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Kristen Breitweiser
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kristen Breitweiser is a lawyer and one of the Jersey Girls, four women from New Jersey who were widowed when their husbands were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequently researched the policy and intelligence failures that led up to the attacks. She was a member of the Family Steering Committee, which was instrumental in bringing the 9/11 Commission into existence. She has testified before Congress and has been spoken of as a potential candidate for the United States Senate. Her account is well stated in her book, Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow. C 2006, Breitweiser, Kristen. Her husband, Ronald Michael Breitweiser, was killed at age 39 in the attacks. He was a senior vice president at Fiduciary Trust International at 2 World Trade Center Although Breitweister stated that she was a Republican who voted for George W. Bush in 2000, she became an Independent due to her anger over Bush's response to 9/11, and vigorously supported John Kerry in 2004. She continues to be an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration, claiming Bush has not made the United States safer since the attacks, as well as criticizing the war in Iraq. See Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow. C 2006, Breitweiser, Kristen. After the publication of the 9/11 Commission Report in 2004, Breitweiser said: "I'm very disturbed, and I want to get some answers," said Breitweiser. "I want to know what the truth is." She called the findings "an utterly hollow report." Since May 2005 she's been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. In November 2009, she has welcomed the decision announced by the US Attorney General Eric Holder to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, before a civilian court in New York. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kristen Breitweiser, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

9/11: Press for Truth
2006-09-05

The 9/11 Files
2025-09-23