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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (257740)	5/22/2002 7:03:16 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

I don't know about the requirement they be secular, I think as long as social justice can be meted out fairly then theocracy can be ok. I don't know, I don't see why not. Thank you for the welcome back. I will try to maintain a presence here, but one never knows. Here is what I been saying about investigations: -- Cheney Fears Leaks From Any New Sept. 11 Inquiry May 22, 2002 04:47 PM ET Email this article Printer friendly version By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday he feared a new Sept. 11 inquiry proposed by the top Senate Democrat would leak intelligence secrets and undercut U.S. efforts to prevent future attacks. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle on Tuesday said he would push for an independent commission after disclosures suggesting the White House missed a series of hints last year that critics believe might have helped prevent the attack. In an interview with CNN's "Larry King Live," Cheney called suggestions that President Bush had forewarning of the Sept. 11 attacks that killed about 3,000 people "despicable" and rejected expanding the inquiry beyond the one under way by the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committees. "Our concern is that if we now lay another investigation on top of that (it) would just multiply the potential sources of leaks and disclosures of information that we can't disclose," Cheney said according to interview excerpts released by CNN. "The key to our ability to defend ourselves and to take out the terrorists lies (in) intelligence," Cheney added, noting there have been calls for the disclosure of an Aug. 6 memo in the president's daily intelligence briefing. "This is the most sensitive product ... of the intelligence community. It comes from our most sensitive and secret sources. If there are leaks from that document ... we will lose the capacity to defend ourselves against future attacks," he said. "If we now start adding commissions, nobody is going to come back and shut down this one. There is not just going to be just one, there will be several and we can't afford to have several," the vice president added. The debate over an independent commission flared after last week's disclosure, confirmed by the White House, that Bush received an analysis on Aug. 6 raising the possibility of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network seeking to hijack planes. 'A DESPICABLE STATEMENT' The United States blames al Qaeda for the attacks in which 19 men hijacked four U.S. commercial aircraft, driving two into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon. The fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field after a scuffle between passengers and the hijackers. Critics have seized on the Aug. 6 analysis and on a recent disclosure that an FBI agent in Phoenix last summer recommended his superiors look for al Qaeda members training at U.S. flight schools as evidence the Bush administration did not do everything it could to prevent the attack. Cheney has angrily rejected the idea that Bush had forewarning of the Sept. 11 attacks. "When members of Congress suggest that the president of the United States had foreknowledge of the attack on September 11, I think that's outrageous," Cheney said. "That's a gross outrageous political attack and it's totally uncalled for." "The implication that somehow we had prior knowledge and didn't act on it, I think, is a despicable statement." Separately, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said al Qaeda detainees at the American navy base in Guantanamo, Cuba, were trained in deceiving their interrogators and suggested this was a deliberate effort to mislead the United States. "If you behave off of inaccurate information, it costs you time and it costs you money," Rumsfeld told reporters. "There is no question but that it happens. These people are well trained. You've seen their training manuals." reuters.com