| Show NATION The Salt Lake Tribune 9-1- reio 1 Shedding new light: The panel questions the image of a calm White House after the attacks rips the assertions of a link between and Iraq and censures the FBI and CIA S it ush wanted ot hat t i i 4 ii) self-imag- e 1 t -4 f '' xiait 4 m i '''1' I " " ) '''t 1 ' ::::1:: IL I r O: fo:: : 1: i i President Bush argued that a commission created to look into the Sept 11 2001 attacks would only distract from the 11 war on terrorism post-Sep- t Now in 17 preliminary staff reports that panel has called into ques- tion nearly ANALYSIS monlimm every as- pect of the administration's response to terror including the idea that Iraq were somehow the and same foe The commission has demonstrated over the past 19 months that the Sept 11 attacks — far from a bolt from the blue — were foreseen at least in general terms and might well have been prevented had it not been for mistakes and misjudgments glitches some within the White I louse itself In the face of those findings Bush stood firm on Thursday disputing the particular finding in a staff report this week that there was no "collaborative relationship" between Saddam Hussein and the terrorist organization "There was a relationship between Iraq and Bush declared But such assertions attributed by the White House until now to "intelligence reports" may now be perceived by Americans as having less credibility than they did before the commission's staff began in January to rewrite the history of Sept 11 in one extraordinarily detailed report after another With its own unprecedented access to government secrets the panel was able to shed new light on old accountings demonstrating for example that Bush himself in the weeks before the attack had received more detailed intenwarnings about tions than the White house had acknowledged For now the panel is casting its work in tentative terms Its final report is due next month on the eve of the Democratic - $ ''' r '1 ' I r1 ef-- - di i II ' 1 V 4 V V ''' -' t I '' i JEL-0- r ""' - - i ''''"1 I i i - j - 4' i 4 4!'s 1' 10-1-11:1- 3 i - i'' -'- N'A ) i 1 I -- -- ') - t''''' - '- ' i 4v : ) '"'"N i 60' 11 s —NI f ' Y- 'N i ' ' I x I-- 1 ii -- i k II I t ''''41 t 1 —71 1 1 "Nt 0? '' Commission seen here meeting in Washington DC convention In this election year the contribution already has been to portray Sept 11 not just as a starting point in the war on terrorism but also as a point on a continuum one preceded and followed by other treacheries and failures At a briefing a senior White House official sought again to turn attention from the past "The real issue is how do we move forward" the official said "We've made a lot of changes since Sept 11 because this country was simply not on war footing at the time of the attacks" In the studies by the staff Bush in particular has come off as less certain and decisive than he has portrayed himself The panel's final report issued on Wednesday reminded Americans that Bush remained in a classroom in Florida for at least five minutes after the second jet struck the World Trade Center in what he told the panel was an effort "to project calm" upon a worried nation Initially it was Henry Kissinger the pillar of Republican foreign policy whom Bush selected as the panel's chairman with George Mitchell a former Democratic leader in the Senate as But those two appointees toi 4 k'U('CillheImocittial Pim last week has analyzed nearly every part of the administration s response to terror "The real issue is how do we move forward We've made a lot of' changes since Sept 11 because this country was simply not on warfooting at the time of the attacks" SENIOR WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL quickly fell by the wayside to be replaced by Thomas Kean a Republican and former governor of New Jersey and Lee Hamilton a Democrat and former congressman from Indiana whose milder manners undoubtedly gave the panel a less partisan demeanor Notably the two men joined forces successfully to persuade the White House to allow the access to crucial panel communicaton documents including copies of the Presidential Daily Brief and to key figures including Condoleezza Rice the national security adviser who testified under oath before the commission in March and to Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney themselves who appeared jointly in a closed session Whether the two leaders and the other members of the panel evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats can join forces in presenting final conclusions remains to be seen Among the issues that remain to be decided and which are being watched closely at the White House is what position the panel will take on the question of how and whether to restructure American intelligence agencies in hopes of closing gaps that might have contributed to the Sept 11 failures The CIA and the FBI bore the particular brunt of the staff rein for ports missteps intelligence-gatherin- ani analysis that con- tributed to failures in anticipating the attaa and in intercepting the hijackers So too did he Justice Department and the Ientagon come under fire the first for doing too little to speed information-sharinbetween law enforcement and intelligence agencies the second for being to combat the peril posed by aircraft hijacked bysuicide pilots The panel's Mit has been critical of the C nton adminis- tration too poin ng out missed opportunities in he late 1990s when that White House shied away from what m ght have been opportunities to k i 11 or capture Osama b in Laden the leader But it was Bush and his top aides particularly Cheney and Rice who were mostin the spotlight particularly ii this final week of the panel's pW)lic hearings On Thursday it tas Bush's g r of being calm under with a portrayal Of a White I louse that was slow to respond as the attacks unfolded Starker still were Williesday's preliminary stair conclusions Ivhich took aim at the assertions made by Cheney in particular of a link between Iraq inal in connection to Sept 11 including what the White House has said repeatedly in well have been a meeting in Prague Czech Republic between Mohammed Atta the chief hijacker and a senior Iraqi intelligenre officer Much of the public support for the American invasion ot Iraq last year was based polls have suggested On a public perception that Saddam and his government were behind the Sept 11 attacks Bush acknowledged last fall that there was no evidence of such ties but it Was a percept lot that the lathe House never actively sought to squelch With the commission staff saying that it did not 1)(I tPV( le Prague meeting ever happenel and that thew was no evidenct lute of links between Iraq in connection with the al on Bush tacks Thursdgy sounded very much on tilt defensive "This administration neker attacks wen said that the orchestrated between Satitiath Bush said The and sole example he cited of "numerous contacts" between was a Saddam and meeting between a senior Iraq intelligence agents and bin Laden in Sudan in 1994 one that the commission said appeared to have gone nowhere In 2002 Bushdid finally sign off on the plan to form the Coil) mission bowing to congrcssional pressure Until now he has resisted other proposals being pushed by 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