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September 10, 2010
Don’t want to hear this?
Tough. Grow up.
9/11 Commissioners:
• 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says “I don’t believe for a minute we got everything right”, that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue
• 9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said “We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting”
• 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: “It is a national scandal”; “This investigation is now compromised”; and “One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up”
• 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that “There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn’t have access . . . .” He also said that the investigation depended too heavily on the accounts of Al Qaeda detainees who were physically coerced into talking
• And the Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) – who led the 9/11 staff’s inquiry – recently said “At some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened”. He also said “I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years…. This is not spin. This is not true.” And he said: “It’s almost a culture of concealment, for lack of a better word. There were interviews made at the FAA’s New York center the night of 9/11 and those tapes were destroyed. The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, to put it mildly, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened”
If even the 9/11 Commissioners don’t buy the official story, why do you?
Senior intelligence officers:
• Former military analyst and famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said that the case of a certain 9/11 whistleblower is “far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers”. He also said that the government is ordering the media to cover up her allegations about 9/11. And he said that some of the claims concerning government involvement in 9/11 are credible, that “very serious questions have been raised about what they [U.S. government officials] knew beforehand and how much involvement there might have been”, that engineering 9/11 would not be humanly or psychologically beyond the scope of the current administration, and that there’s enough evidence to justify a new, “hard-hitting” investigation into 9/11 with subpoenas and testimony taken under oath (see this and this)
• A 27-year CIA veteran, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many other senior government officials (Raymond McGovern) said “I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke”
• A 29-year CIA veteran, former National Intelligence Officer (NIO) and former Director of the CIA’s Office of Regional and Political Analysis (William Bill Christison) said “I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe (and see this)
• A number of intelligence officials, including a CIA Operations Officer who co-chaired a CIA multi-agency task force coordinating intelligence efforts among many intelligence and law enforcement agencies (Lynne Larkin) sent a joint letter to Congress expressing their concerns about “serious shortcomings,” “omissions,” and “major flaws” in the 9/11 Commission Report and offering their services for a new investigation (they were ignored)
• A decorated 20-year CIA veteran, who Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh called “perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East”, and whose astounding career formed the script for the Academy Award winning motion picture Syriana (Robert Baer) said that “the evidence points at” 9/11 having had aspects of being an inside job
• The Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs, who served as Senior Analyst from 1966 – 1990. He also served as Professor of International Security at the National War College from 1986 – 2004 (Melvin Goodman) said “The final [9/11 Commission] report is ultimately a coverup”
If even our country’s top intelligence officers don’t buy the official story, why do you?
Congressmen:
• Current Democratic U.S. Senator Patrick
Leahy said “The two questions that the
• Current Republican Congressman Ron
Paul calls for a new 9/11 investigation and
states that “we see the [9/11] investigations
that have been done so far as more or less
cover-up and no real explanation of what went
on”
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• Current Democratic Congressman Dennis
Kucinich hints that we aren’t being told the
• Current Republican Congressman Jason
Chafetz says that we need to be vigilant and
• Former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel
• Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee endorses a new 9/11 investigation
• Former U.S. Democratic Congressman Dan Hamburg doesn’t believe the official version of events
• Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and who served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee Curt Weldon has shown that the U.S. tracked hijackers before 9/11, is open to hearing information about explosives in the Twin Towers, and is open to the possibility that 9/11 was an inside job
If there is bipartisan questioning of the official story, why aren’t you questioning it?
Other government officials:
• U.S. General, Commanding General of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, decorated with the Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart (General Wesley Clark) said “We’ve never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I’ve seen that for a long time”
• Former Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Warning under Nixon, Ford, and Carter (Morton Goulder), former Deputy Director to the White House Task Force on Terrorism (Edward L. Peck), and former US Department of State Foreign Service Officer (J. Michael Springmann), as well as a who’s who of liberals and independents) jointly call for a new investigation into 9/11
• Former Federal Prosecutor, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan; former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and currently a widely-sought media commentator on terrorism and intelligence services (John Loftus) says “The information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defense of incompetence”
• The Group Director on matters of national security in the U.S. Government Accountability Office said that President Bush did not respond to unprecedented warnings of the 9/11 disaster and conducted a massive cover-up instead of accepting responsibility
• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan (Col. Ronald D. Ray) said that the official story of 9/11 is “the dog that doesn’t hunt”
• The former director of the FBI (Louis Freeh) says there was a cover up by the 9/11 Commission
If top government officials are skeptical, why aren’t you?
Numerous other politicians, judges, legal scholars, and attorneys also question at least some aspects of the government’s version of 9/11.
Anti-war campaigner goes on record with assertion that attacks were an inside job
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Tuesday, Sept 14th, 2010
Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist
who lost her son to the ongoing war
in Iraq, delivered an impassioned and
emotional speech during which she
specifically addressed concerns over
the 9/11 attacks and stated that she
believes they were orchestrated by
elements of the U.S. government for
political gain.
Sheehan was speaking at the All Souls
Church on the upper East Side of
Manhattan, on the eve of the ninth
anniversary of 9/11.
Addressing a large crowd, Sheehan
announced “I am a 9/11 truther.”
Following thunderous and sustained
applause she continued, “I do think
it was an inside job. We just don’t know
– I don’t know – how far inside it went.
But, you know, I’m sure Dick Cheney had
something to do with it.”
Sheehan’s son Casey was killed in battle in 2004. Since that time Cindy has worked tirelessly to campaign for an end to the US led wars.
