Charges of White House cover-up
Such suspicions were expressed in a statement issued April 12 by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, suggesting that the Bush administration had an ulterior motive in its launching of military operations in Central Asia—the interests of the oil industry, to which Bush, Cheney and many other top officials have the closest ties.
McKinney declared: “We deserve to know what went wrong on September 11 and why. After all, we hold thorough public inquiries into rail disasters, plane crashes, and even natural disasters in order to understand what happened and to prevent them from happening again or minimizing the tragic effects when they do. Why then does the administration remain steadfast in its opposition to an investigation into the biggest terrorism attack upon our nation?”
McKinney noted that “news reports from Der Spiegel to the London Observer, from the Los Angeles Times to MSNBC to CNN, indicate that many different warnings were received by the administration. In addition, it has even been reported that the United States government broke bin Laden’s secure communications before September 11.”
Such suspicions were expressed in a statement issued April 12 by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, suggesting that the Bush administration had an ulterior motive in its launching of military operations in Central Asia—the interests of the oil industry, to which Bush, Cheney and many other top officials have the closest ties.
McKinney declared: “We deserve to know what went wrong on September 11 and why. After all, we hold thorough public inquiries into rail disasters, plane crashes, and even natural disasters in order to understand what happened and to prevent them from happening again or minimizing the tragic effects when they do. Why then does the administration remain steadfast in its opposition to an investigation into the biggest terrorism attack upon our nation?”
McKinney noted that “news reports from Der Spiegel to the London Observer, from the Los Angeles Times to MSNBC to CNN, indicate that many different warnings were received by the administration. In addition, it has even been reported that the United States government broke bin Laden’s secure communications before September 11.”