Sept. 11 commissioners thought they were limited to 2 hours with Bush

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Sept. 11 commission said Friday it went into its private interview with President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Vice-President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) with the understanding it would be restricted to about two hours.

The disclosure, which came amid questions as to why two Democratic commissioners left the three-hour meeting early, appears to contradict the suggestion by the Bush administration in March that it wouldn't be setting time limits amounting to one hour each for Bush and Cheney.

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The Democrats, Lee Hamilton and Bob Kerrey, left Thursday's meeting to attend previously scheduled appointments. Hamilton, who is chairman of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, attended a luncheon at the centre honouring Prime Minister Paul Martin; Kerrey left for a meeting with a senator to discuss appropriations for New School University, of which he is president.

Both explained Friday they allowed their appointments to stand because they expected the meeting, which began at 9:30 a.m. EDT, to conclude by about 11:30 a.m. Their early departures were not intended to snub the president nor abdicate their responsibility as commissioners, they said.

"I don't think I failed in my duties to be a good commissioner by giving up a tail end of a meeting," Kerrey said on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports. Kerrey said he considered cancelling the appointment Thursday morning but commission chairman Tom Kean said there was no need because "we'll be done by 11:30."

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suffice to talk about the 8 months in office leading up to 911, events and actions taken on the day, and lessons to be learned for future prevention?

This was the biggest, most complicated and most deadly terrorist attack in world history...and they believed an hour each would be enough?

was that Bush and Cheney were together, saw no reason for them to be under oath!!!!!

Guess who the senator? REPUBLICAN Pete Domenici, about the $$ for his university! Gee, I wonder if he was strongarmed into scheduling that meeting just then???? No meeting, no $$$$???

Lee Hamilton ran off to greet Paul Martin ...See thread in GD about that... Martin met Bush today (Friday), but yesterday in the Globe and Mail there was a story about how he said that nations should be able to skip the international organizations and just form little groups and do there thing...basically, what Bush did vis a vis the U.N. Comment in the article that Martin was moving closer to the Bush doctrine....Of course, we know that Martin is a shipping mogul...birds of a feather.

Article is in the current WMW, URL below in my sig.

Inbreeding. Look what it creates....

you`d see that kerry knows the whole meeting was a joke and it was. he knew that nothing would come of it....

The entire Bush regime should be put on trial for high treason, and once convicted, given the ultimate penalty. Anything short of that, is to insure that justice regarding 9/11 will not be done.