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RI CHANGE confronts Mitt Romney in NH

This kid had the courage of conviction to go there ALONE and confront this NWO parasite.

Phoenix AZ 9/11 truthaction.

Phoenix, AZ

This team came together and performed magnificently. The TRUTH is beginning to surface and you true Patriots are obviously willing to take a hard stance, committing time and energy to driving the questions that require answers. Our secret directional moving government must stop their tactics immediately and answer truthfully the 9/11 families questions according to our great Constitution. This war in Iraq is based on lies and the deceptions that were enabled by the "Inside Job" we can all now see thru evidence and by the onsight eyewitnesses testimonies observed upclose. We demand an independant re-investigation of the events leading upto and including the day of September 11, 2001. The day of TRUTH is coming ya'll. Work with diligence and with great faith. Super job by everyone. I was proud and priviledged to be among you.

Craig

9/11/07 LAS VEGAS STREET ACTION

It seems that from the pictures the street action down south of me went really really well Reno is next!

Truth action 9/11 in Barcelona Spain

More goodies from truthaction.org :-D O-t-N

BARCELONA, SPAIN



My second month coming out in the streets, last month i was completely alone, handing out flyers in the city center. Guess what, this month people came to help out! Here is the report:



We met in city center, some people came to get to know what the group is about, I would say about 7 people just wanted some info on the subject, and promised to make copies (hopefuly they will join next month). As far as people that actualy took action with me that would be 4 brave men and women, plus my outstanding girlfriend (I love you!). So you may say not many people, but considering I was alone the month before, to me it seems like a huge success! Very Happy

"WTC7 Banner i made (almost get arrested!)"- Adam Rodriguez

Found this over at truthaction You can find the forum thread here... O-t-N

On 9/11, i arrive at my favorite overpass spot at 3p.m., at this time traffic was at a near standstill, bumper-to-bumper, i get all my supplies ready (ducttape, PVC tubing in buckets of cement, and of course the banner), i slip on the sign which is nothing more than a white bedsheet with big black letters saying "GOOGLE WTC7", i slip on the cover and it is now dancing in the wind and hanging over HUNDREDS of on-lookers, i kid you not, i heard one kid in a car passing the sign and he says "WE CAN READ IT!". And i was so excited i run down to take a picture of the banner, and you can definatly see "google wtc7" as clear as day.

Detailed Review - History Chanel's 9/11 Conspiracies

The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction

A History Channel Special

A Detailed Review by Tony Biviano - tonybiviano@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/unclesam9112001


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Alternet Breaks silence on 9/11: Fisk contemplates non LIHOP option

You can view the full article here CLICKY

A special thanks to Real Truther for the heads up on this one.

Here's the meat and potatoes.

I am talking about scientific issues. If it is true, for example, that kerosene burns at 820C under optimum conditions, how come the steel beams of the twin towers -- whose melting point is supposed to be about 1,480C -- would snap through at the same time? (They collapsed in 8.1 and 10 seconds.)

What about the third tower -- the so-called World Trade Centre Building 7 (or the Salmon Brothers Building) -- which collapsed in 6.6 seconds in its own footprint at 5.20pm on 11 September? Why did it so neatly fall to the ground when no aircraft had hit it? The American National Institute of Standards and Technology was instructed to analyse the cause of the destruction of all three buildings. They have not yet reported on WTC 7.

LC Crew has the NORAD tapes

Well, I'm not sure if someone had already brought this to the attention of the 911b crowd but, the guys got a hold of the NORAD tapes, and they've put them up in a torrent format for everyone to download and comb through. There may actually be some really interesting info in there who knows.

http://www.loosechange911.com/download/NORAD/NORAD.torrent

Chomsky: "It Doesn't Matter Even If There Was A Conspiracy Behind 911"

Chomsky: It Doesn't Matter
Even If There Was A
Conspiracy Behind 911

By Jeffrey Blankfort
jablankfort@earthlink.net
12-26-6

I don't usually send videos to my list but this short clip of Noam Chomsky being interviewed re 9-11 is very revealing in which he says, referring to what critics of the official narrative allege, "what does it matter even if it was true, it wouldn't be significant?" He then refers back to the assassination of JFK in which he still insists that the assassin was Oswald, with the nonsensical comment that "people get killed all the time."

