Shadow Government

Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’

The first thing I think when I see that headline is "Holy crap! Dr. Who is part of the Conspiracy? Now we're really fucked!" But, apparently it's spelled David Tennant. See, if I look over here on Wikipedia, I... who the hell is Matt Smith? Damnit! That's what I get for canceling my cable.

Ahem.

Back to the original article... the ACLU has managed to get their hands on a letter from the Bush Administration to the 9/11 Commission, in which the Attorney General, Defense Secretary, and Head of the CIA refused the Commission's request to interview detainees.

"There is, however, a line that the Commission should not cross... The Commission staff's proposed participation in questioning of detainees would cross that line,"

That's a little ominous, eh? Who knows what it means. Even if it was just an innocent but poor choice of phrasing, it probably had a chilling effect on the people tasked with uncovering how our government failed. I mean if Ashcroft and Rumsfeld and Dr. Who told me I was about to cross a line, I'd shut the heck up and listen to them.

Why would the Bush Administration not want the 9/11 Commissioners anywhere near detained suspects in the 9/11 plot? Perhaps to keep the truth hidden about 9/11? Or maybe just to keep the truth hidden about how much torture was being used on detainees? Either seems believable, ...and disgustingly reprehensible.

Smoking gun though it may seem to be, this letter on it's own proves nothing... but it certainly justifies looking a little deeper. I think it's time for a new investigation into the shadier policies and activities of the previous administration, one that doesn't have to obey arbitrary limitations placed on it by the very government it's investigating. Shine a little light in there, and see what goes scurrying back into the deeper shadows. (...like on that Library planet. Or to see what just stands there like those statues in that episode "Blink". They were almost as creepy as Rumsfeld.)