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"I'm astounded the conspiracy theory advanced
could be true.
The evidence does not seem to suggest that it's
accurate."
Col. Ronald D. Ray
"The original 911 Commission inquiry became an
exercise
in bureaucratic ass-covering and obfuscation of
accountability."
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer
"There are enough discrepancies and unanswered
questions in 911 Commission Report that the 911 investigation should be
re-opened." - Robert Baer
The official
story of 911 is riddled with
internal contradictions.
David Ray Griffin notes:
1. With
regard to President Bush's behavior in the Sarasota
classroom:
The story told by the White House on the first
anniversary of 911, according to which Bush left the room immediately after
being informed by Andrew Card of the
2nd crash into the WTC, was
contradicted by video
footage and reports of the event, which revealed that he remained much
longer.
(Bush remained and even spoke to a gathered audience in the
auditorium:
"Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in
an apparent terrorist attack on our country."
He goes on to say "... and
to conduct a full scale investigation to hunt down and
find those folks who committed this act.
Terrorism against our nation
will not stand."
Question: Without investigating how did Bush know
it was terrorism?
See 9/11 Remembered, Sarasota County Schools
Education Channel )
2. With regard to the time that
Vice President
Dick Cheney entered the Presidential Emergency Operations Center:
The 911 Commission claim he did not arrive until almost 10:00AM, was
contradicted by the
testimony of many people, including Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta
and Cheney himself, according to which he arrived prior to
the attack on the Pentagon.
3. With regard to Norman Mineta's report of Cheney's response to
messages which appeared to confirm a stand-down order:
The 911
Commission contradicted
Mineta's account by stating that Cheney did not enter the PEOC until long after
the Pentagon strike and by portraying the episode described by Mineta as having
occurred after 10:10.
4. With regard to the question of who gave the
order to land all planes:
The claim by Norman Mineta and Jane Garvey
that Mineta gave the order (in the presence of
Dick Cheney) was
contradicted by the 911
Commission, which attributed the decision to Ben Sliney.
5. With
regard to the time at which Cheney issued the shoot down order:
The 911
Commission's claim that Cheney did not give it until after 10:10 was
contradicted by
Richard Clarke and several military officers, who reported receiving it prior
to the crash of United 93.
6. With regard to the location of General
Richard Myers between 9:10 and 10:00 that morning:
Myers's own account,
that he was in Senator Max Cleland's office on Capitol Hill, was
contradicted by Richard Clarke, who
said that Myers was in the Pentagon participating in Clarke's video conference.
7. With regard to where Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was
between 9:10 and 9:40AM:
Rumsfeld's own account, according to which he
was in his office, was contradicted by
Richard Clarke, who said that Rumsfeld was in the Pentagon's secure
teleconferencing studio participating in Clarke's video conference.
8.
With regard to whether Ted Olson received phone
calls from Barbara Olson reporting Flight 77 hijacked:
Olson's claim
that he did is contradicted by the FBI
report presented to the Moussaoui trial, according to which an attempted call
from Barbara Olson to the Department of Justice was "unconnected" and hence
lasted "0 seconds." Olson's claim that the calls were made from a
passenger-seat phone was
contradicted by
American Airlines, which said that Flight 77 had no such phones.
9. With
regard to the time at which the military was first notified by the FAA about
American Flight 11:
The 911 Commission's claim, that the first
notification was at 8:38, was
contradicted in 2002
by ABC
programs, based on interviews with many of the
principals involved in the
military response, which said that the notification occurred at about 8:31,
and by Colin Scoggins, the military liaison at the FAA's Boston Center, whose
account implies that the first call to NEADS occurred prior to 8:30.
10. With regard to the time at which the military was first notified
about United Flight 175:
The 911 Commission's claim-that this
notification did not come until 9:03 when the flight was crashing into the
South Tower - was contradicted implicitly by the FAA's memo of May 22, 2003,
and explicitly by the NORAD timeline of September 18, 2001, and several
military officers, including the NMCC's Brigadier General Montague Winfield and
NORAD's Captain Michael Jellinek.
11. With regard to the time at which
the military was first notified about the hijacking of American Flight 77:
The 911 Commission's position, that the military was not notified until
after the Pentagon was struck, was contradicted by the
NORAD September 18 timeline, by a New York
Times story of September 15, 2001, by the FAA's 2003 memo, and by the deputy
director of the Secret
Service.
