March 22, 2010
A summary of news relating to 9/11/01 - For the week of March 15 through March 21, 2010. (Last week is here)
In what should be headlines for major news outlets, a letter revealed that Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, and George Tenet wrote a letter to the 9/11 Chairman and Vice Chairman denying them access to detainee’s, and telling them to not cross that line. The letter was one of many different pages in a group of documents recently revealed by the ACLU. In the letter the Chair and Vice Chair of the 9/11 commission are told that their request to talk to detainees would “cross a line” between “national security” and “proper inquiry.” Out of over 100 detainee, the Commission was hoping to talk to only 7. However George Tenet would not even reveal the location of the alleged suspects. Those documents can be found here.
In other news relating to 9/11, a major legal settlement for the sick Ground Zero first responders was rejected by the presiding judge. “In my judgment, this settlement is not enough,” said U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. Although many had been reporting that the settlement would likely pass, few expected the judge to shut it down. Although the plaintiffs lawyers were not as happy as the plaintiffs themselves, lets hope this is a move towards proper acknowledgement. The workers only had 90 days to review the settlement and 95% had to agree. Over a third of the settlement would have gone to legal fees, a.k.a the lawyers.
For many who have looked into the events of 9/11, it seems that the man we know as Usama Bin Laden, will never be caught. The reasons for that may differ, but the concept the same. He is the boogeyman. The recyclable enemy, and his little offspring; Al Qaeda. Recently that notion was backed up with statements made by Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder.
“Let’s deal with reality,” Holder said. “The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.”
“The possibility of catching him alive is infinitesimal. He will be killed by us or he will be killed by his own people so he can’t be captured by us.”
Posted by Brian 
