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...position the power that comes only with budget authority. That avoided a bitter turf war within his Administration, but it left him open to charges--not only from Kerry but also from Republican members of the commission--that he was dodging real reform. The commission's Republican chairman Tom Kean even went so far as to tell TIME that the watered-down version of the recommendations as initially proposed by Bush would be a "waste of time." Kerry, on the other hand, has said he would adopt all the commission's recommendations if elected, although some in his party...
...country no later than 7 1/2 weeks before, leading some intelligence analysts to conclude that members of the operational cell must already be here. Says a CIA official: "We have some fairly specific information that al-Qaeda wants to come after us." The chairman of the 9/11 panel, Tom Kean, reiterated the sense of foreboding. "An attack of even greater magnitude is possible and even probable," he said. "We don't have the luxury of time...
Between now and then, much of the pressure to take action will come from the 10 commissioners, who plan to flood congressional hearings and stump for their reforms in the heartland. Kean told TIME that the panel hopes to release at least four additional staff-written reports, on such topics as aviation and border security and terrorist financing. Since some contain classified documents interested parties may have to first sue the government to see them. But the gentility with which lawmakers treated the commission since the release of its report seems to be evaporating. The panel's call for streamlining...
...Time is not on our side." THOMAS KEAN, chairman of the 9/11 commission, urging adoption of its recommendations to make changes in U.S. intelligence gathering to avert another terrorist attack...
...could hide anything from those writing the 9/11 report. Berger's spokesman, Joe Lockhart, pointed out that the Archives gave Berger only photocopies of the original documents--and informed Berger of that--so any cover-up would have been impossible. After learning of the incident, commission chairman Thomas Kean said his staff members checked and were sure they had "every single document that [they] needed or requested...