Pelosi Calls for Declassification of Redacted Portions of 9/11 Joint Inquiry Report

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Source: NancyPelosi

San Francisco – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released this statement today calling for the declassification of the redacted 28 pages from the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Pelosi is the longest serving Member of the House Intelligence Committee.

“As the former Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and top the House Democrat on the Joint Congressional investigation looking into the 9/11 attacks, I agree with former Senator Bob Graham that these documents should be declassified and made public, and that the Bush Administration’s refusal to do so was a mistake. I have always advocated for providing as much transparency as possible to the American people consistent with protecting our national security.”

Read more: http://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/pelosi-calls-for-declassification-of-redacted-portions-of-911-joint-inquiry-report/

[99th_Monkey]

1. wow. first Bob Graham, now Pelosi? Let that sun light in. It's high time. nt

[rhett o rick]

7. I say Obama should pardon all the bastards except Cheney. We need a symbolic sacrifice.

Try Cheney and throw him in Gitmo. That would make a lot of people feel better about the USofA all around the world.

And if you don't think that's fair, my response is, that's the point.

[MsInformed]

14. The GITMO Method

is to throw people into detention and NEVER have a trial.

Other than that detail: I agree. Throw Cheney & Addington in Gitmo.

[Ghost Dog]

39. & Return the Guantanamo Lease to Cuba.

[former9thward]

71. So the Castros would have a naval base to sell to China or Russia?

No thanks.

[99th_Monkey]

15. Obama's a day late & a dollar short on prosecutions.

And to me this is more about US/Saudi Arabia relations than our own war criminals.
who've been walking free for eight years.

[Major Hogwash]

21. Caesar never got a trial. Why give one to Cheney?

And if that Darth Vader wannabe were ever to do time in the pokey, the Rightwing Warmongering Mainstream Media would make a martyr out of him lickety-split.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

45. Well, he is a terrorist after all. Shock and awe and all that.

[Dustlawyer]

49. Except Obama has made it clear at the beginning of his 1st term that he would do no such thing!

"Look forward, not back!"

[freebrew]

54. I've been looking forward...

to * & Darth being frog-marched to Leavenworth...



I know, but I can dream, eh?

[LuvLoogie]

51. Neither Cheney nor George Bush can travel much outside the U.S. due to Iraq.

In this country, a good 30 to 40 percent would oppose prosecution. There would first have to be a criminal investigation, then a decision as to which charges should be brought before a grand jury. I don't expect that Cheney would ever come in for questioning, nor would any agents be assembled for his arrest.

His last years will be similar to a Pinochet as the gravity of his actions are slowly revealed. Obama would not pursue this because he had a legislative agenda and understood that there was no consensus to pursue this. We won't know the entirety of what happened leading up to and after 911 until all the principals are dead. (It's ironic that I first spelled that as "principles.&quot

Perhaps there is a push now to reveal this document, because it is soon to be leaked. Perhaps there are a lot of government secrets soon to be revealed and people want to get out front of them. Graham comes at this from principle I believe, Nancy more as a political leader. The President chose to let things percolate, and it appears that they are.

[former9thward]

72. Fantasy.

Bush can go where ever he wants. There are no arrest warrants against him despite the urban legend that there are.

[yurbud]

68. I don't think any of them need pardons. If we're really a democracy, the mightiest must be subject

to the rule of law.

[rhett o rick]

69. For clarification, are you saying that you don't think any of them

deserve pardons? If so, I completely agree. I would especially go after the bastards that hid behind, "I was just following orders." That didn't cut it for the Germans and shouldn't for these American bastards that did the actual torturing. People need to know to just say no if your superior tells you to torture.

And another thing. I am particularly pissed about Obama trying to play down the seriousness of our people torturing people. He made it sound like nothing worse than a unruly frat party.

[WhiteTara]

2. She was a great Speaker, but I was disappointed

that she took "impeachment off the table." It could have healed our country, but the war still festers like a wound.

[reddread]

3. she is bluffing with a head fake

her hands are filthy with blood.
so much blood.

[2pooped2pop]

23. Yeah she knows it won't be approved and that's why she is acting like she's in favor of it.

That's how they do it.

[reddread]

25. is it because we are stupid?

[2pooped2pop]

26. As a whole we are pretty dumb.

It appears.

[reddread]

27. I prefer complicit

but ultimately the truth will out

[chapdrum]

57. Insofar as we don't have any recourse,

we are complicit.

[reddread]

73. there is always recourse, that is why we bear culpability

although the response and results were removed from our hands,
by an administration that stole its office while we watched dumbfounded
holding the door.
we can only wonder what could possibly have stopped the military
industrial complex from carrying out plans in place many years before

im sure the explanation history decides upon will be interesting.

for now, we live in a culture that has been erased by a media that refuses to mediate.
history is banished to another dimension along with truth and honor.
I would not advise believing a single word from Nancy Pelosi that doesnt exonerate or
protect the guiltiest parties in recent history.

