Many Think 9/11 an Inside Job, Top Politicians, Economists, Other Leaders

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Many Think 9/11 an Inside Job Top Politicians, Economists, Other

 

Many Think 9/11 an Inside Job

Top Politicians, Economists, Other Leaders State 9/11 an Inside Job

 

Morgan Reynolds, Former Chief Economist under President Bush

 

Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of Treasury under Pres. Reagan

 

U.S. Senator Mark Dayton

 

U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney

 

Robert M. Bowman, Head of Advanced Space Programs, Dept. of Defense

 

Michael Meacher, UK Minister of Environment (1997 - 2003) Professor

 

David Ray Griffin, Renowned Theologian

 

Catherine Austin Fitts, Assistant Secretary of Housing For President Bush

 

 

These prominent leaders and others now claim that there are serious

problems with the official government story of 9/11.

 

Some of these highly respected individuals believe that 9/11 may have

been an inside job. It can be very unsettling to even consider the

possibility that certain individuals within our government facilitated

the attacks in order to advance their hidden agendas.

 

Yet the facts increasingly point in that direction.

 

Morgan Reynolds, Former Chief Economist under President Bush June 13,

2005, Washington Times/ UPI

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050613-102755-6408r.htm

 

A former Bush team member during his first administration is now

voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on

9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during

President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that

the official story about the collapse of the WTC is " bogus " and that

it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin

Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.

 

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/27302.htm - More

on Reynolds

" If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World

Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a

government attack on America would be compelling, " said Morgan

Reynolds, Ph.D, a former member of the Bush team.

 

Reynolds, now a professor emeritus at Texas A & M University, also

believes it's " next to impossible " that 19 Arab terrorists alone

outfoxed the mighty U.S. military, adding the scientific conclusions

about the WTC collapse may hold the key to the entire mysterious plot

behind 9/11.

 

Reynolds...claims explosives and structural experts have been

intimidated in their analyses of the collapses of 9/11. In a detailed

analysis just released supporting the controlled demolition theory,

Reynolds presents a compelling case.

 

 

 

Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Sect. of Treasury under Pres. Reagan

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/roberts.html - Website of

Stanford's Hoover Institute describes Roberts

 

The Honorable Paul Craig Roberts is a senior fellow at the Hoover

Institution. During 1981–82, he served as assistant secretary of the

Treasury for economic policy. He was awarded the Treasury Department's

Meritorious Service Award for " his outstanding contributions to the

formulation of United States economic policy. " A former editor and

columnist for the Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business

Week...the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of its top seven

journalists. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30

occasions.

 

http://www.lasvegastribune.com/20050729/headline3.html - Las Vegas

Tribune's July 29, 2005 article on Roberts

 

Roberts said he hasn't changed his political ideology or jumped

from the Republican-conservative ship but " just can't respect a party

leadership who doesn't respect the truth. " " I guess the real story

about 9/11 is about what the people are actually saying. I've gotten

hundreds of emails in response to my columns and many of them talk

about not getting the truth from the government or the media about

what really happened at the World Trade Center.

 

I know many qualified engineers and scientists have said the WTC

collapsed from explosives. In fact, if you look at the manner in which

it fell, you have to give their conclusions credibility. "

 

U.S. Senator Mark Dayton

July 31, 2004, The Star-Tribune (Minneapolis - St. Paul)

http://web.archive.org/web/20040811061345/http://www.startribune.com/stories/157\

6/4904237.html

http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload & amp;name=News & amp;file=ar\

ticle & amp;sid=369

 

 

Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., charged...that the Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command

(NORAD) have covered up " catastrophic failures " that left the nation

vulnerable during the Sept. 11 hijackings. " For almost three years

now, NORAD officials and FAA officials have been able to hide their

critical failures that left this country defenseless during two of the

worst hours in our history, " Dayton declared during a Senate

Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. Dayton said NORAD officials

" lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to

your 9/11 commission to create a false impression of competence,

communication and protection of the American people. "

 

 

U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney

July 23, 2005, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta's leading

newspaper)

http://www.ajc.com/hp/content/auto/epaper/editions/saturday/news_241efd8d9666d13\

800b4.html

http://www.WantToKnow.info/050723ajc.mckinney

 

Rep. Cynthia McKinney led a Capitol Hill hearing Friday [July 22,

2005] on whether the Bush administration was involved in the terrorist

attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. " What we are doing is asking the unanswered

questions of the 9/11 families, " McKinney...said during the proceedings.

 

The eight-hour hearing, timed to mark the first anniversary of the

release of the Sept. 11 commission's report on the attacks, drew

dozens of contrarians and conspiracy theorists who suggest President

Bush purposely ignored warnings or may even have had a hand in the

attack — claims participants said the commission ignored.

 

" Congresswoman McKinney is viewed as a contrarian, " panelist Melvin

Goodman, a former CIA official, said. " And I hope someday her views

will be considered conventional wisdom. "

 

Note: Though the mainstream press largely failed to report on this

important hearing, C-SPAN did air all eight hours of testimony given

on August 31st and Sept. 2nd (because of Hurricane Katrina, part two

was aired on C-SPAN 2), both at 8 PM.

