On July 31, 2024, Terry Strada sat in a courtroom in lower Manhattan and watched the faces of two terrorists who carried out the attacks that killed her husband and nearly 3,000 others. Tom Strada went to work on the morning of Sept.11, 2001, and never came home. He died on the 104th floor of the North Tower. In the years since, his widow has done what the government would not: pursue the full truth of who facilitated the attacks that killed him. As national chair of 9/11 Families United, Terry has navigated classification battles, diplomatic stonewalls, and the particular cruelty of a system that mourns publicly and conceals privately. The evidence she saw had been seized within 10 days of the attacks and withheld for over two decades. “To think they had all this evidence and that I am only seeing it in full 23 years later was overwhelming. In one video, Bayoumi is casing the US Capitol, filming entrances, exits, and security posts while calmly narrating the scene. Tears ran down my cheeks,” Terry told me.…