Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday February 1 2004 A11 in Continued from A1 last month Barzee will be treated at a mental health facility and reevaluated within 90 days Two mental health evaluators assigned to Mitchell disagree on whether he is competent to stand trial on the charges The prophet who allegedly kidnapped Elizabeth to keep her as a second wife isn’t making it easy for them “He won’t even talk to them So ' they’re trying to figure out what’s ed going on in his head by other people's opinions about what hap- pened” said defense attorney Kim Clark The evaluators are using interviews with family and friends to try to piece'together a picture of she wasn’t prepared to argue Mitchell’s competency because she has been preparing other aspects of the defense She is now reading over the more than 20000 documents in the case and lias enlisted the help in varying degreesdf five other attorneys in her office If Mitchell is found competent to stand trial Clark said it could be up to six weeks before a preliminary hearing is set However she said it’s ’ possible the trial could be moved up ’ because it's a “special case” At that hearing a judge would ' Miichell’s mental health His competency hearing was postponed from Jan 27 until May 4 because his lead attorney David ' Biggs left the public defender’s office for private practice and was replaced try Clark as chief counsel Clark isn’t new to the case but Mitchell’s defense team argued that determine whether there’s probable cause to try Mitchell with kidnap--' ping And even then Clark said it would probably be more than a month before a criminal trial could begin Elizabeth’s father Ed Smart said the family isn’t bothered by delays in the trial In fact he said that might be better for Elizabeth so she wouldn't testify so close to the alleged abduction “If this could be delayed for quite some time that would be just fine With us” he sajd “I think that our biggest Issue is that we don’t want -- ' them hurting 'any one else” In the meantime Smart said his daughter is doing very well He said she has a job playing the harp studies music and is “on the phone with her friends all the time” Ed doesn't attend all the court hearings now and sometimes gels case updates from the newspaper That seems to suit him just fine “I look at her and I just smile” he said “I'm just elated to have her home' During those nine months she was gone you just didn't know what the outcome was going to be” : V- Continued from A2 V missed chances to stop suspects at airport security checkpoints despite warning signs “We were asleep Opportunities were lost” said former New jersey GovThomas Kean a Republican who chairs the bipartisan National ' Commission onTerrorist Attacks Upon the United States “The hijackers ana-lyzed our system and devel- oped a plan they felt sure ' would beat it in every case and 19 out of 19 succeeded’’ ' ' Congress established the commission to study the nation's preparedness before Sept 11 2001 its response to the attacks and to recommend ways to prevent such disasters The errors documented by the commission date back to just after the 1993 World " "Tirade Center bombings and continued until the fateful day in 2001 The panel found air-lisecurity stepped nine of the 19 hijackers on the day of the attacks but let them go ' All five of the ’hijackers on American Airlines Right 77 at Dulles International Airport outside Washington were flagged as security risks! 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