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Gold9472
09-17-2006, 10:51 AM
Lee Hamilton: The 9/11 Commission's Mandate Was "To Tell The Story Of 9/11"

I stumbled across this (http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060917/OPINION/60916016/1049) article from the Statesman Journal, and saw what Lee Hamilton was passing off as the mandate for the 9/11 Commission.

He states:

We had two mandates. One was to tell the story of 9/11, and I think we did that reasonably well. The story that we told has stood up and will certainly become the starting point for anybody who investigates 9/11.

As you can see on the 9/11 Commission's very own website (http://www.9-11commission.gov/about/faq.htm#q1), their mandate was to:

"provide a “full and complete accounting” of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and recommendations as to how to prevent such attacks in the future."

If the "story" that the 9/11 Commission told us was only the "starting point", then how can it be a "Full and Complete Accounting" of the attacks of September 11th?

At first, I was angry with Mr. Hamilton for not telling us the truth about what their mandate was.

Then, it occurred to me. He wasn't lying.

Philip Zelikow (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Philip%20D.%20Zelikow), a man who's expertise is "the creation and maintenance of, in his words, “public myths” or “public presumptions” was in charge of the 9/11 Commission.

Knowing that, I have little doubt that what we were told about 9/11 was, in fact, a "story."

The families, the sick first responders, the soldiers deployed in the Middle East, the innocent civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the people of the world deserve better than a "story".

They deserve the truth.

Tonya
09-17-2006, 11:43 PM
Thank You JON GOLD! Since Mr. Hamilton is from my state and one of our journalists would not print the Zogby poll because he respects Mr. Hamilton--remember when I told you about that?----I think i can write up something for our paper using your thought here. I will work on something that I think has a chance of getting printed. Thanks for this, it is just the inspiration i needed.