Seattle-Post Intelligencer Editors to Next Administration: "write a real, nonpartisan report on the [9/11] attacks"
9/11 Commission: Fox in hen house
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
A new book by a New York Times reporter shines a light on the disturbing behind-the-scenes workings of the 9/11 Commission's report. If bulletproof, the book prompts us to add one more thing to our to-do list for the next administration: Pressure it to charge a panel of independent experts to write a real, nonpartisan report on the attacks.
Philip Shenon's "The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Commission" focuses on the relationship between the commission's executive director, Philip Zelikow, and the White House. To start with, Shenon writes that Zelikow sought to limit the Bush administration's responsibility in failing to assess threats leading up to the attacks. In 2003, with George W. Bush seeking re-election, a commission investigator found materials confirming that the White House (specifically, Condoleezza Rice, with whom Zelikow had written a book) had ignored warnings of an impending al-Qaida strike. Belittling the investigator, Zelikow dismissed the evidence.
Zelikow had written a 2002 report for the administration, which seemed to provide justification for a pre-emptive war, and tried in 2004 to create a connection between Osama bin Laden and Iraq in the 9/11 Commission report. Despite saying he wouldn't do so, he also had several conversations with Rice and Karl Rove, which explains why he'd asked his assistant to stop keeping track of his calls to and from the White House.
Someone with an apparent deference for the White House should not have been trusted with such a valued task.
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I find this hopeful, but I'm a bit jaded and suspicious as well.
I find this hopeful, but I'm a bit jaded and suspicious as well. I'm fearful that this new 9/11 investigation will be to quell the angry masses, by giving a very narrow limited re-look at how the Admin. kind of "oops, did a bad job," rather than looking at the war games, stand down, and all the physics of the WTC towers.
I'm sure they have had plans, B, C, D, etc. for if the truth starts to break out.
I hope the movement rallies around "The Shell Game" so we can get Steve Alten on mainstream radio nationwide, demanding a real new 9/11 investigation of the War Games, the stand down, and to urge mainstream Americans to support 9/11 truth activists as true patriots they MUST SUPPORT !!
www.TheShellGame.net
If you don't want another investigation,
what kind of political solution do you want?
I think this is great!
Here we have a big Seattle newspaper (owned by Hearst, the best part!) calling for a new investigation. And coming from the editors, even! This and the Willie news made my day yesterday.