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White House, 9/11 commission reach accord on documents
Washington, Nov 13: The independent commission on the September 11 attacks has announced that it had reached an agreement with the White House that would allow it to review classified intelligence documents withheld until now by the Bush administration.
Washington, Nov 13: The independent commission on the September 11 attacks has announced that it had reached an agreement with the White House that would allow it to review classified intelligence documents withheld until now by the Bush administration.
"We believe this agreement will prove satisfactory and enable us to get our job done," said a statement issued yesterday by the national commission on terrorist attacks upon the United States.
The statement did not describe the agreement, or what conditions the commission accepted.
President George W Bush said last month that the dispute revolved around the "the presidential daily brief", a highly classified written intelligence report given to the President each morning.
The White House confirmed last year that one such report in August 2001, a month before the attacks, mentioned that al-Qaeda might try to hijack us passenger planes. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has described the report as an analysis rather than a warning, and said hijacking was mentioned in a traditional sense, not as it was used on September 11.
Describing the white house's concerns about access to the document, Bush said it is important "for the writers of the presidential daily brief to feel comfortable that the documents will never be politicised and/or unnecessarily exposed for public purview". Bureau Report
The statement did not describe the agreement, or what conditions the commission accepted.
President George W Bush said last month that the dispute revolved around the "the presidential daily brief", a highly classified written intelligence report given to the President each morning.
The White House confirmed last year that one such report in August 2001, a month before the attacks, mentioned that al-Qaeda might try to hijack us passenger planes. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has described the report as an analysis rather than a warning, and said hijacking was mentioned in a traditional sense, not as it was used on September 11.
Describing the white house's concerns about access to the document, Bush said it is important "for the writers of the presidential daily brief to feel comfortable that the documents will never be politicised and/or unnecessarily exposed for public purview". Bureau Report