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"9/11 Blogger - Blogging 9/11 Related Alternative News " - 6 new articles
- Commission Admits: Too Soft on Giuliani
- False Flag News updated
- Jersey Girls Open Fire on 9/11 Commission (again)
- Air America founder sees "inside help"
- Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
- Malloy interviews Tarpley - 8/3/2006
Commission Admits: Too Soft on Giuliani
Here's my take.
9/11 Commission Co-Chairs Kean and Hamilton now admit they were too soft on Giuliani.
Republican Thomas Kean and Democrat Lee Hamilton also say in "Without Precedent" that their panel was too soft in questioning former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — and that the 20-month investigation may have suffered for it.
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The book states that commission staff, "exceedingly frustrated" by what they thought could be deception, proposed a full review into why the FAA and the Pentagon's NORAD had presented inaccurate information. That ultimately could have led to sanctions.
Due to a lack of time, the panel ultimately referred the matter to the inspectors general at the Pentagon and Transportation Department. Both are preparing reports, spokesmen said this week.
"Fog of war could explain why some people were confused on the day of 9/11, but it could not explain why all of the after-action reports, accident investigations and public testimony by FAA and NORAD officials advanced an account of 9/11 that was untrue," the book states.
The questioning of Giuliani was considered by Kean and Hamilton "a low point" in the commission's examination of witnesses during public hearings. "We did not ask tough questions, nor did we get all of the information we needed to put on the public record," they wrote.
Commission members backed off, Kean and Hamilton said, after drawing criticism in newspaper editorials for sharp questioning of New York fire and police officials at earlier hearings. The editorials said the commission was insensitive to the officials' bravery on the day of the attacks.
"It proved difficult, if not impossible, to raise hard questions about 9/11 in New York without it being perceived as criticism of the individual police and firefighters or of Mayor Giuliani," Kean and Hamilton said.
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In their book, which goes on sale Aug. 15, Kean and Hamilton recap obstacles they say the panel faced in putting out a credible report in a presidential election year, including fights for access to government documents and an effort to reach unanimity.***
If Cleland had not resigned, the commission probably would not have reached unanimity, according to the book."
False Flag News updated
Jersey Girls Open Fire on 9/11 Commission (again)
Statement Regarding Pentagon's Alleged Deception
August 4, 2006
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Mandate of the 9/11 Commission
The 9/11 Independent Commission was established by law to "... ascertain, evaluate, and report on the evidence developed by all relevant governmental agencies regarding the facts and circumstances surrounding the attacks; ..."make a full and complete accounting of the circumstances surrounding the attacks, and the extent of the United States' preparedness for, and immediate response to, the attacks..."
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Recent stories in the Washington Post, the New York Times, as well as the release of the transcripts of the NORAD tapes in Vanity Fair, clearly show that the 9/11 Commission failed in its duties.
According to current reports, the Commission knew that it had been deceived by NORAD. In May 2003, representatives of NORAD testified, in full regalia, before the 9/11 Commission equipped with an easel and visual aids to highlight NORAD's timeline for the day of 9/11. In June 2004, NORAD testified again, changing its previous testimony. The new timeline blamed the lack of military response on late notification by the FAA. The Commissioners never determined or explained why there was a discrepancy between the two sets of testimonies. Governor Kean is quoted in the Washington Post article as saying "we, to this day don't know why NORAD told us what they told us, it was just so far from the truth ... It's one of those loose ends that never got tied".
The fact that the Commission did not see fit to tie up all loose ends in their final report or to hold those who came before them accountable for lying and/or making misleading statements puts into question the veracity of the entire Commission's report. Individuals who came before the Commission to testify, after NORAD's appearance, had no reason to state the truth. It was abundantly clear that there would be no repercussions for any misrepresentations.
Furthermore, the lack of tenacity and curiosity, by the Commissioners themselves, to determine why NORAD had deceived them is unconscionable. Knowing full well that the lack of military response was such a critical failure, begs the question of whether that same lack of tenacity and curiosity was applied to other critical areas of the 9/11 investigation.
We fought to establish the 9/11 Independent Commission because we believed that American citizens would be better served if our nation's vulnerabilities were uncovered and then fixed.
Unfortunately, once again the failure to fully and properly investigate all areas, not follow all leads and not address the need for accountability, whether it be bureaucrats lying at a hearing or personnel with questionable performance of assigned duties, continues to leave this Nation and its citizens vulnerable and at risk.
The 9/11 Commission was derelict in its duties. What we needed from them was a thorough investigation into the events of September 11th. Inexcusably, five years later, we still do.
Patty Casazza
Monica Gabrielle
Mindy Kleinberg
Lorie Van Auken
(Source: 911Citizenswatch.org)
Air America founder sees "inside help"
Dear Al Franken, Rachel Maddow, Sam Seder, etc...
You don't have to leave Randi and Malloy hanging out on a limb anymore. Even the co-founder of your network "gets it";
I really enjoy Countdown with Keith Olbermann. However, yesterday he had Gerald Posner as a guest to evaluate the recently released NORAD tapes on 9/11. Posner's conclusion was that the audio communications with NORAD proves that this was all about massive incompetence and had nothing to do with any conspiracy . The tapes clearly showed that everyone was confused and tardy in their responses to the 4 hijackings and that Bush did not give the "shoot down" order until all the airplanes had crashed...
...I am a forensic accountant who is trained to "connect dots." Forensic work is always part science and part instinct. The ones with the good instincts evaluating empirical data are the best forensic professionals. People who are in forensic work can only be good if they can be objective about the failure of apparent human instincts such as the perception that the earth is flat. Proving the earth was round was counterintuitive to our instincts, but proven by science.
All you have to do is read PNAC, The Project For The New American Century. The writings of the neo-cons in the late 90s conform to the events on 9/11 and the necessity of a second "Pearl Harbor" to rally the American people to support the PNAC plan . Having reviewed the inconsistencies and contradictions of reports on 9/11, I have concluded that the 19 hijackers were really part of what they believed to be an Al-Qaeda funded operation. All 19 sincerely believed in what they were doing and the operation probably was funded by a real terrorist group. However, given the remarkable incompetence of the intelligence agencies and our air defense system, I have concluded that the 19 hijackers had inside help ...
...The portrayal of the people on the hijacked planes making cellular phone calls is also a lie. It is impossible to make a private cell phone call when in flight. Try it some time if you don't believe me. And there is a myriad of evidence that leads a sensible conclusion that the hijackers had help from the inside and the trail of those who helped should be those who would have benefited ...
"Wake up." - Randi Rhodes.
Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
I updated this essay in light of Fox's attempt to paint all 9/11 truthers as Bush-haters.
Send it to everyone who claims that 9/11 truth is a partisan issue cynically used by "the other guys".
Malloy interviews Tarpley - 8/3/2006
On Thursday, August 3rd, 2006, Mike Malloy gave the longest interview he has has ever done on his radio show, (evenings 10pm-1am EST - Air America), the guest was Webster Griffin Tarpley. The interview is wide-ranging, and covers a healthy portion of Tarpley's 9/11 research and opinions, (as embodied in his book "Synthetic Terror" ) as well as background information about Tarpley's prior research into the Aldo Moro murder (1978) and his freely available online book, "George Bush: the Unauthorized Biography" , (which you can also buy in an up-to-date paperback form online at Progressive Press.com ), that has been a reference volume for books like "Fortunate Son" and Kevin Phillips'"American Dynasty" (although Phillips' reference is less than kind). This is great radio, the interview is broken up with live-callers, and Malloy asks an excellent series of questions of his own, as well as questions that were emailed in to the show.
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