Add to this his routine dismissal of the role of the Jewish lobby in shaping US Middle East policy and it is easy to understand why he is known as the "Chief Gatekeeper."

Will he debate anyone on these issues? Of course, not. He prefers opponents like Alan Dershowitz who is guaranteed not to raise any important issues that Chomsky cannot counter. In this 4 minute clip, he speaks about coincidences that can't be explained but it would be nice if he would explain how it was that the 8000 page Patriot Act was already written, printed, and ready to be sent to Congress immediately after 9-11 when, before the event, there would have been no chance of its passage. Another coincidence?

The 9/11 'Conspiracy' (A Tampa Tribune piece)

Mia Hamel of Plant City leads a meeting of the Tampa Bay 9/11 Truth Meetup Group in Clearwater. "We're the Minutemen!" says a member.

By JAY NOLAN / Tribune

By SUSAN HEMMINGWAY The Tampa Tribune
Published: Dec 21, 2006

CLEARWATER - It is a Thursday evening, an ordinary night.

From the community room of Panera Bread, the westerly flow of commuters can be seen heading into the sunset on busy Ulmerton Road.

Gathered here are a dozen or so like-minded souls from the Tampa Bay 9/11 Truth Meetup Group.

They share a common belief: The official story of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, is absolutely false.

"We're the Minutemen!" says retired nurse Jeanne Lucsynski of Wesley Chapel, who is sitting at a corner table with her laptop.

A 9/11 Truth meeting can sound like a cross between "The X Files" and an American history lesson.

Members are convinced that the U.S. government, or global elitists, felled the World Trade Center and used Arab hijackers as decoys. They want to speak out, like patriots of the American Revolution.

Steven Jones sends email to Scholars group

From: Make Music 4 HUMAN RIGHTS
Date: Dec 8 2006 1:00 AM

From: nierika
Date: Dec 8 2006 12:50 AM

Steven Jones writes:

December 7, 2006

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This is to inform you that I (along with chemist Kevin Ryan and many others) have withdrawn from association with Jim Fetzer (JF) and "his" version of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and to provide reasons for this action.

1. On the Scholars web site he manages ( www.st911.org ), Jim Fetzer casts aspersions on my research regarding the use of thermates at the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 -- which is fine as long as he provides serious technical objections, which he has not done. At the same time, JF is promoting on the web site notions that energy-beams from WTC 7 or from space knocked the Towers down. I have invited Jim repeatedly to view the video of my talk given 11/11/06 at the University of California at Berkeley which provides the latest physical evidences for thermate use, reinforcing the data in my published paper. He admitted this week that he has not done so. My UC-Berkeley talk is here:

Whistle Blowers Breaking through Berlin Wall of Corporate Media

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistle-blowers_x.htm

Whistle-blowers tell of cost of conscience

Updated 11/24/2006
By Catherine Rampell, USA TODAY

He knew there were problems. He didn't think he was one of them.

In 2002, decorated FBI Special Agent Mike German was investigating meetings between terrorism suspects. When he discovered other officers had jeopardized the investigation by violating wiretapping regulations, he reported what he found to his supervisors, in accordance with FBI policy.

At the time, Coleen Rowley, the FBI agent who had raised concerns about how the pre-9/11 arrest of al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was handled, was being hailed as a national hero. German says he had also just received a mass e-mail from FBI Director Robert Mueller, urging other whistle-blowers to come forward.

"I was assuming he'd protect me," German says.

Instead, German says his accusations were ignored, his reputation ruined and his career obliterated. Although the Justice Department's inspector general confirmed German's allegations that the FBI had "mishandled and mismanaged" the terrorism investigation, he says he was barred from further undercover work and eventually compelled to resign. FBI spokesman Bill Carter declined to comment.

