NYC to Challenge 9/11 Commission Subpoena

[better2know]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20031121_736.html

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Citing privacy of Sept. 11 victims, the mayor's office vowed to fight a federal commission's subpoena seeking documents that detail the city's response at the World Trade Center.

Ed Skyler, a spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, also accused the commission of "trying to distract the public" and said it should focus on learning "how this savage terrorist attack was planned and executed without any warning so that we never again have to endure such a tragedy."

The commission, which is investigating the nation's preparedness before the 2001 attacks and its response to them, said Thursday it wants tapes and transcripts of 911 calls as well as internal firefighter interviews conducted afterward.

Skyler said the city will fight the subpoena. "It will take a court order to make the city violate the privacy of those we lost and those who responded to that horrific event," he said.

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Very nice.
Dead people have privacy and the living trying to protect the living are having their privacy ripped open by the Patriot Act I&II in the very name of protecting us from terror.
Aren't the exact descriptions of the the shrapnel in the victims of the TWA 800 crash over Long Island also protected being sheilded by a claim on privacy?
If they have nothing to hide, they should have nothing to fear.

[Rex]

1. It's so obvious that the truth will never come out.

So the 911 investigation is a distraction? Makes me wonder what Bloomberg thinks about the upcoming 24/7 coverage of the Michael Jackson trial-to-be.

The (repukes) really seem scared of SOMETHING in the paper trail leading up to 911.

[teryang]

2. This is exactly the sort of direct evidence

...one needs to reconstruct events. Obviously, this is a huge coverup.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Move along now, nothing to see here

Sit down and shut up. You are citizens of AmRepubLica, and not entitled to know anything. Just send in your tax dollars to the government (unless you are rich and have thus earned a massive tax break), then sit down and shut up, shut up, shut up.

[54anickel]

4. Please don't flame me, but I kind of agree in part.

"said it should focus on learning "how this savage terrorist attack was planned and executed without any warning"

Takes pressure off of Shrub and those daily briefings, doesn't it.
It certainly got you folks going on the Privacy agrument.
We should all be up in arms about the privacy issue as a whole and trying to protect what the Patriot Act has taken away. Seems you want to pick and choose when privacy should and should not be protected.
JMHO