Kristen Breitweiser on Fox

Kristen Breitweiser, the 9/11 widow who appears on the TV news shows as the Bush-bashing representative of the 9/11 families, was on Your World with Neil Cavuto on Fox News tonight. She was there to discuss the latest findings that a year before 9/11, defense intelligence officials had identified Mohammed Atta as an al-Qaeda cell member in the US. Nothing was done about him at the time, because he was here legally. And the events of 9/11 were unimaginable before they actually happened.

But Kristen Breitweiser is upset.

What I found interesting, and what seemed to surprise Cavuto, is that when he asked her if she believed the problem under the Clinton administration (which is the administration that was in charge at the time Atta was identified) was a systemic one of departments not sharing with each other, she said no. She said she believed the 9/11 Commission will find that it was individuals who didn't do their jobs properly, and the Commission will name names. But other statements she made (which are starting to fade from my memory) indicated that she believes the problems within the Bush administration are systemic. She said it's been four years and we're less safe than we were before 9/11.

When Cavuto pressed her, she responded that the only reason there haven't been any more attacks on US soil is because of Osama bin Laden--I think she said it was because he hasn't tried yet.

So according to Kristen Breitweiser, the Clinton administration only suffered from bad-performing individuals, while the Bush administration suffers from bad policy, direction, etc. But she's hurt that people think she's a Democrat--after all she voted for Bush in 2000.

Time after time, the TV news shows trot out reliably anti-Bush Kristen Breitweiser. And time after time, they ignore Deborah Burlingame, who is also an articulate 9/11 widow and who represents another group of 9/11 families. But since Burlingame actually supports Bush's policies, the TV news shows just pass her by. I thought Fox News was a little more fair and balanced than that.