12. With regard to the
time at which the military was first notified about United Flight 93:
The 911 Commission's claim, that the military did not learn about its
hijacking until after it had crashed, was contradicted by NORAD's 2001
timeline, by several
White House
officials (including Cheney) in 2002, by Richard Clarke, and by several
military officers, including Colonel Robelt Marr and Generals Larry Arnold and
Montague Winfield.
13. With regard
to the question of whether the US military had been in position to shoot down
United 93:
The 911 Commission's claim, according to which it had
not, was contradicted by Dick Cheney,
Richard Clarke, Paul Wolfowitz, and
several military officers, including Colonel Robert Man, General Richard Myers,
Brigadier General Montague Winfield, Major General Mike Haugen, and Lt. Anthony
Kuczynski.
14. With regard to whether 911-type attacks had previously
been envisioned:
The claim by the White House, the Pentagon, and the 911
Commission that they had not been envisioned was contradicted by many
statements from government and military officials and by several reports of
military exercises based around 911-type scenarios.
15. With regard to
whether the hijackers, especially Mohamed Atta, were really devout Muslims:
The 911 Commission's claim that they were was contradicted by numerous
reports of their sexual activities and their use of alcohol and
drugs.
16. With regard to evidence reportedly left by Mohamed Atta:
The 911 Commission's claim, that it was found in luggage that failed to
make the transfer to American Flight 11 from the Portland-to-Boston commuter
flight, was contradicted by news reports from the initial days after 911,
according to which it was found in a Mitsubishi that Atta had left in the Logan
Airport parking lot.
17. With regard to
whether the presence of hijackers was reported by passengers using cell phones:
The claim by the press and the 911 Commission that such calls were made
was contradicted by the FBI report provided at the Moussaoui trial in
2006, which entailed that no passengers
used cell
phones to call relatives.
18. With regard to whether there is hard
evidence of the responsibility of Usamah bin
Mohammad bin Laden for the 911 attacks:
The stance of the Bush
administration and the 911 Commission, which have both spoken as if such
evidence existed, is contradicted by the FBI, which
does not list 911 as one of the
terrorist acts for which bin Laden is wanted because, it has said, it has
no hard evidence of his responsibility for 911.
19. With regard to
whether Hani Hanjour could have flown American 77 into the Pentagon:
The claim by the White House and the 911
Commission that he did so is contradicted by extensive evidence, reported by
the mainstream press, that he did not have the skill to fly a single-engine
aeroplane, let alone a large jet airliner, especially through the trajectory
reportedly taken by American 77 in its final minutes.
20. With regard
to the cause of the hole in the Pentagon's C ring:
The claim by Donald
Rumsfeld and Lee Evey, that it was caused by the nose of American 77, has been
contradicted by the Pentagon Building Performance Report, which said that the
front of the aircraft disintegrated upon impact, and by Popular Mechanics,
which claimed that the hole was made instead by the plane's landing gear.
21. With regard to the identity of
the plane spotted over the White
House around the time of the Pentagon strike:
The military's denial
that it was a military plane is contradicted by
CNN footage of the plane's
flight, which showed, as former military officers have agreed, that it was
an Air Force E-4B.
22. With regard to how Rudy Giuliani knew that the
Twin Towers were going to collapse:
His
claim that there was a historical basis for expecting the towers to collapse
was contradicted by numerous experts and evidently all the firefighters at the
scene.
23. With regard to whether there were explosions in the Twin
Towers beyond fires and exploding jet fuel:
The claim by NIST and the
911 Commission that no such explosions occurred has been contradicted by
numerous firefighters, emergency medical workers, WTC employees, and by
television and newspaper
reports on 911 and the following day.
24. With
regard to whether there were explosions in
WTC 7 beyond those that
might have been caused by the fires:
The claim by NIST and the 911
Commission that no such explosions occurred has been contradicted by
journalists, emergency medical workers, policemen, and two city employees who
had been in the building.
25. With regard to whether there was evidence
in the WTC rubble that steel had
melted:
The claim by NIST that no such evidence was found has been
contradicted by many professionals at the site and by three scientists who
studied steel recovered from WTC 7 and one of the towers, reporting that it
showed evidence of sulfidation, oxidation, and evaporation.
Shortly after 911,
George W.
Bush told the American people that they should not "tolerate outrageous
conspiracy theories concerning the attacks."
The official account of 911 is itself a conspiracy
theory.
A conspiracy is
simply "an agreement to
perform together an illegal, treacherous, or evil act."
A
conspiracy theory is simply a theory of how a conspiracy was hatched, details
of the plan plotted and the results of the conspiratorial agreement.
