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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Paul_Bremer Bremer was appointed Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism by House Speaker Dennis Hastert in 1999. He also served on the National Academy of Science Commission examining the role of Science and Technology in countering terrorism. Bremer and his wife were the founders of the Lincoln/Douglass Scholarship Foundation, a Washington-based not for profit organization that provides high school scholarships to inner city youths. On the day Al-Qaeda terrorists crashed two hijacked American commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center in New York City, Bremer and 1,700 of his employees at Marsh & McLennan had offices in both towers. Bremer's office was in the South Tower. He and his people occupied floors at and "above where the second aircraft hit."[6] At the time of his television interview with CNN on September 14, 2001, 450 of his people were unaccounted for; 295 were eventually counted as dead. |
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| Here is the interview in an easier to view form: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8874873017043754051 Am I the only person who finds Bremer's demeanor inconsistent with the circumstances? |
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I found your link not working, so I viewed the whole feed from the earlier post. Paul Bremer seems absurdly disassociated from the tragedy that has befallen his company at the WTC location. Of course, he has the poise of an ambassador, but his close ties with Henry Kissinger make me question the man from the get-go. (Wikipedia) He talks about a security failure but doesn't elaborate. He also talks about an intelligence failure. But what, indeed, did the 911 Commission discover about the security failure? Only after the fact did the co-chairmen write a book saying they'd been lied to by NORAD, the Pentagon, and others. There has been no accountability for the inexplicable failure of our national defense system to intercept the airplanes that (supposedly) did the damage on 9/11/2001. As governor of Iraq, Bremer presided over the country while 9 billion dollars went missing. For his service, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Must be nice, freeing 9 billion dollars and you get a medal to boot! Edited to add: I'm also not quite sure what exactly qualifies Mr. Bremer as a "counter-terrorism expert." He had an MBA from Harvard... Reagan appointed him Ambassador to the Netherlands in 1983 and Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism in 1986, with no particular credentials other than that he was an assistant to Kissinger. Bremer retired from foreign service in 1989 and became a managing director of Kissinger and Associates. |