by Susan Nolan Portsmouth Herald Wednesday, Dec 24, 2003 http://www.seacoastonline.com/2003news/12242003/news/67085.htm DERRY – Ellen Mariani wants answers and she’s willing to forgo money to get them – a lot of money. The Derry woman’s husband was killed on Sept. 11, 2001. Neil Mariani was on United Airlines Flight 175, the second of two planes to crash …
By Tim Harper The Toronto Star Tuesday, Dec 23, 2003 www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article _Type1&c=Article&cid=1072134612206&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724 WASHINGTON—For some, it’s blood money, a repugnant payoff they feel they have no choice but to accept. For a handful of others, the process of claiming compensation is too painful: they find themselves paralyzed by grief and unable to reopen emotional wounds barely …
By Terence Kivlin The Staten Island Advance Sunday, Dec 21, 2003 http://www.silive.com Former Vermont Gov. and current presidential candidate Howard Dean is just the latest Democratic critic of President Bush to suggest that he had foreknowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Off and on for over the last two years, Democrats have flirting with …
By Timothy J. BurgerTime MagazineSaturday, Dec 20, 2003 Poised to convene its first hard-hitting hearings in January, the federal commission investigating the 9/11 attacks continues to be at odds with the White House over access to key information and witnesses. Two government sources tell TIME that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is arguing over ground …
By David Kubiak Saturday, Dec 20, 2003 http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2003/12/21097.php December 17th: 9/11 Commission Chairman Kean fires off a news blip claiming the September 11 attacks were “preventable,” some officials had “simply failed”, and “major revelations” are due next month. Titillating stuff, without question, but Kean was already backing off the next day, “clarifying” that “We have …
By Randall Pinkston CBS News Wednesday, December 17, 2003 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/eveningnews/main589137.shtml (CBS) For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston. “This is a very, very important part of history and we’ve got …
By Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound US News and World Report Friday, Dec 12, 2003 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031222/usnews/22secrecy.htm The Bush administration is doing the public’s business out of the public eye. Here’s how–and why. “Democracies die behind closed doors.” –U.S. Appeals Court Judge Damon J. Keith At 12:01 p.m. on Jan. 20, 2001, as a …
By Joe Rothstein US Politics Today Sunday, December 07, 2003 Link to original In my last column I reviewed some of the events leading up to 9/11 to demonstrate (and I don’t want to be uncharitable here to those involved) that a roomful of blind monkeys could have anticipated that hijacked airplanes might be used …
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By Antonio Zerbisias Toronto Star Sunday, November 30, 2003 Let me say this straight up: I am not so cynical that I don’t believe U.S. President George W. Bush wasn’t sincerely farklempt when he talked turkey with the boys in Baghdad on Thanksgiving. Still, his talk of freedom struck me as gobbledygook. “By helping the …
By Robert Scheer Dodge City Daily Glode Friday, November 28, 2003 http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/112803/opi_1128030023.shtml What nerve for President Bush to question the patriotism of his Democratic opponents, two of whom are highly decorated Purple Heart and Bronze and Silver Star veterans and all of whom have labored long to make this a better country. But the television …
