His allies in Congress gave the commission weak subpoena power and limited them to a strict 18 month timeline. They appropriated for the entire investigation, just $3 million. By Washington standards, it was nothing. But By comparison, Congress gave 13 times more funding to investigate the Monica Lewinsky scandal. It appropriated 11 times more funding for Robert Mueller's investigation into Russiagate. The administration and the Congress simply didn't want the public to know what happened on 9 11. (10:01–10:08)
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Asserts that the Monica Lewinsky investigation received 13 times more funding than the 9/11 investigation.
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