| |
| Kissinger Watch #12 - 2 | |
| |
| |
| |
| Bush Taps Kissinger to Head 9/11 Probe By Dana Milbank | |
| |
| |
| Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 27, 2002; 11:45 AM President Bush today named former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to head the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Bush, who originally opposed such a commission and later sought to restrict it from investigating intelligence failures, today embraced the panel that has a broad charge to investigate the various lapses that allowed the attacks to succeed. And, by naming Kissinger, Bush assured the commission a high profile. "I have been given every assurance by the president that we should go where the facts lead us and that we're not restricted by any foreign policy considerations," Kissinger said in the White House driveway this morning after his appointment. "We are under no restrictions, and we would accept no restrictions." Asked whether the commission would question Bush himself, Kissinger replied: "I don't know whom we will want to question, but we will get at all the facts. And the president has promised us that all the facts will be made available." Kissinger promised a "nonpartisan" inquiry. The 10-member commission will be evenly divided between Republican and Democratic appointees. It will generally require six members for the commission to issue a subpoena, but to allay Democratic concerns that Republicans would block subpoenas, one of the Republican members will be approved by Sens. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), who favor an aggressive inquiry. Kissinger was a key foreign policy adviser in the Nixon and Ford administrations and is one of the nation's most prominent elder statesmen. "Dr. Kissinger and I share the same commitments," Bush said in announcing the appointment as he signed the Intelligence Authorization Act in the Roosevelt Room this morning. "His investigation should carefully examine all the evidence and follow all the fact, wherever they lead. We must uncover every detail and learn every lesson of September the 11th." © 2002 The Washington Post Company | |
| |||||||||||||
| OVERVIEW - Kissinger Watch #12 | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
|
| FAIR USE NOTICE |
|
|
|
| This bulletin contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We distribute this material without profit and believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C ¤ 107. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. |
|
| back to top |
| ||
|
|
|
| ||
 | ||
|