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Surely the Senators running for election will be their to cast a no vote on this? They and we know this is just stalling to get past the election.
washingtonpost.com White House Holding Notes Taken by 9/11 Commission Panel May Subpoena Its Summaries of Bush Briefings
By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 31, 2004; Page A02
The White House, already embroiled in a public fight over the deadline for an independent commission's investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is refusing to give the panel notes on presidential briefing papers taken by some of its own members, officials said this week.
The standoff has prompted the 10-member commission to consider issuing subpoenas for the notes and has further soured relations between the Bush administration and the bipartisan panel, according to sources familiar with the issue. Lack of access to the materials would mean that the information they contain could not be included in a final report about the attacks, several officials said.
"We're having discussions on this almost hourly or at least daily," said the commission's vice chairman Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. "We retain all of our rights to gain the access we need. . . . This is a priority item for us to resolve, and we are working to resolve it."
The disagreement is the latest obstacle to face the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which is racing to
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