The official account of the 911 attacks concluded those attacks
resulted from a conspiracy involving Osama bin Laden and members of
al-Qa`ida.
We must
ask, therefore, what would make such a theory outrageous.
What are the
criteria?
Within the philosophy of science, there are two basic
criteria for discriminating between good and bad theories.
First, a
theory should not be inconsistent with any of the relevant facts.
Second, a theory must be
self-consistent, devoid
of any internal contradictions.
"The official conspiracy theory
about 911, containing at least
25 internal contradictions, is clearly an
outrageous theory.
This theory has been used to justify attacks on
two countries, which have caused over a million deaths, including the deaths of
thousands of Americans.
This theory has also been used to justify
extraordinary rendition,
torture, warrantless spying, the denial of
habeas corpus, and
a general undermining of the US
Constitution.
Given the extraordinary developments that have been
justified in the name of the
official narrative
about 911, Congress and the press need to ask if
the many contradictions in this story point to
its falsity." - David Ray Griffin
911 : Commission members Thomas Howard Kean was born in New York City to a long line of New
Jersey politicians. His mother was Elizabeth Howard and his father, Robert
Kean, was a US Representative. His grandfather Hamilton Fish Kean and
great-uncle John Kean both served as US Senators. His second great-uncle was
Hamilton Fish, a US Senator, governor of New York, and Secretary of State.
Kean's second great-grandfather was a delegate to the Continental Congress.
Lee Herbert Hamilton was born in Daytona
Beach, Florida. As chairman of the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms
Transactions with Iran, Lee Herbert Hamilton chose not to investigate
Ronald Reagan or
George HW Bush,
stating that he did not think it would be "good for the country" to put the
public through another impeachment trial.
On March 15, 2006, Congress announced the formation
of the Iraq Study
Group, organized by the United States Institute of Peace, of which Lee
Herbert Hamilton is the Democratic co-chairman, along with the former Secretary
of State (under George HW Bush)
James A. Baker III.
Lee
Herbert Hamilton, like Baker, is considered a master negotiator.
Richard
Ben-Veniste an attorney and former chief of the Watergate Task Force of the
Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office.
Senator Max Cleland resigned
stating "the White House has
played cover-up".
Fred Fisher Fielding served as Associate Counsel
for Richard Nixon from 1970 to
1972, where he was the deputy to John Dean
during the Watergate scandal; as Counsel to the President for President Ronald
Reagan from 1981 to 1986; on the Tribunal on the US-UK Air Treaty Dispute
(1989-1994), as a member of the president's Commission on Federal Ethics Law
Reform (1989), as a member of the Secretary of Transportation's Task Force on
Aviation Disasters (1997-1998). Fred Fisher Fielding was a senior partner at
Wiley Rein LLP (formerly Wiley Rein & Fielding).
Jamie S. Gorelick a Harvard Law School was
Deputy Attorney General of the United States during the
Clinton
administration.
Even though she had no previous training nor experience in finance,
Jamie S. Gorelick was appointed Vice Chairman of Federal National Mortgage
Association (Fannie Mae) from 1997 to 2003.
She served alongside former
Clinton Administration official
Franklin Delano "Frank"
Raines.
During that period, Fannie Mae developed a $10 billion
accounting scandal.
On December 21, 2004 Raines accepted what he called
"early retirement" from his
position as CEO while US Securities and Exchange Commission investigators
continued to investigate alleged accounting irregularities. Franklin Delano
Raines is accused by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
(OFHEO), the regulating body of Fannie Mae, of abetting widespread accounting
errors, which included the shifting of losses so senior executives, such as
himself and Jamie S. Gorelick, could earn large bonuses.
"At last
week's hearing, Attorney General John Ashcroft, facing criticism, asserted that
'the single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that
segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents' and that I built
that wall through a March 1995 memo." - Jamie S. Gorelick
It is claimed
the "Gorelick Wall" barred anti-terror investigators from accessing the
computer of Zacarias
Moussaoui.
Thomas Slade Gorton III was Attorney General of
Washington and served three terms in the Senate.
Joseph Robert "Bob"
Kerrey was a SEAL from 1966 to 1969 during the
Vietnam War, lost the
lower part of one leg, and received the Medal of Honor.
On February 25,
1969, he led a Swift Boat raid on the
isolated peasant village
of Thanh Phong, Vietnam, targeting a Viet Cong leader that intelligence
suggested would be present.
The village was considered part of a
free-fire zone by the US military.
