9/11 Family Steering Committee

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The 9/11 Family Steering Committee was an organization of twelve relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001 against the World Trade Center. [1] Members of the Committee included the Jersey Girls. It was part of the 9/11 Truth Movement and was set up to monitor the work of the 9/11 Commission.

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History

The now-defunct group was an offshoot of the Coalition for an Independent 9/11 Commission, which advocated the creation of an independent commission to investigate the failures that made 9/11 possible. The coalition represented a wide array of 9/11 families' organizations, including Families of September 11, Sept. 11 Advocates (also known as "The Jersey Girls"), and Voices of September 11. Although the call for a commission was initially resisted by the Bush administration, the coalition eventually prevailed in the creation of the 9/11 Commission.

The Washington Post stated:

It is no exaggeration to say that yesterday's reorganization of the nation's intelligence structure would not have happened without Fetchet, Ashley and the 10 other self-appointed representatives of Sept. 11 victims' relatives who formed the Family Steering Committee.

"Would we be here except for those two? I don't think so," Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), one of the legislation's sponsors, said after thanking Fetchet and Ashley. "It was impossible for a member of Congress to face the family members and say they wouldn't do something."

"I agree," said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the co-sponsor. "They had the moral conviction."

The family members' public complaints pressured President Bush to drop his initial opposition to a Sept. 11 commission

Monitoring of the 9/11 Commission

However, the Family Steering Committee was unsatisfied with the commission created and its mandate.

They stated:

While we believe that our concerns were acknowledged, we had also hoped that more of our questions and those of the American public would be fully addressed during the public hearings, or at the very least, discussed in the prepared staff statements," the statement read. "Yet today, many of our collective questions remain unanswered." [2]

It further created a list of questions they argued was unanswered by the official commission. [3]

On January 11, 2005, the committee made the following statement:

After three years of work toward making America more secure, the FSC is transitioning in order to address issues such as the release of the still embargoed 9/11 CIA and FAA reports; terrorist financing; immigration reform; the remaining recommendations of the 9/11 Commission; and other issues that continue to emerge. Although the FSC as a group will no longer exist, many of us will continue to work individually and through other 9/11 related groups for these causes. [4]

The group ceased operations on January 11, 2005. Some of the research and advocacy of members of the Family Steering Committee is featured in the documentary "9/11: Press for Truth" premiered September 2006.

Media coverage

Members

The member list include all the Jersey Girls

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "9/11 Family Steering Committee members".
  2. 1 2 "9/11 Report: The Open Question". CBS News. July 21, 2004.
  3. ↑ "Questions".
  4. ↑ "Home".
  5. ↑ Jumpstart, N. O. W. "NOW with David Brancaccio on Politics". www.pbs.org.
  6. ↑ Jumpstart, N. O. W. "NOW with David Brancaccio on Politics". www.pbs.org.
  7. ↑ "UQ Wire: 9/11 News/Lobbying Initiative". Scoop News. 25 February 2004.
  8. ↑ "Choose Your Side and Choose it Now!". Archived from the original on 2006-09-04. Retrieved 2006-08-21.
  9. ↑ "portland imc - 2005.01.11 - "WHY THE FAMILIES ARE WRONG, DEAD WRONG"". portland.indymedia.org. Archived from the original on 2007-02-05. Retrieved 2006-08-21.
  10. ↑ Two Mothers Helped Move Mountain on Post-9/11 Bill (washingtonpost.com)
  11. ↑ "A key force behind the 9/11 commission". Christian Science Monitor. 25 March 2004.
  12. ↑ "New York Daily News - Ideas & Opinions - Bill Harvey & Kristen Breitweiser: 9/11 panel should get time it needs". New York Daily News . Archived from the original on 2006-09-09. Retrieved 2006-08-21.
  13. ↑ "CNN.com - Transcripts". transcripts.cnn.com.
  14. ↑ "9/11 kin support provisions on illegals". The Washington Times.
  15. ↑ Hence, Kyle F. "911Truth.org: Only the Truth will Set Us Free". Archived from the original on 2006-01-13. Retrieved 2006-08-21.
  16. ↑ "The New York Times". myaccount.nytimes.com.
  17. ↑ House Approves Intelligence Bill (washingtonpost.com)
  18. ↑ "USATODAY.com - Memorial sites move ahead at their own paces". usatoday30.usatoday.com.
  19. ↑ ReadNews.dbm | Search Results | IBOPE | Zogby Archived 2008-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ↑ "Grilled to Order - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice".

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