McCain asked about PNAC and 9/11 at town hall

McCain asked about PNAC and 9/11 at town hall
07/10/2008 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 9:46 am
Filed by David Edwards and Muriel Kane

During a town hall event in ****tsmouth, OH on Wednesday, John McCain was
asked by a member of
the audience whether his links to the parent organization of the Project
for a New American
Century explain why he has been reluctant to sup****t calls for a new
investigation of 9/11.
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The questioner began, "I was curious about a do***ent. Back in September
of 2000, the Project
for a New American Century, or PNAC, whose members included Dick Cheney,
Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb
Bush and Paul Wolfowitz, wrote a do***ent entitled 'Rebuilding Americans
Defenses.'"

As McCain turned and paced away from him, the questioner continued, "In
it, they state, quote,
"The process of transformation, even if it bring revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long
one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl
Harbor."

"Now, many Americans believe that that 'new Pearl Harbor' event took place
on 9/11," the
questioner went on, as McCain grimaced slightly. "And according to a
recent New York Times and
CBS News poll, 84% of Americans believe that there were some criminal
elements of our
government involved in 9/11."

Calls of disapproval began to arise from the audience, but the questioner
shot back, "Hold on!"
and continued asking McCain, "Can you tell us about your role as -- hold
on -- as president of
the 'New Citizen Project,' founded in 1994, which served as a chief
fund-raising and parent
organization to PNAC? And is this one of the factors that has made you so
reluctant to sup****t
the victims' family members and first responders who are begging for a new
investigation into
9/11?"

The boos became louder at that point, and McCain grimaced again, turned
his back and walked
away, but the questioner insisted, "It's a serious question."

"I have a serious answer, sir," McCain replied, "and that is that it was
Joe Lieberman and I --
a Democrat -- that sponsored the legislation for the 9/11 Commission. ...
And very frankly, the
administration was not, shall I say, enthusiastic about the establishment
of that commission.
.... I am proud of what the 9/11 Commission did. I am proud that we have
enacted many of the
reforms ... that they recommended. And I will stand by their
recommendations and their
conclusions, as will the overwhelming majority of Americans."

"It's a free country," McCain concluded. "You are free to disagree with
their conclusions. But
I am proud to have been one of those who was, along with Joe Lieberman,
responsible for the
establishment of the 9/11 Commission."

This video is from CNN.com, broadcast July 9, 2008.

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