The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie

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25 May 2005

 

" ..far from lessening my suspicions about official complicity,

 

[the 9/11 Commission Report] has served to confirm them.

 

Why would the minds in charge of this final report engage in

 

such deception if they were not trying to cover up very high crimes? "

 

– David Ray Griffin

{ " The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie " }

 

 

1) The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie -- David Ray Griffin

2) European Tour: Re-Open 911 Investigations Campaign

 

Editor's Notes:

 

Item one is a new article by Dr. David Ray Griffin, which lists over 100 lies

in the official 9/11 Commission report. This is based on the information

uncovered in Dr. Griffin's newest book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions

and Distortions. The second item includes a press release regarding Attorney

Phillip Berg, who has joined forces with " ..multi-millionaire Jimmy Walter,

an

American currently living in Europe, for a seven country/eight city tour,

after conducting research with a team of experts on the attacks on the

Pentagon and the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. The research team

uncovered some very disturbing facts that cannot be reconciled with the

information provided by the U.S. government and media. Berg has a RICO

[Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations] Act lawsuit pending against

President Bush, Vice President Cheney and 54 other defendants for: 1)

foreknowledge of 911; 2) failure to warn; 3) failure to prevent; and cover-

up. "

 

 

 

The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie

by Dr. David Ray Griffin

 

In discussing my second 9/11 book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and

Distortions, I have often said, only half in jest, that a better title might

have been " a 571-page lie. " (Actually, I was saying " a 567-page lie, " because

I was forgetting to count the four pages of the Preface.) In making this

statement, one of my points has been that the entire Report is constructed in

support of one big lie: that the official story about 9/11 is true.

 

Another point, however, is that in the process of telling this overall lie,

The 9/11 Commission Report tells many lies about particular issues. This

point

is implied by my critique's subtitle, " Omissions and Distortions. " It might

be

thought, to be sure, that of the two types of problems signaled by those two

terms, only those designated " distortions " can be considered lies.

 

It is better, however, to understand the two terms as referring to two types

of lies: implicit and explicit. We have an explicit lie when the Report

claims

that the core of each of the Twin Towers consisted of a hollow steel shaft or

when it claims that Vice President Cheney did not give the shoot-down order

until after 10:10 that morning. But we have an implicit lie when the

Commission, in its discussion of the 19 alleged suicide hijackers, omits the

fact that at least six of them have credibly been reported to be still alive,

or when it fails to mention the fact that Building 7 of the World Trade

Center

collapsed. Such omissions are implicit lies partly because they show that the

Commission did not honor its stated intention " to provide the fullest

possible

account of the events surrounding 9/11. " They are also lies insofar as the

Commission could avoid telling an explicit lie about the issue in question

only by not mentioning it, which, I believe, was the case in at least most

instances.

 

Given these two types of lies, it might be wondered how many lies are

contained in The 9/11 Commission Report. I do not know. But, deciding to see

how many lies I had discussed in my book, I found that I had identified over

100 of them. Once I had made the list, it occurred to me that others might

find this summary helpful. Hence this article.

 

One caveat: Although in some of the cases it is obvious that the Commission

has lied, in other cases I would say, as I make clear in the book, that it

appears that the Commission has lied. However, in the interests of simply

giving a brief listing of claims that I consider to be lies, I will ignore

this distinction between obvious and probable lies, leaving it to readers, if

they wish, to look up the discussion in The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions

and Distortions. For ease in doing this, I have parenthetically indicated the

pages of the book on which the various issues are discussed.

 

Given this clarification, I now list the omissions and claims of The 9/11

Commission Report that I, in my critique of that report, portrayed as lies:

 

1. The omission of evidence that at least six of the alleged

hijackers---including Waleed al-Shehri, said by the Commission probably to

have stabbed a flight attendant on Flight 11 before it crashed into the North

Tower of the WTC---are still alive (19-20).

 

2. The omission of evidence about Mohamed Atta---such as his reported

fondness

for alcohol, pork, and lap dances---that is in tension with the Commission's

claim that he had become fanatically religious (20-21).

 

3. The obfuscation of the evidence that Hani Hanjour was too poor a pilot to

have flown an airliner into the Pentagon (21-22).

 

4. The omission of the fact that the publicly released flight manifests

contain no Arab names (23).

 

5. The omission of the fact that fire has never, before or after 9/11, caused

steel-frame buildings to collapse (25).

 

6. The omission of the fact that the fires in the Twin Towers were not very

big, very hot, or very long-lasting compared with fires in several

steel-frame

buildings that did not collapse (25-26).

 

7. The omission of the fact that, given the hypothesis that the collapses

were

caused by fire, the South Tower, which was struck later than the North Tower

and also had smaller fires, should not have collapsed first (26).

 

8. The omission of the fact that WTC 7 (which was not hit by an airplane and

which had only small, localized fires) also collapsed---an occurrence that

FEMA admitted it could not explain (26).

 

9. The omission of the fact that the collapse of the Twin Towers (like that

of

Building 7) exemplified at least 10 features suggestive of controlled

demolition (26-27).

 

10. The claim that the core of each of the Twin Towers was " a hollow steel

shaft " ---a claim that denied the existence of the 47 massive steel columns

that in reality constituted the core of each tower and that, given the

" pancake theory " of the collapses, should have still been sticking up many

hundreds of feet in the air (27-28).

 

11. The omission of Larry Silverstein's statement that he and the fire

department commander decided to " pull " Building 7 (28).

 

12. The omission of the fact that the steel from the WTC buildings was

quickly

removed from the crime scene and shipped overseas before it could be analyzed

for evidence of explosives (30).

 

13. The omission of the fact that because Building 7 had been evacuated

before

it collapsed, the official reason for the rapid removal of the steel---that

some people might still be alive in the rubble under the steel---made no

sense

in this case (30).

 

14. The omission of Mayor Giuliani's statement that he had received word that

the World Trade Center was going to collapse (30-31).

 

15. The omission of the fact that President Bush's brother Marvin and his

cousin Wirt Walker III were both principals in the company in charge of

security for the WTC (31-32).

 

16. The omission of the fact that the west wing of the Pentagon would have

been the least likely spot to be targeted by al-Qaeda terrorists, for several

reasons (33-34).

 

17. The omission of any discussion of whether the damage done to the Pentagon

was consistent with the impact of a Boeing 757 going several hundred miles

per

hour (34).

 

18. The omission of the fact that there are photos showing that the west

wing's façade did not collapse until 30 minutes after the strike and also

that

the entrance hole appears too small for a Boeing 757 to have entered (34).

 

19. The omission of all testimony that has been used to cast doubt on whether

remains of a Boeing 757 were visible either inside or outside the Pentagon

(34-36).

 

20. The omission of any discussion of whether the Pentagon has a anti-missile

defense system that would have brought down a commercial airliner---even

though the Commission suggested that the al-Qaeda terrorists did not attack a

nuclear power plant because they assumed that it would be thus defended (36).

 

21. The omission of the fact that pictures from various security

cameras---including the camera at the gas station across from the Pentagon,

the film from which was reportedly confiscated by the FBI immediately after

the strike---could presumably answer the question of what really hit the

Pentagon (37-38).

 

22. The omission of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's reference to " the missile

[used] to damage [the Pentagon] " (39).

 

23. The apparent endorsement of a wholly unsatisfactory answer to the

question

of why the Secret Service agents allowed President Bush to remain at the

Sarasota school at a time when, given the official story, they should have

assumed that a hijacked airliner might be about to crash into the school

(41-44).

 

24. The failure to explore why the Secret Service did not summon fighter jets

to provide air cover for Air Force One (43-46).

 

25. The claims that when the presidential party arrived at the school, no one

in the party knew that several planes had been hijacked (47-48).

 

26. The omission of the report that Attorney General Ashcroft was warned to

stop using commercial airlines prior to 9/11 (50).

 

27. The omission of David Schippers' claim that he had, on the basis of

information provided by FBI agents about upcoming attacks in lower Manhattan,

tried unsuccessfully to convey this information to Attorney General Ashcroft

during the six weeks prior to 9/11 (51).

 

28. The omission of any mention of the FBI agents who reportedly claimed to

have known the targets and dates of the attacks well in advance (51-52).

 

29. The claim, by means of a circular, question-begging rebuttal, that the

unusual purchases of put options prior to 9/11 did not imply advance

knowledge

of the attacks on the part of the buyers (52-57).

 

30. The omission of reports that both Mayor Willie Brown and some Pentagon

officials received warnings about flying on 9/11 (57).

 

31. The omission of the report that Osama bin Laden, who already was

America's

" most wanted " criminal, was treated in July 2001 by an American doctor in the

American Hospital in Dubai and visited by the local CIA agent (59).

 

32. The omission of news stories suggesting that after 9/11 the US military

in

Afghanistan deliberately allowed Osama bin Laden to escape (60).

 

33. The omission of reports, including the report of a visit to Osama bin

Laden at the hospital in Dubai by the head of Saudi intelligence, that were

in

tension with the official portrayal of Osama as disowned by his family and

his

country (60-61).

 

34. The omission of Gerald Posner's account of Abu Zubaydah's testimony,

according to which three members of the Saudi royal family---all of whom

later

died mysteriously within an eight-day period---were funding al-Qaeda and had

advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks (61-65).