Perhaps most prominently, Sheehan camped close to George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford Texas in 2005, attracting much media attention when the president failed to address one question from the grieving mother.
Sheehan also spoke of the need to look beyond the left/right political paradigm, noting that “So many people have sold their souls to this empire. Whether it’s someone from the Republicans or the Democrats, or the military industrial complex – it’s all the same.”
“They all have the same goals, they all get paid by the same people, and I like to call the Democrats and the Republicans The War Party.” She continued.
“Since Obama has been president, everything that he and his justice department did was to protect the criminals of the Bush regime. They protect each other because they all want to do the same thing, they all want to have the same power.” Sheehan implored.
She also spoke of the loss of domestic civil liberties and the systematic erosion of the Bill of Rights in the wake of 9/11 and the endless “war on terror”.
“Just because I’m traveling doesn’t give you the right to take away my Bill of Rights.” Sheehan urged, as she spoke of her experiences of flying to and from events around the country. “Every time they ask me to go through one of the body scanners I say no, do what you have to do but I am not going through that.”
She asked those in attendance to give some regard on the anniversary of 9/11 to the plight of the Iraqi, Afghan and Pakistani people, noting “I havn’t heard anybody speak for these people… We’re the occupiers – it’s up to us to do something about it”.
Sheehan has previously voiced support for the 9/11 Truth movement, noting on the Alex Jones show in 2007 that the collapse of the twin towers looked like a controlled demolition and that there should be a new investigation into the terrorist attacks.
Sheehan questioned why U.S. air defenses were distracted by drills and exercises scheduled for the morning of 9/11 and why standard operating procedure for intercepting errant aircraft was not followed for the first and only time in history.
“When you lose control of an airplane, you intercept it with a military jet and that should only take seconds – from what I understand it’s not even an order to do that it’s mandatory,” said Sheehan at the time.
Watch Cindy Sheehan’s speech below:
Photo credit: Richard Block, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor at Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and regular contributor to Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
A U.N. Web cast of the speech showed a number of delegates clapping after Ahmadinejad ended his speech, with some holding up cameras and taking photographs.
Friday, September 24, 2010
By Patrick Goodenough
ahmadinejad, UNGA
Holding a Quran and a Bible, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the
United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, September 23, 2010. (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – As U.S. and allied delegations walked out during Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s provocative United Nations speech Thursday, the vast majority
of countries’ delegates not only kept their seats, but many applauded afterwards.
A U.N. Web cast of the speech showed a number of delegates clapping after Ahmadinejad ended his speech, with some holding up cameras and taking photographs. Their countries could not be identified.
When Ahmadinejad took the podium, two American officials were seated. They stood up and walked out when he suggested that the U.S. government was behind the killing of 3,000 people on 9/11.
“The majority of the American people as well as other nations and politicians agree” with the view that “some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime,” he said.
Ahmadinejad proposed the establishment of “an independent fact-finding group … to ensure that the different views about [9/11] are not banned from discussion in the future.”
UNGA U.S. delegation
A U.S. delegate walks out during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the U.N. on Thursday. Behind him a Belgian representative prepares to do the same. (Image: UN Web cast)
As the Americans left their seats, they were followed by delegates from the 27 European Union member states, Australia, New Zealand and the small Central American nation of Costa Rica. Several delegations were not seated to begin with, including those of Canada and Israel.
There are 192 countries in the U.N.
Saul Weisleder, the deputy permanent representative at the Costa Rican mission, told CNSNews the delegation had left the chamber during Ahmadinejad’s address because of his “intention to spread serious lies combined with easy rhetoric.”
“This only reaffirms his negative contribution to world peace and practical rejection of President Barack Obama’s extension of a serious proposal for constructive engagement with Iran in order to build peace in the [Middle East] and elsewhere, which is what the U.N. and world leaders should be doing, especially when speaking at the UNGA,” he said.
“Australia condemns comments by the Iranian president in his 23 September address to the U.N. General Assembly,”
A spokesperson for the Australian department of foreign affairs and trade said early Friday Australia condemned Ahmadinejad’s comments and had “responded by leaving the chamber, as did a number of other countries.”
New Zealand foreign ministry spokesman Chris Wilson said his country had joined about 30 others in walking out.
“The references by the Iranian president to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 having been orchestrated by the U.S. government, and to the ‘Zionist regime’ were unacceptable to New Zealand,” he said.
ahmadinejad conspiracy theories
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claims about 9/11 made headlines on 9/11 conspiracy Web sites, as this partial screenshot shows.
A spokesperson for Canada’s mission to the U.N. confirmed that the delegation had not been present during the speech.
She pointed to a statement from Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, who called Ahmadinejad’s comments relating to 9/11 and repeated condemnations of Israel unacceptable.
“Iran’s behavior is a blatant violation of international standards and of the very spirit of the U.N.,” he said.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton confirmed that all 27 E.U. member states had left in response to Ahmadinejad’s “outrageous and unacceptable” statements. She expressed the E.U.’s solidarity “with the families and friends of those killed or injured in the 9/11 attacks.”
U.S. mission spokesman Mark Kornblau, issued a brief statement before the Iranian leader had even concluded his speech.
“Rather than representing the aspirations and goodwill of the Iranian people, Mr. Ahmadinejad has yet again chosen to spout vile conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic slurs that are as abhorrent and delusional as they are predictable,” it said.
Reports on Ahmadinejad’s 9/11 remarks were carried prominently on several 9/11 conspiracy Web sites, including 9/11truth, scholars for 9/11 truth and 911truthnews.
