Nobody owns 9/11
Slate
by Jack Shafer
09/10/10
Politicians claimed ownership of 9/11 almost from the get-go to
advance their goals. Within five hours of the strike, Secretary of
Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld was plotting ways to harness it as an
excuse to attack Iraq. The Bush administration and Congress invoked
9/11 as they rushed into law in six weeks an act composed largely of a
police- and surveillance-powers wish list they had been keeping on a
shelf, which they dubbed the USA PATRIOT Act. And, of course, the Bush
administration repeatedly conjured images of 9/11 over the next 20
months to successfully campaign for the Iraq invasion. New York Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani grabbed 9/11’s pink slip before the dust had even
settled...
http://www.slate.com/id/2266701/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp