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04/03/2004 Archived Entry: "Another Bush flip-flop."
Another Bush flip-flop.
Damn, the man sure stands by his principles, no matter what (that's sarcasm, BTW).
The federal panel reviewing the Sept. 11 attacks will determine early next week whether thousands of classified counterterrorism documents from the Clinton administration were unduly held back by President Bush's aides.The Bush administration granted the Sept. 11 commission access to the documents Friday after Bruce Lindsey, who was legal adviser to former President Clinton, said officials didn't turn over all of Clinton's records to the panel.
The commission's lawyers will begin reviewing the material Monday and should know by Tuesday if additional documents should be released, panel commission spokesman Al Felzenberg said Friday.
"Mr. Lindsey voiced a concern. We shared the concern. So they have come up with a way of assuring us that we have access to the materials we need," Felzenberg said. "We'll know quickly if there are materials we should have or if they are duplicates."
Until then, Felzenberg said, the commission is withholding judgment as to why some documents weren't released.
"There's a lot of paper flying around. Let's see if there's more to the charge than we know," he said.
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A CBS News poll taken this week said seven in 10 Americans believe the Bush administration is either hiding something or lying about what it knew before the Sept. 11 attacks about possible terrorist attacks against the United States.
Anyone want to bet that that 70% played a part in Bush abandoning his 'principles' for the second time in a week? No, it couldn't be - Bush is a straight-shooter who means what he says and says what he means, a man who stands by his principles, a man who doesn't look at the polls to decide what to do.
Might have used up my sarcasm ration for the weekend with that one.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
By Law all presidential records are sealed for 5 years
There was alot of lawer speak going of between the 2 administrations for the records to be released. It's very unusual for this to happen.
Posted by Robin Hacker @ 04/03/2004 05:58 PM NY
