Word: kean
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...unsettling parts of the 9/11 attacks: how close the government had come to sensing the plot, how far it remained from being able to stop it and how little Americans knew of either tale until now. "There are a lot of problems leading up to 9/11," panel chairman Thomas Kean told TIME, "and the suspicion is that some of them aren't yet fixed. We can't afford that as a country...
...With such high-profile testimony in the offing, it?s no wonder the commission chairman, Republican Tom Kean, was telling reporters last week to expect major revelations from the investigative hearings expected to begin in late January...
...also suggested that the 9/11 attacks might have been prevented if mid-level government officials at various government agencies had done their jobs. As for senior officials like Rice or her predecessor, Clinton NSA Sandy Berger, and their bosses, Kean said the commission was still studying whether they share the blame. Rice could face tough questioning. One Republican commissioner says a comment by Rice last year-that no one ?could have predicted that they would try to use a?hijacked airplane as a missile?-was "an unfortunate comment . . . that was, of course, a wrong-footed statement on its face," given...
...leader of the 9/11 victims' families, who are closely monitoring the commission, said the White House decision was another in a long line of efforts to water down or shrink the panel's role. "I think the fact that they didn't include it-didn't warn Gov. Kean that they weren't going to include it, didn't return my phone call-suggests to me that they see this as a convenient way for allowing the commission to fail," said Push. "They've never wanted the commission and I feel the White House has always been looking...
...Slade Gorton, a former senator, told TIME that if the investigation needs more time, he'll support seeking an extension. "If I think more important work can be done of course, we'll ask for more time," Gorton said. "We're going to work with this deadline in mind." Kean said that, even though the panel has lost "considerable time," he adamantly opposes seeking an extension - unless "we simply couldn't do our job" without one. "My belief is that we will not be doing that.... It's not going to be easy and we're going to be under...