Angry widow calls for new 9/11 panel

St. Petersburg Times ^ | August 12, 2005 | PAUL DE LA GARZA

[george76]

TAMPA - With details emerging Thursday that the Sept. 11 commission omitted crucial information from its final report last year, a group of 9/11 widows called for creation of a new independent panel.

"I'm very disturbed, and I want to get some answers," said Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband, Ronald, died in the World Trade Center. "I want to know what the truth is."

Her organization, the September 11th Advocates, or the Jersey Girls, was instrumental in pushing for creation of the Sept. 11 commission.

On Thursday, the now-disbanded commission became embroiled in controversy, after acknowledging it omitted crucial information about ringleader Mohammed Atta in its final report last summer.

Former commission members planned to issue a "comprehensive statement" Thursday afternoon addressing the latest developments but they balked, saying they were still reviewing documents.

In a scathing letter Wednesday to the former co-chairmen of the commission, Weldon said, "The commission's refusal to investigate Able Danger after being notified of its existence, and its recent efforts to feign ignorance of the project while blaming others for supposedly withholding information on it, brings shame on the commissioners."

Early in the week, Al Felzenberg, who had been the commission's chief spokesman, said the panel was unaware of intelligence specifically naming Atta.

But he said subsequent information provided Wednesday confirmed that the commission had been aware of the intelligence.

It did not make it into the final report because the information was not consistent with what the commission knew about Atta's whereabouts before the attacks, he said.

Citing the latest revelations, Breitweiser, the Sept. 11 widow, called the findings of the Sept. 11 commission "an utterly hollow report."

[putupjob]

The MSM has just about defanged this story already. Time magazine is making out like there is nothing to it and it is just barking by the August dogs during the dog days.

We all know better. I feel I owe Breitweiser an apology of sorts for I have been wondering where she was since the new information broke. In deference to the woman, let us give her just due. She doesn't seem as empty as Mother Sheehan.

[beyond the sea]

yes

[oceanview]

what won't happen, you'll have to be more specific.

[beyond the sea]

This girl will not take any crap now. She will see the light, if she hasn't already!

[woofie]

Tell em to call up Sandy

[SERKIT]

Talk about connecting the dots. It's amazing how the Plame-Atta-WMD-Iraq-GWOT is being boiled down in the same pot. Quite soon, it will quite apparent even to the "Bush lied, people died" crowd, that we have been more right than wrong. It is becoming clearer who the detracters have been and how god-awful they behaved.

Atta-Iraq connections, WMD intel, and Clintonoid misdeeds...oh boy, look ma! No tinfoil hat!

[beyond the sea]

She's realizing it!

[cgk]

[cookcounty]

Watch the MSM drop their darling Jersey Girls pronto.

[beyond the sea]

They'll have to spell it out to her in words with very few syllables.

I would guess by that foolish remark that she has a higher IQ than you do.

[oceanview]

you are being optimistic, prematurely so in my opinion.

[beyond the sea]

I saw ole Kristin on the cable shows on Friday...and her lips have taken on the pursed look of Eleanor Clift, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, and Ceci Connolly...

Hardly.

[beyond the sea]

good question!

[Marine_Uncle]

"That Duck must be getting tired by now!"

Hell. Now their electrocuting the poor bastard!

[beyond the sea]

other then Weldon, do you see any high ranking people on our side saying anything?

You're right. Mostly all compromised, spineless cowards in D.C.

[beyond the sea]

I'll be curious to find out if she knows this occured under the Clinton administration

She knew it the other night on tv. She was reaming the Clinton administration!

[Carolinamom]

FYI.........re: Jersey widows.

[beyond the sea]

Or, she could camp out in Jamie Gorelick's drive. That would be more fun, but no one would care.

Not a bad idea.... or Dietrich Snell's driveway.

[oceanview]

where was this?

[beyond the sea]

The token conservative guest is just a prop (toy) on the sidelines to make the exhibition more pleasurable.

Or someone to bully like Michelle Malkin. She should throw a pie in Spitball's face the next time she sees him!