This caught my eye in Reading the 9/11 Report: What to look for.
Commissioners Gorelick, Richard BenVeniste and Timothy Roemer did nothing to dispel reports in the Wall Street Journal back in March that they were regularly caucusing together, and regularly consulting with Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, to coordinate a political strategy: to use the commission as a political opportunity to suggest that the Bush administration had been asleep at the switch in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks.
Maybe it was just paritsan politics. On the other hand, Daschle had a more personal interest in the commission's verdict--- His wife served as deputy administrator of the FAA from 1993 to 1997. If the commission came down hard on airline and airport security issues, Linda Daschle would face uncomfortable questions.
See:
The real reason Tom Daschle didn’t run for president
Tom Daschle's Hillary Problem
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