“Unless governments take basic precautions, we will continue to stand at the edge of an awful abyss,” Robert Kupperman, chief scientist for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, wrote in a 1977 report that summarized nearly five years of work by the Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism.
The group was formed in September 1972 by President Nixon after Palestinian commandos killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. The committee involved people as diverse as Henry Kissinger and Rudolph Giuliani, the once-secret documents show.
Hmm, now they tell us!
via K. Burel
Here’s another Bush team flip flop:
“When Cheney was secretary of defense under the first President Bush, he actively lobbied against an attempt by congressional Democrats of the time to do what the 9/11 commission wants to do now—to create a Cabinet-level official who would control the budgets and operations of the entire intelligence community. ”
http://slate.msn.com/id/2110767/