Wednesday, July 30, 2003

It is disgusting to me that the administration has censored 28 pages of the September 11 report: pages that, according to nearly everyone from the New York Times to Republican Richard Shelby demonstrate "'incontrovertible evidence' that Saudis provided financial help to al-Qaeda operatives in the United States."
3,000 innocent Americans are dead in the worst attack ever to occur on our own soil, and Mr. Bush, whose family has close business ties to the Saudis, refuse to release the report out of fears of embarassment and fears of pissing off our oily Saudi friends. What brings this story over the top into the world of farce is that the Saudis themselves are demanding that the pages be published.
You know there's a problem when the Saudis are bitching about open government...