David Ray Griffin

David Ray Griffin & Michel Chossudovsky on RBN - 5.12.2008

Audio:
http://www.radiodujour.com/mp3/20080512_michelchossudovsky_davidraygriffin.mp3

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8924

Live Streams:
http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/index.php?cmd=listenlive

Hosts: Michel Chossudovsky and Stephen Lendman.

This Week's Guests: David Ray Griffin and Gregory Elich

Time: Mondays 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (CST), broadcast out of Houston, Texas.

Audio Archive of The Global Research News Hour, click below to listen to previous programs:
2008 AUDIO ARCHIVE

Check out this March 28, 2008 interview with Griffin:

David Ray Griffin: 9/11 Contradictions: Mohamed Atta’s Mitsubishi and His Luggage

9/11 Contradictions: Mohamed Atta’s Mitsubishi and His Luggage

by Prof. David Ray Griffin - Global Research, May 9, 2008
The Canadian

At the core of the official story about 9/11 is the claim that the four airliners that crashed that day had been taken over by a band of al-Qaeda hijackers led by Mohamed Atta. No proof was ever provided for this claim. But various kinds of evidence have been offered, the most important of which was reportedly found in Atta’s luggage after the attacks. The materials in this luggage were said to confirm the suspicion that the planes had been hijacked by Atta and fellow Muslims. As Joel Achenbach wrote in a Washington Post story on September 16, 2001:

Atta is thought to have piloted American Airlines Flight 11, the first to slam into the World Trade Center. A letter written by Atta, left in his luggage at Boston's Logan Airport, said he planned to kill himself so he could go to heaven as a martyr. It also contained a Saudi passport, an international driver's license, instructional videos for flying Boeing airliners and an Islamic prayer schedule. (“’You Never Imagine’ A Hijacker Next Door.”)

This discovery was clearly very helpful in making the case against Atta and al-Qaeda.

But why was Atta’s luggage there to be discovered? Achenbach said: “Officials believe that Atta and [Abdul] Alomari rented a car in Boston, drove to Portland, Maine, and took a room Monday night at the Comfort Inn . . . . They then flew on a short flight Tuesday morning from Portland to Boston, changing to Flight 11.”

But why did Atta’s luggage not make it on to Flight 11? A 9/11 staff statement suggested that it was a tight connection, saying: “The Portland detour almost prevented Atta and Omari from making Flight 11 out of Boston. In fact, the luggage they checked in Portland failed to make it onto the plane” (Staff Statement No. 16, June 16, 2004). When The 9/11 Commission Report appeared the following month, however, this suggestion was missing. Indeed, the Commission, after saying that “Atta and Omari arrived in Boston at 6:45,” added that “American Airlines Flight 11 [was] scheduled to depart at 7:45” (9/11 Commission Report [henceforth 9/11CR], 1-2).

Continued...
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8937

Griffin on Goyette - FBI/Olson comment - 2/20/2008

"...the FBI put out a report to the Moussouai trial in 2006 in which they contradicted virtually every thing that the public has believed, for example, that Barbara Olson made a call, they say no she didn't..." - David Ray Griffin on the Charles Goyette show, February 20, 2008.

In case anybody was wondering why we don't have Bill Douglas' OpEdNews piece front and center at 911blogger, I just want to point out that what Griffin said wasn't exactly breaking news, the essence of his claim was posted at Pilots for 9/11 Truth last June. Here is the pertinent information from the article by Rob Balsamo and David Ray Griffin;

In the course of doing research for this article, we learned, to our amazement, that even if, contrary to our evidence, Flight 77 did have functioning onboard phones, the US government has now said, implicitly, that Ted Olson’s claim about receiving two calls from his wife that morning is untrue.

As we mentioned earlier, the FBI report on phone calls from AA planes on 9/11 does not cite records from the DOJ showing that any calls from AA 77 were received that morning. Instead, the FBI report refers merely to four “connected calls to unknown numbers.” The 9/11 Commission, putting the best possible spin on this report, commented: “The records available for the phone calls from American 77 do not allow for a determination of which of [these four calls] represent the two between Barbara and Ted Olson, although the FBI and DOJ believe that all four represent communications between Barbara Olson and her husband’s office.” That is, it must be said, a very strange conclusion: If Ted Olson reported receiving only two calls, why would the Commission conclude that the DOJ had received four connected calls from his wife?

