Just noted in passing

Updated Some attention has been paid to the story in the June 28 issue of Newsweek asserting that some staffers of the 9/11 Commission "flat out didn't believe" that Dick Cheney got the clearance he claimed from Bush to shoot down an airliner headed for Washington after the first two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center towers.

The White House "vigorously lobbied" the commission to change the initial language and as a result "[t]he report was 'watered down,' groused one staffer."

What I found more interesting, however, were two other things. One was that

"We didn't think it was written in a way that clearly reflected the accounting the president and vice president had given to the commission," White House spokesman Dan Bartlett tells Newsweek.

I wasn't aware the commission was obligated to simply act as stenographers for The Big Dick and Shrub.

The other was one of I. F. Stone's "shirttails," the bit at the end of the story that may be the most interesting. This is the last paragraph of Newsweek's press release announcing the story.

The vice president also reasserted his belief that a long-alleged meeting between 9/11 hijacker Muhammad Atta and an Iraqi intel agent on April 9, 2001, in Prague might have occurred. Some 9-11 staffers said they were astonished by this: their report, citing cell-phone records, concludes unambiguously that Atta could not have been in Prague on that date; he was in Florida. Newsweek has also learned that Czech investigators and U.S. intelligence have now obtained corroborated evidence which they believe shows that the Iraqi spy who allegedly met Atta was away from Prague on that day.

So not only was Atta not in Prague, the Iraqi he supposedly met wasn't, either! So will Cheney now change his story?

(I know, silly question....)

Updated to add the link for I. F. Stone.