By Patrick Martin
1 May 2002
The top staff official in the joint congressional investigation into the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center has resigned, a development that will further delay the holding of public hearings into the worst-ever terrorist attack in the United States.
L. Britt Snider, staff director of the investigation, responsible for hiring the 30 investigators and aides currently working on the probe, quit last week after a series of intense but unpublicized conflicts within the staff and among the members of the intelligence committees of the House and Senate.
Neither Senator Robert Graham (Democrat of Florida) nor Congressman Porter Goss (Republican of Florida), the co-chairmen of the investigation, would give any details of the reasons for Snider’s departure, calling it a confidential “personnel matter.”
The Los Angeles Times reported, “A Congressional aide, who asked to remain anonymous, said Mr. Snider had made an error in judgment that lawmakers could not overlook, but declined to elaborate.”
1 May 2002
The top staff official in the joint congressional investigation into the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center has resigned, a development that will further delay the holding of public hearings into the worst-ever terrorist attack in the United States.
L. Britt Snider, staff director of the investigation, responsible for hiring the 30 investigators and aides currently working on the probe, quit last week after a series of intense but unpublicized conflicts within the staff and among the members of the intelligence committees of the House and Senate.
Neither Senator Robert Graham (Democrat of Florida) nor Congressman Porter Goss (Republican of Florida), the co-chairmen of the investigation, would give any details of the reasons for Snider’s departure, calling it a confidential “personnel matter.”
The Los Angeles Times reported, “A Congressional aide, who asked to remain anonymous, said Mr. Snider had made an error in judgment that lawmakers could not overlook, but declined to elaborate.”