Kristen Breitweiser

And so the murdered victims' families turned to the civil litigation process, which if everyone remembers OJ, you know, it was what Nicole Simpson's family had to do.

You know, it's kind of a shitty second.

Yeah.

It's really not helpful.

And so that's what we were relegated to.

And then those attorneys, not all of them, but many of them were just unwilling.

First of all, they were unwilling to sue the U.S.

government.

Like, and I asked, I've got the emails to prove it.

First, they told us we weren't allowed, which is not true because in the wake of the last 20 years, you see the Emanuel Church family suing, you see the Fort Hood family suing.

You are allowed to sue the US government.

Our attorneys initially told us that we couldn't.

Of course, we were also forced into what the government did, which was the Victim's Compensation Fund, which was retroactively taking away our right to sue by capping liability levels from 9-11.

So what happened was 9-11 happens, the towers collapse, you know, the country is worried about being destabilized, the economy is going to crater.

So supposedly Congress swept in, you know, heroically and created the airline stabilization bill.

And I don't know how they wrote that bill because it's pretty precise, but yet somehow they wrote it in like nine days.

And in doing so, retroactively capped liability levels for anyone, for the airlines, for the city of New York.

Later, like two months later, President Bush capped the liability levels for Boeing Airlines.

And essentially the widows and kids were left being told, you're not going to be able to sue because there's not enough money to pay you.

There were so many people killed.