10-Year Old Disciplined for Visiting 9/11 Website

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/071106_disciplined_911.html
Courageous youth stands up to accusation of viewing 'terrorist' information

Aaron Dykes & Alex Jones/ Jones Report | November 8, 2006

A fifth grader named 'Mark' reported to Alex Jones' Infowars TV show by phone that he had been sent home with a disciplinary report for visiting 9/11 Truth websites such as Infowars.com.

The 10 year-old Steiner Ranch Elementary student-- in Leander I.S.D. near Austin, Texas-- says that he was browsing such sites during his Computer Lab class period when a fellow student informed on him-- as though he were doing something wrong.

"He just ran up to my teacher in front of the whole class, saying 'he's searching terrorist stuff about 9/11'.

His teacher was "all shocked" and said, according to the student, "Mark, you shouldn't have been looking at conspiracy theory websites."

Mark certainly did not think he was doing anything objectionable or 'terrorism' related.

"I was just searching the government websites which tell the truth-- which they think is a conspiracy-- and I get in trouble for it," the fifth-grade student told Jones on his live TV show.

911 Dutch Treat?

http://www.rense.com/general68/dutch.htm

By Stephen M. St. John
metatron.metatron@verizon.net
11-15-5

Why haven't we seen the routine video surveillance tapes of ANY of the passengers alleged to have boarded the ill-fated 9/11 flights at Boston's Logan, Newark's Liberty and Washington's Dulles international airports?

Will two lips in Holland end the 9/11 coverup?

NEW YORK -- Those who have bothered to read the 9/11 skeptics know about the extraordinary "coincidences" that took place that fateful morning. One of them happens to be the lack of routine video surveillance tapes of ANY of the passengers alleged to have boarded the ill-fated flights at Boston's Logan, Newark's Liberty and Washington's Dulles international airports.

The 9/11 Commission simply ignored this issue even though it can be fairly said that not only did the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington originate at these airport gates, but so did the resulting invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Why haven't we seen these video tapes? Why has the Fourth Estate failed to ask, Why haven't we seen these video tapes? Why the conspiracy of silence?

Well, the answer may very well lie in Holland. You see, security at some if not all of these airport gates of 9/11 was in the hands of an American minimum-wage subsidiary of a Dutch corporation called ICTS-International. What is most remarkable about this arrangement is that the Dutch corporation ICTS-International was, as of 9/11, Dutch in name only. An early 2003 check of its web-site showed a Board of Directors consisting entirely of nationals of the Zionist state with the single exception of the Comptroller, who apparently was the nominal Dutchman. And if I need to clue in the clueless, the Zionists were hellbent on finding a reason for the USA to invade Iraq. And it would be fair to say that these Zionists of ICTS-International were the gatekeepers of 9/11 and all that followed, such as the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Interesting, eh?

President Bush admits bombs were in World Trade Towers

Somebigguy: Bush didn't actually state their were bombs in the WTC, just that Al Qaeda had been trained to place bombs high up U.S. buildings in future attacks.

Official Transcript: President Bush admits bombs were in World Trade Towers.
"For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping. "
Posted Oct 31, 2006 08:13 AM PST

CLICK HERE FOR BUSH MAKING THIS STATEMENT

There you have it. President Bush had admitted what the eyewitnesses reported on 9-11; that there were bombs inside the World Trade Towers.

Of course, Bush pins the blame for the bombs on Al Qaeda, which is sort of accurate when you consider that most of Al Qaeda is a creation of US and Israeli intelligence.

Still in Denial about 9/11?

"We were also killed on 9/11, avenge us."



First Responder David Miller




(more videos after the jump..)

Matt Taibbi attacking 9/11 Truth again

http://www.alternet.org/story/43418/?cID=270425#c270425

Much of the faulty logic and circumstancial evidence that justifies the 9/11 conspiracies are repeats of the theories that abounded in Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing.

he even seems to have had an altercation with the pariah

I'm still picking food particles out of my scarf after an incident in which the movement's house lunatic, a wild-eyed German blogger named Nico Haupt, tried to goad me into slugging him in a West Side diner.

