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Sooner or later this special relationship
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with a regime that Amnesty International condemns
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as a wide-spread human rights violator
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would come back to haunt the Bushes.
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Now, after 9/11, it was an embarrassment
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and they preferred that no one ask any questions.
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The investigation should have begun
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on September 12th;
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there's no reason why it shouldn't have.
:36:57
Three thousand people were dead,
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it was a murder,
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and it should have gotten started immediately.
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First, Bush tried to stop Congress
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from setting up its own 9/11 investigation.
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It's important for us to
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not reveal how we collect information;
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that's what the enemy wants.
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And we're fighting an enemy.
:37:15
When he couldn't stop Congress,
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he then tried to stop an independent 9/11 commission
:37:19
from being formed.
:37:21
The President's position was a break from history.
:37:23
Independent investigations were launched
:37:25
within days of Pearl Harbor
:37:26
and President Kennedy's assassination.
:37:28
But when Congress did complete
:37:30
its own investigation,
:37:31
the Bush White House censored
:37:32
twenty-eight pages of the report.
:37:35
The President is being pressed
:37:36
by all sides to declassify the report.
:37:38
US officials tell NBC news
:37:40
most of the secret sources involve Saudi Arabia.
:37:43
We have given extraordinary cooperation
:37:46
with Chairmen Kean and Hamilton.
:37:50
We haven't gotten the materials we needed,
:37:51
and we certainly haven't gotten them
:37:52
in a timely fashion.
:37:54
The deadlines we set have passed.
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Will you testify before the commission?
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This commission?
:37:59
Testify, I mean, I'd be glad to visit with them.