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Bush and cheney together private unrecorded { April 28 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/141932-7889-010.html http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/141932-7889-010.html 9/11 panel session won't be recorded By Ken Fireman Newsday April 28, 2004 WASHINGTON -- There will be note-takers in the room but no official record made when President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney appear before the 9/11 commission Thursday, the White House said Tuesday. Bush has been preparing for the session by meeting with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Chief Counsel Alberto Gonzales and reviewing documents, spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday. Gonzales and at least one other staff member of the counsel's office will be present during the session, McClellan said. The White House had originally placed a one-hour time limit on the meeting, which will be attended by all 10 members of the commission, but that time limit has been informally waived. McClellan said Bush was prepared to answer any questions the commissioners might ask. In agreeing to the meeting, the White House insisted that the commission not make an official recording or transcript. One commission staffer will be allowed to take notes. The decision, following a practice President Ronald Reagan used in 1987 when appearing before a commission probing the Iran-Contra matter, removes the possibility the transcript would become a political issue and prevents any subpoena of it. Sure to come up is a recently declassified Aug. 6, 2001, memo to Bush warning that Osama bin Laden wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the United States and that al-Qaida might already have operatives here "preparing for hijackings or other types of attacks." The administration says the presidential brief was too vague to act on.

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