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A Critique of the 9/11 Report
Olive Branch Press
December 2004
352 pages
ISBN: 1566565847
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political | Historical
With US political leaders Democrat and Republican alike
rushing to embrace the recommendations of the 9/11
Commission, and an eager media receiving the Commission's
567-page report as the whole story, the history we can stand
upon forevermore, everyone who cares about the fate of
American democracy will want to know something about what
those pages actually say. The Commission's account, by popular reckoning, has made an
impression with its heft, its footnotes, its portrayal of
the confusion of that sobering day, its detail, its
narrative finesse. Yet under the magnifying glass of David
Ray Griffin, eminent theologian and author of The New Pearl
Harbor (a book that explores questions that reporters,
eyewitnesses, and political observers have raised about the
9/11 attacks), the report appears much shabbier. In fact,
there are holes in the places where detail ought to be
thickest: Is it possible that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
has given three different stories of what he was doing the
morning of September 11, and that the Commission combines
two of them and ignores eyewitness reports to the contrary?
Is it possible that the man in charge of the military that
day, Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Myers, saw the
first tower hit on TV, and then went into a meeting, where
he remained unaware of what was happening for the next 40
minutes? Is it possible, as the Commission reports, that the
FAA did not inform military that the fourth airplane
appeared to have been hijacked-contrary to both common sense
and the word of FAA employees? Is it possible that the
Report, upon which are based recommendations for overhauling
the nation's intelligence, fails to mention even in a
footnote the most serious allegations made public by Coleen
Rowley, FBI whistleblower and Time person of the year? David Ray Griffin's critique of the Kean-Zelikow report
makes clear that our nation's highest leaders have told
tales that wear extremely thin when held up to the light of
other eyewitness reports, research, and the dictates of
common sense-and that the Commission charged with the task
of investigating all of the facts surrounding 9/11 has
succeeded in obscuring, rather than unearthing, the truth.
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