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Associated Press: A political battle is brewing over
the federal panel investigating the September 11
terror attacks seeking an extension, as the White
House fears that release of the report in the midst of
presidential elections might prove an embarrassment to
President George W Bush.
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Repurcussions on Bush holds up 9/11 report
AP[ MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2004 11:14:01 AM ]
NEW YORK : A political battle is brewing over the
federal panel investigating the September 11 terror
attacks seeking an extension, as the White House fears
that release of the report in the midst of
presidential elections might prove an embarrassment to
President George W Bush.
Facing a May deadline that many members no longer
think they can meet, the panel, which has uncovered
new evidence of bungling by the federal agencies prior
to the terror strikes, is weighing the option of
asking Congress for more time to prepare the report,
the Newsweek magazine reported.
Some members want a few extra months-which would push
back its release into the summer. But the prospect of
unleashing the report in the middle of the election
season is creating anxiety inside the White House, the
magazine says.
Some aides fear that the document will contain fresh
ammunition for Democrats eager to prove Bush was
inattentive to terrorism warnings prior to 9/11.
However, in a pre-emptive move, Bush officials, who
till recently were sticking to their policy of no give
on May deadline, favoured an extension to the
commission if the report were put off until December,
thereby ‘taking it out of the election,’ the magazine
quotes a commission source as saying.
Still, Newsweek says, the issue of a new deadline for
the 9/11 report was described by commission sources as
the subject of highly sensitive negotiations fuelled
by frustration over administration's delays in
delivering documents and cumbersome hurdles imposed on
sensitive national-security materials.