(IMPORTANT) There Are White House TAPES and TRANSCRIPTS!!!

[liberalpragmatist]

This could be HUGE. The Left Coaster has posted this on his blog and it's also on Counterspin Central. Here are the links:

> www.theleftcoaster.com (the left coaster)

> http://counterspin.blogspot.com/ (counterspin central)

And the full transcript from the Washington Post (free registration required)

And the damning testimony:

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TENET: Congressman Roemer, I'd ask you this afternoon when you get Mr. Clarke here, who was the chairman of the CSG, to go through the process of what they were looking at, actions they were tasking, how they thought about this problem. I wasn't sitting in that room.

I'd ask you to think about asking him how we dealt with this in this time period and find out what that response is.

ROEMER: So you're saying that it is the responsibility of the National Security Council...

TENET: Well, the CSG...

ROEMER: ... to develop the policy to go after the terrorists...

TENET: Sir, the CSG is a mechanism where all of these issues come into play every time it meets. What is the threat? What actions do we take?

It's a focal point for the way this government has organized itself around terrorism for years.

ROEMER: So you're saying it's them, not the CIA, that should have been attentive to this?

TENET: Well, the CIA is in the CSG meeting as well. I mean, everybody's at the table. The FBI is there, the NCS is there, CIA is there, domestic agencies are there.

Throughout this time period -- I don't have access to the minutes and recordings of what happened -- what actions were they tasking, how were they thinking about this?

ROEMER: They're going through a bottom-up review...

KEAN: Congressman, we've got to move on. We have run out of time. We've got one more commissioner.

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This could be HUGE. Please alert any source you can, the blogs, possibly news sources, perhaps the Kerry campaign, whatever can be done.

[aquart]

1. Oh my.

They'll eat them before they release them.

Still........can't hurt to ask.

[Pyst]

2. Then they better get Cheney a big friggen bib LOL

:9

[Solidarity]

3. Ask?

Ask? They should be demanded by the 911 Commission!

[Solidarity]

4. Don't Let This Matter Die On DU!

This should be a major issue raised again and again by the progressive news media and on discussion boards such as this.

Don't let it die! Release the tapes! Let's hammer away on the issue now! Bet there are some smoking guns in those tapes and transcripts.

[mouse7]

5. We want the tapes! We want the Tapes!

This is going to be big fun. We need Klayman (?I think?) to have his organization sue for these tapes.