Griffin on Charles Goyette - 7am Pacific - February 19, 2008

http://www.1100kfnx.com/index.php?/hosts/charlesgoyette/

David Ray Griffin confirmed for Charles Goyette's radio show, 7am Pacific time, February 19, 2008.

Thanks road66 for the tip.

David Ray Griffin v. George Monbiot -- 11-29-2007

EDIT: Even though Monbot was an egregious twit, please thank James Whale for hosting this debate, and offering a non-hostile, non-Mockingbird venue:
http://www1.talksport.net/Contact_us.asp?pres_id=99976

http://media.putfile.com/Griffin-v-Monbiot---11-29-2007---James-Whale

On November 29, 2007, UK radio jock James Whale hosted an informal debate between David Ray Griffin and George Monbiot. In a childish display of ill manners, Monbiot can't help but blurt out and interrupt Griffin, when Griffin begins to give answers at the beginning of the debate. Later in the debate, when Griffin returns the favor, Monbiot gets all in a snit and acts wounded when Griffin turns the tactic on him. What a sod!

Monbot (sic) gets it wrong in lots of ways, including top-down demolition, so here is an example of top-down demo once again, just for the Monbot!

He's also wrong about the length and breadth of a hypothetical conspiracy. Some blogger by the handle of GeorgeWashington says 9/11 could be argued as a 7-man Job. The irony inherent in Monbot's position, as with all other debunkers who take the same position, is of course that they see no problem with just 19 guys pulling off 9/11. According to them, then, the official conspiracy theory is impossible! It would have taken hundreds! Thousands to pull it off!

It's just sad.

Thanks to VAB for getting this out there so fast, here are more options, including the full three hour program which features further interviews with Tim Sparke and Dylan Avery. (The Griffin/Monbiot bit ends abrubtly, but that's all there is.)

Stream:
-1st hour: www.911building7.co.uk/RadioShows/JamesWhale291107/WhaleHour1.mp3
-2nd hour: www.911building7.co.uk/RadioShows/JamesWhale291107/WhaleHour2.mp3
-3rd hour: www.911building7.co.uk/RadioShows/JamesWhale291107/WhaleHour3.mp3

D/L while it lasts:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VYYDB3QQ

DRG in Denver - Oct. 19, 2007

A report from "intheflow" at DemocraticUnderground.com (Larger pix at link)

I helped to plan a speaking engagement in Denver for Griffin on Friday night. Last night there was a dinner to thank the volunteers who helped make the event happen. I sat at a random long table that only had two people at it when I sat. There were several other tables where he could have sat, but I was delighted when he chose a seat directly across the table from me. After hearing him speak on Friday, and then getting to know him more personally, I've moved me much further from my LIHOP position toward an MIHOP position.

The Friday event was hosted by a number of organizations: 9-11 Visibility, Be The Change, Iliff's Justice and Peace Studies Program, and the organization where I work, The Veterans of Hope Project. Griffin packed the house. There were 200 chairs set up, but we had an overflow room that held another 50 or 60 people, and there were also 20 or so people sitting on the floor in the back of the hall to hear Griffin speak.

Revised & Updated Edition: Griffin's Debunking 911 Debunking

"Until we get a complete, honest, transparent investigation--not one based on 'confession' extracted by torture--we will never know what happened on 9/11. David Griffin will never let this go until we get the truth."--Robert Baer, former CIA case officer and author of See No Evil and Sleeping with the Devil

DEBUNKING 9/11 DEBUNKING: AN ANSWER TO POPULAR MECHANICS AND OTHER DEFENDERS OF THE OFFICIAL CONSPIRACY THEORY

REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION
Although Amazon.com does not show the new cover and does not say that it is now selling the Revised and Updated Edition, it is (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/156656686X/ref=dp_proddesc_0/102-6110563-6125762?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=b...).