HR6166... a POCKET VETO by default.?

Patriots Speak Out


Senate Passed HR 6166 9/28/06

The following rule applies, Congress Adjourned (09/29/06) before the 10 days. So they will need to have a do over. Now is the time to call, write, email...all of the above to stop this!!!

E.

The President - the bill is sent to the President for review.

1. A bill becomes law if signed by the President or if not signed within 10 days and Congress is in session.

2. If Congress adjourns before the 10 days and the President has not signed the bill then it does not become law ("Pocket Veto.")

3. If the President vetoes the bill it is sent back to Congress with a note listing his/her reasons. The chamber that originated the legislation can attempt to override the veto by a vote of two-thirds of those present. If the veto of the bill is overridden in both chambers then it becomes law.


How a Bill Becomes Law

9/11 ALL THE PROOF YOU NEED!

a throwback rehashed from 2005

chess

A 9/11 CHECKMATE
BY TvNews LIES .ORG - April - 2005

Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. That is why, in the 9/11 enigma, less is more.

Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that we were never told the truth.

Alexa Ratings for 911truth/911blogger, show a CLEAR influx in the last week

Well, look for yourself. I know there has been a lot of debate about the postive negative effects of the southpark episode, but look at the numbers. 911 truth TRIPLED their hits in just a couple days.


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MOUSSAOUI TRIAL DOCUMENTS SHOW FBI WITHELD EVIDENCE IN 9/11 COVER-UP

Analyze and discuss.. O-t-N

MOUSSAOUI TRIAL DOCUMENTS SHOW FBI WITHELD EVIDENCE IN 9/11 COVER-UP

WORLD EXCLUSIVE madcowprod.com
Oct 04, 2006--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker

Recently-released court documents from the trial of Zacharias Moussaoui show clear evidence of the FBI attempt to cover-up the whereabouts and activities of lead 9.11 hijacker Mohamed Atta in Florida between January and May of 2001, confirming reports which have appeared exclusively in the MadCowMorningNews.

Released over government objection through the efforts of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the documents illustrate the pattern of omission and selective editing through which the Bureau has deflected attention from the terrorist's conspiracy's base of operations in Venice FL.

Four months after the FBI's official chronology states Mohamed Atta left Florida's Gulf Coast for the Miami area, Atta was still using a Venice-area cell phone.

And these four months worth of Atta's phone calls are not listed or included in the released cell phone records.

The documents also give the lie to continuing attempts by the terrorists’ hometown paper, the New York Times-owned Sarasota Herald-Tribune, to salvage its lackluster record in covering the story of the dozens of suspected terrorists living cheek-by-jowl in its midst by invalidating the testimony of a key witness, uncritically presenting her recantation as if witnesses being pressured to change their stories were not a daily fact of life.

Integrating perspectives: 911 according to anti-neocons.com

My comment: I don't neccessarily agree with everything Ryan says 100%, but there is a lot he is 100% right on, and a lot of it is missing pieces in the PNAC area. Gleen and digest

by Ryan Dawson


Some 911 was an inside job camps like to lay out 4 scenarios. Briefly they go as follows.

1 Is the official story.
We got caught with our pants down and terrorists did 911. And the wars in the Middle East are part of the greater war on terrorism.

2 The incompetence excuse
There was information available about the coming attacks but because of our incompetence we failed to see it. Terrorists attacked the US. And the wars in the Middle East were based on mistakes (more incompetence) but now we got to stay.

3 They let it happen
They knew full well about the coming 911 attacks but allowed it to happen in order to use it as a pretext to go to war with Iraq and Afghanistan as it was in military and corporate interests (particularly oil) to do so.

4 They made it happen. (They meaning just vaguely the Bush Admin)
The Bush government either helped protect the terrorists or simply used them as patsies, and assisted the plane crashes effects with bombs placed inside the towers prior to 911. The wars in the Middle East were about oil.

