Questions for Tom Kean

by: Hopeful

Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 09:00:52 PM EDT

The 9/11 Commission was "chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks." Glenn Greenwald has been highlighting that last weekend, "Attorney General Mukasey claimed that, prior to 9/11, the Bush administration was aware of a telephone call being made by an Al Qaeda Terrorist from what he called a 'safe house in Afghanistan' into the U.S., but failed to eavesdrop on that call." This is a remarkable claim because no such episode is described in the Commission Report. In fact, after hearing about this story yesterday, I re-read the relevant Chapters 5, 7, and 8: While it is clear that there was contact between Afghanistan and the U.S.A., there is nothing that corresponds to Mukasey's tale. We face the disturbing alternatives that either the Attorney General is telling a false story, or the Report is missing what would plainly be an important fact.

Greenwald has e-mailed Chairman Tom Kean to ask about this incident. Here are his questions:

I interviewed Phil Zelikow via email, who said that he has never heard of any incident of the type alleged by Mr. Mukasey to have occurred. Is the Attorney General's claim about this incident true? Was the 9/11 Commission ever made aware of any such claim?

Will Tom Kean answer, even if he has to show that a high level Bush Administration official using false claims to exploit the 9/11 attack? You might recall that just last December Kean said the CIA impeded the 9/11 Commission.

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Update: It's not just bloggers with questions. Representatives Conyers, Nadler and Scott have sent their own letter to Mukasey demanding answers.

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by: Hopeful @ Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 03:18:48 AM UTC