testimony of Richard A. Clarke, the White House counterterrorism chief-turned-Bush administration whistle-blower.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004
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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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The US secretary of state, Colin Powell, today denied that his administration ignored warnings of a terrorist threat. [Guardian Unlimited]
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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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Monday, March 22, 2004
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The counterterrorism coordinator said that the administration did not take Al Qaeda seriously enough before the 2001 attacks. By David Stout. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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US: Former chief counter-terrorism adviser accuses Bush of doing "a terrible job" in protecting America against attack. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Saturday, March 20, 2004
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[Washington Post: Editorial]
"Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction and wasn't connected to the September 11 tragedy. George Bush lied, and my son died," said a tearful Fernando Suarez at an unofficial memorial for the fallen soldiers outside Dover Air Force Base, where the bodies of U.S. soldiers are brought home and which is off limits to scrutiny by the media.
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Senior Clinton officials say they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda was the worst security threat facing the nation. By Philip Shenon. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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[Washington Post: Nation and Politics]
The joint Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency guidance also told women of childbearing age to avoid shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish because of high mercury levels.
The recommendation regarding tuna was immediately attacked as inadequate by a member of the FDA advisory panel that addressed it. University of Arizona toxicology professor Vas Aposhian resigned from the panel, saying the advisory did not reflect the experts' view that children and childbearing women should not eat albacore tuna, and should eat less light tuna than the advisory recommends.
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US election: Noam Chomsky, the political theorist and leftwing guru, gives his reluctant endorsement to the Democratic presidential contender, John Kerry, calling him "Bush-lite". [Guardian Unlimited]
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[AP Politics]By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. - Federal attorneys said Friday that they do not believe North Carolina's new legislative districts harm minority voters, a decision that keeps the state's July 20 primary on track.
The Justice Department (news - web sites), writing to a three-judge federal panel in Washington, said it will not challenge the state's latest House and Senate maps and has no problem if the judges declare them lawful.
The federal government's agreement that the maps conform to the U.S. Voting Rights Act is a victory for the largely Democratic leaders in the General Assembly who drew the districts that were approved in November.
Two earlier sets of maps were struck down by state courts for violating the North Carolina constitution.
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[AP Politics]
Korsmo did not make any mention in the letter of the controversy surrounding his fund-raising activities. Published reports have said that Korsmo and his wife, former Labor Department (news - web sites) official Michelle Larson Korsmo, are the targets of a Justice Department (news - web sites) investigation into a possible coverup of alleged campaign finance violations.
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