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Families of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks today celebrated a federal court's ruling that allows relatives of people who died in the 9/11 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia. Most of the hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001 were from Saudi Arabia, and the complaint states that much of the funding for the al-Qaeda terrorists came from Saudi Arabia. An attempt to Saudi Arabia in 2002 was blocked by a federal court ruling that said the kingdom had sovereign immunity. That ruling was reversed Thursday by a three-judge federal panel.… The ruling...

WASHINGTON -- The federal government received failing and mediocre grades Monday from the former Sept. 11 commission, whose members said in a final report that the government has balked at enacting numerous reforms that could prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

But I learned something new, Mr. Speaker, over the past several weeks and months. I have talked to some of the military intelligence officers who produced this document, who worked on this effort. And I found something out very startling, Mr. Speaker. Not only did our military identify the Mohammed Atta cell; our military made a recommendation in September of 2000 to bring the FBI in to take out that cell, the cell of Mohammed Atta. So now, Mr. Speaker, for the first time I can tell our colleagues that one of our agencies not only identified the New York...

IT STILL SEEMS all so close.Here, on Route 23, bathed in the August morning sun and only a short drive from Route 80 and the Willowbrook Mall, a roadside motel bears silent witness to a police bust that might have been. For a year before the 9/11 attacks, the Wayne Inn was home to Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaida mastermind behind the hijacking plot that killed almost 3,000 people.

In light of recent comments by John Kerry "If I am elected president and the recommendations of the 9/11 commision are not in place, I will call an emergency session of congress to put them in place" This is an opportunity the White House cannot pass up. The President should call an emergency session of congress to implement 9/11 commision recommendations immediately. Let the Democrats complain that it is political calling an emergency session on the eve of the DNC convention and all Bush has to say this is Leadership, this needs to happen now to make america safer. These...

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will meet next week with members of a commission investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. White House spokesman Scott McClellan says President Bush and Vice President Cheney will meet with commission members Thursday, April 29 at the White House. He says both men look forward to answering whatever questions the commission has. Unlike other members of the administration, the president and vice president will not be testifying under oath. The White House initially sought to limit the president's meeting with the bi-partisan commission to a one-hour session with only its chairman and...

Last week, 9/11 commissioner John Lehman revealed that "it was the policy (before 9/11) and I believe remains the policy today to fine airlines if they have more than two young Arab males in secondary questioning because that's discriminatory." Hmmm ... Is 19 more than two? Why, yes, I believe it is. So if two Jordanian cab drivers are searched before boarding a flight out of Newark, Osama bin Laden could then board that plane without being questioned. I'm no security expert, but I'm pretty sure this gives terrorists an opening for an attack. In a sane world, Lehman's statement...

The Widow Mariani Loses Mind Before National T.V. Audiance - Anybody Else See This Trainwreck?

I'm watching Chris Matthews interviewing Ben-Vaniste, and the pubbie commissioner talking about Clarke/Rice issues! How can that be? Even judge ITO was unable to discuss the case about OJ. How can these commission members discuss the most important issue facing the government, while the testimony is still coming in?? How can these folks talk about the beginning 1/2 of an issue to the American public, before the other side has presented its case? What a bunch of total wasted hoseshit!

In addition to Richard Clarke's praise of President Bush in Clarke's own resignation letter, the former counterterror czar contradicts himself, while speaking on tape to reporters at a White House briefing in 2002, and actually defends the Bush administration. He details how the new administration changed existing plans on how to deal with al-Qaida and increased covert operations funding "five-fold." Clarke told reporters, including Fox News' Jim Angle, who posted a transcript of the tape on foxnews.com, back in 2002: "There was no plan on al Qaida that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration." The Bush...

Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism czar in four successive administrations, testifies in front of the 9/11 Commission on Wednesday. But what should have been a serious inquiry into how a loosely knit gang of Islamic fanatics could rise to become one of history's most lethal and effective global terrorist organizations now promises to become a political spectacle. At the height of the presidential campaign season, Clarke has made irresponsible and untrue allegations that the Bush White House was indifferent to the threat posed by al Qaeda in the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks. Whether his charges...

<p>The commission investigating the September 11 attacks needs more time to complete its work, say several of its members and a group representing relatives of those who were killed.</p> <p>A deadline for the commission's report should be pushed back until the end of the year to take it out of the November election battle, members said.</p>