Tuesday, September 07, 2004
Booknotes....
This appears to be a pretty interesting week in the book world.
Retiring Florida Senator Bob Graham's new book entitled Intelligence Matters is hitting the shelves today. Graham's book claims several important revelations about 9/11 and the situation involving Iraq:
Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that relationship, Senator Bob Graham wrote in a book to be released Tuesday.
The discovery of the financial backing of the two hijackers "would draw a direct line between the terrorists and the government of Saudi Arabia, and trigger an attempted coverup by the Bush administration," the Florida Democrat wrote.
Graham's book also goes into a conversation that he personally had with General Tommy Franks on February 19,2002. Franks told Graham that resources were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for Iraq four months after the invasion of Afghanistan.
Author Kitty Kelley has turned her unauthorized pen toward the Bush family. The most "shocking" observation from Kelley is that W did cocaine at Camp David. I write "shocking" because it's fairly common knowledge that W has a checkered past and hasn't done much to deny it. His response to reporters about whether or not he could have passed a drug test to work in his father's White House is parsed all to hell.
What's unfortunate about the timing of these two books is that Kelley's will undoubtedly receive the most press time. Her allegations are the most explosive and several have already been debunked. Graham on the other hand is highly credible, well respected and undoubtedly telling the truth. He'll most likely be shoved under the rug.
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Retiring Florida Senator Bob Graham's new book entitled Intelligence Matters is hitting the shelves today. Graham's book claims several important revelations about 9/11 and the situation involving Iraq:
Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that relationship, Senator Bob Graham wrote in a book to be released Tuesday.
The discovery of the financial backing of the two hijackers "would draw a direct line between the terrorists and the government of Saudi Arabia, and trigger an attempted coverup by the Bush administration," the Florida Democrat wrote.
Graham's book also goes into a conversation that he personally had with General Tommy Franks on February 19,2002. Franks told Graham that resources were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for Iraq four months after the invasion of Afghanistan.
Author Kitty Kelley has turned her unauthorized pen toward the Bush family. The most "shocking" observation from Kelley is that W did cocaine at Camp David. I write "shocking" because it's fairly common knowledge that W has a checkered past and hasn't done much to deny it. His response to reporters about whether or not he could have passed a drug test to work in his father's White House is parsed all to hell.
What's unfortunate about the timing of these two books is that Kelley's will undoubtedly receive the most press time. Her allegations are the most explosive and several have already been debunked. Graham on the other hand is highly credible, well respected and undoubtedly telling the truth. He'll most likely be shoved under the rug.
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