9/11 Family Steering Committee
The 9/11 Family Steering Committee was an organization of twelve relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001 against the World Trade Center. Members of the Committee included the Jersey Girls. It was part of the 9/11 Truth Movement and was set up to monitor the work of the 9/11 Commission.
History
The now-defunct group was an offshoot of the Coalition for an Independent 9/11 Commission, which advocated the creation of an independent commission to investigate the failures that made 9/11 possible. The coalition represented a wide array of 9/11 families' organizations, including Families of September 11, Sept. 11 Advocates, and Voices of September 11. Although the call for a commission was initially resisted by the Bush administration, the coalition eventually prevailed in the creation of the 9/11 Commission.The Washington Post stated:
Monitoring of the 9/11 Commission
However, the Family Steering Committee was unsatisfied with the commission created and its mandate.They stated:
It further created a list of questions they argued was unanswered by the official commission.
On January 11, 2005, the committee made the following statement:
The group ceased operations on January 11, 2005. Some of the research and advocacy of members of the Family Steering Committee is featured in the documentary "9/11: Press for Truth" premiered September 2006.
Media coverage
- PBS NOW
- Scoop
- From The Wilderness
- Indymedia
- The Washington Post
- The Christian Science Monitor
- CBS News
- New York Daily News, written by the two members Kristen Breitweiser and Bill Harvey
- CNN
- The Washington Times
- Peter Lance
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- USA Today
- Zogby poll
- The Village Voice