9/11 'could' and 'should' have been prevented

CBS News is reporting that Thomas Kean, chairman of the commission on 9/11, has said that the attacks on 9/11 could, and should, have been prevented.

"This is a very, very important part of history and we've got to tell it right," said Thomas Kean.

"As you read the report, you're going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn't done and what should have been done," he said. "This was not something that had to happen."

Appointed by the Bush administration, Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, is now pointing fingers inside the administration and laying blame.

"There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed," Kean said.

It's not clear at this point if those who failed to either predict, discover or prevent the attacks were members of the Clinton administration, the Bush administration, or some of both, but given how hard the Bush administration tried to prevent the investigation from even being initiated, I suspect that at least some of the blame belongs with them.

Either way, the people who failed to prevent this tragedy should be identified, publicly named and never again put in a position where the public's safety rests in their hands - regardless of which party they belong to.

Posted by thorswitch at December 18, 2003 03:13 PM | TrackBack