What are they hiding?

At the risk of treading into tinfoil hat country, I submit the following:

"A federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks
voted Friday to subpoena the Pentagon for documents related to the
activities of U.S. air defenses on the day of the terrorist hijackings."

Why does the commission need to subpoena
the Pentagon? Has it really come to that? Has our government really
become so dysfunctional that it needs to subpoena itself to find out
why it was attacked? And this is NOT the usual partisan bullshit:

The panel, headed by former New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean, a Republican, has also encountered resistance from the White House in its efforts to review sensitive intelligence documents.

This
is for real. Why are we being kept from this information? What,
exactly, do they have to hide? These are valid questions and they need
answers.

One commissioner, Democrat Richard Ben-Veniste, said the
Defense Department's failure to produce documents will force the
commission to postpone a planned hearing in January on the immediate
response to the hijackings by the nation's air security system. "Our
investigative staff will have to spend valuable time backtracking and
re-interviewing certain personnel," said Ben-Veniste, a former
Watergate prosecutor. "It is my view that given the very stringent time
constraints under which we are operating, the failure of agencies to
produce essential materials to us is simply unacceptable." At a hearing
earlier this year, Ben-Veniste dug into the length of time it took the
FAA to notify NORAD about American Airlines Flight 77 between the time
it deviated from its flight path to the time it crashed into the
Pentagon. The FAA knew that Los Angeles-bound Flight 77 left its course
at 8:55 a.m., Ben-Veniste said, but NORAD did not get official notice
of a hijacking until 9:24 a.m. A witness at the hearing, retired Maj.
Gen. Larry K. Arnold, who was in charge of NORAD on the day of the
attacks, said it
was "physically possible" that fighter jets could have beaten the
civilian airliner to the Pentagon had they been activated earlier.

The more I research, the more I feel like I only know the "where and
when" of September 11. I want to know who did it, why they did it, and
how they did it as well. 9/11 happened to all of us, not just those of
us who are in the Bush Administration. We deserve some answers, and I
don't think we should need a subpoena to get them.
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Posted by flow Frazao on November 8, 2003 at 09:44 PM | Permalink