No more secrets, please...

This is shocking. The LA Times is reporting that the CIA is being forced to withhold a damning report about 9/11 that threatens to name names. Reportedly they won't be releasing the report till after the election.

The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.

"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."

When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be delivered. "We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report," she said. "We are very concerned."

We should all be concerned. They refused to support the 9/1 commision. Then begrudgingly allowed it, while doing their best to stonewall it at every turn. Now they won't let the CIA release their report because it may be embarassing for them. When does it end? We need another Daniel Ellsburg to be patriotic whistleblowers and release documents such as this. We don't have much time left to get these papers out there. If there is going to be an October surprise let it this be it and let's help Kerry shore this thing up.