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Pay Bush to Talk?

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by Nate

Perhaps the Panel should offer to pay Bush for his time .....

Sharon Theimer of the Associated Press reports: "President Bush met privately Monday with the Senate Republican fund-raising committee's biggest donors at Majority Leader Bill Frist's home. Bush spent about an hour and a half at the event at the Washington home of Frist, the Senate's leader and a physician from Tennessee. The event raised an estimated $2.7 million."

Hope Yen of the Associated Press reports: "The federal panel reviewing the Sept. 11 attacks has scheduled interviews with former President Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore this month but is struggling to get similar cooperation from President Bush and administration officials. . . .

"While Clinton and Gore have consented to public questioning without a time constraint, Bush and Cheney have agreed only to private, separate, one-hour meetings with the commission's chairman and vice chairman, instead of the full panel."

The panel is also "considering a subpoena to force the public testimony of national security adviser Condoleezza Rice."

Washington Post

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