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

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (481750)	10/26/2003 3:53:41 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"The best my opponents can do is ask questions today that they should have asked before they supported the war," former Vermont governor Howard Dean declared in a new television ad about Iraq airing in New Hampshire Good line. That is a simple and serious challenge, not just to the weak and spineless Dems in Congress, but to the Bush administration to come clean, or suffer calls by the American people for accountability and an end to the lies. What is being said here is that we need not only an end to the lies, but an end to the supporters of the liars. That's Dean's message. That sounds like actual rather than spin-doctored leadership.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (481750)	10/26/2003 6:04:52 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 769670

NEWS: 9/11 Commission Threat To Subpoena Oval Office Intelligence Reports October 26, 2003 The chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States says that the White House is continuing to withhold several highly classified intelligence documents from the panel and that he is prepared to subpoena the documents if they are not turned over within weeks. (New York Times Article) The chairman, Thomas H. Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, also said in an interview on Friday that he believed the bipartisan 10-member commission would soon be forced to issue subpoenas to other executive branch agencies because of continuing delays by the Bush administration in providing documents and other evidence needed by the panel. "Any document that has to do with this investigation cannot be beyond our reach," Mr. Kean said on Friday in his first explicit public warning to the White House that it risked a subpoena and a politically damaging courtroom showdown with the commission over access to the documents, including Oval Office intelligence reports that reached President Bush's desk in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks. He said that while he had not directly threatened a subpoena in his recent conversations with the White House legal counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, "it's always on the table, because they know that Congress in their wisdom gave us the power to subpoena, to use it if necessary." Earlier this month, the commission voted to subpoena the Federal Aviation Administration after it decided the agency withheld documents related to the attacks. The commission has "been very successful in getting a lot of materials that I don't think anybody has ever seen before," he said. "Within the legal constraints that (the White House) seem to have, they've been fully cooperative. But we're not going to be satisfied until we get every document that we need." The commission, created by Congress last year, must complete its work by May 2004, a deadline some members have said might be impossible to meet because of the administration's delays. The commission is the latest body to complain about access to administration documents. In August, the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, said Vice President Dick Cheney stymied its probe into his energy task force by refusing to turn over key documents. Senator John McCain has said he may subpoena the Pentagon for documents related to an Air Force plan to lease Boeing Co. 767s as refuelling planes. The Arizona Republican said the Defense Department has refused to hand over relevant records.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (481750)	10/26/2003 6:06:45 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

NEWS: Bush administration accused of ignoring requests of Sept. 11 commission Sunday, October 26, 2003 (10-26) 12:12 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Members of both parties are accusing the White House of stonewalling the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by blocking its demands for documents despite threats of a subpoena. "I call on the White House to turn over the documents they are withholding from the independent commission -- and do it now," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., co-author of the legislation that created the independent commission. The 10-member, bipartisan commission has until May 27 to submit a report that also will deal with law enforcement, diplomacy, immigration, commercial aviation and the flow of assets to terror organizations. "If they continue to refuse, I will urge the independent commission to take the administration to court," said Lieberman, who is running for president. "And if the administration tries to run out the clock, (Arizona Republican Sen.) John McCain and I will go to the floor of the Senate to extend the life of the commission." Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that it would be in the administration's interest to release documents the commission has requested. "Americans and our allies across the globe must have confidence in our leadership," said Hagel, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has frequently criticized Bush's execution of the campaign against terrorists. "They must trust our processes. And that certainly includes our intelligence community's results." White House spokeswoman Ashley Snee defended the administration's cooperation with the investigation and said the White House hoped to meet the commission's request for documents. At the president's direction, the executive branch has dedicated tremendous resources to the commission, including provision of more than 2 million pages of documents, Snee said. Earlier this month, the independent commission voted to issue subpoenas to the Federal Aviation Administration for documents pertaining to the investigation. The commission said the FAA subpoena will "put other agencies on notice that our document requests must be taken as seriously as a subpoena." Commission chairman Thomas Kean, former Republican governor of New Jersey, told The New York Times in an interview published Sunday that he is prepared to subpoena documents from the White House if they are not turned over during the next several weeks. sfgate.com