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To: James Calladine who wrote (3603)	4/8/2004 9:35:05 PM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9018

‘Misguided’ Loyalty Families of Sept.11 Victims Say They Want Honesty, Admissions from Administration W A S H I N G T O N, D.C., April 8 — With the Sept. 11 commission pressing its investigation of the terror attacks, families of the victims say they want someone inside the Bush administration to admit fault as a show of loyalty to the American people. "We need an admission that mistakes were made," said Beverly Eckert, widowed on Sept. 11 and now a member of a victims' family steering committee. "Everyone has just been covering up for this administration. Their loyalty, I think, is misguided. Their loyalty should be to the American people," Eckert said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. Former White House counterterror chief Richard Clarke apologized to Eckert and other family members present during his testimony before the commission two weeks ago. But Mary Fetchet, who lost her son Bradley, says an apology is only part of what they are looking for. "I think it is going to be extremely important to look at this systemically, because on September 11, every government agency involved failed," Fetchet said, adding, "Our administration failed." Both Fetchet and Eckert say they're not interested in hearing National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, in her testimony today, shoot down Clarke's claims the Bush administration, and Rice specifically, didn't do enough to prevent Sept. 11. They say they're tired of hearing members of the administration defending themselves and the entire organization. Fetchet and Eckert say they want to hear specific details about what went wrong and who was responsible. "It would be very refreshing to hear from the witnesses, especially her [Rice] about what went wrong," Eckert said. The Sept. 11 commission, due to release its report this summer, has already found plenty of government failure in its preliminary findings. The commission has credited flawed policy-making, bureaucratic breakdowns and poor communication among federal agencies for the increase in al Qaeda's power that ultimately allowed the attacks to take place. ... abcnews.go.com