9/11 Widows Skillfully Applied the Power of a Question: Why?

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/national/01FAMI.html?hp

Kristen Breitweiser was at home in Middletown, N.J., cleaning out closets. Patty Casazza of Colts Neck was dashing to the dry cleaners. Lorie Van Auken of East Brunswick was headed out to do grocery shopping. Her neighbor Mindy Kleinberg had just packed her children off to school.

Then came word, Tuesday morning, that President Bush had agreed to allow his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to testify publicly about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. All at once, the cellphones started ringing and the e-mail started flying and "the Jersey girls," as the four women are known in Washington, were getting credit for chalking up another victory in the nation's capital.

Americans just tuning in to the work of the commission investigating the attacks may not have heard of Ms. Breitweiser and the rest. But on Capitol Hill, these suburban women are gaining prominence as savvy World Trade Center widows who came to Washington, as part of a core group of politically active relatives of Sept. 11 victims, and prodded Congress and a recalcitrant White House to create the panel that this week brought official Washington to its knees.

"They call me all the time," said Thomas H. Kean, the commission's chairman and a former Republican governor of New Jersey. "They monitor us, they follow our progress, they've supplied us with some of the best questions we've asked. I doubt very much if we would be in existence without them."

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. I so respect these women

And you just have to :puke: at the Republican double standard...uh yeah right..the Dem's are using them...is that like the Republicans used Randy Weaver?

[Jax]

2. I will keep saying this on DU

Kristen Breitweiser. She is rock solid.

Try stopping this train.

Jax

[FARAFIELD]

3. Yes i believe that Kristin is a Stealth Dem

She is so focused though that she actually guards her answers that can be construed as politically favoring US (dems), although she puts the heat on anytime she can trash anyone in the administration. I fear the revolting development of "dueling widows" in the campaign.

[leftchick]

dupe

[leftchick]

4. I am very curious to know how they feel about "tag team testimony"

of chimpy* and cheney? No mention of it in this article.

[0007]

5. I'm with 'ya all the way ladies - And you are ladies of the highest

The eyes of each lady tell a different story with the same outcome

The tears that have flowed from these eyes
will flow to the truth "WHY" and not the lies -

[Palacsinta]

6. How pathetic that they were the ones to force the issue!

Unbelievable that our government didn't launch this commission on Sept.12th.