Guess who's heading the investigation into 11 Sep?

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That’s right, our old buddy Henry (Kissinger). How corrupt can you get!!!
Shame (yet again) on the B-C duo (Bush - Cheney), but what do they care - just another case of wool over the American people’s eyes.
Of course there’s been no (negligible?) rumpus about this in the mainstream media.

Oh for a really free press in the “land of the free”.

"Published on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 by The Nation
Kissinger’s Back…As 9/11 Truth-Seeker for Bush
by David Corn

Asking Henry Kissinger to investigate government malfeasance or nonfeasance is akin to asking Slobodan Milosevic to investigate war crimes. Pretty damn akin, since Kissinger has been accused, with cause, of engaging in war crimes of his own. Moreover, he has been a poster-child for the worst excesses of secret government and secret warfare. Yet George W. Bush has named him to head a supposedly independent commission to investigate the nightmarish attacks of September 11, 2001, a commission intended to tell the public what went wrong on and before that day. This is a sick, black-is-white, war-is-peace joke–a cruel insult to the memory of those killed on 9/11 and a screw-you affront to any American who believes the public deserves a full accounting of government actions or lack thereof. It’s as if Bush instructed his advisers to come up with the name of the person who literally would be the absolute worst choice for the post and, once they had, said, “sign him up.”

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Appropriately, Kissinger is a man on the run for his past misdeeds. He is the target of two lawsuits, and judges overseas have sought him for questioning in war-crimes-related legal actions.

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A fellow who has coddled state-sponsored terrorism has been put in charge of this terrorism investigation. A proven liar has been assigned the task of finding the truth.

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He and the Bush-Cheney White House agree on open government: the less the better.

Remember, the White House was never keen on setting up an independent commission that would answer to the public. Cheney at one point reportedly intervened to block a compromise that had been painstakingly worked out in Congress regarding the composition and rules of the commission.
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The public would be better served and the victims of 9/11 better honored by no commission rather than one headed by Kissinger. "

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1128-04.htm

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Re: Guess who’s heading the investigation into 11 Sep?

Yeah, very credible source you’ve got :rolleyes:

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Sorry, but IMHO there is nothing wrong with the commondreams.org website...
As a general FYI, the article quoted is derived from The Nation (article published on 27th November 2002); the Nation is a well-known news publication, started in 1865, to which quite a few prominent scholars and academics have contributed pieces over the past years. IMO nothing lacking in the source's credibility. (Whether or not one agrees with the sentiments of the article is another issue entirely, i'm just pointing out that the article itself is derived from a perfectly reputable source).

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Originally posted by Nadia_H: *
Sorry, but IMHO there is nothing wrong with the commondreams.org website...
As a general FYI, the article quoted is derived from *The Nation (article published on 27th November 2002); the Nation is a well-known news publication, started in 1865, to which quite a few prominent scholars and academics have contributed pieces over the past years. IMO nothing lacking in the source's credibility. (Whether or not one agrees with the sentiments of the article is another issue entirely, i'm just pointing out that the article itself is derived from a perfectly reputable source).
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Some people think even the National Review is credible.

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Yes the same Kissinger who was President Nixon's key foreign-policy aide during the secret bombing of Cambodia (that killed many innocent civilians) and the U.S. backed coup that overthrew Salvador Allende, Chile's leftist president.

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>>Some people think even the National Review is credible.<<
Kareem, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. You are not favourably inclined towards the Nation, i would not be caught dead reading the National Review or (for a Canadian example), the National Post. So be it. It is a subjective issue. Arriving at a source that everyone would be pleased with is, IMHO, an impossiblity.

A good read by Julian Borger, touching upon many of the issues raised in the original article of this thread as well as the comments by 5Abi regarding some of Henry’s controversial behind-the-scenes measures.

Henry’s revenge, Julian Borger, The Guardian, 29 November 2002 [Excerpts only]

The prophet of realpolitik, who once famously claimed that power was the ultimate aphrodisiac, now has a chance to live out his dreams again - a man of ideas whose time has come once more in the harsh light of post-September 11 politics.

