Support House Resolution 428 sponsored by Congressman Walter B, Jones Jr.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/428/text
Congressman Jones (R-NC), serving the 3rd Congressional District in North Carolina, in his proposed bill calls for the U.S President to release to the public 28 pages initially included in the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001, which President George W Bush redacted. He redacted those 28 pages because their being publicly revealed would damage ongoing intelligence operations. Of course it would have.........What choice had he?.......Any leader challenging the time-honored cliche that withholding information is necessary to protect national security would be unconscionable......Detractors and apologists alike concur that George W. Bush is if anything a man of conscience. For clarification this Inquiry was conducted by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees that they published in December 2002. This is a different report than that published by the 9-11 Commission, or known by cynics as the White House Whitewash.
Under the convenient banner of gaining intelligence on terrorist operations, the NSA records all of our communications comprising terabytes of data. This data-gathering apparatus operates regardless whether we consent to this mass surveillance. Yet, 28 pages from the Joint Intelligence Committee's report remain confidential. Even members of Congress who read the 28 pages have so far signed consent documents agreeing to refrain from disclosing the specific details read on said pages.
So, if as the former President and Great Redacter George W. Bush once informed us that the terrorists hate us for our freedom, then my question is which freedom? Freedom to know the truth, assuming the government doesn't sweep it under the opaque cover of "national security"? Let us exercise one freedom we do have and instruct members of the House to approve its Resolution 428.
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