The 911 was an inside job camps then say the evidence must land you somewhere between 3 and 4 with more research dropping you firmly on 4.

Let me now throw in a 5th scenario

5 The Neocons Made it happen with the assistance of a foreign government, the same government where PNAC was first written, and who we have caught spies from who have been stealing secrets from us about Iran, and who made up the shadow government of the OSP which is who cherry picked and fabricated the lies told about Iraq in order to start the war. The Wars in the middle east were for separate reasons, Afghanistan was about a few pipelines as noted but more so about controlling large quantities of un-tapped uranium (a reason for both the Russian and US invasions) and secondly for controlling opium as the CIA uses drug money to fund it's off the book black operations such as the now known massive secret prison systems, (torture camps and human medical/scientific testing). Location-wise Afghanistan is coupled with other color coded revolutions to circle China and Russia with US bases and puppets, (add to that the lesser known negotiations with Japan to allow nuclear subs into the Japanese Sea [pointed at China] in exchange for moving troops from Okinawa to Guam). The main goal however, which the PNAC think tank states, is to keep the eye on the pie: Iran, which Afghanistan and Iraq both boarder. The invasion of Iraq was to solve Israel's oil crisis and stop the threat of a secular Middle East which would become a true economic player and was a threat to the aggressive state of Israel.

The evidence if it was ALL being stated, especially pertaining to the war in Iraq, would land you somewhere between scenario 4 and 5 and more research would land you firmly in 5.

A lot of people have written about and shown the problems with official 911 story. There is the demolition of building number 7, which the 911 commission didn't even address, there are the firemen's reports that the fires were almost out, there are numerous reports of secondary explosions etc. Because it has been said on radio and more so because people have made films about it, many people can recite the arguments for the inside job in their sleep. But what has been hidden from you and the dots which have not been connected in any 911 films is the Israeli connection. 911 was an inside job which was part of a larger plan for perpetual war hatched in Israel. 911 and the wars in the Middle East were carefully planned attacks carried out by a faction of Zionist Neocons and the Israeli Mossad. I would like to focus more on who did it rather than just that it was done. We will start with PNAC and then jump and work backwards from the Iraq War to 911.

A lot of people know about PNAC, but very few people have taken a hard look at its origins. People have also gotten confused between the actual authors and people who just signed their letters. Rumsfeld for example is not part of the special in-group as its chairman William Kristol revealed, irronically on the Colbert report. PNAC was co-authored by the same people who have been caught lying about the Iraq War's pre-invasion intelligence. We are talking about only around 25 people who helped fabricate evidence and pass it off to the president and journalists. PNAC's ideas and statements stem from Israeli policy papers. In fact, PNAC's papers were written by the very same people who wrote Israeli policy papers and hold dual citizenship with Israel. The war in Iraq and control over energy resources ect is all lined out in Israel's A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" which was written by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. That is just one of many papers this little blood for money cabal cranked out. The IASPS (Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Science) also wrote a paper called the ]Afghan Vortex a year before the invasion. Note also that the US had ships already in place set to invade before 911. In 1992 Paul Wolfowitz wrote the Defense Planning Guidance, with his former Student Lewis Libby:

Rice Loyalist Headed 9/11 Commission Probes

Rice Loyalist Headed 9/11 Commission Probes
02 October 2006

Bob Woodward's State of Denial provides evidence of the politicization of the 9/11 Commission's investigative process, conclusions, and certain omissions from its report, as well as then national security advisor Condoleezza Rice's likely role in burying unflattering, damning evidence through the appointment of Bush/Rice loyalist Philip Zelikow (PHOTO RIGHT) as the Commissions' chief investigator and Zelikow's reward (perhaps) of a top senior-level position in the State Department, which Rice now heads. First, some background.

