http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/wash-post-catches-mccain-campaign-lying.html
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Wash Post catches McCain campaign lying about 9/11
By John Aravosis (DC)
Haven't we had enough lies from our leaders about the war on terror?
Apparently, the McCain campaign doesn't think so.
They lit into Obama yesterday, trying to ****tray him as bad on terror,
but the thing is, they did it by lying.
And the Wa****ngton Post caught them.
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702819_2.html?sid=ST2008061703193
Here is what Team McCain claimed:
Tuesday, the McCain team drew a direct line between the prosecution of
the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,
saying that submitting the bombers to the criminal justice system was,
in the words of former Navy secretary and 9/11 Commission member John
Lehman, "a material cause" of the 2001 attacks.
Lehman participated in the McCain conference call.
Lehman said grand jury evidence in the 1993 bombing was "put under
seal" and not made available to the CIA, thus denying the agency
timely access to information that "would have enabled many of the dots
to be connected well before 9/11 and . . . give a good chance to have
prevented" the later attack.
In particular, he cited information concerning a connection between
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged ringleader of the 2001 attacks who
is imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, and the bombing.
And here's what really happened:
But both the re****t of the 9/11 Commission, which investigated
intelligence failures leading to the 2001 strikes, and the prosecutor
of the 1993 case disagreed with Lehman's version of history.
The commission's final re****t, which Lehman endorsed as a member of
the panel, gives no indication that any failure to share information
on the bombing with the intelligence community had "significance for
the story of 9/11."
Instead, the re****t cites political and intelligence failures to
understand the scope of the terrorist threat after the 1993 attack, as
well as a failure to fully analyze the implications of the available
information.
It also blames the FBI and the CIA for failing to effectively
communicate with each other, problems that were later addressed in the
USA Patriot Act and the reorganization of the intelligence community.
Grand jury secrecy "could have operated in these cases as a barrier to
information flowing from law enforcement to intelligence," former U.S.
attorney Mary Jo White, who successfully prosecuted six major
terrorism cases including the 1993 bombing, said Tuesday.
But, she added, "as a matter of fact it did not."
White and several people involved in the 9/11 Commission disputed
Lehman's assertion that "the CIA was not allowed to see that
evidence."
Lehman also described then-CIA Director George J. Tenet as
"flabbergasted at what he found in that material" once it was made
available to him. But Tenet made no such claim in his 2007 book.
Far from being unknown to the intelligence community, Mohammed was
indicted in January 1996 in connection with a plot to blow up
transpacific airliners.
The congressional joint inquiry on the Sept. 11 plot strongly
suggested that the intelligence community was well aware of Mohammed's
terrorist activities, but that agencies were unduly focused on
apprehending him in the airline case rather than on other plots still
in the planning stages.
So now we need to hear from the McCain campaign as to why they just
lied to the American people about September 11 and the war on terror.
Haven't we had enough lies from Republican presidents?
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