9/11 and the Mainstream Press by Dr. David Ray Griffin

Address given at the National Press Club
July 22, 2005

After the attacks of 9/11, I accepted the blowback thesis, according to which the attacks were payback for US foreign policy. About a year later, a colleague suggested that the attacks were orchestrated by our own government. My response was that I didn’t think the Bush administration---even the Bush administration---would do such a thing. A few months later, another colleague suggested that I look at a website containing the massive 9/11 timeline created by Paul Thompson. This timeline, I found, contained an enormous number of reports, all from mainstream sources, that contradicted the official account. This started a process that led me to publish The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11, which summarized much of the evidence that had been discovered by previous researchers---evidence, I concluded, that provided a "strong prima facie case for official complicity."

The folks over at truthemergency.us have announced that they will be holding another weekend long Emergency Truth Convergence in Kansas City either Oct. 7-9 or Oct. 14-16.

Check out their site for more details as they come.
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First 9/11 Miniseries Starts Filming

The project - which has never been formally announced by ABC and will air no sooner than January 2006 - stars Harvey Keitel as John O'Neill, the FBI agent who hunted Al Qaeda for years and was killed in the attacks while working as head of security for the World Trade Center.
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It is the first big Hollywood project to deal with the attacks and is based on the best-selling "9/11 Commission Report", with former N.J. Governor and commission chairman Thomas Kean and other members of the panel serving as consultants.

I mentioned earlier this month that Oliver Stone was working on a 9/11 related movie. While details are quite thin, he did make some recent comments that made the news.

STONE SLAMS BUSH REACTION TO 9/11

Controversial director OLIVER STONE has hit out at US President GEORGE W BUSH for "misusing" his powers after the terrorist attacks on September 11th (01).

The NATURAL BORN KILLERS film-maker, who is currently preparing the first major Hollywood movie to deal with the 2001 atrocities, believes Bush is the wrong man to lead America at the moment, and he is particularly angry about the US invasion of Iraq.