 

35. The Commission's denial that it found any evidence of Saudi funding of

al-Qaeda (65-68).

 

36. The Commission's denial in particular that it found any evidence that

money from Prince Bandar's wife, Princess Haifa, went to al-Qaeda operatives

(69-70).

 

37. The denial, by means of simply ignoring the distinction between private

and commercial flights, that the private flight carrying Saudis from Tampa to

Lexington on September 13 violated the rules for US airspace in effect at the

time (71-76).

 

38. The denial that any Saudis were allowed to leave the United States

shortly

after 9/11 without being adequately investigated (76-82).

 

39. The omission of evidence that Prince Bandar obtained special permission

from the White House for the Saudi flights (82-86).

 

40. The omission of Coleen Rowley's claim that some officials at FBI

headquarters did see the memo from Phoenix agent Kenneth Williams (89-90).

 

41. The omission of Chicago FBI agent Robert Wright's charge that FBI

headquarters closed his case on a terrorist cell, then used intimidation to

prevent him from publishing a book reporting his experiences (91).

 

42. The omission of evidence that FBI headquarters sabotaged the attempt by

Coleen Rowley and other Minneapolis agents to obtain a warrant to search

Zacarias Moussaoui's computer (91-94).

 

43. The omission of the 3.5 hours of testimony to the Commission by former

FBI

translator Sibel Edmonds—-testimony that, according to her later public

letter

to Chairman Kean, revealed serious 9/11-related cover-ups by officials at FBI

headquarters (94-101).

 

44. The omission of the fact that General Mahmoud Ahmad, the head of

Pakistan's intelligence agency (the ISI), was in Washington the week prior to

9/11, meeting with CIA chief George Tenet and other US officials (103-04).

 

45. The omission of evidence that ISI chief Ahmad had ordered $100,000 to be

sent to Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11 (104-07).

 

46. The Commission's claim that it found no evidence that any foreign

government, including Pakistan, had provided funding for the al-Qaeda

operatives (106).

 

47. The omission of the report that the Bush administration pressured

Pakistan

to dismiss Ahmad as ISI chief after the appearance of the story that he had

ordered ISI money sent to Atta (107-09).

 

48. The omission of evidence that the ISI (and not merely al-Qaeda) was

behind

the assassination of Ahmad Shah Masood (the leader of Afghanistan's Northern

Alliance), which occurred just after the week-long meeting between the heads

of the CIA and the ISI (110-112).

 

49. The omission of evidence of ISI involvement in the kidnapping and murder

of Wall Street Reporter Daniel Pearl (113).

 

50. The omission of Gerald Posner's report that Abu Zubaydah claimed that a

Pakistani military officer, Mushaf Ali Mir, was closely connected to both the

ISI and al-Qaeda and had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks (114).

 

51. The omission of the 1999 prediction by ISI agent Rajaa Gulum Abbas that

the Twin Towers would be " coming down " (114).

 

52. The omission of the fact that President Bush and other members of his

administration repeatedly spoke of the 9/11 attacks as " opportunities "

(116-17).

 

53. The omission of the fact that The Project for the New American Century,

many members of which became key figures in the Bush administration,

published

a document in 2000 saying that " a new Pearl Harbor " would aid its goal of

obtaining funding for a rapid technological transformation of the US military

(117-18).

 

54. The omission of the fact that Donald Rumsfeld, who as head of the

commission on the US Space Command had recommended increased funding for it,

used the attacks of 9/11 on that very evening to secure such funding (119-22).

 

55. The failure to mention the fact that three of the men who presided over

the failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks—-Secretary Rumsfeld, General Richard

Myers, and General Ralph Eberhart---were also three of the strongest

advocates

for the US Space Command (122).

 

[For numbers 56 - 114, see complete article link at end]

 

115. The failure of the Commission, while bragging that it presented its

final

report " without dissent, " to point out that this was probably possible only

because Max Cleland, the commissioner who was most critical of the White

House

and swore that he would not be part of " looking at information only

partially, " had to resign in order to accept a position with the

Export-Import

Bank, and that the White House forwarded his nomination for this position

only

after he was becoming quite outspoken in his criticisms (290-291).

