米政権首脳は911委員会報告を逆手に取る主導権回復に夏休み中ヴィデオ会議で緊急対策方針決定

転送、転載、引用、訳出、大歓迎！

　油断も隙も許されぬ、敵も猿もの引っ掻く者とは、まさに、このことである。

　私は、たったの4日前(2004/07/24)、猛暑、酷暑、炎暑の最中、以下のごとく、「米連邦911委員会の調査報告で、米議会が夏休み返上」の情報を、阿修羅戦争57掲示板に投稿した。

　ところが、わが本番、7月26日のイラク派兵違憲訴訟の第一回口頭弁論を終えて、へとへと、上記の投稿からは3日後の昨晩(2004/07/27)、日経の夕刊には、4段抜きの小さな記事だが、「米同時テロ調査委提言」「数日中にも実現」「ブッシュ大統領支持」の記事が掲載されていた。

　この記事は電網公開されていないようである。日本の他の大手紙の電網記事もない。

　しかし、同じ趣旨のニューヨークタイムズ記事がある。見出しは、日経より分かり易く、拙訳、「政府は911に関して主導権奪回に動く」である。

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/politics/27panel.html?th
July 27, 2004

Administration Moves to Regain Initiative on 9/11
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

CRAWFORD, Tex., July 26 - The White House sought on Monday to turn the 9/11 commission's report to its advantage, casting President Bush as moving quickly toward adopting some of its recommendations and using some of the findings to say he is best qualified to keep the nation safe.

After long fearing that the report could harm Mr. Bush in the midst of the tight presidential race, the White House, in acting to seize the initiative, underscored how the two parties are seeking to use the panel's work to make points in a campaign that still seems likely to turn on security issues.

From his vacation home here on the day the Democrats began their convention, Mr. Bush spoke with nearly all his most senior advisers by videoconference to begin deliberating over which commission recommendations to embrace and which he might be able to enact without waiting for Congress.

Hours after participating in the meeting, Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking to a group of Republican donors in Kennewick, Wash., quoted extensively from the report's assessment of the terrorist threats to the United States. Mr. Cheney repeatedly praised the panel's work, and portrayed its findings about the gravity of the dangers as a compelling reason for Mr. Bush's re-election.

"We are fighting an enemy that is every bit as intent on defeating us as were the Axis powers in World War II or the Soviet Union in the cold war," he said. "This is not an enemy you can reason with or negotiate with or appease. This is an enemy that must be vanquished. Under the leadership of George W. Bush, that is exactly what we will do."

Democrats said the White House was scrambling to keep pace on the issue with Senator John Kerry, who will accept his party's nomination on Thursday. Mr. Kerry has come out in favor of one of the main recommendations of the commission, creating the post of national intelligence director to oversee all intelligence agencies. He said on Saturday that if he were president he would enact many recommendations immediately by executive order or other presidential action. The sense of urgency was also evident on Capitol Hill. Senior members of both parties made plans for hearings on the recommendations as early as next week.

White House officials said no decisions were made in Mr. Bush's videoconference meeting. They left open the possibility that Mr. Bush might announce steps in a few days to bolster security. They declined to be specific.

The officials said Mr. Bush was also open to considering some fundamental changes that the report urged, including the national intelligence director's post. The officials added that Mr. Bush and his senior aides were just starting to examine how the purview of the position and had yet to settle big issues like keeping it free of political interference.

Among the many questions that the administration is exploring, officials said, were whether the post would be part of the cabinet or part of the executive office of the president and whether its term would overlap the president's.

"There are myriad possibilities, and all are still actively being explored," an administration official said. "All the options are on the table."

Mr. Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, arrived here on Monday. She is widely expected to work closely with Mr. Bush this week to sort through the steps that Mr. Bush could enact through executive order or other presidential powers and to discuss the intelligence director's post and another commission recommendation, a new counterterrorism office in the White House.

Mr. Cheney's response differed from his reaction to a preliminary report of the commission staff.At that time, he disputed descriptions of the staff's finding that there was no collaborative relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda by telling a television interviewer that "there clearly was a relationship."

