Sept. 11 Commission Is Failing the Public
Re “Congressman Calls for 9/11 Panel Member to Step Down,” April 15: The American public has not been well served by the 9/11 commission. Looking for direction to mitigate or prevent future terrorist attacks, we get a gang of politicians struggling with each other for individual attention.
The Republican chairman, former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, smilingly pontificates on the public’s right to know and then acrimoniously lashes out at the public, snarling, “People ought to stay out of our business.” Another commissioner, Democrat Jamie Gorelick, has an egregious conflict of interest with her past involvement with federal government security involving criminal investigations. She belongs on the witness stand, not in a commissioner’s chair.
The commission has degenerated into a political food fight, and the credibility meter with the public is registering zero.
Tom Ghysels
Whittier
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