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Why the White House Said Yes to a 9-11 Inquiry
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Why the White House Said Yes to a 9-11 Inquiry
Exclusive: Family members of those lost on 9-11 continue to push for a blue-ribbon panel
By Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman

Sally Regenhard and Monica Gabriel in Washington.
Angry family members insisted on a formal inquiry into the
9-11 attacks.
Sept. 30 issue — President Bush’s decision to agree
to an independent panel to investigate the World
Trade Center and Pentagon attacks could lead to
the most far-reaching and explosive government
inquiry in decades. It happened only after weeks
of intense, behind-the-scenes wrangling that had
put the White House on a collision course with a
politically potent new force: a coalition of angry
family members of 9-11 victims.

FOR THE PAST YEAR White House aides had resisted
proposals for an independent inquiry, arguing that it would
divert resources from the war on terrorism and duplicate the
work of an ongoing joint inquiry by the House and Senate
intelligence committees. But last week, after a series of
stunning disclosures about CIA and FBI intelligence failures,
the White House abruptly shifted course. The change came,
NEWSWEEK has learned, after three secret and at times
contentious White House meetings between family members
and top presidential aides, including one with chief of staff
Andrew Card and two others with domestic-policy counselor
Jay Lefkowitz. At the meetings, family members pushed for a
blue-ribbon panel and voiced their frustration that top
government officials had yet to be held “accountable.” With
momentum for the blue-ribbon commission rapidly gaining on
Capitol Hill, and the family members threatening to go public,
the White House had virtually no choice. “There was a freight
train coming down the tracks,” said one White House official.
“They realized how powerful the voices of the families were,”
added Democrat Rep. Jane Harman, a House intelligence
committee member.
But the tensions continue. Bush aides still don’t want the
commission to delve further into CIA and FBI failures. They
suggested it focus on new areas like border security and visa
issues; they also want the panel to investigate the “role of
Congress” in overseeing the work of the intelligence agencies.
Another potential flash point: the White House’s refusal to turn
over documents showing briefings the intelligence community
gave Bush prior to 9-11. One aide described the documents as
the “crown jewels” of executive privilege. “That’s the kind of
stuff we’d never give up,” said the aide. Those positions could
set up a new confrontation with family members. They say
they are more furious than ever over new details about how
the CIA lost track of two of the 9-11 hijackers who flew to the
United States from a terrorist summit in Malaysia. (The lapse
was first reported by NEWSWEEK.) “I never want to hear
the phrase ‘lessons learned’ again,” said Sally Regenhard,
whose firefighter son was killed in the World Trade Center. “I
want people brought up on charges of malfeasance.” Bush
aides say they want to work “constructively” with the families
to ensure a productive inquiry. Discussions have begun about
possible candidates to head up the panel. Among the top
suggestions: former senators Bob Dole and Sam Nunn.
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Bush Comment Reveals Troubling Deception and Foreknowledge
Bush Lies About Seeing First Plane Hit
by voxfux

The following comments
were made by Bush in the
weeks following the 911
attacks. During a CNN
televised "Florida Town Hall
Meeting" a child asks Bush
how he felt when he heard
about the attacks. Bush
starts to recount how he
saw the first plane hit, then
quickly realizing that that
would have been
impossible, quickly covers
it by saying that, "the TV was obviously on." This nervous lie and "cover
lie" reveal volumes when subjected to thorough psychoanalytic scrutiny.
Here's the analysis:
What Bush has done here is he slipped up and revealed what's called a
"Meta Memory." It would have been impossible for him to have seen the
first plane hit (because that video of the first plane hitting didn't surface
until many many hours after the attacks) But Bush recounts the "memory"
conversationally. The memory he is recounting is a meta memory. It
resides in the forefront of his consciousness but not of his experience. It
cannot be a real memory because the timeline of events proves that to be
impossible, yet he has relayed it as a real memory. Why and how?
Psychoanalytic conventions ascribe to the idea, that the visual information
(real memories) which accompany the news of major events like deaths
and assassinations are markedly vivid and clear. (as memories go)
Mistaking critical visual components that accompany these "remember
the moment you heard's" is very unusual. For example, even fourty years
after the Kennedy assassination people remember very specific, explicit,
exact, information regarding the instant they heard of the event, for
example their location, who they recieved the news from, what they were
doing at the time, even the tonal characteristics of the room they were in
(greens, reds, blues, etc.) These first moments and immediate peripheral
moments form a vivid and strikingly visual group of images and memories
that can be recalled years later with uncanny accuracy.
What is in fact highly improbable is that Bush could botch up such normally
"etched in" memories of such a collosal event. But he did. Because Bush is
either one of two: Either so dim that he can barely string a coherent
thought stream together or...
...He's thinking through a complex set of "meta memories" - lies.
Meta Memories are the alternate set of memories and "Facts" that a
deciever must employ in order to cover his tracks and perpetrate his
elaborate deception. It's the Back Story and a little goes a long way in a lie.
However after time these meta memories (when there are too many to
manage) become confused and start to trip-up the holder of the meta
memories.
Here's the exchange and analysis of what we at voxnyc believe is an
extremely disturbing and revealing Bush meta memory (lie).
[read the entire article]
by voxfux [Link] [16 comments]
http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/00000012.htm

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