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http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=117748

Clinton Blow Job Probe=$30 Mil / 911 Probe=$15 Mil

The 9/11 commission was originally allotted only $3 million.
Eventually, after much begging and haggling, the commission was given $15 million.

Yet a CNN article lists the cost of the Lewinsky investigation at $30 million.

A Los Angeles Times article states the cost of the Columbia space shuttle disaster investigation was $175 million.

How could 9/11 – the greatest disaster in American history – be given such a small budget for investigation?

Remember, the Commissioners stated that government did everything it could to cover up and obstruct their investigation:

The Commission's co-chairs said that the CIA (and likely the White House) "obstructed our investigation"

Indeed, they said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements.

9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that "There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . ."

9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said "We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting"

9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: "It is a national scandal"; "This investigation is now compromised"; and "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up"

The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) - who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry - said "At some level of the government, at some point in time...there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened".

He also said "I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described ....

The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years.... This is not spin. This is not true."

Given such a lack of cooperation, $15 million wasn't enough to even start getting to the bottom of what happened.

$15 million didn't pay for much other than some press releases and the costs of printing reports. It certainly wasn't enough to pay for real investigation or legal struggles to discover information which the government was stonewalling.

Indeed, well after the Commission issued its final report, Commissioner Bob Kerrey said it might take "a permanent 9/11 Commission" to end the remaining mysteries of September 11.

Afterword: In response to a commenter who wrote "But everybody already knew it was the terrorists", I responded:

Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that the government knew before starting the investigation that terrorists did it by flying planes into buildings, how come they weren't stopped before hand, and why didn't the military stop them in the air, pursuant to standard operating procedures?

Wouldn't that have been gross negligence?

That's what top intelligence and military experts say [they actually say much more dramatic things as well].

Even investigating who screwed up would cost a lot more than $15 million.

Aangezien Micele naar goeie gewoonte weer enkel lijkt te kunnen communiceren in internetcitaten, zal ik me in mijn antwoord hier ook tot beperken:

http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Comparing_costs

How much did the 9/11 Commission cost? The Commission's "Frequently Asked Questions" page provides some information:
What is the Commission's budget?

Public Law 107-306 provided for the reprogramming of $3 million for the Commission. Congress subsequently appropriated, and the President signed into law, an additional $11 million appropriation for the Commission. Recent legislation authorized an additional $1 million, bringing the Commission’s total budget to $15 million.
The Commission is confident that it can fulfill its mandate with this amount. We appreciate very much the support of Congress and the President for this level of funding.
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/about/faq.htm#q5


We'd have preferred a final figure, but this will do for the moment: $15 million.

Of course this wasn't the only Government funding that went into investigating 9/11. There was the Joint Inquiry in 2002, $600,000 for the ACSE reports on building performance. Then there's also NIST, who say they "received $16 million for the investigation in September 2002 from the fiscal year 2002 supplemental appropriation" (source) for the initial investigation. We've read talk of additional funding later or another $2 million, perhaps more, and presumably the WTC7 investigation required further investments.

If we were to add the primary investigation, for example the FBI's PENTTBOM, then that would add considerably more:

http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Image:Fbi-hours.png

If someone were to say, then, that the initial 9/11 Commission allocation of $3 million was a joke, because it was less than the cost of investigating Clinton/ Lewinsky, then we'd have to agree.

Unfortunately few people stop there, instead resorting to dubious comparisons that overestimate the cost of earlier investigations and minimise the amount of money spent on investigating 9/11.

So while there's the kernel of a reasonable point here, grossly misleading lists like those at the top of the page do nothing to illuminate it: you don't find the truth by making things up.