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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (13599)	4/9/2004 12:23:09 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Clinton (unlike Cheney-Bush) cooperates fully with 9-11 commission and wanted to keep talking with them all day. MSNBC Al-Qaida blamed It wasn’t until after the Bush administration took power that U.S. intelligence concluded al-Qaida had sponsored the attack on the ship. Some commissioners have been critical of the decision not to launch a retaliatory military strike. The person, who would speak only on condition of anonymity because Clinton’s testimony delved into classified materials, also said the former president explained the rationale for many of the terror-fighting policies his administration instituted and the message his administration left behind to the incoming Bush administration. Clinton “did not indicate anything fundamentally that he would have done differently” given what U.S. intelligence knew about Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida threat, the person said. Commission chairman Thomas Kean said Clinton told the commission he has wrestled with the issue of whether his administration could have done more. “He said he’s going back in his mind over and over again about whether there was something more he could’ve done,” Kean said. The panel said it didn’t plan to release specific details of the meeting, saying much of it involved classified information. Commissioners said Clinton addressed big-picture policy issues. 'Bipartisan way' “He was adamant about trying to work in a bipartisan way to fix the problems,” said Democratic commissioner Timothy Roemer, a former U.S. representative from Indiana. “He was quite honest and frank.” John Lehman, a former Navy secretary under President Reagan, agreed. “He did very well,” Lehman told CNN. “He gave us a lot of very helpful insights into things that happened, policy approaches.” A spokesman for Clinton, Jim Kennedy, said the former president was pleased to talk to the commission “and believed it was a very constructive meeting.”