This new edition contains several new things, including:

More quotations from former military officers who call the official conspiracy theory impossible.

A report on Rudy Giuliani’s problematic response to a group of activists who asked him, with the camera running, how he knew that the Twin Towers were going to collapse.

Dr. David Ray Griffin. Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Dublin Tonight 8pm.

Update: Dr. Griffin has clarified the situation in an email to GW: "A woman in Norway, who is a former member of Parliament, said she was planning to nominate me (for 2008). But it's premature to be talking about it, as it may not come to pass."

Let's hope that it does come to pass.

1) Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.

World Renowned Theologian Dr. David Ray Griffin will be lecturing on the topic of his new book 'Debunking 9/11 Debunking' tonight in Spirit Dublin 8pm. Dr. Griffin has arrived in Dublin from a speaking engagement in Norway where he has been informed by a Nobel member that he and the 9/11 truth movement are to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in the coming year!

2) Media Appearences Today Sept 11th 2007:

- Dr. Griffin will be appearing on Ireland AM on TV3 at 7.15am Tues Sept 11th.

"Hosted by Mark Cagney and Sinead Desmond, along with Alan Hughes and Aidan Cooney, Ireland AM includes a mixture of lifestyle stories, health, safety, education, entertainment and interviews with Ireland's top personalities."

Dublin Club cancels David Ray Griffin's 9/11/07 lecture Due to Threat of Protest

David Ray Griffin's lecture scheduled for September 11th at the Sugar Club in Dublin, Ireland, has been canceled by the club manager. The club manager writes, "members of the local Jewish Community are planning to stage a protest outside The Sugar Club on September 11th 2007 because of the nature of the talk you planned to stage here."

An email exchange between Morgan Stack of Ireland, and the club manager can be read here;
http://www.911truth.ie/sugarclubyellowbelly.html

David Ray Griffin is not an anti-semite, nor does he equate 9/11 skepticism with a "Jewish" or "Zionist" conspiracy. So the protesters appear to be misinformed about the "nature of the talk", and now this has blown into the cancellation of an important lecture with very little time to secure and properly publicize a new venue.

Griffin is one of the authors featured in 9/11 and American Empire Vol. II: Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out. It should be made clear to the club manager and owners that this is a bad decision. Please write to the club manager and ask him to reconsider. The protesters could give be given free tickets, (as long as they don't disrupt), so they can see that their fears are unfounded. If they hold their questions till the Q&A session, I'll bet that Griffin will answer them.

email: info@thesugarclub.com
phone: +353 1 6787188
fax:+353 1 6787199

David Ray Griffin's 9/11/07 Dublin Speaking Venue Cancelled

Club manager cites threatened protest by "members of the Jewish Community".

The manager of Dublin, Ireland's "The Sugar Club", has canceled David Ray Griffin's 9/11/07 speaking engagement, "because of the nature of the talk you planned to stage here." He then goes on to cite a threatened protest by "members of the Jewish Community", but does not name them.

It has come to my attention that members of the local Jewish Community are planning to stage a protest outside The Sugar Club on September 11th 2007 because of the nature of the talk you planned to stage here.

Due to concerns I would have for the health and safety of my staff and customers I will have to cancel your talk here. I apologize for any inconvenince caused.

Could Barbara Olson Have Made Those Calls?

Could Barbara Olson Have Made Those Calls?
An Analysis of New Evidence about Onboard Phones

David Ray Griffin and Rob Balsamo

Prefatory Note: When we, in this jointly authored article, need to refer to only one of us, the appropriate initials---DRG or RB--are used.

06/26/07 - Did American Airlines 77---the flight that, according to the official conspiracy theory about 9/11, struck the Pentagon---have onboard phones? This question is relevant to the possible truth of the official theory, because Ted Olson, who was then the US Solicitor General, claimed that his wife, Barbara Olson, called him twice from this flight using an onboard phone.

