If Marion Jones returned her Olympic medals after admitting to using steroids, shouldn't George Tenet return his Presidential Medal of Freedom after this?MORE than five years ago, Congress and President Bush created the 9/11 commission. The goal was to provide the American people with the fullest possible account of the “facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001” — and to offer recommendations to prevent future attacks. Soon after its creation, the president’s chief of staff directed all executive branch agencies to cooperate with the commission.
The commission’s mandate was sweeping and it explicitly included the intelligence agencies. But the recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation.
There could have been absolutely no doubt in the mind of anyone at the C.I.A. — or the White House — of the commission’s interest in any and all information related to Qaeda detainees involved in the 9/11 plot. Yet no one in the administration ever told the commission of the existence of videotapes of detainee interrogations. Read the rest here.
Heckuva job, Georgie. My God, will we ever see any accountability?
(With apologies to all pigs and their admirers)
4 comments:
He should not only give that medal back, he should give all the money he made off that book to the familes who lost people in the war of terror.
Oh, absolutely. And then do jail time for lying to Congress.
My God, will we ever see any accountability?
No.
Because the Dimocratically-controlled CONGRESS would have to do that.
Acountability may come in unexpected ways. Maybe. Perhaps there's some learning here that will change things down the road, as history is the judge. Or perhaps I'm just being Pollyanna.
I'd like to see these folks pay for their many crimes. Yes, I want to scream, too.
Mentioning Marion Jones makes me wonder what things would be like if Congress investigated these crimes with the intensity that they have investigated the steroid/HGH use in baseball.
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