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Former 9/11 Commissioners: U.S. at Risk
By HOPE YEN Associated Press Writer

December 04,2005 | WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is at great risk for more terrorist attacks because Congress and the White House have failed to enact several strong security measures, members of the former Sept. 11 commission said Sunday.

"It's not a priority for the government right now," said the former chairman, Thomas Kean, ahead of the group's release of a report Monday assessing how well its recommendations have been followed.

"More than four years after 9/11 ... people are not paying attention," the former Republican governor of New Jersey said. "God help us if we have another attack."

Added Lee Hamilton, the former Democratic vice chairman of the commission: "We believe that another attack will occur. It's not a question of if. We are not as well-prepared as we should be."

The five Republicans and five Democrats on the commission, whose recommendations are now promoted through a privately funded group known as the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, conclude that the government deserves "more Fs than As" in responding to their 41 suggested changes.

Anyone else remember both these guys playing along with the Bush administration's spin back when they were actually an official government commission? Back when a strong word from either of them--in other words, the truth--might have had some effect?

We do. But that isn't what they did. Instead, they bent to pressure, couching their findings in talking-point caveats, politely minimizing the gross negligence of the Bush administration's response to the myriad warnings it had received about impending terrorist attacks.

Now, funded privately, they want everyone to to pay attention to the reality of America's precarious security situation.

Thanks for nothing, guys.