In attempt to placate the victims of these war crimes and to carry out a campaign promise, this administration is walking a very “slippery” slope when they constitute a review panel with “Human Rights” advocates who could care less about the the rights of the victims.

Doesn’t that suggest that the Obama administration actually did conduct these meetings in order to listen to the families – and not just to use them as a public relations stunt?

Anyone who is ever involved in large controversial projects understands the importance of various kinds of stakeholder involvement meetings. Now sometimes, you’re going to end up building that highway through a certain community no matter what the residents say, because you’re serving a greater public need than what may or may not be in the interests of the more narrow local population. But you conduct the meeting anyway, knowing there are going to be a lot of people who are dead-set opposed to the project, in order to educate an affected group on exactly what is going to be done, in order to hear specific concerns to see if you can mitigate some issues without canceling or significantly altering the project, and yes – in order to follow what you consider appropriate public process.

Public process dictates that you communicate directly with key stakeholders … and the DOJ was fulfilling that charge here. Public process does NOT dictate that you accept every stakeholders definition of what their “rights” are … that is actually a larger societal decision, and sometimes we all have to grow up and accept that the rule of law will sometimes trump our own personal perception, shaped by our own personal experiences, of what constitutes justice.

[Joe Holland, whose son died at the World Trade Center, noted that “the terrorist’s rights are well taken care of and we have no rights and we ARE American citizens.]

I just wonder what has been done for these victims / families of the attacks of 9/11, if any?

As is customary with our military veterans, probably nothing. What a shame and a disgrace! If Obama is so intent on blaming the U.S. for worldwide hatred generated because of our nation’s conduct, he should also be sympathetic to our own people, at least as much as the foreign dictators and nations who produce the terrorists who attack us, right? Maybe his indifference and apathy is due to the fact he is not a bona fide U.S. citizen. This would make perfect sense. Otherwise, how can one fathom such decadence?

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” (I was not fooled anyway!)

“If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.”

If there is anything to apologize to the world for in 2009, these displays of disrespect and apathy should be #1 on the list. The world has looked up to the U.S. for more than a century for leadership and until now, we have been that shining city on the hill. Now, our most popular hill has become a dung heap.

There are no words to express the disgrace and shame for this sort of abuse and disregard for your own citizens. As one comment I read suggested these victims and families were not directly the objects of the referenced terror attacks. Those who were killed and lost loved ones, e.g. the first responders who died saving lives, those who rode the plane into the ground to save who knows how many lives, did not consider themselves to be any more important than you or me, but their loved ones are now faced with 100% of the suffering from it all. Anyone who can just turn away with shrugged shoulders should really examine the condition of their own heart.

By the way this innocent child, Omar Kadr, was found with a video which shows Khadr toying with detonating cord as other men including Abu Laith al-Libi assemble explosives in the same house from which Special Forces were fired upon prior to Kadr’s capture. This same video also shows Kadr planting landmines while smiling and joking with the cameraman.

The present administration should be ashamed of using the families of the 9-11 and Cole victims as “window dressing” and giving these families only “lip service” to their appeal for justice for their loved ones. I only hope the American people will remember this parody in 2012.

We should really be treating this as though they were our own family members who died that day, because next time, it very well could be…

The Federal Government’s job is not to bring anyone to “justice” here. It’s to put the al-Qaeda organization out of business.

I am fairly sure that Ms. Burlingame’s brothers killers are dead. And the man most responsible for his death, Osama Bin Laden, is still at large a full 7 1/2 years after “dead or alive”. The people Human Rights Watch is concerned about? Look up Omar Khadr, Ms. Burlingame, and tell us whether he deserves due process.