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President Bill Clinton meets with the Sept. 11 commission, and Newshour has the poop:
JIM LEHRER: Congressman Hamilton, I've just been told that you all talked this afternoon with former President Clinton. Is that true?
LEE HAMILTON: Yes, it is. We ran, literally ran, to the next meeting. We concluded the hearing with Dr. Rice. We had to go to the location, which I think I probably should not disclose to meet with President Clinton. We met with him from about 1:15 or 1:20 until 5:15 or 5:20. We had about four hours with him.
JIM LEHRER: How did it go?
LEE HAMILTON: Well, it was fascinating, absolutely fascinating. And I think every commissioner would agree with that. He was exceedingly generous with his time, very candid in his discussions of even the most delicate kinds of relationships, for example, the relationship with several foreign countries and specifically several foreign leaders.
He had a lot of very constructive suggestions to us as to how to put the report together and what kinds of recommendations to make. So I think the commissioners were all favorably impressed, both Republican and Democrat, and very appreciative of the amount of time that he gave to us.
JIM LEHRER: Governor, did President Clinton express any regrets about actions he did or did not take in the area of al-Qaida and terrorism while he was president?
Republican THOMAS KEAN: Well, he said he's going back in his mind over and over again about whether there's anything else he could have done and how he might have done it. But a lot of what we talked to him about was actually the inner workings of the presidency as well as many of the classified briefings we've been able to read. We asked him some pretty detailed questions on those. And he was just totally frank -- totally frank, totally honest, and forthcoming. And I don't think there was a question the commissioner had that he was not willing to answer, and he said, "I'll stay just as long as you all want me to."
- thanks to moonwatcher
Compare this to the Boy King - withholding papers, "negotiating" the terms of his appearance, and having his handler with him for a severely limited period of time. God, what an embarassment.
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