9/11 and the public's right to know

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/001637.html

It has been more than three-and-a-half years since the terror attacks of Sept. 11. The main perpetrators have been ID'd by the government and died in the suicide assault, and key planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is also in custody.

Yet both the federal government and New York officials continue to block the public's right to know more about what really happened that day -- even though it's the family members of the victims of the tragic attack now pleading for a fuller public account.

In blocking the free exchange of information, public officials are heavily damaging one of the key democratic values that the terrorists themselves so badly wanted to knock down on 9/11/01.

The latest blow came yesterday from a New York courtroom....

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All of this should have been public within weeks of 9-11. The investigation was blocked, ............ the truth would have been known by now, we all would be protected years ago by its use.

Now this. This is sick.

"The appeals court disagreed with families whose attorneys argued in a hearing last month in Albany that public interest outweighed privacy protection of those who died in the attacks."

Time to unify, get unconfused and agree.