Howard Dean has taken a tremendous amount of shit the last few weeks for his statements saying that 9/11 was preventable and that the president may have had advance knowledge of attacks.

The head of the independent commission charged with investigating 9/11 seems to agree with Dean.

Former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean (Republican) says: “As you read the report, you’re going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn’t done and what should have been done. This was not something that had to happen.”

Here’s the bottom line- your national security advisor should not go on television and say, “I don’t think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile,” when the National Reconnaissance Office was running a drill on 9/11/01 that dealt with a plane crashing in to a building. Add to this that the FBI had been warning for years of planes being used by terrorists as weapons and the FBI insisted shortly before 9/11 that Tom Ridge use government chartered aircraft and no longer fly commercial (article is from July of 2001)out of concern for his safety and you have an yet another administration claim that does not pass the laugh test.

We shall see if the administration finds a way to kill this report- they’ve been stonewalling the commission completely so far. (Think about that, they create this commission, hand pick the guy to run it, then stonewall him.)

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