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McKinney Draws Fire With Call for Probe

By Salim Muwakkil

April 22, 2002

Rep. Cynthia McKinney's call for an investigation into whether the Bush administration had advance notice of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and failed to act because of economic interests has triggered a national avalanche of scorn.

Pundits and politicians alike lit into the Georgia Democrat with invective so vituperative, one might have thought she was nabbed in a cave consorting with Osama bin Laden.

McKinney's initial statements were made in March during an interview on a radio station in Berkeley, Calif., and her remarks later were published in an April 12 Washington Post account of that interview.

"We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on Sept. 11," she was quoted as saying. "What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of Sept. 11?" She also said "people close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war."

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