March 21, 2004: Victims’ Relatives Demand That 9/11 Commission Executive Director Resign

[burythehatchet]

That date is correct. It only took 3 YEARS AND A REPORTER'S BOOK to announce that which any human with a firing synapse
already knew.



The 9-11 Family Steering Committee and 9-11 Citizens Watch demand the resignation of Philip Zelikow, executive director of the 9/11 Commission. The demand comes shortly after former counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke told the New York Times that Zelikow was present when he gave briefings on the threat posed by al-Qaeda to National Security Adviser Rice from December 2000 to January 2001. The Family Steering Committee, a group of 9/11 victims’ relatives, writes, “It is clear that should never have been permitted to be a member of the commission, since it is the mandate of the commission to identify the source of failures. It is now apparent why there has been so little effort to assign individual culpability. We now can see that trail would lead directly to the staff director himself.” Zelikow has been interviewed by his own commission because of his role during the transition period. But a spokesman for the commission claims that having Zelikow recluse himself from certain topics is enough to avoid any conflicts of interest. 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean defends Zelikow, calling him “one of the best experts on terrorism in the whole area of intelligence in the entire country” and “the best possible person we could have found for the job.” However, Salon points out that the “long list” of Zelikow’s writings “includes only one article focused on terrorism,” and he appears to have written nothing about al-Qaeda

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a032104zelikowresign&scale=0#a032104zelikowresign

[Uben]

1. Zelikow’

Another American traitor.

[CJCRANE]

2. Another neocon fox guarding the henhouse nt

[leftchick]

3. cr is having a fundraiser?

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/fundraiser.jsp

good to know!


Thank you for this link on Zelikow. He is another member of the BFEE and proves that the 9/11 commission was a sham.

[EFerrari]

4. Now we know the approximate time it takes for the AP to jump on a story.

We should start a paper. :)

[gratuitous]

5. But, but, but, they were . . . SHRILL

Some of them were even strident (the horror)! That's why it was perfectly all right for Billo to cut one grieving survivor's microphone and shout "Shut up, shut up, shut up!" at him over and over again. That's why other defenders of our national discourse such as Ann Coulter could call the widows "harpies" who were "enjoying their husbands' deaths."

So you can see why their opinions were beyond the pale and subject to ridicule. All the kewl kidz were doing it!