These facts are for those who, despite a vast body of evidence to the contrary, remain convinced that the entire operation was carried out by al Qaeda agents loyal to Osama bin Laden, and in which the attack came as a complete surprise to every department and agency within the US Government, including the Bush Administration and the Dept. of Defense. The 9/11 Commissions Final Report echoed this scenario, and the mainstream media has touted this line from about noon on the day of 9/11/2001 itself. Many people, as well as the mainstream media view the 9/11 Commission as the last word, regarding the attacks. The following information and commentary comes from Commission members and other officials, and puts a very different light on the character of the investigation, which both the Bush and Obama Administrations claim to be the definitive story and analysis of the most heinous atrocity ever committed on US soil. Here are 36 aspects of the 9/11 Commission that run counter to what we would have expected of an inquiry IF the attacks were a genuine act of foreign terrorism. (Quotations from officials are highlighted in blue) (1) The Bush Administration refused to authorize any inquiry for 441 days (a most extraordinarily unexpected non-reaction). Once the inquiry was authorized with extreme reluctance on the part of the Bush White House, they promised it would be the fullest investigation no stones to be left unturned. Unfortunately, according to the most senior Commissioners, this was far from the case. (2) The Bush White House did everything in its power to derail an open inquiry. Then, when faced with its inevitability, the president and his aides sought to limit its scope, its time, its access and its funding. (3) John Farmer, the lead counsel to the Commission, claims that the greater part of the Commissions findings are untrue. He also states: “The Commissions co-chairs said that the CIA (and likely the White House) obstructed our investigation. Indeed, they said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements. and * Its almost a culture of concealment, for lack of a better word. There were interviews made at FAAs New York Center on the night of 9/11 and those tapes were destroyed. The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened. John Farmer, Senior Counsel, 9/11 Commission. and * I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described… The tapes told a radically different story from what has been told to us (the 9/11 Commission) and the public for two years… This is not spin. This is not true. This is not spin…This is not true. John Farmer, Senior Counsel, 9/11 Commission. (4) I dont 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 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton (5) Lee and I write in our book that, uh, we think that the Commission was set up to fail. Because we had, um, not enough money, we didnt have enough time. We had been appointed by the most partisan people in Washington, the leaders in the House and the Senate 9/11 Commission co-chair Thomas Kean (6) Bluntly, it just didnt happen and thats the conclusion of all 10 of us. Former Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA), a member of the 9/11 Commission. (7) Former Sen. Tom Daschle has said that Vice President Cheney requested him that there be no investigation into the 9/11 attacks. (8) There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didnt have access . . . . 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey (9) Theres something very sinister going on here... something desperately wrong... This involved what is right now the covering up of information that led to the deaths of 3,000 people. Rep. Curt Weldon * An infuriated Weldon also stated, “I am appalled that the DoD IG would expect the American people to actually consider this a full and thorough investigation”. (10) Most people look at the 9/11 Commission Report as a trusted historical document. If their conclusions were supported by information gained from torture, therefore their conclusions are suspect. Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (11) ...the 9/11 Commission report was fundamentally flawed because the Commission refused to hear, ignored, or censored testimony about the many pre–September 11 warnings given to the FBI and US intelligence agencies... National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, consisting of former FBI, NSA and other federal intelligence experts. (12) [NORAD] lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 Commission...the most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence. Sen. Mark Dayton, Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services and Homeland Security. (13) ...the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation. Rep. Ron Paul, Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee. (14) We purposely put together a staff that had, in a way, conflicts of interests. 9/11 Commissioner John Lehman (15) We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting. 9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer (16) 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 Max Cleland and I, as a member of the 9/11 Commission, cannot look any American in the eye... It is a national scandal... this White House wants to cover 9/11 up. and “At some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened. 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland, who consequently resigned from the 9/11 Commission. (17) ...the 9/11 Commission ran up against obstruction by the administration and non-cooperation from government agencies... the errors and omissions immediately jumped out at us... US Rep Cynthia McKinney ~ Member of the House Armed Services Committee (18) Distinguished national and international scientists and scholars present massive evidence that the 9/11 Commission Report is a hoax and that the 9/11 terrorist attack has been manipulated to serve a hegemonic agenda in the Middle East... Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, PhD (19) Regarding 9/11 The official story could not possibly have happened... It’s not possible. It’s not operationally feasible... The Commission was a whitewash. Former Assistant Secretary of Housing, Catherine Austin Fitts (20) 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. U.S. Army Intelligence officer, Federal Prosecutor, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice, John Loftus (21) I cannot believe, much as I might like to, the standard account of 9/11. Foreign Service Officer, George Kenney (22) 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.... ....I think you almost have to look at the 9/11 Commission Report as a joke and not a serious piece of analysis at all... Its a monstrous crime. William Christison, National Intelligence Officer and Director of the CIAs Office of Regional and Political Analysis. (23) Im astounded that the conspiracy theory advanced by the administration could in fact be true and the evidence does not seem to suggest thats accurate. Col. Ronald D. Ray, U.S. Marine Corps – Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Deputy Director of Field Operations for the U.S. Marine Corps Historical Center. (24) The official 9/11 story is impossible .. There is a cover up .. high levels of our government dont want us to know what happened .. highly placed individuals in the administration. Lt. Col. Robert Bowman PhD, U.S. Air Force, Director of Advanced Space Programs. (25) At worst, I think the 9/11 Commission Report is treasonous. Bogdan Dzakovic, counter-terrorism expert in the Security Division, FAA. Team leader of the FAAs Red (Terrorism) Team in the Federal Air Marshall program, Coast Guard officer. (26) The intimidation of witnesses in a criminal trial is a very serious offense. Throughout the 9/11 Commission hearings, Government minders aggressively intimidated Commission witnesses on a wholesale basis, with impunity. (27) Former Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh: 9/11 Commission findings.... raises serious challenges to the commissions credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the Commission historically insignificant itself. (28) CIA chief Tenet demonstrably lied to the Commissioners in closed session meetings. (29) Despite the common awareness in the intelligence and law enforcement community that torture is a counterproductive method of obtaining worthwhile information, the huge majority of the Commissions evidence was either single sourced, violating the prime rule of journalism, or extracted by torturing alleged suspects. Evidence obtained through torture is not permitted in a proper US court of law - for obvious reasons. (30) An E-4B plane was seen by numerous witnesses (and filmed by CNN cameras), flying above the DC area *before* the Pentagon was hit. If the Government had the foreknowledge to have a E-4B lifted and arrival over the D.C. restricted air space at the time of the attack, then why did the 9/11 Commission leave this out of their final report? (31) Former VP Cheney provably lied to the 9/11 Commission regarding his movements and whereabouts in the critical period of time shortly after the attacks started. Former transportation secretary Norman Minetas sworn statements regarding Cheneys movements and whereabouts are radically different from the Vice Presidents version. (32) After both President Bush and VP Cheney initially refused to testify to the Commission under oath, their testimony was secret, behind closed doors, no cameras or transcripts allowed, and no questions by reporters were permitted. Does executive privilege extend to this degree of obfuscation? (33) A document recently discovered in the National Archives shows that, in a memo to the 9/11 Commission’s chairman and vice-chairman on false statements made by NORAD and FAA officials about the failure of US air defenses, the commission’s Executive Director Philip Zelikow failed to mention the possibility of a criminal referral. This supports allegations that Zelikow “buried” the option of a criminal referral by the commission to the Justice Department for a perjury investigation. (34) The overwhelming proportion of evidence, some 90% heard by the Commission was not included in the Commissions final report; this report has been described as a classic example of dry labbing. In scientific circles this means starting out with a theory, which you then prove by omitting all contrary material. The responsibility for this fiasco clearly fell with the Commissions executive director, Philip Zelikow who determined which material was to be published, and which was to be ignored and erased. (35) The original choice by the Bush Administration to be the chair of the 9/11 Commission was Henry Kissinger, who was forced to step down on account of his refusal to reveal his client list. (36) The eventual choice to be executive director was Philip Zelikow, a senior Bush Administration insider and colleague of Condoleezza Rice, to head an investigation sold to the US public as independent. (!) ~~~ In the light of this information alone, the 9/11 Commissions conclusion was clearly fraudulent. The Commission, under former Bush Administration official Philip Zelikow was neither independent, nor scientific.... its conclusion was carefully scripted by Zelikow, who selected which material was to be included, and which was to be buried and/or ignored. According to the latest polls, the nation is divided about 50:50 on either supporting a new, real, no-holds barred investigation with full subpoena powers... or to let the matter rest and move on. This latter group is clearly either unaware of the facts behind the 9/11 Commissions failure, or do not want to know. America and the world deserves far better than to let the matter rest; we are now in the insane situation that the worst crime of our lifetime remains uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished. Our alleged representatives in Washington DC appear to have closed ranks in keeping this nasty chapter in our history secret and behind closed doors. As such, many of our elected representatives, alongside the corporate media, are harboring and protecting terrorists, the identity of which remains unknown to the general public. The bizarre behavior exhibited Zelikow, and senior officials from the Pentagon, NORAD, the FAA and the CIA begs the question: Why did they deliberately scuttle the inquiry, if a foreign terrorist group, namely al Qaeda was wholly responsible for the attacks, as alleged? Who was being protected here? More al Qaeda agents? The 9/11 Commission Report is no better than a 571 page lie.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 22:03:59 +0000
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