Joe Lieberman: “I am grateful to the Speaker for having agreed to the extension of the deadline during which the Commission…”

“I am grateful to the Speaker for having agreed to the extension of the deadline during which the Commission investigating September 11 will have to report by the 2 months that the Commission itself, the bipartisan Commission, requested and now having apparently indicated to at least staff of the Commission that he is prepared, in addition to the 2-month extension for the report to be completed, to have an additional 30 days for a winddown period. The basic principle is the enormity of what happened, the horror of what happened on September 11, 2001, that none of us want to ever happen again. That is what this Commission was created to investigate, and then advise us how to avoid. There never should have been on the question of the search for truth about September 11 a time deadline which the Commission itself believed was too short to complete their work.”