{"id":840,"date":"2004-04-07T01:26:52","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T05:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/work_product\/"},"modified":"2004-04-07T01:26:52","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T05:26:52","slug":"work_product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/work_product\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Product"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Dean is right; the White House’s penchant for secrecy never ends. Now we have a confidential public speech<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The White House has refused to provide the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with a speech national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was to deliver on that day touting missile defense as a priority rather than al Qaeda, sources said on Tuesday.
\nWith Rice slated to testify publicly before the commission on Thursday, the commission submitted a last-minute request for access to Rice’s aborted Sept. 11, 2001 address, sources close to the panel said.
\nBut the White House has so far refused on the grounds that draft documents are confidential, the sources said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Josh Marshall<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.
\nLike almost all the other restrictions the White House has placed on the Commission, this is just so they won’t be embarrassed politically. They don’t like the Commission. Again and again they display open contempt for its work. They didn’t want it created in the first place. And they’ve tried to obstruct its work at almost every turn.
\nAll that’s different here is that the political nature of the obstruction is undeniable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep. And perhaps someday the major media will stand up and call them on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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