I just submitted this too. From CBS. What I gather from this is that there are 42 victims from the airlines who did not take the hush money.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/07/national/main3144164.shtml

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.

The Yoda of 9/11
"Pat Curley slices through the loony conspiracy theories at his influential "Screw Loose Change" Web site"
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-08-09/news/the-yoda-of-9-11/full

Formulaic, ad-hominem, poison the well, straw-man claims (voice morphing featured prominently) hit piece. This is more of what we are going to expect in the coming weeks I'm sure.

Everyone from Griffin, A. Jones, 911blogger, Loose Change, Rose O'Donnell, etc are hit with a constant barrage of straw-men.

This article is an embarrassment to honest journalism of course.

“We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality."

From the Joint Inquiry investigation. Claudio Manno was head of FAA's Intelligence Division at the time of 9/11:

WYDEN: With respect to Al Mihdhar and Al Hazmi, did your agency have the names of those two hijackers prior to September 11, 2001?

MANNO: Know, sir, we did not.

WYDEN: If you had, what steps would have been taken had you had that information?

MANNO: Well, prior to 9/11, we had a process -- and we had a so- called watchlist, which was disseminated to the industry of the other security directive process. In fact, a number of the people that were -- we suspected were involved in the -- what we call the Manila plot -- the Bojinka (ph) plot, as you refer to it -- were on that list.

And, again, what we would -- the purpose of that process was to highlight, for the air carriers, particular individuals -- individuals that had ties to terrorist groups and that presented a threat to aviation who should either be denied boarding or should be, if they showed up for boarding, be called to the attention of law enforcement.

Had we had information that those two individuals presented a threat to aviation or were -- posed a great danger, we would have put them on that list and, you know, they should have been picked up in the reservation process.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/hearings/911hearing-trans-oct01.htm

As for the airlines culpability, in the book Unsafe at any Altitude the authors (Joe and Susan Trento) tell the story of Dulles security checkpoint worker Eric Gill. Gill claims he saw alleged hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Marwan al-Shehhi with employee uniforms/employee ID cards on 9/10. The inference is that the al Qaeda operatives could have used such access to sneak weapons on the planes. One mystery is why the pilots (as far as we know) didn't resist. The use of a gun would be a logical explanation.

I would guess the intelligence agencies will try to play the "national security" card. I hope the fact that CIA Director Tenet was allowed to publish a book that dealt with the exact same issues (watchlisting failures) will be used to prove national security isn't a valid defense for non compliance with a wrongful death suit.

One way of getting to the truth is by challenging flaws in the OCT. One of the flaws is the idea that the al Qaeda operatives were able to go undetected by US intelligence. Another is the notion that nobody in US intel thought to pick up a telephone and call the FAA for the purpose of putting al Qaeda operatives on a no fly list.