Sept. 11 Panel Defends Director's Impartiality

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Concerns of Victims' Relatives Over Zelikow's National Security Ties Are Dismissed
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 14, 2003; Page A02


The executive director of a panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is at the center of an escalating fight between the commission and some relatives of attack victims, who have demanded that he remove himself from a broad part of the inquiry because of his ties to key national security officials.

The families wrote in an Oct. 3 letter to the Sept. 11 commission that executive director Philip D. Zelikow should recuse himself "from any aspect of national security and executive branch negotiations and investigations" because of his past connections to the National Security Council and to key Bush administration officials.

If not, the letter said, Zelikow should resign because of the "danger these conflicts pose to credibility."

The commission's leaders, former New Jersey governor Thomas H. Kean (R) and former representative Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), responded in a letter Friday that Zelikow had previously agreed to recuse himself from issues related to the NSC's transition from the Clinton to Bush administrations, which Zelikow had helped manage. But commission officials said Zelikow would continue to guide the panel's investigation in other areas.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21478-2003Oct13.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. More "fair and balanced" investigation, I see.

Just like the DOJ folks doing Treasongate.

[DemonFighterLives]

2. The great Breadth and Depth of his work

should call everything he does into question. He has been sleeping with the enemy. People should be infuriated that this pretend investigation has not revealed anything. :argh: