April 6, 2004

Nope, No Transparency Here

The bushies will not release to the 9/11 Commission the complete text of rice's preempted 9/11 speech. Josh Marshall tries to understand why not:

Unless the argument is that we can't let our enemies know the depth of the poor judgment displayed by the president's national security team it is searchingly hard to fathom what possible national security issue could be implicated by handing over the speech since it was -- do we have to say it? -- a speech! A speech for public consumption.
And just to be clear:
Trent Duffy, a spokesman for the White House, said only: �The White House is working with the commission to ensure that it has access to what it needs to do its job.�
These folks must have a different understanding of the commission's job then the rest of us.

Posted by Steve on April 6, 2004
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