Who put the lie in the presidents State of the Union address?
WHY DOES 9/11 INQUIRY SCARE BUSH? 7/11/03 The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, MA (Editorial) The Bush administration has never wanted an inquiry into the intelligence and law-enforcement failures that led up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and it is doing its best to make sure we never get one. Even the tame commission of Washington insiders, led by men of the president’s own party, is now complaining that its work is being hampered by foot-dragging from the Pentagon and Justice Department in producing documents and witnesses, in an effort to run the clock out on it before it can complete its work. The commission’s leaders have taken the extraordinary step of accusing the White House of witness “intimidation,” insisting that sensitive witnesses testify only in the presence of a “monitor” from their agency. The parallel to Saddam Hussein’s refusal to let Iraqi scientists talk to U.N. weapons inspectors without a similar monitor is too glaring to miss and begs the obvious que