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9/11 See other 9/11 Articles Title: Ben-Veniste admits 9/11 Commission knew about Tenet briefings 9/11 Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste "confirmed to McClatchy Newspapers" today that George Tenet had given secret testimony to the 9/11 Commission in January 2004 about his attempts to convince the White House about the urgency of the threat from bin Laden in the summer of 2001. Tenet told the 9/11 Commission he was willing to testify publicly about the briefings he'd given Rice -- and Ashcroft and Rumsfeld! -- in July 2001, and he'd even showed the commissioners slides from the PowerPoint presentation he'd prepared for the July briefings. Ben-Veniste did NOT explain why the 9/11 Commissioners left these briefings out of their report -- or why he (as late as yesterday) was still lying about what the 9/11 Commission knew. Instead he: I say "briefings" because it's not just "the Rice briefing," folks -- yes, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft got the damned briefing, too: as the McClatchy story leads off: the story continues: This McClatchy story, "Rumself, Ashcroft said to have received warning of attack," by Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott is huge -- not that all the other stories going down aren't. Both Ben-Veniste and 9/11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow gave the NY Times strong denials yesterday, in a story entitled, "9/11 Panel Members Weren't Told of Meeting," that the 9/11 Commission knew anything about the Rice briefing. Apparently, these quotes below were all lies: "This is certainly something we would have wanted to know about," he said, referring to the July 10, 2001, meeting. He said he had attended the commission's private interviews with both Mr. Tenet and Ms. Rice and had pressed "very hard for them to provide us with everything they had regarding conversations with the executive branch" about terrorist threats before the Sept. 11 attacks. Why did Democrat Richard Ben-Veniste go along with the coverup? Why was he still lying yesterday? Why did he stop lying today? Was it just the early version McClatchy story that made him realize the gig was up? (the first version of the story I saw earlier tonight didn't have the Veniste acknowledgment, just three senior intelligence agency officials confirming that Tenet's 2004 secret testimony to the 9/11 Commission took place. What else did the 9/11 Commission lie about? This story is evolving fast -- apparently, tonight Rice's spokeswoman has confirmed that Rice did get the July 10 briefing after all, despite her lack of memory about it. all bets are off, folks. god knows what will happen -- what more will come out -- the REST of this week!! (In an Associated Press story yesterday, Ashcroft said it was "disappointing" that he hadn't been briefed. Liar. I wonder if Rumsfeld made any similar lying comments yesterday?)
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
...any coincidence there's another school shooting making headlines, after the one last week? Too coinkydink for my believability threshold.
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