"From a prior post:

"Could you please explain how Bush got the Democratic leadership to do his bidding?"

He did not have too, he just get the 5 members rule for subpoenas. They needed 5 democrats and one Republican to get a subpoenas, something they could never could get because no Republican would allow a subpoena. So how many subpoenas did Kean and Hamilton issue. I am assuming not one.

Your post:

"Lastly, in your final paragraph, you accuse me of defending a criminal cover-up, yet you have never established that one took place. That's called "begging" the question, dude."

I have already established a cover up took place many times at the 9/11 Commission.

I could give you many examples but just look at the information on FBI Director Louis Freeh, just one single example from the many examples of criminal conduct covered up by the 9/11 Commission.

The account of FBI Agent Ali Soufan by Lawrence Wright says that Soufan had asked FBI Director Louis Freeh in November 2000, if Freeh would make an "official request" to the CIA and George Tenet for any information the CIA had on Walid Bin Attash and any meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

Soufan was told that the CIA had none of this information.

But according to page 238-239 of the DOJ IG report, Freeh was given this information by the NSA in December 1999, and according to page 181 of the 9/11 Commission report, this same information was given to Freeh in January 2000 by the CIA and this information appeared in Freeh’s daily briefing papers on January 4, 2000.

Notice that to put this together, since each report left out critical details of this account, you had to use at least three different documents, Lawrence Wright's account of Soufan, the DOJ IG report, and the 9/11 Commission report to get the complete account on just this one single detail on 9/11. The account of Soufan is approximately 20 pages, the 9/11 Commission report about 550 pages, and the DOJ IG report about 380 pages.

But the 9/11 Commission never connected the fact that the CIA had given Freeh the information on the Kuala Lumpur meeting with the fact that Freeh had withheld this information from FBI Agent Ali Soufan in November 2000, a clear case of out and out criminal obstruction.

Does this answer your question: "yet you have never established that one took place".

How in the world would the 9/11 Commission not know that Freeh had withheld this information from FBI agent Ali Soufan, when in fact they actually had public testimony from Freeh, had access to all of the material from DOJ IG interviews, and had to know who the lead of the FBI Cole bombing investigation was.

Also notice that if you read just the 9/11 Commission report you would never know that Soufan had made this request to FBI Director Louis Freeh, and if you read just the DOJ IG report you also would never know about Soufan’s request. It was only after you combined these three reports would you start to have a even a semi-reasonably accurate account of just this one fact, the request by Soufan to Freeh in November 2000 and his out and out criminal obstruction of the FBI’s own investigation of the Cole bombing and the horrific murder of 17 US sailors.

Freeh had not only deliberately withheld critical information from an ongoing FBI criminal investigation into the murder by the al Qaeda terrorists of 17 US sailors but had Freeh given Soufan this information, the FBI Cole bombing investigators could have been able to prevent the attacks on 9/11, and save the lives of the 3000 people killed in this attack.

It is clear I have established the accuracy of my prior post.