Joe Lieberman: “We have said all along we respect and support the work the Intelligence Committees are doing. As in previous cases, such…”

“We have said all along we respect and support the work the Intelligence Committees are doing. As in previous cases, such as Pearl Harbor, post-Pearl Harbor, the country would benefit from an independent citizen commission inquiry--not accusatory but investigatory--which would have the power to obtain information which would have the authority to go into classified, secret session because of the matters being considered. This would likely extend beyond the intelligence function to law enforcement, to foreign policy, to military policy, to immigration policy--anything that might have affected and contributed to the attack of September 11. My point today is that the leaks, the disclosures of the last couple of weeks, both from the FBI and now the indication of the CIA briefing to the President, just reinforces within me the fact that we need such an independent commission.”