Bush Administration Blocks CIA 9/11 Report

I dunno if this has already been posted, but a cursory skimming didn’t suggest so…

The CIA’s 9/11 report is apparently being blocked until after the election. Why? If there’s nothing damning to the administration, then the simple act of holding up the report is worse than the report itself.

Unless, of course, there IS something damning… :dubious:

I dunno if this belongs here or in GD, because I rarely venture into GD… but if it is deserving to go elsewhere, feel free to move it. I just anticipated some very Pit-ish responses.

Would you happen to have a link that doesn’t require registration to read it? I don’t wanna give the LA Times my E-mail addy, and BugMeNot doesn’t work on this version of Firefox.

Username: sdmb1
Password: thedope

Is this new? Because I know it was mentioned when the 9-11 Commission report came out that a second report, covering whether Iraq WMD intelligence was “cherry picked” or not, wouldn’t be released until January 2005. It didn’t get a lot of coverage in the mainstream “liberal” media, but it was there.

Isn’t this the same thing?

I’m going to withhold judgment on this one.

The White House blocking the release of the final release of a CIA report is just way too obvious.

Here’s a blog that discusses it.

http://www.robertscheer.com/

I’d be outraged if I weren’t so completely unsurprised.

I’m so jaded by now, I’m wondering if I even care before. If you’re delusional enough to vote for Bush at this moment, that report ain’t going to change a thing. I say let them sit on it.

Hopefully someone leaks it. (fingers crossed)

Though I concur that it won’t change the minds of Bush-voting shitheads, it could go a long way towards swaying those inscrutable undecideds.

If anyone is undecicided at this point, they should locate the nearest bridge and jump off it. What the hell are they waiting for to sway them?

Jesus, I need some coffee.

I’m so jaded by now, I’m wondering if I even care anymore

Undecided

Important stuff, like if a picture comes out of Kerry looking stupid riding a tank (like with Dukakis).

The problem, as I see it, is that so many Bush supporters don’t care about the failures before 9/11. They are pleased that Bush is “kicking ass” somewhere, anywhere, that he’s thumbed his nose at the UN, which they hate, and that he cuts taxes. They don’t care what problems these steps create, they only know that they like the action.

I blame Hollywood, myself, …and all those video games they play…these folks are addicted to the feeling they get when:

“It blowed up, it blowed up real good.”

It looks like that’s a full article that you’ve quoted that has a copyright on it. You might wanna have a mod edit that for you.

How about a picture of Bush looking stupid, like just about everywhere he goes? :wink:

Two weeks to go before the election, with so many people at the CIA pissed off that the Bush team has used the agency as scapegoats for the administration’s failures and manipulations, there’s no way this thing doesn’t see the light of day. I guaran-damn-tee every journalist worth his or her salt is riffling through the rolodex looking for somebody with access to (a) the report and (b) a photocopier who’s willing to anonymously stick it to these self-absorbed loons. I give it a week at most.

I sure hope somebody leaks the report. It was on the CIA website about 2 weeks ago. I bet the CIA people are getting tired of being the whipping boy, and for being blamed for reports that Bush ignored.

Ask, and it shall be given…

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/10/21/news/intel.html

Pentagon official distorted intelligence, report says

Feith based intelligence. Swell. I’ll give this its own thread, maybe, 'cause this deserves some hopping up and down mad posting.

You may be thinking of the second SSCI report that’s due.

Might I respectfully suggest that this is an overly simplistic view?

Granted, there are republicans out there (and lots of 'em!) who fit your description to a T; but there are also lots out there who honestly believe that, all evidence to the contrary, Bush is trying to do what is best for the country and for the world as a whole.

There is even a segment of republicans who have grave misgivings about what the Bush administration is up to, but will still vote for him because they honestly feel that the alternative is worse.

Then there are republicans like myself who hate the fact that we’ll be voting democrat for the first time in our lives on Nov. 2nd. And praying that Kerry can live up to his own hype.