9/11 widows call for new investigation after revelations of White House, commission ties

[laststeamtrain]

9/11 widows call for new investigation after revelations of White House, commission ties
02/05/2008 @ 12:38 pm
Filed by Nick Juliano

The widows whose political activism was largely responsible for the establishment of a commission to investigate the September 11 attacks say a new book revealing the backstory of the 9/11 Commission proves that their initial concerns about its executive director were correct and demonstrate the need for another investigation.

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"General Michael Hayden, who headed the NSA at the time, was eager to cooperate and share what his organization had with the 9/11 Commission, but Executive Director Zelikow was not interested," 9/11 widows Patty Casazza, Monica Gabriellle, Mindy Kleinberg and Lorie Van Auken said in a statement reacting to the book.

"Why didnt Phil Zelikow make reviewing these vital NSA documents a Commission priority?" they ask. "It seems clear that not every fact and lead was followed in this investigation compromising the validity of the Commission's final report and its findings."

The 9/11 widows called for Zelikow to resign or be fired from the Commission back in 2004, when his ties with Rice and Rove were first revealed. Shenon's book, they say, proves their concerns were right all along.

"It is abundantly clear that Philip Zelikow should have immediately been replaced when the first rumblings of his impropriety and conflicts of interest surfaced," they said. "When all of this information became clear, the Commissioners and the press should have called for Zelikows resignation. We did. Shamefully, most were silent."

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[file83]

1. Oh, the irony. When the NSA has info on 9/11, no one is interested. But when the NSA has info

about U.S. citizens, the government is all ears.

[Rex]

2. The truth is worse than the cover story.

No one believes the 911 commission had any notion of finding out what happen. Certainly NOT a criminal investigation! No, let politicians handle it. They can be trusted. :sarcasm:

[Truth2Tell]

3. Rec, while I still can. nt

[wildbilln864]

4. K& freakin R! nt

:hi:

[me b zola]

5. K&R

[mhatrw]

6. Kick! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

7. For the widows, and for America: k & r

[Norrin Radd]

8. kr

[KoKo]

9. Kick~

[Lugnut]

10. K&R

:kick:

[petgoat]

11. Shenon told Terri Gross that Zelikow was the architect of Clarke's demotion--

after Clarke lost his cabinet-level access he had trouble getting
his urgent messages through. On 9/4/01 Clarke emailed Rice, telling
her to imagine 100's of Americans dead in a terrorist attack.

Zelikow's work when he taught at Harvard was the propaganda value of
"public presumptions," the political context of the public beliefs
about recent events. That qualified him supremely for managing the
myth of 9/11 so that it became a quasi-religious story that served
to reorganize society.

[bagimin]

12. k&r

[CGowen]

13. Someone should ask the remaining presidential candidates, I think Kucinich was fine with a new

investigation

[lonestarnot]

14. K & R

[orleans]

15. where is Kristen Breitweiser lately? why is she no longer with these other women?

she wasn't in the 9/11 truth movie either.

what happened? her name/face was the most memorable to me. and she just faded out of this, it seems.

[mogster]

17. Blogging at HuffPo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-breitweiser/

[orleans]

18. i know. but why isn't she still together with the other "girls"? i don't get it. n/t

[flyarm]

20. i heard wispers in NJ that she may run for office..eom

[snappyturtle]

16. Kick! K&R n/t

[Ezlivin]

19. We can trust Bush & Co. to get to the bottom of this, pronto!