Pentagon lied to the 9/11 commission and the NORAD tapes

lostexpectation

WP -9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html

Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.

Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources. Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the commission, hoping to hide the bungled response to the hijackings, these sources said.

In the end, the panel agreed to a compromise, turning over the allegations to the inspectors general for the Defense and Transportation departments, who can make criminal referrals if they believe they are warranted, officials said.

"We to this day don't know why NORAD told us what they told us," said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. "It was just so far from the truth. . . . It's one of those loose ends that never got tied."

So the commission say the descrepencies are incidental to what happened that day but you think they would investigate it fully, to get more truth??



An article with the audio from the NORAD command centre
http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/060801fege01

bonkey

It always amuses me to see newspaper articles suggesting that there might be something up being referenced in topic titles and the like without the conditional.

The original article : people suspect something.
The original article's title : deception is suspected.
Title on boards.ie : The Pentagon lied.

but you think they would investigate it fully, to get more truth??

Where, exactly, have they failed to investigate fully?

They've amassed sufficient evidence to suggest that deliberate deception may have occurred, and they've handed that evidence over to an authority ccharged with deciding whether or not criminal proceedings are warranted.

There is no suggestion in this article that there is further investigation that could be done but which they haven't bothered with....so I'm at a loss to understand where your assumption that they haven't investigated fully comes from or that there's more truth to be found if only they'd look for it.

jc