October 25, 2003

Administration faces subpoenas from 9/11 panel
Oct. 25 — The chairman of the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks said that the White House was continuing to withhold several highly classified intelligence documents from the panel and that he was prepared to subpoena the documents if they were not turned over within weeks.

"Any document that has to do with this investigation cannot be beyond our reach," chairman Thomas Kean said on Friday. This was his first explicit public warning to the White House that it risked a subpoena and a politically damaging courtroom showdown with the commission over access to the documents, including Oval Office intelligence reports that reached pResident Bush's desk in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks.

"I will not stand for it," he said.

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