Victims' Families Say Gov't Secrecy Keeping 9/11 Truth Hidden

Thursday, June 22, 2006
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WASHINGTON — Families of those killed in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 said Thursday that excessive secrecy by the government is keeping from them what went wrong before the hijackings.

"All we want is the truth," said Michael Low of Batesville, Ark., whose daughter Sara was a flight attendant on one of the airplanes that flew into the World Trade Center. "We believe in freedom and open government, but at times it seems like we're getting the old Soviet Union."

A handful of family members held a news conference in the Capitol to push for a law that would unlock secrets kept by the Transportation Security Administration.

The TSA was given broad authority to protect sensitive security information — known as SSI — when it took over transportation security after the attacks.

The families are especially angry that the TSA refuses to give them information that was given to the lawyers for convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, including about 150,000 FBI interviews of witnesses and several thousand CDs.

During Moussaoui's trial, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema twice ordered the government to turn over the information to the families.

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