Joseph Robert Kerrey's SEAL team
massacred innocent elderly,
woman and children villagers.
"Standard
operating procedure was to dispose of the people we made contact with." -
Joseph Robert Kerrey
Pham Tri Lanh witnessed the assault saying that
the SEALs rounded up the inhabitants of the village and shot them. Joseph
Robert Kerrey was Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and a US Senator from
Nebraska from 1989–2001.
John F. Lehman, Jr. an
investment banker who served as Secretary of the Navy in the Reagan
administration.
John F. Lehman, Jr. served on the National Security Advisory Council for the Center for Security
Policy (CSP), and on the board of trustees for the think tank Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI).
Lehman
was important in the forced retirement of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover.
Lehman is chairman of the private equity investment firm J. F. Lehman;
chairman of Hawaii Superferry; chairman of the board of OAO Technology
Solutions Inc.
"In a city where political capital is the medium of
exchange, the Lehman Brothers are key
brokers. John is Secretary of the Navy, Joseph is chief spokesman for
the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Christopher is director of
the office of strategic nuclear policy of the
State Department
Bureau of Political Military Affairs." - Judith Miller
John
F. Lehman, Jr. is a member of a number
of neocon thinktanks, including the Project for the New American Century,
Heritage
Foundation, the Foreign
Policy Research Institute, Center
for Security Policy, the Committee on the Present Danger and an Advisory Board
member for the Partnership for a Secure America.
THE BROTHERS LEHMAN: BATTLING NUCLEAR FREEZE
Navy Chief Says Lehman Was Not 'Balanced'
John
F. Lehman is a prominent advocate of militarist U.S. security
policies
Romney's Big Navy Guru Made Millions From Building
Ships
{In 1998 John Lehman acquired Special Devices, Inc (SDI) which
specializes in explosives for defense, aerospace and mining applications. Like
SDI, several other organizations with links to military, space and intelligence
programs (e.g. In-Q-Tel, Orbital
Science) have access to many types of high-tech explosives to cut high-strength
bolts and produce pyrotechnic events. These organizations also have connections
to those who could have accessed the buildings, like WTC tenant Marsh &
McLennan and former NASA administrator and Securacom director, James
Abrahamson}
Timothy John "Tim" Roemer served as an Indiana Congressional
Representative from 1991–2003 before becoming the president of the Center
for National Policy (CNP), a Washington, D.C - based
national security
think tank.
Roemer voted in favor of the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT).
Roemer was instrumental in passing the No Child
Left Behind Act; an original sponsor of
the legislation to
create the Department of Homeland
Security; served as a distinguished scholar at the Mercatus Center at
George Mason University; served for the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy's Presidential Task force on Combating the Ideology of Radical
Extremism; and was a partner at Johnston and Associates, a public and
legislative affairs consultancy.
Philip D. Zelikow, executive director of
the 911 commission, served the George HW Bush administration on
the National Security
Council; advised National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, and Secretary
of State James
Baker in diplomatic affairs during the
Gulf War.
Philip D.
Zelikow was the executive director of the little known Aspen Strategy
Group whose members include Dick Cheney,
Condoleezza Rice, and
Paul Wolfowitz.
Philip D.
Zelikow is director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the
University of Virginia; a member of the Global Development Program Advisory
Panel of the Gates Foundation and
Counselor of the
State
Department.
In the November-December 1998 issue of Foreign
Affairs, Philip D.
Zelikow co-authored an article Catastrophic Terrorism, with Ashton
B. Carter and John M. Deutch, in which they speculated that if "a
transformative event like the 1993
bombing of the World Trade Center had succeeded, the resulting horror and
chaos would have exceeded our ability to
chronicle it.
"Long part of the Hollywood and Tom Clancy repertory of nightmarish
scenarios, catastrophic terrorism has moved from far-fetched horror to a
contingency that could happen next month.
Readers should imagine the
possibilities for themselves, because the most serious constraint on current
policy [nonaggression] is lack of imagination.
An act of catastrophic
terrorism that killed thousands or tens of thousands of people and/or
disrupted the necessities of life for
hundreds of thousands, or even millions, would be a watershed event in
America's history.
It could involve loss of life and property
unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America's fundamental sense of
security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949.
Like Pearl Harbor, the event would divide our
past and future into a before and after.
The United States might
respond with draconian measures
scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of
citizens, detention of
suspects and use of deadly force.
More violence could follow, either
future terrorist
attacks or US counterattacks." - Catastrophic Terrorism |
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