I’ll tell you how to form an effective commission: appoint a special counsel, let him or her appoint the team members, and don’t kneecap him this time.
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I think we should do exactly what the Republicans would have done had the party positions been reversed. NO REPUBLICAN on the commission unless they are true RINOS.
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Bipartisanship in the time of one-sided extremism-and-ultra-cynicism is just more extremism but also stupidity.
For the 1/6 commission to be a true fact-finding mission addressing the question of accountability for the attack, congressional leaders McConnell and Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) would have to be willing to appoint commissioners comfortable enough to put blame on Trump and elected Republicans.
Hahahaha. On several levels.
Also, important to keep in mind, as one of Josh’s correspondents wrote the other day:
If certain conclusions — e.g. that 9/11 could have been prevented had President Bush and his team been paying attention beforehand — were off-limits to the 9/11 Commission, far more intrusive restrictions would burden a Commission assessing January 6.
Everyone should know:
Bush was asleep at the wheel.
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That’s not a fact though. That’s simply speculative opinion.
Very OT, but this Twitter thread on brits reacting to all the pharma commercials during the Harry/Meg interview was something!
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See above:
Bush to briefer: “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.”
Your comments add nothing factual. You will be utterly unsuccessful in your efforts. Bush was not given specific info on the attack only a general warning. Whether he should have changed our posture is a different issue.
Yep. Case closed.
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Who appoints the appointer?
Bush was asleep at the wheel. The ignoramus didn’t give a shit beforehand. And then there was the ultra cynicism – total exploitation – that followed. Everyone should know that, but they don’t.
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Bipartisanship was possible when no elected Republicans supported the terrorist bombing of the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and no elected Democrats accused them of complicity.
Today, ALL Republicans are complicit in the lies about the 2020 election that led to the Jan 6 coup attempt. Most are direct liars about the 2020 election, with a large minority of indirect liars who trojan-horse the direct liars’ lies into the grammatical form of a “question” they’re “just asking.”
Seven Republicans are not liars but their ongoing presence in Washington with “-R” after their names, enables and empowers the rest of the liars.
So there can be no bipartisanship.
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Worse than that, the dimson white house was openly bragging about their ABC policy: Anything But Clinton (if Clinton was doing it, they were against it).
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Perhaps you’re hard of hearing. You’re the last person to try to inform me of the failures of the Bush admin. However, that doesn’t give you license to make shit up. We leave that to rapey racist supporters of Diaper Don.
That’s just SOP. The worse part was their invention of ‘fact’ to support the invasion of Iraq. The fallout from that pales in comparison to the effects of 9/11 IMO.
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“Not Your Grandma’s GOP”
Well, actually, they ARE your grandma’s GOP, if your grandma happened to be Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS.
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Or just Nixon and Lee Atwater.
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Here’s the fix:
- Make Senate cloture on debates (filibuster) go into effect automatically unless 41 Senate members vote to affirmatively continue it.
- Require all Senate debate to be done live and in person.
- End all non-germane debate. (No more reading Green Eggs and Ham)
- The House and Senate vote to empower a former president from each party to jointly select a non-partisan commission that would investigate the treason riot of Jan. 6th. (Keep Moscow Mitch out of the process entirely.)
- Congress approves the new commission and fully funds it.
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That doesn’t quite express the situation clearly.
The administration deliberately deprecated and ignored the Al Qaeda working group and the warning.
So while “asleep at the wheel” is fairly accurate, it fails to point out that he didn’t accidentally drift off. He settled in to take a nap, while driving.
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The fact is, he did change our posture.
He ignored Islamist terrorism entirely, including the Cabinet level involvement that Clinton established. And refused to allow the Al Qaeda team to present anything to NSC.
We can’t be certain that the outcome would have been different. We know, that after ignoring warnings from the previous administration, 9/11 happened.
We can guess, that had it not been ignored, events would not have unfolded identically.
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You are of course being way to assertive in claiming facts regarding your claim they were PROACTIVELY ignoring the threat. There’s no evidence of that, that’s just your opinion. My posts stand as written.
We can guess, if Gore had won the election… but that’s just guessing.
“Now, that doesn’t mean that he did everything he should have done, but the president of the United States was active on these issues in the Clinton administration. The president of the United States was not active on these issues prior to 9/11 in the Bush administration,” Clarke said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna4619346
It’s a distinction.
I guess you could say that believing Clinton’s focus on Al Qaeda was foolish and should not be continued isn’t the same as actively ignoring it.
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