Max Cleland in Against the Tide, by Lincoln Chafee

On War & Peace: 2003: Resigned 9-11 Commission over lack of Bush cooperation

In December, former senator Max Cleland resigned his seat on the commission in protest. He said publically that President Bush and his government "knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before September 11 than it has ever admitted."

"They had a plan to go to war," he said, "and when 9-11 happened that's why they did." The commission, underfunded and faced with an arbitrary deadline for reporting to the American people, lumbered on .

Source: Against the Tide, by Sen. Lincoln Chafee, p.129 Apr 1, 2008

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