Ha ha! Shelby isn't trying to run a campaign to get re-elected President but he's damn right about releasing the blacked-out material in the 9/11 report. I hope Bush and his team continue to stonewall on this issue. It all adds up to that they are afraid of telling the truth.


White House Criticized for Censoring Sept. 11 Report
Sun Jul 27, 1:34 PM ET
By Randy Fabi

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican senator on Sunday called on the Bush administration to release most of the classified portions of a congressional report on the Sept. 11 attacks, saying the sections were withheld only to avoid harming relations with other countries.

Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, who helped spearhead last year's probe into the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, said the administration wrongly blanked out 27 pages dealing with suspected foreign support of those responsible for the attacks.

"I think they're classified for the wrong reason," Shelby said on NBC's Meet the Press program. "My judgment is 95 percent of that information should be declassified, become uncensored, so the American people would know."

Shelby said the section was classified because it "might be embarrassing to some international relations."...





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