Maurice Hinchey: “it has now been 30 months, 2\1/2\ years, since the attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center in New York…”

“it has now been 30 months, 2\1/2\ years, since the attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Virginia, and the loss of the plane in Pennsylvania and the loss of all of those lives, more than 3,000 lives lost on that particular day, all the result of the attack of a group of organized criminals known as al Qaeda, the base, or the al Qaeda network. It is a very important thing for us to examine that attack and to understand it in its full dimensions and implications. It is very important for at least two reasons. First of all, there are the families and the friends, associates of all of those Americans who were killed that day. They have a right to expect that we will provide them with every detail, that we will look into this event, this catastrophe, this disaster meticulously, and we will understand it in every aspect, and all of that will be done publicly and they will have access to all of that information. We owe them, the families of the victims, nothing less, not a scintilla less than that. Secondly, it is important because the al Qaeda network still exists, and they have others that are operating with them, perhaps in many countries around the world, and some people suggest as many as 60. To the extent that is true, we can expect that they are contemplating additional attacks on our country.…”