One of the burning questions in newspapers, cable TV news, and blogs is why the 9/11 Commission report did not mention the July 10, 2001 meeting called by then-CIA Director George J. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, with then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. Tenet and Black hoped to impress on Rice the compelling need to act immediately against bin Laden because there was "a huge volume of data" suggesting strongly that a major attack was imminent.

America the Tyranny

America the Tyranny
Manuel Valenzuela

October 3, 2006

The Road to Authoritarianism

Behold and bear witness to what has become of America, in this era of uncertainty and bewilderment, in this time of fear and intimidation, that since towers were brought down and demolished has methodically fallen into the viper pit of neocon decadence, becoming, as it stands today, an authoritarian’s heaven and a corporatist’s promised land, its people ignorant, as always, to the barrage of waves systemically eroding centuries of rights, freedoms and liberties. From sea to shining sea, despotism is what today those who pay attention see.

The road to fascism is being paved at a clandestine yet alarming velocity, across valleys, prairies and forests, surrounding cites, towns and states, from Atlantic to Pacific, immersing 300 million individuals into a fog of engendered tyranny, who without a care or whisper or concern remain trapped by comfortable surroundings born through perpetual indebtedness. Even as their rights and freedoms and liberties are made to disappear, even as their Constitution is burned, even as their nation hangs on the precipice of despotism, even as their collective destiny is being destroyed those residing inside the belly of the beast hear no evil, see no evil and feel no evil, preferring to gossip about pedophile politicians and celebrity failings than informing themselves to the last throes of the American republic.

Triple Whammy on New tape: Rivero/Watson/Ry dismantle with ease

9/11: The Frame Up Of Abdulaziz Alomari

Need Mike say more?

He links to Ry's thread about Atta at the bottom of the article.

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Surprise Surprise, It's Another Al Qaeda Blockbuster Release
Media reports on Atta/Bin Laden video fail to Mention the Fact that Atta was under CIA surveillance at the time, was allowed into the U.S. and was then monitored by military intelligence

Steve Watson / Infowars | October 2 2006

Karl Rove's promised October surprise has arrived nice and early. Five weeks before the midterm election, a "previously undiscovered" video emerges that reminds the uninformed world that Al Qaeda carried out the 9/11 attacks and in order to combat them we must vote for security over liberty.

The video, supposedly obtained by The Times of London through 'a tested channel', shows Osama Bin Laden addressing followers at Kandahar In 2000. It also features "9/11 mastermind" Ramzi Binalshibh and Lead hijacker Mohammed Atta reading his will, along with Ziad Jarrah, the alleged pilot of flight 93.

World Trade Center: Five YEars Later... New Piics

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Radio Indymedia doing 9/11 TRUTH all day tomorrow

In honor of the thousands who died on 9/11/01, and the many thousands more who died in the wars that have been conducted since, RadioActive sanDiego will play audio related to 9/11. Including lectures by David Ray Griffin, Michel Chossudovsky, John Judge, and Ralph Shoenman, interviews with Fred Burks, Nafeez Ahmed, and James Fetzer, as well as audio collected at the D.C. Truth Emergence, and the Chicago 9/11 Truth conference.

to listen, go to http://radioactiveradio.org/listen.php
in san diego our stream is rebroadcasted on 106.9 FM

Also, see my latest show, where I have on "San Diegans for 9/11 Truth"
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/11612.php

9/11 conspiracy theorists multiply

Many Americans suspect U.S. government involvement or complicity
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14723997/
By Michael Powell

NEW YORK - He felt no shiver of doubt in those first terrible hours.

He watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and assumed al-Qaeda had wreaked terrible vengeance. He listened to anchors and military experts and assumed the facts of Sept. 11, 2001, were as stated on the screen.

It was a year before David Ray Griffin, an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why Bush listened to a child's story while the nation was attacked and how Osama bin Laden, America's Public Enemy No. 1, escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora.

He wondered why 110-story towers crashed and military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded, much less cashiered.

"To me, the report read as a cartoon." White-haired and courtly, Griffin sits on a couch in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, unspooling words in that reasonable Presbyterian minister's voice. "It's a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives."