9-11 Citizens Watch
By Betty Hurst
August/September 2004
Volume 40, Number 2
9-11 Citizens Watch is a group of researchers and families of 9-11 victims who have dedicated themselves to discovering the whole truth behind the tragedy of 9-11, co-founded by John Judge and Kyle Hence. Questions they have filed with the 9-11 Commission remain unaddressed.
In the run up to the commission hearings, they placed 300 posters in each of the D.C. metro lines and an ad in the Washington Post demanding that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Clinton, and Gore testify under oath. They have appeared on CSPAN to air ongoing concerns about non-accountability and a possible whitewash of events by the 9-11 Commission.
Citizens Watch urges the immediate release of all unclassified documents and rapid declassification of all other documents. Of special concern is that the Commission might recommend sequestering 9-11 documents for 50 years or more, which is what happened after the Warren Commission report. The group is also skeptical about the possible establishment of an MI-5 type domestic intelligence agency arising from commission findings.
Family survivor April Gallop feels the investigation was doomed from the beginning for lack of funding. She fears there are Al Qaeda cells in the US because there is so little immigration control.
Family survivor Bruce Drissell doubts that 11 million illegals can be contacted in a search for possible Al Qaeda sleeper cells.
Among a long list of vital questions which can be found at the website (see below), family members also want to know why they were excluded from the commission when a seat became vacant, even though some family members had top-secret clearances.
They also want to know who was in charge on 9-11 and why no one has been called to task for failures. And if those in charge "couldn't imagine" that planes could be used as missiles, did that really matter if standard operating procedure was supposed to be evoked automatically in a timely manner, regardless of the reason for loss of airliner contact with control towers?
The great unasked question is whether anyone now is "in charge," and even
if someone is, whether another tragedy is still waiting in the wings.
9-11 Citizens Watch can be reached at P.O. Box 772, Washington, DC 20044, and at (202) 583-5347 or (401)-847-1963; citizenswatch@starpower.net
Website: http://www.911citizenswatch.org
* 9-11 Citizens Watch is fiscally sponsored by the Washington Peace Center.
You can inquire about fiscal sponsorship by calling 202-234-2000 or
email wpc@igc.org.
