[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help] 

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Try It For 5 Days! - The Most EFFICIENT Way To LOSE FAT Number Of US Student Visas Issued To Asians Tumbles Range than U.S HIMARS, Russia Unveils New Variant of 300mm Rocket Launcher on KamAZ-63501 Chassis Keir Starmer’s Hidden Past: The Cases Nobody Talks About BRICS Bombshell! Putin & China just DESTROYED the U.S. Dollar with this gold move Clashes, arrests as tens of thousands protest flood-control corruption in Philippines The death of Yu Menglong: Political scandal in China (Homo Rape & murder of Actor) The Pacific Plate Is CRACKING: A Massive Geological Disaster Is Unfolding! Waste Of The Day: Veterans' Hospital Equipment Is Missing The Earth Has Been Shaken By 466,742 Earthquakes So Far In 2025 LadyX Half of the US secret service and every gov't three letter agency wants Trump dead. Tomorrow should be a good show 1963 Chrysler Turbine 3I/ATLAS is Beginning to Reveal What it Truly Is Deep Intel on the Damning New F-35 Report CONFIRMED “A 757 did NOT hit the Pentagon on 9/11” says Military witnesses on the scene NEW: Armed man detained at site of Kirk memorial: Report $200 Silver Is "VERY ATTAINABLE In Coming Rush" Here's Why - Mike Maloney Trump’s Project 2025 and Big Tech could put 30% of jobs at risk by 2030 Brigitte Macron is going all the way to a U.S. court to prove she’s actually a woman China's 'Rocket Artillery 360 Mile Range 990 Pound Warhead FED's $3.5 Billion Gold Margin Call France Riots: Battle On Streets Of Paris Intensifies After Macron’s New Move Sparks Renewed Violence Saudi Arabia Pakistan Defence pact agreement explained | Geopolitical Analysis Fooling Us Badly With Psyops The Nobel Prize That Proved Einstein Wrong Put Castor Oil Here Before Bed – The Results After 7 Days Are Shocking Sounds Like They're Trying to Get Ghislaine Maxwell out of Prison Mississippi declared a public health emergency over its infant mortality rate (guess why) Andy Ngo: ANTIFA is a terrorist organization & Trump will need a lot of help to stop them

9/11
See other 9/11 Articles

Title: Ben-Veniste admits 9/11 Commission knew about Tenet briefings
Source: Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/3/04418/8102
Published: Oct 3, 2006
Author: Jennifer Poole
Post Date: 2006-10-03 07:15:44 by Zipporah
Ping List: *9-11*     Subscribe to *9-11*
Keywords: None
Views: 184
Comments: 2

Ben-Veniste admits 9/11 Commission knew about Tenet briefings

by jennifer poole

Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 09:44:18 PM PDT

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:

referred questions about why the commission omitted any mention of the briefing in its report to Zelikow, the report's main author. Zelikow didn't respond to e-mail and telephone queries from McClatchy Newspapers.

I say "briefings" because it's not just "the Rice briefing," folks -- yes, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft got the damned briefing, too:

• jennifer poole's diary :: ::

as the McClatchy story leads off:

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

the story continues:

The State Department's disclosure Monday that the pair was briefed within a week after then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was told about the threat on July 10, 2001, raised new questions about what the Bush administration did in response, and about why so many officials have claimed they never received or don't remember the warning.

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:

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Another Democratic commissioner, former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, said that the staff of the Sept. 11 commission was polled in recent days on the disclosures in Mr. Woodward's book and agreed that the meeting "was never mentioned to us."

"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.

But on Monday evening, Rice's spokesman Sean McCormack issued a statement confirming that she'd received the CIA briefing "on or around July 10" and had asked that it be given to Ashcroft and Rumsfeld.

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?) Subscribe to *9-11*

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  

#1. To: Zipporah (#0)

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.

...any coincidence there's another school shooting making headlines, after the one last week? Too coinkydink for my believability threshold.

angle  posted on  2006-10-03   7:54:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

More testimony to the magnitude of the "Politically Correct" mandate of the report - versus the horror of the reality.

SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2006-10-03   12:34:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]