Cover-up

Minneapolis Star-Tribune: 9/11 probe/Stop stonewalling, White House

"The chairman of the commission created to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States has had a craw full of resistance from the Bush administration. It seems that President Bush and those around him are stiffing the commission on classified documents it needs to see, especially intelligence documents the White House received in the months and weeks before the attacks.

There's no real surprise in this. The Bush administration has used every means at its disposal, including many that go way over the line of responsible national leadership, to avoid accountability in the Sept. 11 attacks and in the bogus justification it offered for war with Iraq.

This isn't partisan or even political. The chairman of the 9/11 commission is former Republican Gov. Thomas Kean of New Jersey. Although Kean was appointed by Bush, the president and his staff have stymied the bipartisan commission at every turn. As far back as July, the commission was complaining that the administration wasn't allowing it access to the documents it needed. A few weeks ago the commission finally issued its first subpoena, when it learned the Federal Aviation Administration had withheld boxes of documents pertaining to 9/11..."