How ‘bipartisan consensus’ undermined the 9/11 Commission investigation

The commission, charged with determining how 9/11 could have happened, had a “mole” leading the way.

Executive Director Philip Zelikow had at least two known phone calls to Karl Rove. In addition, as director of Condoleeza Rice’s National Security Agency transition team after the 2000 election, he had a major hand in demoting Bill Clinton counterterriorism czar Richard Clark.

Commission add-on Bob Kerrey threatened to resign when he found out about it, but let Chairman Tom Kean (sadly) talk him out of it.

Note: This is not just an Obama dig, but it is in part. To the degree Republican Congressmen, let alone Republican committee staff and bureaucrats learned anything in the first six years of BushCo, it’s how to roll “compromisers” in the gutter.

If they had any balls, or ovaries, Democrats would call for a new 9/11 Commission. Don’t hold your breath.