if you click on the link that says to be continued, you end up on an extension of the comments including a response by the author to one of her detractors.

boloboffin: An examination of the events that led up to 9/11 would indeed be welcome, and always will. I am saddened, however, to see the reasons that Ms. Rossi uses to call for the investigation. The comments show that this is quickly becoming the haven of many 9/11 conspiracy theorists, eagerly promoting their own websites full of silliness and deception.

I ask my fellow Democrats and progressives to look more closely at the kind of investigations that have already been done into many of these questions. Plenty has already been revealed, things the conspiracy theorists would not have you know.

For example, the identities of the hijackers are beyond question, Ms. Rossi. They left such a clear and unambiguous trail before boarding the planes, it's a scandal that they weren't discovered before then. Investigate why that was, but we know who the hijackers were.

The FDR information from 93 has been released and all systems were normal when the plane crashed. The only thing unusual about the plane was its speed, orientation, and trajectory.

The wargames were standard ones regularly scheduled for the time of year, and they contributed to the response time of the military (for what that was worth). In fact, the only major violations of procedure was to increase response time. Investigate why they came up with different stories before the NORAD tapes were used to find the truth, but why those planes couldn't be intercepted is beyond question.

Melissa Rossi - Huffpost Blogger: Hi,
To clarify: I'm not saying -- at all -- that the issues (or nonissues as the case may be) about flight 93, black boxes, etc are the best or only or most solid reasons to reopen the investigation on 9/11.

What I'm saying is the earlier investigation wasn't at all complete, a lot of questions weren't and still aren't answered, and that there were some apparent conflicts of interest via the committee itself -- ie executive director Philip Zelikow angling for a job before, and getting one afterwards. When the co-chairs say they were hampered and the commission was set up to fail -- as I note in part one -- I'm likely to think the investigation was indeed stymied. That alone is reason to reopen an investigation, being as this was the single most important event in recent American history. There are plenty of others, including simply set the record straight. Debunk the false information, and take a fresh look at what was presented before.

Very conservative, lihop friendly comment.