In Pursuit of 9/11 Justice: Lawyers’ Committee Files Petition for Federal Grand Jury Investigation
Free Fall
Published on Apr 13, 2018
Host Andy Steele is joined by members of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry — Mick Harrison, David Meiswinkle, and Julio Gomez — to discuss their filing this week of a petition demanding that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York present evidence of unprosecuted federal crimes at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, to a special grand jury.
Yesterday morning, attorneys from the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, together with more than a dozen family members of 9/11 victims, filed a petition with the interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, demanding that he present evidence of unprosecuted federal crimes at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, to a special grand jury.
According to the 52-page petition, which is accompanied by 57 exhibits, federal statute requires the U.S. Department of Justice to relay citizen reports of federal crimes to a special grand jury. The unprosecuted crime alleged to have taken place on 9/11 is the bombing of a place of public use or a government facility — as prohibited under the federal bombing statute or 18 U.S.C. § 2332f — as well as a conspiracy to commit, or the aiding and abetting of, said offense.
The petition states, “The Lawyers’ Committee has reviewed the relevant available evidence . . . and has reached a consensus that there is not just substantial or persuasive evidence of yet-to-be-prosecuted crimes related to the use of pre-planted explosives and/or incendiaries . . . on 9/11, but there is actually conclusive evidence that such federal crimes were committed.”
A federal grand jury has broad powers to investigate the alleged crimes and to return an indictment for signature and prosecution by the U.S. Attorney. The petition notes, “If any crime ever warranted a full special grand jury inquiry, the mass murder of thousands on our nation’s soil on 9/11 clearly does.”
PETITION: https://lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org/sign-the-grand-jury-petition/
