WTF Is It Now?!?

Bush's 9/11 coverup
Snipped from Eric Boehlert's column in Salon:

Family members of victims of the 9/11 terror attacks say the White House has smothered every attempt to get to the bottom of the outrageous intelligence failures that took place on its watch.

Family advocates also wanted to know why the government - and specifically the Bush administration - has been so reluctant to find answers to any of the obvious questions about what went wrong that day, why so little has been fixed, and why virtually nobody has accepted any responsibility for the glaring failures.

While the administration of George W. Bush is aggressively positioning itself as the world leader in the war on terrorism, some families of the Sept. 11 victims say that the facts increasingly contradict that script. The White House long opposed the formation of a blue-ribbon Sept. 11 commission, some say, and even now that panel is underfunded and struggling to build momentum. And, they say, the administration is suppressing a 900-page congressional study, possibly out of fear that the findings will be politically damaging to Bush.

"We've been fighting for nearly 21 months - fighting the administration, the White House," says Monica Gabrielle. Her husband, Richard, who worked in the World Trade Center's Tower 2, died during the attacks. "As soon as we started looking for answers we were blocked, put off and ignored at every stop of the way. We were shocked. The White House is just blocking everything."

Another 9/11 family advocate - a former Bush supporter who requested anonymity - was more blunt: "Bush has done everything in his power to squelch this [9/11] commission and prevent it from happening."

There's a growing sense among some 9/11 advocates that the news media have let them - and the nation - down. "I'm very disappointed in the press," says Kristin Breitweiser, whose husband, Ronald, was killed when United Flight 175 slammed into Tower 1. "I think it's disgusting the independent commission is doing the most important work for this nation and it's not even reported in the New York Times or on the nightly news. I've been scheduled to go on Meet the Press and Hardball so many times and I'm always canceled. Frankly I'd like nothing better than to go head to head with Dick Cheney on Meet the Press. Because somebody needs to ask the questions and I don't understand why nobody is."