Wednesday, April 23, 2003

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (NCTA) convened three weeks ago for the first hearings concerning the attacks on 9/11. Mindy Kleinberg is a founding member of September 11th Advocates, a family advocacy group that spearheaded the grassroots effort for the establishment of the independent commission on September 11th.

Her husband Alan Kleinberg was a NASDAQ security trader with Cantor Fitzgerald in the NorthTower of the WTC on the 104th Floor. He was 39 and had been a NASDAQ security trader for 15 years when he was killed.

The questions this woman asks are frightening. The details of the failures that allowed 9/11 to happen are listed clearly, details I'd never heard before. Details that haven't been addressed yet, much less fixed. There was a complete breakdown in the governmental protocol that morning.

And she wants to know why. Here are the highlights.

Statement of Mindy Kleinberg to the
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
March 31, 2003

The Theory of Luck
The SEC
The INS
Airline and Airport Security
FAA and NORAD
Leadership - Joint Chief Of Staff
Secretary of Defense
President
Was it luck or No Fault Government


Webcasts of Hearings. They are long, you can't FF or rewind, and they are more fascinating than anything you EVER find on TV.

Hearing Agenda - Includes the transcripts of Mayor Bloomberg, five authorities (Port, FD, Army) experiences, representatives of the families, and Law Enforcement, Domestic Intelligence, and Homeland Security, among many others.


Mrs. Kleinberg lists precise failures of each of the above listed. These are questions we should ALL want answers to. These aren't right or left issues, they are self-preservation issues. We need answers to Mrs. Kleinberg questions, not so much to point fingers and place blame (there WERE so many failures), but to fix the failures that allowed 9/11 to happen in the first place, so it can never happen again.

Kansas @ 7:51 PM