Joe Lieberman: “I support him in substance and in spirit, which is to say the urgency of Congress reacting to the report of the 9/11…”

“I support him in substance and in spirit, which is to say the urgency of Congress reacting to the report of the 9/11 Commission. It was shortly after September 11 that Senator McCain and I introduced legislation, with Senators Specter, Bayh, and others, creating the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. We believed--and we know so many others agreed--that the Nation needed to know as clearly and definitively as possible what had happened, why it had happened, and what could be done to prevent such a heinous attack from ever happening again. In particular, most understandably and movingly, the families of the 9/11 victims rightly demanded that we learn all we could from the tragedy that took their loved ones from them. The result is not only a definitive account of what happened on September 11, but also a very thoughtful and compelling analysis of why it happened and where we must go from here.”