Warm Up The Blamethrowers, Boys

Posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Wow. I mean, wow.

As far as I know, this is the first time anyone in a position to know has unequivocally said this:

CBS News — 9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable

For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented…
“This is a very, very important part of history and we’ve got to tell it right,” said Thomas Kean.
“As you read the report, you’re going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn’t done and what should have been done,” he said. “This was not something that had to happen.”
Appointed by the Bush administration, Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, is now pointing fingers inside the administration and laying blame.
“There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed,” Kean said.

So the obvious question is — who? Who still has their job who was asleep at the wheel when Sep. 11 went down? Inquiring minds want to know…

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