In that light, the secret bombing of Cambodia, which he orchestrated with Richard Nixon, could be argued to be the ultimate act of preemption, a concept on which the Bush administration’s new national security doctrine is based. The same goes for his role in helping oust Salvador Allende from power in Chile, and his replacement by General Augusto Pinochet. The prevailing climate in national security circles in the age of terrorism favours early action against potential threats, before they pose direct danger.

…]The German-born statesman is also well placed to appreciate the interplay of big money and politics, an alchemy that is at the heart of the Bush administration. At the head of Kissinger Associates since 1982, he has sold his expertise in the workings of the Washington policy machine and his international contacts to corporate clients, most of whom choose to remain anonymous, but who are thought to include Exxon Mobil, Arco and American Express.

Kissinger is also on the “European Strategy Board” of a Dallas investment company called Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, one of the biggest financial contributors to George Bush’s political career. Tom Hicks, one of its partners, was instrumental in Bush’s rise: his purchase of the Texas Rangers baseball team, in which the president had a stake, helped make him a millionaire. …Kissinger has been helped back from eternal obscurity by a deep desire on the part of the nation’s conservatives to avenge past humiliations, when men they saw as heroes were forced to answer to the law, and sometimes go to jail.

Kissinger’s second act is sweeter than most - his murky past has not only gone unpunished, it now looks like the unsettling prologue for US policy in years to come.

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Gosh... I thought he was probobly dead and buried. He's kinda old.

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I read about this news a week ago and i just thought is it even worth the investigation!

really a waste of time as posted by other guppshup members it is laughable to ask somebody like henry (blood on my hands )kissinger god knows how many millions of deaths this mans policies have caused to investigate sept 11

Whats next ariel sharon to investigate israeli troop masscres!

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All you Henry K bashers seem to miss something here. This Commission is not being designed to pacify any foreigners or foreign governments. Nor is it being designed as an instrument of political partisanship to bash Americans of any particular political party. It is intended to strengthen our country's security by trying to find out if certain intelligence failures occured pre-9/11 and, if so, how they can be corrected. The appointments to lead the Commission were made with the American public in mind. With the appointment of George Mitchell as Vice Chairman, the overwhelming number of Americans at both ends of the political spectrum will feel that the Kissinger/Mitchell team will guide the Commission to do the kind of job that is in the best interest of America. Chile and Cambodia may be important to some, but they are unrelated to his qualifications for the job he has been asked to do.

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I was just watching CNN, and after there "Hey we hate Muslims hour"-they announced that the investigation has been handed over to Saif and the cat who started this thread.

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Good riddance. Not a moment too soon.

Kissinger quits attacks inquiry role, BBC, 13 December 2002

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has resigned as chairman of a commission investigating events leading up to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States. Mr Kissinger, who had been in the job for just 16 days, had been criticised for refusing to release the names of clients at his consulting firm.

“It is clear that, although specific potential conflicts can be resolved in this manner, the controversy would quickly move to the consulting firm I have built and own,” Mr Kissinger wrote in a letter to President George W Bush, who appointed him. “I have, therefore, concluded that I cannot accept the responsibility you proposed.”

The BBC’s Tom Carver in Washington says the episode is enormously embarrassing for Mr Bush, who has recently lost several key members of his administration. Our correspondent says questions will be asked about why questions about possible conflicts of interest were not raised before Mr Kissinger’s appointment.

The 10-member commission has been given 18 months to examine issues such as aviation security and border problems, along with intelligence failures. It was given a broad mandate, building on the limited joint inquiry conducted by the House of Representatives and Senate intelligence committees.

In a statement, President Bush said: “It is with regret that I accept Dr Kissinger’s decision to step down as chairman of the National Commission to investigate the events of September 11 2001 and the years that led up to that event.” He promised to pick a new chairman to help “uncover every detail and learn every lesson of September 11, even as we act on what we have learned so far to better protect and defend America”.

The decision was another blow for the new panel, whose original vice chairman, George Mitchell, resigned from the commission on Wednesday, partly because of pressures to quit his law firm. The commission was initially opposed by the White House but was set up following pressure from families of those who lost their lives in the attacks.

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<~~~ read recintly that H.K. resigned... mmmm guess topic is moot.