But, she added, if the inquiry proceeded under a presumption of secrecy, they would be unwilling to be involved in the inquiry and reopen those wounds.
As the inquiry proceeded, Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, said investigators had learned that Osama bin Laden's finances were seriously hurt when regulators shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International 10 years ago.
Memo on Reno The F.B.I. director, Louis J. Freeh, wrote in 1996 that Attorney General Janet Reno and a top deputy should remove themselves from an inquiry into Democratic fund-raising, after the aide was quoted as saying Mrs. Reno could lose her job if the inquiry proceeded, officials said.
Director Louis J. Freeh of the F.B.I. warned in 1996 that Attorney General Janet Reno and one of her top deputies should remove themselves from an investigation into Democratic fund-raising after the aide was quoted as saying that Ms. Reno could lose her job if the inquiry proceeded, government officials said today.
If the inquiry proceeds quickly and suspects continue to be arrested, foreign governments will consider removing the travel warnings that are discouraging tourists, Western officials predict.
Macpherson asked to be informed of any developments concerning Davidson and added: "Much may turn upon this as the inquiry proceeds," emphasising how potentially vital the issue was to the inquiry he was chairing.
The victims' families are certainly right in fearing that the commission could wind up floundering in partisan immobility as the inquiry proceeds on its 18-month term toward the blame-saying cycle of the 2004 election.
As the inquiry proceeds, government officials said, the effort is as much directed at detecting financial patterns that could signal another potential attack as it is at unraveling the financing of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Meanwhile, upgrades have been put on hold while the inquiry proceeds, the company said.
As the criminal inquiry proceeded, investigators studying a computer taken from the house of the Connecticut gunman, Adam Lanza, said it was so badly damaged that they were not optimistic that they would be able to get any information from it, a law enforcement official said Monday.
