From the President's remarks to the press regarding his meeting with the 9/11 Commission:
Q Mr. President, what topic did the commissioners want to spend most of the time on? And were there any subjects that you didn't answer or were advised by your counsel not to answer?THE PRESIDENT: No, I was never advised by my counsel not to answer anything. I answered every question they asked. Really -- probably best that I not go into the details of the conversation; let them incorporate into their report. There was a lot of interest in -- about how to better protect America. In other words, they're very interested in the recommendations that they're going to lay out. And I'm interested in those, as well.
And we discussed a lot of things, Terry, a lot of subjects. And it was a very cordial conversation. I was impressed by the questions and I think it helped them understand how I think and how I run the White House and how we deal with threats.
John.
Q Mr. President, as you know, a lot of critics suggested that you wanted to appear jointly with the Vice President so that you two could keep your stories straight, or something --
THE PRESIDENT: Yes --
Q -- can you tell us what you think of the value of appearing together and how you would answer those critics?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes -- first of all, look, if we had something to hide we wouldn't have met with them in the first place. We answered all their questions. And as I say, I think I -- I came away good about the session, because I wanted them to know how I set strategy, how we run the White House, how we deal with threats. The Vice President answered a lot of their questions -- answered all their questions. And I think it was important for them to see our body language, as well, how we work together.
But it was -- you know, the commissioners will speak for themselves over time. They will let you know whether they thought it was a fruitful series of discussions. I think they did. I think they found it to be useful.
Yes.
Q Mr. President, don't you think that the families deserve to have a transcript, or to be able to see what you said?
THE PRESIDENT: Adam, you asked me that question yesterday.
Q I'm hoping for an answer today.
THE PRESIDENT: I've got the same answer.
And then he called on another reporter. Here's "the same answer", and the question that lead to it, from the previous day's remarks / photo op with the Swedish Prime Minister:
Q Yes, thank you, Mr. President. What does Vice President Cheney bring to your 9/11 testimony that you couldn't provide alone? And don't you owe history and the 9/11 families a transcript or a recording?PRESIDENT BUSH: What he's asking about is a meeting I'm going to have tomorrow morning, talking with this 9/11 Commission about -- my attitude and the attitude of the Vice President about our country, our security, what happened on that particular date, what happened leading up to that. And I look forward to the discussion. I look forward to giving the commissioners a chance to question both of us. And it's a -- it will be an ample -- it will be a good opportunity for people to help write a report that hopefully will help future Presidents deal with terrorist threats to the country.
So Bush says he answered all of the commission's questions. If the answers were anything like that example, he might as well have stayed with his original plan.
You remember the original plan, right? The one that made it look like he had something to hide?
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Posted by: bonnie johnson on May 3, 2004 10:26 PM
