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New 9/11 Probe Looks Headed for NYC Ballot

Group has enough valid signatures for Nov. referendum: city

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 10, 2009 8:43 PM CDT

(Newser) – A New York City group has secured enough valid signatures to put a referendum on the November ballot to force a new investigation into the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A press release from the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now says city lawyers conceded today that at least a requisite 30,000 of some 52,000 collected by the group were legal.

“Although the City has an incredibly successful record of shooting down ballot initiatives, we will be arguing from a fresh perspective that reflects the unprecedented events of 9/11,” says a lawyer for NYC CAN, which was founded by first responders and survivors of and family members of victims of the attacks. Passage of the referendum, the release notes, would create “a local, independent commission with subpoena power that would be tasked with comprehensively reinvestigating the attacks.”

Firemen are seen in the burning shell of the World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo.
Firemen are seen in the burning shell of the World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo.   (AP Photo)
This image taken from video shows the second plane of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2001.
This image taken from video shows the second plane of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2001.   (AP Photo)
In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, a jet airliner heads toward one of the World Trade Center towers in New York.
In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, a jet airliner heads toward one of the World Trade Center towers in New York.   (AP Photo)
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cognitivefilter
Sep 12, 2009 5:35 AM CDT
high five
Shannonals
Sep 12, 2009 4:31 AM CDT
@NewserScooter: Exactly where did you come up with the ignorant notion that the President is the leader of truthers?
Thinker
Sep 11, 2009 12:21 PM CDT
The editor of Popular Mechanics is related to one of the high-ups in the Bush administration. I heard him on NPR debunking the fact that the hijackers were seen alive later, explaining that they knew who hijacked the planes because they found DNA! He is a moron and this article was a fabrication.

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