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"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 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
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 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; the notification occurred at 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 this notification did not come until
9:03 when the flight crashed into the South Tower - contradicted implicitly by
FAA's memo of May 22, 2003; 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 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, is contradicted by the
Pentagon Building Performance Report, which said the front of the aircraft
disintegrated upon impact, and by Popular Mechanics,
claiming the hole was made by 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 experts and 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 911 Commission no explosions occurred has been contradicted by numerous
firefighters, emergency medical workers, WTC employees, and by
television and newspaper
reports on 911 and the next 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 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
Usamah 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 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; 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 "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
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
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; received the Medal of Honor.
On February 25, 1969, Bob
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 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
pushed 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 many neocon thinktanks,
including the Project for the New
American Century, Heritage Foundation, Foreign Policy
Research Institute, Center for Security
Policy, the Committee on the Present Danger and 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 US 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, DC
national security think
tank.
Roemer voted for the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT).
Roemer was instrumental in passing the No Child Left Behind Act;
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; the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's
Presidential Task force on Combating the Ideology of Radical Extremism; and a
partner at Johnston and Associates, a public and legislative affairs
consultancy.
Philip D. Zelikow, executive
director of the 911 commission, served the
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 executive director of the little known Aspen Strategy Group;
members 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
State Department
Counselor.
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 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
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