The 9/11 Commission provided both lawmakers and the national security apparatus with clear guidelines and recommendations to minimize the likelihood of future catastrophic attacks against the United States.
Although the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) represents a different kind of threat and is not yet resolved, lessons can be extracted so that the impact of future pandemics is lessened.
A commission based on interviews, testimony, and objective truths would be helpful. But one that’s appointed by President Trump – which sounds very different than what congressional Democrats like California Rep. Adam Schiff have in mind.
Newsweek contributing editor Peter Roth explains:
Well, Schiff’s back—and with a vengeance. In the middle of the effort to combat the most serious crisis facing the United States since the near-collapse of the financial sector at the end of the George W. Bush administration, he is pushing to establish a coronavirus commission modeled on what followed the 9/11 attacks to study how the country got where it is now.
Usually, one waits until a conflict is resolved before engaging in an in-depth examination of its cause. What Schiff wants is another opportunity to stick it to Trump, plain and simple. In his mind, he’s the avenger, looking out for the interests of the common man against a potentate laying waste to this great country.
He is right on one point, however. There should be a commission, ideally appointed by the president, that looks at all aspects of the COVID-19 crisis with special concentration on the way federal and state governments failed the citizens who put them in office.
Such a commission, if it were bipartisan and composed of heavyweights from the fields of medicine, government and industry, could do a lot to help us understand how and why things got as far as they did. A panel led by the likes of former Vice President Dick Cheney or former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for the Republicans and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta or former Governor Jerry Brown for the Democrats would immediately command the public’s respect. They’ve demonstrated at one time or another that they’re not afraid to ask hard questions and follow the truth where it leads. More important, they would not shy away from making tough recommendations regarding future economic, health and national security needs—even if they might upset the institutions and political allies that once gave them their considerable power.
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Peter Roff
Peter Roff is affiliated with several Washington, D.C. public policy organizations and is a former U.S. News and World Report contributing editor who appears regularly as a commentator on the One America News network. He can be reached by email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @PeterRoff.
If ANYONE except Adam Schiff (even John Doe) would propose this it would be reasonable, but this impeachment happy idiot will just spend taxpayer money on another GET TRUMP fiasco!
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“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).
We know Shitt. We know he lacks integrity. He lacks honor. He lacks reason. So IF he advocates something that appears to make sense, look CLOSER. Nothing he does is good for the nation or Trump.
Just what we DON’T need. Another bunch of bureaucrats.
Schiff can KMA! He is no good!
First let’s remember we are talking about Schiff. This guy is a maniac whose own state and area that he represents are failure and miserably going down the tubes. So how does someone that cannot even manage a portion of a state think he can manage or control what is best for an entire country. Secondly, he has made it clear to all, along with Pelosi, that their actions have nothing to do with what is best for America, what is best for the American people, or what is best for the world during this crisis. They are only interested in two things and that will not change; one is the overturn of the lost 2016 election that they all believed was in their hands with Hilary and they found out that the American people don’t follow their rules and their agendas. Secondly, they want to ensure their majority in the house in order to continue to run their own agendas and to target the president. I challenge someone to show me something either of these two have put out in the last year or more that is positive for America and the people as opposed to their usual negative BS about the president, those that voted for the president, and the actual citizens of this country and not the illegal immigrants that they so boldly support instead of citizens.
Yes we know how well the democrats do all things. Look at their failures. So now, Trump is handling the crisis well as indicated by his approval rating. So how to stop him from getting credit? Force a commission of do nothing bureaucrats who will just do MORE AND MORE to take the economy down but try to take credit for any good that is done about the CORONA.
FACTS:
1. More dead from FLU in the last two years over a comparable time.
2. More dead from drunk drivers over a comparable period of time.
3. Children just about untouched.
4. MOST deaths are from underlying condition and old people like me (71 years old)
5. Compare the few lives that MAY be being saved compared to the millions who are now without any income. Is it worth the destruction of our economy? I DON’T THINK SO.