Mr. Cheney's endorsement of much of the commission's work suggests the beginning of a partisan battle over interpreting the report as each side seeks use the contents for its advantage. Advisers to Mr. Kerry have said they hope to cite the report as evidence that the administration was inattentive to the threat before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and may have misled the public about the reasons for the military action in Iraq. In a symbolic gesture of the potential political potency of the report, Mr. Kerry has kept a copy of it close at hand in interviews with journalists.

Mr. Bush's campaign broke with custom by sending Mr. Cheney on the campaign trail amid the Democratic convention, a time candidates usually lay low rather than fight an uphill battle for attention. Mr. Bush is spending the week at his ranch, and his campaign has withdrawn its television advertising.

Mr. Cheney's comments about the report clearly signal that the Republican ticket is not about to cede to the Democrats a week to make an unchallenged case on security, the issue on which Mr. Bush's team once saw him holding an almost unassailable advantage.

On Capitol Hill, the parties proceeded with plans for hearings on the recommendations. Representative Christopher Cox, the California Republican who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said his panel would hold hearings starting on Aug. 16.

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the senior Democrat on the Senate Government Affairs Committee, said he and the chairwoman of the panel, Susan M. Collins, Republican of Maine, have spoken several times in the last few days and are developing plans to schedule hearings next Monday and Tuesday, with at least two additional hearings next month. A third priority, he said, would be to examine how Congressional committees could be reorganized for oversight of intelligence, potentially a major challenge because of given the committee chairmen's turf claims.

He said his staff and Ms. Collins's staff were discussing a witness list that would quite likely include the chairman of the Sept. 11 panel, Thomas H. Kean, and its deputy chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, as well as past and current heads of the Central Intelligence Agency, the F.B.I. and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Lieberman said Mr. Bush could make changes on an "interim basis," with measures to follow.

On Capitol Hill, as at the White House, there was considerable focus on how an intelligence director would work if Congress and the president agree to create the post. Last week, Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, a former director of the National Security Agency, suggested that Mr. Bush could, by executive order, separate the existing posts of director of central intelligence from director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the committee, said he favored making the intelligence chief at least a cabinet-level post, or, better, giving the entire intelligence portfolio to the vice president. He said he first proposed the idea in 1999, but it is one that would no doubt draw objections from Democrats for at least as long as Mr. Cheney was vice president.

Another Democratic member of the committee, Carl Levin of Michigan, said his major concern was that the new chief be as "nonpolitical as possible," keeping the office well removed from administration policy makers who might influence the intelligence reports for the president.

"To put it in the cabinet would given it even more of a political spotlight," he said. "These are life and death decisions. They cannot, should not and must not be based in any way on the goals of policy makers."

　以上の状況が示すのは、以下に紹介する阿修羅戦争57掲示板への「あっしら」氏投稿の論評、【後始末も無事に終わって治安体制強化へ】が、最も核心を突いていたということである。

テロ計画防ぐ機会１０回も逃す…米調査委が報告書　［読売新聞］【後始末も無事に終わって治安体制強化へ】
http://www.asyura2.com/0406/war57/msg/972.html
投稿者 あっしら 日時 2004 年 7 月 23 日 02:01:38:Mo7ApAlflbQ6s
(回答先: ブッシュ関連ダレス空港９１１セキュリティチェック・ビデオ公開【生存ハイジャッカーがビデオに？】 投稿者 FakeTerrorWatcher 日時 2004 年 7 月 22 日 13:38:06)

【ワシントン＝永田和男】２００１年９月１１日の米同時テロに関する独立調査委員会（９・１１委員会）は２２日、約１年８か月にわたる活動を締めくくる最終報告書を発表した。
　５６７ページの報告書は、情報機関が国際テロ組織アル・カーイダによる攻撃計画を防ぐ機会を１０回も逸してきたと批判。中央情報局（ＣＩＡ）や連邦捜査局（ＦＢＩ）を統括する閣僚級ポストの新設など、情報機関の抜本的改革を勧告した。
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