Live 9/11 Commission Thread

April 14, 2004 | Vanity

[Peach]

George Tenet, CIA Director, is due to testify to the 9/11 Commission.

Later today the FBI Director, Meuller, will testify.

[Inspectorette]

We here in the NY tri-state have a more intimate recollection of that day as do those in DC and PA. This is not to infer that ALL of the country was not attacked that day of course.

You're right - we were all attacked. It upsets me no end when I read that people outside the NY-DC-PA area weren't affected. Many people all over the country had relatives or friends in the WTC or the Pentagon.

My own beloved son-in-law was at the Pentagon on that terrible day. My daughter was at work in Alexandria and had heard about the WTC, then heard the explosion and saw the smoke at the Pentagon. She didn't know whether he was dead or alive. Luckily he was not in the area where the plane crashed.

I was out here on the Left Coast, watching in horror with my co-workers. I work on a military installation, and we immediately went to Threat Protection Delta - this is the condition we go to when we're under attack.

[Miss Marple]

See my reply in #679.

[petitfour]

That's the one.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Re: 679---Great point!

[ironman]

"The FBI checked a variety of databases for information on the Bin Ladin flight passengers and searched the aircraft. It is unclear whether the TIPOFF terrorist watchlist was checked. At our request, the Terrorist Screening Center has rechecked the names of individuals on the flight manifests of these six Saudi flights against the current TIPOFF watchlist. There are no matches. The FBI has concluded that nobody was allowed to depart on these six flights who the FBI wanted to interview in connection with the 9/11 attacks, or who the FBI later concluded had any involvement in those attacks. To date, we have uncovered no evidence to contradict this conclusion."
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing10/staff_statement_10.pdf

[jmstein7]

Call on Jamie S. Gorelick to Resign from the 9-11 Commission (click here)

[Howlin]

There were six flights? I thought that they were all flown to a central place -- Tennessee comes to mind -- and then flown out of the company.

I will have to reread the article in Vanity Fair.

BTW, do you remember Richard Clarke saying HE personally approved that/those flight(s)?

[LisaFab]

Exactly. People all over the country experienced pain as they realized that all Americans were under attack.

My own worst recollections were the sight of the mushroom cloud I saw from the Tappan Zee Bridge as the second tower fell and the sight of the many cars still in commuter parking lots days after 9/11 that would never be returned to by their drivers.

[Miss Marple]

Out here in Indiana, we had NG or law enforcement at almost every interstate overpass watching. It scared me, let me tell you.

[Oorang]

Emailed them again today. Will do so again tomorrow. Thanks for the reminders and links.

[BlessedByLiberty]

Follow up contact information for postcards and letters:

Here's the address:
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
301 7th Street, SW
Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407

[maryz]

Did you happen to catch this thread when it was posted? The Politics of 9/11: The activists who claim to speak for the families are not politically neutral.

And I know I remember seeing a thread on FR on which a Freeper posted the results of a Google search on the names of the three or four who were starting to crop up everywhere. I'm not sure how to search for the thread, except that I think the date was near the beginning of when the "Jersey girls" started to show up everywhere.

[Jrabbit]

So, Thomas Pickard was wrong, sort of, about the FBI probes mentioned in the Aug.6 memo? Instead of 70, there were 67?

[mabelkitty]

Yes.

[mabelkitty]

Done.
Also cc: my Senators and Reps so the Commission knows I'm following up with the Big Boys in an election year.

[maryz]

I think this is the thread I mentioned before:

Bush 9/11 ads: WHO ARE THESE ANGRY 9/11 VICTIMS???

I found the link in this thread: The 'Offended' 911 Group “Peaceful Tomorrows” is funded largely by Teresa Heinz (various sources, mostly Tom Randall of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 3/5/04

[Howlin]

And now we have Kean and Hamilton giving a PRESS CONFERENCE.

What the heck kind of commission is this?

[Quilla]

What the heck kind of commission is this?

Partisan? Pandering? Pathetic? Pick one or all!

[LisaFab]

How about this question: Why is Jamie Gorelick still sitting on this commission?

[OldFriend]

My fury now extends to Chrissy Matthews who is exploiting the ignorance of these wicked widows for his own purposes.

When they are no longer useful to his agenda they will be thrown in the trashbin....where they belong.