[MurrayDelph]

12. Agreed. It was illegal then, it's illegal now, and the war criminals should be punished

All that has come from President Obama's promise not to torture is that the U.S. promises not to torture "for now."

If one of those microphallus-compensators in the Republican Party were to get in power again, we would be lucky if they only tortured foreign nationals.

[sofa king]

4. Hmmm. Denny Hastert was Speaker back then....

... and it looks like Turkey had their claws in him by then...

... and the report lets Saudi Arabia completely off the hook...

Hmmm.

[rhett o rick]

5. LOL and just when Obama was making his list of people to pardon. I think he has a hell

of a long list.

[AxionExcel]

6. k and r

[rhett o rick]

8. But, but thinking that my GOVERNMENT might be involved is too hard on my psyche.

I know, let's just say it was a few folks that blew up some buildings and we hung Hussein and all is right.

It isn't good liberals that deny conspiracy theories off hand. Always be skeptical, and when the NSA/CIA are involved, be more skeptical.

[SkyDaddy7]

28. LOL! If you think...

The woefully INCOMPETENT Bush Administration pulled off 9/11 then you really don't know much at all about Bush, the people who made up his JOKE of an administration or 9/11!!!

HINT: The ONLY thing being hidden, if anything, is how much of the Saudi Government/Family was involved!

[rhett o rick]

30. Don't judge the Bush admin by Bush and Cheney, they are a couple of clowns. The "Bush" admin

managed to do in 8 years what the conservatives only dreamed of for years. They essentially killed our democracy.

But all I am saying is don't tell me that 12 terrorists pulled this all off by themselves. They had some big time help. And there are a lot of unanswered questions. I do not trust my government to tell me the truth.

[Ghost Dog]

40. ^^^^°°°°°°^°^^^^^^^^^^°^°°°°

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

46. Absolutely agree. I believe it was a government false flag operation. (they've done it before)

[Fred Drum]

36. the "only" thing

wow, not a deep thinking, are you

911 undeniably happened

who did it should be they ONLY question

HINT: we dont know ... yet

[SkyDaddy7]

38. WOO-WOO!!!

[Fred Drum]

41. not a deep thinker

confirmed

[rhett o rick]

55. Sorry, we should put a warning on our posts "This post may challenge your comfortable

bubble of denial. Don't look, you might be upset." I think you Woo Woo comment is typical. Did you have your fingers in your ears, and eyes closed when you wrote that. rhetorical.

[LanternWaste]

62. You seem to have a great deal of faith in your position

"The ONLY thing being hidden, if anything..."

You seem to have a great deal of faith in your position. Odd, that.

[SkyDaddy7]

70. There are two things about 9/11 I know for sure...

The most important is the Bush administration & almost everyone in it was far too incompetent to pull off the world's biggest false flag event, leave no evidence AT ALL behind, keep the hundreds more like thousands needed QUIET that you & others here fantasize happened!

...And the other goes beyond 9/11...Our government cannot keep secrets for long periods of time! NEVER HAS & NEVER WILL!

You 9/11 Truthers are no better than GUN NUTS who think Sandy Hook was faked by the Obama Adiministration or those who think the USA faked the Moon landing...You want so bad for there to be a conspiracy behind everything! It is SAD really!

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

58. The alerter haz a sad.

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

9/11 conspiracy wacko hide

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Apr 11, 2016, 12:00 PM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: That's actually two reasons
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Why hide the wackos?
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Fuck this Infowars bullshit.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

63. Alerter FAIL! Hahahahaaaaa! nt

[Ferd Berfel]

9. Only the parts they want us to see

to control the story line.

[Califonz]

10. I guess they think the Saudis

won't pull $1 trillion out of the US stock market in response?

[lastone]

13. Fuck the royal Saudis

Fuck their money
Fuck their oil

We should have followed Carter and his policy of energy independence.

Fuck Regan as well.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

47. If Raygun wouldn't have ripped off the solar panels from the White House

and backed Jimmy Carters initiatives on clean energy - can you imagine how much better off we and the planet would be right now.

Fucking traitor.

[MsInformed]

16. Then?

What would they do with that money?

[yurbud]

11. everyone should have demanded this before we attacked or destabilized any country after 9/11

[2naSalit]

17. A lot of us did

and we were threatened, cajoled, demonized and swiped aside by the uberpatriots in the stolen presidency.

If you're not with us, you're aiding and abetting the enemy... and a thousand other slogans that were swallowed whole while people were in shock... all the more reason to ramrod the shitty policies that we now suffer from... Shock Doctrine comes to America.

Those of us who point to facts that dispute the official story line are at risk of being marginalized and/or disappeared.

[mdbl]

32. god what a weird time that was

all reasoning and logic was tossed in the toilet and flushed by those warmongers in the Bush administration. it really woke me up as to how far the American public could be manipulated.

[2naSalit]

33. I wasn't the least bit surprised

and had my fair share of RWNJs (I was in Idaho at the time) who actually came up to me and told me to go back to the f'ing desert I came from.

