9/11 Panel to Ask for Testimony From Bush, Clinton

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9/11 Panel to Ask for Testimony From Bush, Clinton
Updated: 01:27 PM EST
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MADISON, N.J. (Feb. 12) - The federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks will soon ask President Bush, former President Clinton and their vice presidents to testify in public about possible warnings they might have received from U.S. intelligence sources before the attacks.

''We need them to testify,'' former New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean, the bipartisan commission's chairman, told The Record of Bergen County in a story published Thursday. He said the panel would issue formal invitations within the next few weeks, although he conceded that all four men would probably decline to be questioned at a public forum.

However, Kean said their cooperation was crucial to the commission's work, so he hoped they would at least consent to private interviews with the panel.

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Bush said in an NBC interview broadcast this week that he would ''perhaps'' submit to questions from the commission.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan on Thursday would not say if Bush would testify publicly

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Clinton has previously said he would be willing to testify.

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Should Bush and Clinton agree to testify before the 9/11 commission?
Yes 79%
No 16%
Undecided 6%

Do you think either president could have done more to prevent the 9/11 attacks?
Yes, both could have 26%
Yes, Bush could have 25%
Yes, Clinton could have 25%
No -- there's nothing either could have done 24%

Total Votes: 60,607

[lancdem]

1. I can't wait to see Bush testify

I mean, the guy can't even handle an interview with Tim Russert! BTW, I'm sure Clinton will do fine.

[loftycity]

2. Re-Knuckleheads are having a bad day...they're Freakin out now!

[Sperk]

3. Clinton and Gore should agree to public testimony as long as

Chimp and Cheney do. HA!

[Old and In the Way]

4. I cannot believe people could hold Clinton accountable for 9/11.

If he was so accountable, why didn't Bush immediately address the difficiencies? Because they didn't even implement the bi-partisan recommendations in Hart-Rudmen. They didn't do a damn thing about terrorism. Bush takes the month of August off, even when the CIA is telling him that a threat is immenent, and we get to watch him sit for 20 minutes reading goat stories while America was under attack.