He didn't really have any information that would be helpful to the commission. Why is the commission's staff director having communications with the White House's political strategist? From the outset, The commission started to advance the interests of Bush's neocon foreign policy agenda. When Team 3, the counterterrorism group, submitted their draft to Zelikow, he inserted sentences that tried to link Al Qaeda to Iraq to suggest the terrorist network had repeatedly communicated … (19:43–19:49)
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Asserts that the commission advanced Bush's neocon foreign policy agenda.
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