NewMexiKen wouldn’t want you to miss this news story:
American aviation officials were warned as early as 1998 that Al Qaeda could “seek to hijack a commercial jet and slam it into a U.S. landmark,” according to previously secret portions of a report prepared last year by the Sept. 11 commission. The officials also realized months before the Sept. 11 attacks that two of the three airports used in the hijackings had suffered repeated security lapses.
My question is this: Why was it seemingly so important to the White House to keep this part of the report secret? “Too sensitive for public release,” as the White House claimed? Or too sensitive for poltical purposes, as seems more likely?
Read the commission report here.
Gee, I wonder…. The report was completed Aug. 21, 2004, and released on Sept. 12, 2004–less than two months before the 2004 elections? Yep, I could see how that would make it “too sensitive for public release,” in the eyes of the administration.