Editor’s Note – Florida Bulldog’s Owner/Editor Dan Christensen has been covering the tragic attack on 9/11 from the beginning. This is a two-part series. The first in the series begins below. Here is the link to the second piece titled “Queried on Saudi Role in 9/11, Bush Dodged Questions and Turned His Back on a Commission Member.”
by Dan Christensen at Florida Bulldog
Nearly two decades after President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney answered questions for the 9/11 Commission in a closed gathering in the Oval Office, a 31-page “summary” of what they had to say finally has been made public.
Neither Bush nor Cheney was under oath during the three-hour meeting on April 29, 2004. And the summary shows it was a generally relaxed, non-adversarial and largely superficial get-together during which no significant new insights were gleaned.
Yet the summary does yield Bush’s forceful, nonpublic opinion that he “didn’t see much point in assigning personal blame for 9/11.”
The president’s admonition, uttered as he was running for re-election, would not have played well with thousands of 9/11 survivors and the families of the murdered – who were then near top of mind with many American voters, Republicans and Democrats alike.
“It would have been pure outrage,”…
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