Kirsten Breitweiser said that

victims’ families “do not want any kind of cloud hanging over the

commission.” The effect of recusals? “. . . it just reaffirms how

important it is that this commission be beyond reproach, pure and

nonpolitical.” Kirsten, who has since taken to co-hosting Hardball, was

quoted in the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times on December 14,

2002 in response to Henry Kissinger’s recusal. No word on her response

to call for Jamie Gorelick’s recusal.