 

I will close by pointing out that I concluded my study of what I came to call

" the Kean-Zelikow Report " by writing that it, " far from lessening my

suspicions about official complicity, has served to confirm them. Why would

the minds in charge of this final report engage in such deception if they

were

not trying to cover up very high crimes? " (291)

 

-- David Ray Griffin

 

Link to the complete article and original posting:

www.septembereleventh.org/newsarchive/2005-05-22-571pglie.php

 

For a DVD of Dr. Griffin's C-Span appearance:

www.septembereleventh.org/donations

 

 

 

2) European Tour: Re-Open 911 Investigations Campaign

 

Posting to International Wire of Scoop

Press Release: UnansweredQuestions.org

Friday, 20 May 2005

 

European Tour: Re-Open 911 Investigations Campaign

 

Lafayette Hill Attorney Joins 7 European Country Tour

With Multi Millionaire As They Start the Re-Open

9-11 Investigations Campaign

 

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, May 19, 2005

 

PHILIP J. BERG, Esquire, a Lafayette Hill, PA attorney, joined

multi-millionaire Jimmy Walter, an American currently living in Europe, for a

seven country/eight city tour, after conducting research with a team of

experts on the attacks on the Pentagon and the Twin Towers on September 11,

2001. The research team uncovered some very disturbing facts that cannot be

reconciled with the information provided by the U.S. government and media.

 

Berg has a RICO [Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations] Act lawsuit

pending against President Bush, Vice President Cheney and 54 other defendants

for: 1) foreknowledge of 911; 2) failure to warn; 3) failure to prevent; and

cover- up. (Recall that Nixon went down on cover-up alone.) Federal Judge

Robreno just issued an Order transferring the case [Rodriguez vs. Bush,

04-cv-4952] from Philadelphia to Federal Court in New York.

 

Berg's client, William Rodriguez, is also on the tour. Rodriguez is a 911

hero

who rescued many victims from the WTC, where he was a janitor in the North

Tower; he accompanied firemen up the fire tower and let them onto the floors

with a master key. For his acts of heroism, President Bush honored Rodriguez

at the White House. Later, however, he realized that the 'official' story is

a

lie. Rodriguez heard 'explosions' in the North Tower before the building

fell,

confirming the 2+ Richter scale seismic recordings prior to the fall of each

tower. Rodriguez was the last person out of the North Tower and is alive

today

because he dove under a fire truck. Like thousands of others, he still

suffers

from health problems brought on by the unhealthy conditions at the WTC

(disproving another Bush administration claim: EPA Administrator Christy Todd

Whitman came to the WTC site on 9/13/01 and said all was well).

 

At a Press Conference in Amsterdam on May 18th, attorney Berg stated, 'Bush

and his cronies either made 911 happen or let it happen. If they let it

happen, then they made it happen; and they must he held accountable.'

 

Berg continued, 'It is very difficult for many to believe that the U.S.

government could be involved. However, I draw your attention to 'Operation

Northwoods,' a 1962 documented plan that has now been declassified, in which

the joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. military called for the military to

destroy American property and to injure and kill American citizens, blaming

it

on Cuba, in order to win support for a war against Cuba. President John F.

Kennedy said ‘No.' If you change the words from Cuba to Iraq, you have the

same situation.'

 

Berg concluded: 'I know many of you recall Golfer Payne Stewart. His plane

was

off course and fighter jets were called out to check on Stewart's plane -- as

fighter jets did 62 times in the year prior to 911. They saw no evidence of

life and followed it to South Dakota, where it crashed. Likewise just a week

ago, on May 11, 2005, when a small plane wandered off course toward the White

House, it was intercepted within minutes by fighter planes. Now, question ­

Where were the fighter jets on 911? They had about an hour to intercept an

airliner that had left its flight path and was heading for Washington D.C.

But

they never even made it into the air before the Pentagon crash.'

 

Together with a panel of scientists and journalists who support the

investigation, Jimmy Walter will tour through major cities in Europe for

panel

discussions. The aim of the tour is to point out new non-truths with regard

to

the investigation as spread by the media directly after the attacks, and to

raise awareness about the topic and plan to launch a 'true' 911

investigation.

The tour will begin in Amsterdam on May 20th.

 

Philip J. Berg, Esquire, Jimmy Walter and William Rodriguez are available for

radio and TV appearances and interviews. Two tours will be conducted, with

William Rodriguez on RED team, Philip J. Berg, Esq. on BLUE team, and Jimmy

Walter on both tours.

 

Check for the schedule and details of tour for speaking engagements in:

Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Manchester and Rome.

 

www.reopen911.org

 

www.911forthetruth.com

 

For further information, please call

Marlies van Kasteel: tel +31-(0) 6-14-54-39-52

or

Absolutely Independent on:

+31-(0) 20-4905-200 or e-mail: info

 

When applicable, travel costs for Press can be reimbursed upon request

 

# # #

 

For Further Information, contact:

 

Philip J. Berg, Esquire

706 Ridge Pike

Lafayette Hill, PA 19444

(610) 825-3134

 

or by e-mail at:

pjblaw or philjberg

 

as Phil is now on tour.

 

The entire article (with tour dates and details) is posted at

www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00326.htm

 

 

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