Kristen Breitweiser

Why didn't you have widows and kids testify as to how they're being harmed and their rights are being watered down?

And the guy turned to me and said, you know, we just want to open the courthouse doors to as many people as possibly because that serves anti-terrorism policy.

And I said, it doesn't really serve anti-terrorism policy.

And I said, you're not really serving the heirs of the people killed properly.

And I said, and you're giving an awful lot of deference to judges and you're assuming that judges are gonna police a docket and police a case and a system.

And I said, the judges aren't doing it because the judges in many cases are not really good judges.

And they're allowing thousands and thousands and thousands of people

to enter litigation and what that does is twofold number one it blocks and you know log jams the actual case itself and the case can never resolve where there is one upside when a case doesn't resolve you're suing a defendant and the case goes on and on and on for two decades right what happens is in some people's minds i read a book on this is that the actual litigation process itself ties up

certain entities that certain other entities believe fund terrorists because they're so busy paying lawyers and being stuck in court, they're not funneling money to terrorists.

Well, that's a really noble idea, except for the fact that it's a huge disservice to the victims who are entitled to have speedy justice for the harm that they've suffered, right?

You have litigation that lasts two decades.

Widows and children are being disserved by that because we're owed immediate justice.

We're not owed justice a quarter of a century later.

The second thing that it does is it waters down the rights of the people under the law who are the most prioritized because you're letting in all of these other people.

What actually ends up happening when you open the door and you let all those people in is that lawyers make more money.

And so you have a situation where it's not the victims that are being protected by these laws that are getting rewritten.

It's actually that, you know, lawyers and this...

sort of scheme that's come out of anti-terrorism laws and these funds that get created and these deals that get struck between lawyers and members of the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, the State Department, certain foreign governments,

it ends up becoming sort of like a scheme.

And the real victims of terrorism, like the 9-11 widows and kids who are this nation's largest group, are re-victimized.