 

 

Professor David Ray Griffin, Renowned Theologian in LA Times

August 28, 2005, Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3\

835884.story

http://www.WantToKnow.info/050828latimes911conspiracy - LA Times

Article with links for verification

 

A professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology,

66-year-old David Ray Griffin...compiled a summary of material arguing

against the accepted story that 19 hijackers sent by Osama bin Laden

took the aviation system and the U.S. military by surprise that awful

day in his 2004 book " The New Pearl Harbor. " He recently followed up

with the book " The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and

Distortions, " a critique of the Kean commission document. " For the

first year and a half I just accepted the conventional view. When a

colleague suggested to me about a year after 9/11 that he was

convinced our own government or forces within our own government had

arranged it, I didn't accept that. Then several months later another

colleague sent me [a link to] a website that had a timeline. Once I

started reading that and saw all those stories drawn from mainstream

sources that contradicted the official account, I decided I needed to

look into it more carefully, and the more I looked, the worse it got.

 

The fact that Building 7 [a 47-story skyscraper in the WTC

complex] collapsed when it had not been hit by an airplane, and

collapsed in seven or eight seconds, that's a smoking gun. The fact

that standard operating procedures were not followed that morning, and

we've gotten three different stories now by the U.S. military as to

why they did not intercept the planes, that's a smoking gun.

 

There was a Zogby poll in New York. The question asked was, do you

believe the government had advance knowledge of the attacks and

consciously let them happen? Forty-nine percent in New York City said yes.

 

Note: On May 7, 2005, Dr. Griffin, who has authored or edited over

two dozen scholarly books, was featured on C-SPAN 2 giving an

excellent lecture on the 9/11 cover-up at the University of Wisconsin.

To view this revealing lecture free online, The

prestigious National Press Club also hosted him for an excellent talk

on July 22, 2005.

 

 

Robert M. Bowman, Head of Advanced Space Programs for DOD

http://www.illinoistimes.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A4282 -

Illinois Times on Bowman

 

In 1977, Dr. Robert M. Bowman, head of advanced space programs for the

Department of Defense [DOD], authored a report describing a new

missile-defense shield system called the " Star Wars Defense. "

 

Lt. Col. Robert Bowman (Ret.), a combat pilot who flew 101 missions in

the Vietnam War...ran for president in 2000.

http://www.rmbowman.com/ssn/Secrecy.htm - Article on Dr. Bowman's

website discussing 9/11

 

Many people are convinced that George W. Bush knew what was going

to happen and purposely allowed it to happen so he and his

neo-conservative buddies could have the " new Pearl Harbor " they needed

to justify their wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

Others go further.

They are absolutely sure Cheney and company actually planned and

carried out the attack. What is so disturbing is that their arguments

are quite convincing. If an enormous cloud of suspicion is not to be

permanently over the head of our government, the Bush Administration

must " come clean, " releasing information thus far withheld from the

American people. Why did John Ashcroft and top Pentagon officials

cancel plans to fly commercial airlines the morning of 9/11?

 

If they knew what was about to happen, why wasn't it stopped? Who made

all the millions of dollars selling short United and American Airlines

[stock] just before 9/11? Why weren't the hijacked airliners

intercepted by jet fighters and shot down before they could fly into

the WTC and Pentagon? What did the air traffic controllers say, and to

whom? Why did the FBI impound the tapes of those conversations? Why

has the public never been told what was on them? Why weren't the

congressional investigators told? If it was just a matter of

incompetence or somebody not doing their job, why hasn't anyone been

fired or reprimanded?

 

 

Michael Meacher, UK Minister of Environment (1997 - 2003) September

6, 2003, The Guardian (one of the UK's leading newspapers)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.html

 

A blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up

for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence

secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George

Bush's younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The

document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences, was written in

September 2000 by the neoconservative think tank, Project for the New

American Century (PNAC).

 

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 defence of incompetence. Fifteen of the 9/11

hijackers obtained their visas in Saudi Arabia. Michael Springman, the

former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah, has stated that

since 1987 the CIA had been illicitly issuing visas to unqualified

applicants from the Middle East and bringing them to the US for

training in terrorism for the Afghan war in collaboration with Bin

Laden (BBC, November 6 2001).

 

It seems this operation continued after the Afghan war for other

purposes. It is also reported that five of the hijackers received

training at secure US military installations in the 1990s (Newsweek,

September 15 2001) The conclusion of all this analysis must surely be

that the " global war on terrorism " has the hallmarks of a political

myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda - the US

goal of world hegemony, built around securing by force command over

the oil supplies required to drive the whole project.

 

 

Catherine Austin Fitts, Ass. Sect. of Housing For President Bush

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Austin_Fitts - Wikipedia

article describing Fitts

 

Catherine Austin Fitts has been a Wall Street executive, a

government official, and President of her own investment bank. She is

currently the director of Solari. Fitts served as Managing Director

and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment

bank, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. and also as Assistant Secretary of

Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush

Administration.

 

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041101130426916 Article

jointly written by Catherine Austin Fitts and Congresswoman McKinney

on excellent 9/11 website

 

From the first, the Bush Administration resisted investigation and

disclosure. Families of September 11 victims were forced to lobby the

administration and Congress for a full and independent inquiry. They

fought for 14 months, blocked every step of the way by the White House.

 

The families demanded a full investigation, posing nearly 400

questions to the Kean Commission. The commissioners said they welcomed

thesequeries. But their final report ignored most of the unanswered

questions. Still posted on the website of the September 11 Family

Steering Committee, these questions are a stark reminder of the Kean

Commission's failures. Until the unanswered questions about 9/11 are

laid to rest, by a truly independent investigation that does not

declare legitimate avenues of inquiry off-limits, they will continue

to haunt our country.

 

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