By LAURENCE ARNOLD, Associated Press Writer
Yahoo, Politics - U. S. Congress
WASHINGTON - Two lawmakers who fought to create the independent commission on the Sept. 11 attacks urged the panel Thursday to blow the whistle on bureaucratic barriers and government failures that left the nation vulnerable to terrorism.
"The American people deserve to know the full and objective truth, the best it can be determined. Today we have not yet received that, unfortunately," Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites), D-Conn., told the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
Lieberman, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, accused the Bush administration of "stepping delicately around the bureaucratic failures that have long plagued our domestic defenses at the federal level." He said government officials and employees should be held personally accountable for such failures.
Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., said the panel should look more broadly at U.S. policies and practices through the past four presidential administrations, especially responses to terror attacks against U.S. interests.
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This is a welcome sign.
BadGimp
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