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


To: Bald Eagle who wrote (541881)2/18/2004 11:52:11 AM
From: Skywatcher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
a few questions for the liar in the White House....and NOT from the press:
The Family Steering Committee Statement and Questions
Regarding the 9/11 Commission Interview with President Bush
t r u t h o u t | Report

Monday 16 February 2004

The Family Steering Committee believes that President Bush should provide sworn public
testimony to the full ten-member panel of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the
United States . Collectively, the Commissioners are responsible for fulfilling the Congressional
mandate. Therefore, each Commissioner must have full access to the testimony of all individuals and
the critical information that will enable informed decisions and recommendations.

Before an audience of the American people, the Commission must ask President Bush in sworn
testimony, the following questions:

1. As Commander-in-Chief on the morning of 9/11, why didn’t you return immediately to
Washington, D.C. or the National Military Command Center once you became aware that America
was under attack? At specifically what time did you become aware that America was under attack?
Who informed you of this fact?

2. On the morning of 9/11, who was in charge of our country while you were away from the
National Military Command Center? Were you informed or consulted about all decisions made in your
absence?

3. What defensive action did you personally order to protect our nation during the crisis on
September 11th? What time were these orders given, and to whom? What orders were carried out?
What was the result of such orders? Were any such orders not carried out?

4. In your opinion, why was our nation so utterly unprepared for an attack on our own soil?

5. U.S. Navy Captain Deborah Loewer, the Director of the White House Situation Room, informed
you of the first airliner hitting Tower One of the World Trade Center before you entered the Emma E.
Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. Please explain the reason why you decided to
continue with the scheduled classroom visit, fifteen minutes after learning the first hijacked airliner had
hit the World Trade Center.

6. Is it normal procedure for the Director of the White House Situation Room to travel with you? If
so, please cite any prior examples of when this occurred. If not normal procedure, please explain the
circumstances that led to the Director of the White House Situation Room being asked to accompany
you to Florida during the week of September 11th.

7. What plan of action caused you to remain seated after Andrew Card informed you that a second
airliner had hit the second tower of the World Trade Center and America was clearly under attack?
Approximately how long did you remain in the classroom after Card’s message?

8. At what time were you made aware that other planes were hijacked in addition to Flight 11 and
Flight 175? Who notified you? What was your course of action as Commander-in-Chief of the United
States?

9. Beginning with the transition period between the Clinton administration and your own, and
ending on 9/11/01, specifically what information (either verbal or written) about terrorists, possible
attacks and targets, did you receive from any source?

This would include briefings or communications from

• Out-going Clinton officials

• CIA, FBI, NSA, DoD and other intelligence agencies

• Foreign intelligence, governments, dignitaries or envoys

• National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice

• Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism czar

10. Specifically, what did you learn from the August 6, 2001, PDB about the terrorist threat that
was facing our nation? Did you request any follow-up action to take place? Did you request any further
report be developed and/or prepared?

11. As Commander-in-Chief, from May 1, 2001 until September 11, 2001, did you receive any
information from any intelligence agency official or agent that UBL was planning to attack this nation
on its own soil using airplanes as weapons, targeting New York City landmarks during the week of
September 11, 2001 or on the actual day of September 11, 2001?

12. What defensive measures did you take in response to pre-9/11 warnings from eleven nations
about a terrorist attack, many of which cited an attack in the continental United States? Did you
prepare any directives in response to these actions? If so, with what results?

13. As Commander-in-Chief from May 1, 2001 until September 11, 2001, did you or any agent of
the United States government carry out any negotiations or talks with UBL, an agent of UBL, or
al-Qaeda? During that same period, did you or any agent of the United States government carry out
any negotiations or talks with any foreign government, its agents, or officials regarding UBL? If so,
what resulted?

14. Your schedule for September 11, 2001 was in the public domain since September 7, 2001. The
Emma E. Booker School is only five miles from the Bradenton Airport, so you, and therefore the
children in the classroom, might have been a target for the terrorists on 9/11. What was the intention
of the Secret Service in allowing you to remain in the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, even
though they were aware America was under attack?

15. Please explain why you remained at the Sarasota, Florida, Elementary School for a press
conference after you had finished listening to the children read, when as a terrorist target, your
presence potentially jeopardized the lives of the children?

16. What was the purpose of the several stops of Air Force One on September 11th? Was Air
Force One at any time during the day of September 11th a target of the terrorists? Was Air Force
One’s code ever breached on September 11th?

17. Was there a reason for Air Force One lifting off without a military escort, even after ample time
had elapsed to allow military jets to arrive?

18. What prompted your refusal to release the information regarding foreign sponsorship of the
terrorists, as illustrated in the inaccessible 28 redacted pages in the Joint Intelligence Committee
Inquiry Report? What actions have you personally taken since 9/11 to thwart foreign sponsorship of
terrorism?

19. Who approved the flight of the bin Laden family out of the United States when all commercial
flights were grounded, when there was time for only minimal questioning by the FBI, and especially,
when two of those same individuals had links to WAMY, a charity suspected of funding terrorism?
Why were bin Laden family members granted that special privilege—a privilege not available to
American families whose loved ones were killed on 9/11?

20. Please explain why no one in any level of our government has yet been held accountable for
the countless failures leading up to and on 9/11?

21. Please comment on the fact that UBL’s profile on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives poster
does not include the 9/11 attacks. To your knowledge, when was the last time any agent of our
government had contact with UBL? If prior to 9/11, specifically what was the date of that contact and
what was the context of said meeting.

22. Do you continue to maintain that Saddam Hussein was linked to al Qaeda? What proof do you
have of any connection between al-Qaeda and the Hussein regime?

23. Which individuals, governments, agencies, institutions, or groups may have benefited from the
attacks of 9/11? Please state specifically how you think they have benefited.

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I'll add one?.....why did you HIDE FROM ADVERSITY IN AN IOWAN BUNKER??????
AND MAKE UP A STORY ABOUT DANGER TO AF ONE TO GIVE YOU A BUNK REASON????
CC



To: Bald Eagle who wrote (541881)2/18/2004 11:56:22 AM
From: JDN  Respond to of 769670
 
I would doubt that. Bush has led us successfully IMHO so far and I am not one for switching horses in mid stream, but in the event Bush were to lose I would sure prefer it be to Edwards then to Kerry whom I dont trust a bit. jdn