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February 17, 2006

New Revelations on Rumsfeld's 9/11
Posted by Suzanne Nossel

My friend Chris Borgen who blogs at Opinio Juris sent me the following from a student of his who blogs at outragedmoderates.org and got some interesting notes from a FOIA request of a meeting Rumsfeld held with staff on 9/11.  Its not totally new, but it beefs up the historical record on sorry episode that had grievous consequences that we are still living with.

The released notes document Donald Rumsfeld's 2:40 PM instructions to General Myers to find the "[b]est info fast . . . judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time - not only UBL [Usama Bin Laden]" (as discussed on p. 334-335 of The 9/11 Commission Report and in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack).

In addition, the documents confirm the contents of CBS News' Sept. 4, 2002 report "Plans For Iraq Attack Began on 9/11," which quoted Rumsfeld's notes as stating: "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not." These lines were not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report or Woodward's Plan of Attack, and to my knowledge, have not been independently confirmed by any other source. After the Rathergate fiasco, I wondered if CBS had been fooled into publishing a story that, from a publicity perspective, seemed too good to be true.

Finally, these documents unveil a previously undisclosed part of the 2:40 PM discussion. Several lines below the "judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. at same time" line, Cambone's notes from the conversation read: "Hard to get a good case."

Links to the released documents are available at the OutragedModerates site.

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