I noted around the time of 9/11 that the worst challenge to the
“official story” the Administration was going to have to deal with was
going to be widows of the wealthy– people with lots of cash, lots of
anger, a relentless drive to find out what really happend, and public
opinion on their side.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you “the girls”:
\\So afraid is the Bush administration of what could be revealed by
inquiries into its failures to protect Americans from terrorist attack,
it is unabashedly using Kremlin tactics to muzzle members of Congress
and thwart the current federal commission investigating the failures of
Sept. 11. But there is at least one force that the administration
cannot scare off or shut up. They call themselves “Just Four Moms from
New Jersey,” or simply “the girls.”
Kristen and the three other housewives who also lost their husbands in
the attack on the World Trade Center started out knowing virtually
nothing about how their government worked. For the last 20 months they
have clipped and Googled, rallied and lobbied, charmed and intimidated
top officials all the way to the White House. In the process, they have
made themselves arguably the most effective force in dancing around the
obstacle course by which the administration continues to block a
transparent investigation of what went wrong with the countrys
defenses on Sept. 11 and what we should be doing about it. They have no
political clout, no money, no powerful husbandsno husbands at all
since Sept. 11and they are up against a White House, an Attorney
General, a Defense Secretary, a National Security Advisor and an F.B.I.
director who have worked out an ingenious bait-and-switch game to
thwart their efforts and those of any investigative body.\\
And if there’s any justice– and any amount of support– they’ll win.
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