I have olive complexion (very light) and was born to Americans in America but these wannabe c'boy types... mostly mormons, were hounding me like I was to blame and had done the deed myself. I would often tell them in my thickest beantown accent that they were cordially invited to f themselves.

I had predicted, on the day the SCOTUS decided our election for us, that we would be at war in the ME within 12 months and we would be at war there for a long time and other bad social things were going to happen. I said it in the company of the entire political science department, and they were wary of my prediction until it happened. I had only graduated 30 days prior... I have yet to recover professionally and financially. I will never forgive nor forget W and his handlers for that.

[Ghost Dog]

42. Good work. n/t

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

48. Their reason and logic worked perfectly.

They knew what they were doing. Hubris was their forte.

[merrifield]

50. Yes we did

Marched in two anti-war rallies here and wrote numerous letters to the editor to my local paper. Those who are still believing the official story, please follow this link:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/04/8-reasons-911-not-inside-job.html

[yurbud]

67. it is a sign of how in the tank with GOP goals many Dems are that this wasn't done as soon as they

retook the house and senate.

[GoldenMean]

18. Prince Bandar Bush

bankrolled the attack.
Our Shadow Government allowed it to happen.
The towers were pulverized into powder by weapons based upon Tesla's design.
Tesla boasted he could crumble the Empire State Building and split the Earth in two.
HAARP is real.
http://www.haarp.net

[rhett o rick]

31. Since you are new here I must warn you that that kind of conspiracy talk here

is apt to get you ridicule and derision. There are a outspoken group here that are terrified to look the truth in the eye.

[truthisfreedom]

34. I'm familiar with the patent for Tesla's building-smashing machine

It took days for it to work in his tests, and the top of the building was rocking back and forth 4 feet or more when he shut it down. People would have been seasick for hours or days before the buildings fell and all of the office furniture would have been rolling back and forth like crazy. So it definitely wasn't THAT machine. His claims of being able to split the Earth in two were part of his showmanship... he was part huckster. Part of his charm.

HAARP was real, that's for sure, but the things claimed about HAARP certainly haven't included knocking down buildings.

I might agree with your first two statements, but the last three just don't match up with demonstrable truth. BTW Tesla's building smashing machine was basically a heavy hammer perfectly timed to knock a building at just the right rate that it would begin to rock after some time, kinda like pushing a kid on a swing, where you have to get the timing just right and they go faster and faster. It swings the building apart but it takes so long that everyone inside really notices it swinging around before it actually falls. Models of that machine have been tested.

Natural factors can cause any structure to suffer from resonance as produced by Tesla's machine. This is why soldiers are required to break step when crossing bridges. Here's an example of how even wind and the normal passage of traffic can cause natural resonance of a structure to cause it to collapse, but look how long it took... in this case, it was completely wild for an hour before it fell.

[billhicks76]

35. Edison, Not Tesla, Was The Shuckster

[leveymg]

60. It's a form of derision that goes back to 9/12. Haven't seen a thread squat like it in a while

[ChisolmTrailDem]

65. Textbook stuff right there, leveymg. nt

[ChisolmTrailDem]

64. And here comes the disinformation and kooky stuff in an attempt to discredit and...

...misdirect and disrupt the topic by making a farce of it.

[chapdrum]

19. "the Bush Administration’s refusal to do so was a mistake..."

[dorkzilla]

20. I'm getting a "ME TOO!! I WANTED THIS ALL ALONG" vibe from Pelosi

As long as Graham is going to spill the beans she wants to look like she has a spine.

[chapdrum]

22. The Dems waited for someone to be the first.

Others will (or may) chime in after Pelosi.

[I hate liars]

24. AFT...

[olddad56]

29. Someday the truth will come out, and that will be a bad day for the Bush crime family.

[wildbilln864]

37. sadly I expect they'll all be long dead by the time the complete truth comes out...

if it ever does at all.

[Javaman]

43. let's now all commence with the collective holding of the breath. nt

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

44. Every once in awhile she says something that doesn't cause me to wince.

I actually can agree on this one.

[zentrum]

52. About time Pelosi.

Many have been asking her to do this for years.

Boxer—where are you? Now that she's retiring she's got nothing to risk.

Probably will never see Neocon Feinstein ask for this.

[KansDem]

53. I laugh every time I hear that Bush censored the 28 pages for "national security" reasons

What national security? There wasn't any! Bush sat on his butt and did nothing while his pals and business partners killed 3,000 Americans.

[AxionExcel]

61. Just one of the over 60 warnings the Bush-Republican cabal ignored- leading directly to 9/11

[Enthusiast]

56. What in the fuck is going on here?

Why the change in position? Will impeachment be back on the table?

[LiberalLovinLug]

59. ya think Nancy?

So you just thought of this now? You "evolved" on your position?

Right in the final 6 months before a big national election? This story will get lost quickly and she knows it. Something she can claim she was for after she retires and writes her auto biography.