{"id":2095,"date":"2007-12-22T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/cia-impeded-911-panels-inquiry\/2095\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T16:15:31","slug":"cia-impeded-911-panels-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/911-truth\/cia-impeded-911-panels-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA &#8216;impeded 9\/11 panel&#8217;s inquiry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana\" id=\"ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblBody\"><strong>The CIA has purposely impeded the Sep. 11 Commission&#8217;s inquiry by withholding interrogation videos, say the two chairmen of the panel. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CIA &#8216;clearly obstructed&#8217; the Commission&#8217;s investigation, said Lee H. Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t know whether that&#8217;s illegal or not, but it&#8217;s certainly wrong,\u201d said Thomas H. Kean, other Chairman of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>A CIA spokesman has claimed that the commission staff members never specifically asked for the videos.<\/p>\n<p>A seven-page memorandum prepared by Philip D. Zelicow, the panel&#8217;s former executive director, recounts a meeting on December 2003 between Hamilton and George Tenet, then the director of the agency.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting, Hamilton told Tenet that the CIA should provide all relevant documents even if the Commission had not specifically asked for them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the memorandum, Tenet in response to Hamilton made no mention of the videotapes of interrogations.<\/p>\n<p>The memorandum reiterates that federal law penalizes anyone who knowingly and willfully withholds or covers up a material fact from a federal inquiry or makes any false statement to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>MHE\/RE<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA has purposely impeded the Sep. 11 Commission&#8217;s inquiry by withholding interrogation videos, say the two chairmen of the panel. The CIA &#8216;clearly obstructed&#8217; the Commission&#8217;s investigation, said Lee H. Hamilton. \u201cI don&#8217;t know whether that&#8217;s illegal or not, but it&#8217;s certainly wrong,\u201d said Thomas H. Kean, other Chairman of the Commission. A CIA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-2095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-911-truth","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-cia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}