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911 Commission
"Only an unrestrained press can effectively
expose deception in government."
Hugo L. Black, Baptist, Mason, KKK,
Supreme Court Justice, 1886-1971
"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
"We have an absolute requirement
to know what happened on 911.
The 911 Commission Report was not up to the task. There must be a re-opening of
the investigation, so that we the people know what occurred."
Maj.
Scott Ritter
"There are enough discrepancies and unanswered
questions in 911 Commission Report that under a friendly administration, the
911 investigation should be re-opened." -
Robert Baer
The official story of 911 is
riddled with internal
contradictions according to David Ray Griffin:
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 second crash into
the World Trade Center, was
contradicted by video
footage and reports of the event, which revealed that he remained much longer.
2. With regard to the time that Vice President Cheney entered the
Presidential Emergency Operations Center:
The 911 Commission's claim,
according to which he did not arrive there until almost 10:00AM, was
contradicted by the
testimony of many people, including Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta
and even 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 shoottdown authorization:
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
airplane, 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 about some event,
therefore, is simply a theory that it resulted from such an 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.
The official account is a
conspiracy theory.
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. And yet 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 Politico-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 describe it. 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." |
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