He did, to be sure, waver on this point. CNN, which mentioned in a story posted just before midnight on 9/11 that Barbara Olson had used a cell phone to call her husband, reported in a more extensive treatment, posted at 2:06 AM (EDT) on September 12, that Ted Olson had told it that his wife “called him twice on a cell phone from American Airlines Flight 77.”1 But on September 14, Olson said on Hannity & Colmes (Fox News) that she had called collect and therefore must have been using the “airplane phone”---because, he surmised, “she somehow didn’t have access to her credit cards.”2 On CNN’s Larry King Show later that same day, however, Olson returned to his first version. After saying that the second call from her suddenly went dead, he surmised that this was perhaps “because the signals from cell phones coming from airplanes don’t work that well.”3 On that same day, moreover, Tony Mauro, the Supreme Court correspondent for American Lawyer Media, published an account saying that Barbara Olson “was calling on her cell phone from aboard the jet.”4 Two months later, however, Ted Olson returned to the second version of his story. In the “Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture” delivered to the Federalist Society, he said that she used “a telephone in the airplane to [make] those two telephone [calls].”5 This second version was repeated in March 2002. “[C]alling collect,” he told the London Daily Telegraph, his wife “us[ed] the phone in the passengers’ seats.” She called collect, he again surmised, because “she didn’t have her purse” and hence her credit card.6

This revised version of his story has evidently gone virtually unnoticed in the American press. A year after 9/11, for example, CNN was still reporting that Barbara Olson used a cell phone.7 Nevertheless, Ted Olson’s statement to the Federalist Society and the Telegraph---that she called collect using a passenger-seat phone---was apparently his final word on the matter...

Continued...
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/amrarticle.html

Gore Vidal Recommends "The New Pearl Harbor"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF4wmDwVLkc

In this interview from 2005, Gore Vidal plugs David Ray Griffin's "The New Pearl Harbor", and recommends it as reading material. An endorsement late in coming, but considering Vidal's stature as a great American novelist and historian, a priceless endorsement.

Recorded for Cal Poly Pomona's "Hot Talk" interview program, found on the show's archive and sent in to us by user Toten. The entire interview is well worth watching. The YouTube segment above begins just after a discussion about McVeigh and the OKC bombing.

911Podcasts mirror (35 MB MP4 or 54 MB WMV): http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=226

Streaming at Cal Poly Pomona;
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Ashland Daily Tidings - excellent Griffin coverage

(This was posted in the blogs section, but we should have had it on our front page. The day before Griffin's Ashland, Oregon talk last month, the Ashland Daily Tidings had front page coverage of the impending talk, above and below the fold, and for the second time called for a new independent investigation of 9/11. Two days prior to the front page coverage, they ran a separate 9/11 story. Links below. -r.)

May 23, 2007
Truth movement superstar visits SOU
http://www.dailytidings.com/2007/0523/stories/0523_david_ray_griffin.php

May 23, 2007
Holes in the story
http://www.dailytidings.com/2007/0523/stories/0523_911.php

(prior story)

May 21, 2007
9/11: The elephant that will not leave:
http://www.dailytidings.com/2007/0521/stories/0521_edit_9-11.php

Thanks, Ken, for the reminder.

David Ray Griffin on Seattle Radio followed by "Debunking" lecture

EDIT: The interview will be aired at 7pm Pacific time, due to a scheduling conflict.

David Ray Griffin will be interviewed today on Rev. Rich Lang's talk radio program, "Living Faith" to talk about 9/11.

Friday, May 18th, 7pm Pacific Time: "What Happened on 9/11? The Church Under Empire"

http://www.newschannel1150.com/

My guest is Dr. David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, Christian Faith and the Truth of 9/11, and Debunking the Debunkers.

David and I will be discussing the strange events around 9/11 including his research that has led him to believe that 9/11 was an "inside job." Lather that evening at Town Hall, Griffin will give a public talk.

UPDATE - Alex Jones interviews Jim Marrs and David Ray Griffin - 5-10-2007

Alex Jones interviews Jim Marrs on latest JFK info and his 9/11 book "The Terror Conspiracy". Followed by interview with David Ray Griffin.

Show starts with a short discussion about Tarpley's FOX appearance.

Streaming loop at infowars.com;
www.infowars.com

UPDATED Putfile stream;
http://media.putfile.com/Alex-Jones-interviews-Jim-Marrs--David-Ray-Griffin

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