The Associated Press is reporting that former 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton is ready to endorse Barack Obama for President over Hillary Clinton. Hamilton, who served as a U.S. Representative from the Ninth District in Indiana from January of 1965 to January of 1999, also served as chairman of both the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees.After retirement, Hamilton was appointed co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, which many believe unfairly focused more attention on the nine months of the newly elected Bush Administration prior to the attacks rather than the previous eight years of the Clinton Administration. During Bill Clinton's time in office, we were attacked repeatedly by Al Qaeda and Islamic Fundamentalists - in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000.Hamilton then co-chaired with James Baker the Iraq Study Group, whose final report was released on...(Read Full Post)