{"id":975,"date":"2003-12-18T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T16:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/975.html"},"modified":"2003-12-18T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2003-12-18T16:17:42","slug":"republican-911-commission-chair-says-attacks-were-preventable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/republican-911-commission-chair-says-attacks-were-preventable\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican 9\/11 commission chair says attacks were preventable"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a strong feeling that we’ll be hearing a lot more about this story<\/a> in the coming months.<\/p>\n

For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9\/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston.<\/p>\n

“This is a very, very important part of history and we’ve got to tell it right,” said Thomas Kean. <\/p>\n

“As you read the report, you’re going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn’t done and what should have been done,” he said. “This was not something that had to happen.” <\/p>\n

Appointed by the Bush administration, Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, is now pointing fingers inside the administration and laying blame. <\/p>\n

“There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed,” Kean said.<\/i><\/p>\n

Just to reemphasize, Kean is a Republican, appointed to the commission by the Bush White House, not a Democratic partisan launching a Ken Starr-like witch hunt. Considering his standing, Kean’s conclusions will carry enormous weight.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to read too much between the lines, but it sounds as if Kean is prepared to name names and point some fingers at high-level White House staffers. <\/p>\n

At this point, it appears the question is not whether<\/i> Bush administration officials made tragic mistakes, but rather, which<\/i> Bush administration officials made these mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a strong feeling that we’ll be hearing a lot more about this story in the coming months. For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9\/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston. “This is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}