Earlier tonight I caught a replay of the hearing from this am.
Had missed Weldon's testimony this morning.
This is what I picked up: Weldon is doing this for a specific reason.
He had a neighbor who was a pilot on one of the planes on 9-11. He also had a friend who was an FDNY fire captain, sounded like the man was in charge of the whole operation. Both men died that day.
Weldon said he has promised the wives, the children, and the grandchildren of those men that he will get to the bottom of this.
I believe him.
What's kind of sad is that he was at the bottom of this before it happened. He talked about the information he got from LIWA for his 1999 trip to Russia, information that the CIA couldn't provide. That was his first clue that our intelligence structure was dysfunctional. Or maybe that was his second clue since by 1999 he surely knew that the man in the Oval Office was doing little to mount a serious response to the growing threat of terrorism.