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A member of the 9/11 commission has broken his silence about some of the unreleased findings:
A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission's leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.
The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2016, @05:24AM
the US and allies would have crowed about it, endlessly.
Crowed about cold blooded murder in an illegal war, yes? The ends do not justify the means.
There is a little known fact that Iraq war, its invasion and destruction started in March 2003. And that war would not have been possible if the illegal Afghan war and invasion had concluded in 2001.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 15 2016, @05:31AM
Gunning down an armed man isn't "cold blooded murder". And, your description of Afghanistan as an illegal war may sound good at an activist rally, but it doesn't make the grade in either scholarly circles, or a court of law. Once again, the Taliban gave the US a just reason to invade.
It appears that we can agree that there was no just reason for invading Iraq.