Well I think the dem’s should pay all they do is getting out of doing their work. Way do we need to pay for their stupid shit.
It’s Okay. Trump appointed an IG over the Coronavirus effort – a person who’s used to managing auditors, etc… Maybe the funds will be used appropriately now.
I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories, I just question when accusations don’t make sense. The Democrats and MSM imply that the danger of this virus was known as early as Nov. This would indicate that (with the hooks they had in FBI and CIA) that they also knew about it. I don’t recall them saying or doing much related to it, they spent all of their time on impeachment rhetoric and did not push it as fast as possible. The Democrats, instead of delivering the bill of impeachment, held it up for some time (the same time the virus was really taking hold in China), and still no mention of this virus from any of them. Then they went ballistic when the Pres. imposed a travel ban on China, calling him all the usual names. I have to question many of their decisions during the build up and spread of this virus.
Of course there should be a post Morten on this to determine lessons learned and ways we could do better next time. But let’s not kid ourselves, that is the furthest thing from Pelosi and Schiff’s mind. They are just looking for stuff, even if they have to fabricate it again, that they can use as a club against Trump and the Republicans. They don’t care a whit about learning or making things better.
The author of this blurb is as crazy as Schiff. Schiff has done nothing straight up like an adult. There’s always an underlying game so not only no, but hell no.
Communist government terrorist. Hang for treason schitt
Schiff and all dems need to be sent to GITMO for treason by there actions of a COUP. The worst thing you can do against the Constitution and the people of the USA. They have done nothing in Congrees for 4 years but rob the Government for there wages for doing nothing all should be charged for theif as well.
This man is a lower than whale crap. He needs to be locked up.
Schiff has already been butted aside by Trump – it is insanely ridiculous for Schiff to try to tell anyone that Trump has been waiting for Schiff and other Democrats, or anyone for that matter, to drum up ideas of what he must do at any time – Trump is the Man for All Reasons that was voted in for his ability and wanting to do all he can to be Our Representative in all things, and that’s exactly what he has done for us and the nation.
Promises Made, Promises Kept, that’s President Trump and we cannot forget he made it through Crossfire Hurricane mounted by the Globalist Strong Arms of enemy nations’ leaders and their moneymen and women contributing unending vast sums to keep the tanks rolling over Trump – and Trump the Super Hero punched them all away – so what do they do next ? – have another biochem attack on America and blame it on Trump.
That is what Schiff is talking about.
But Barr and Durham are ready to spring on the bad guys – if anyone’s been listening to Barr’s remarks he has gotten quite saucy in his repertoire of language terms that describe perfectly the Sabotage Schumer-Schiff-Pelosi-Clyburn-Obama-GW-Clinton, both of them, and the funnel amplifiers of their lies, the Media.
Barr said in his last remarks that he knows, and so does Durham’s investigation prove, what we would never suspect that Americans could be involved in against We People and our land – that it just wasn’t a plot by FBI and DOJ and Presidents and their Administration People to kill Trump’s campaign for 2016.
It seems that We People are being ‘taught’ by Barr so we can toughen up b/c what’s coming is going to be too difficult to believe.
Before Schiff and the rest of the Democrat Party and their collaborators in destruction of what Obama began, the complete dissolution of ‘America’, of ‘Republic’ get a step further they will not miss the writing on the wall – they are doomed completely and Trump will demand that they watch and listen as Trump’s
I have seen Basset Hounds that look better than I need a job Schifty. Probably smarter too.
The last thing we need now is another endless investigation costing hundreds of $millions. Its a bad idea. Even the radical left knows what happened. If you want to know more release whatever intelligence has been collected and let us decide for ourselves. A bloated report, just like raw intelligence, is not going to change anyone’s belief of what happened.
Quit trusting China and other dictatorships to say and do the right thing. We need to become self reliant. Screen everyone when they enter the US.
Use everything we have, including HCQ, to combat the Chinese Virus. Open up our factories and stores without further delay.
Schiff is an evil person he should be run out of congress
if you vote for any of these rats , then you are part of the problem . trump2020