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To: Howlin
HELLO .. a fax she shouldn't have rec'd??

http://www.njmonthly.com/issues/Mar03/widows.html
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Widows' Walk

In the depths of their grief, four World Trade Center widows get the political education of a lifetime.

By John T. Ward


On September 11, 2002, Kristen Breitweiser's home fax machine printed out a document that U.S. intelligence officials didn't want her or anyone else in her situation to have. It was a letter from the congressional committee examining the failure of the CIA, the FBI, and the National Security Agency to detect and prevent the terrorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 men, women, and children exactly one year earlier. Breitweiser, whose husband, Ronald, was among the nearly 2,800 victims at the World Trade Center, was being invited to the Capitol to testify.

"Who's running this investigation, Oprah?" one exasperated intelligence insider asked in USA Today. It was hard to see how heartbreak qualified relatives of victims to talk about national security matters, the unnamed government official added. Emotional testimony could only stoke anger directed at the intelligence community. And while the mutterer didn't mention Breitweiser by name, it's not a stretch to conclude that the spy set saw her as little more than a potential fount of lump-in-the-throat sentiment.

180 posted on 04/13/2004 11:44:11 PM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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To: Mo1
What do you want to bet the fax was sent by a DEMONRAT member of the congressional committee?
181 posted on 04/13/2004 11:46:22 PM PDT by ValerieUSA
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