AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ A candidate for governor in Texas has said she has questions about whether the U.S. government was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. But now Republican Debra Medina is backing away from that statement.
Debra Medina said on the Glenn Beck Show that there were “some very good arguments” that the U.S. was involved in bringing down the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. She released a statement later saying she did not believe the government was involved in the attacks.
Medina is vying for the Republican nomination with Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, both of whom criticized her comments.
Perry said Medina’s remarks were an insult to Americans who lost loved ones. Hutchison stressed that the attacks were the work of al-Qaida terrorists.