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12-24-2006, 06:13 PM
If you think that the 9/11 Commission Report told us everything that we the American public need to know about 9/11, then you obviously haven't read it. Here's a few things to consider:
The Bush Administration did everything it could to block an investigation into 9/11. The commission report wasn't convened until an unprecedented 441 days after the attacks, and was given less money than was spent investigating Bill Clinton's sex life.
Questions raised by families of the victims were supposed to form the basis of the investigation, but the Commission only answered an insulting 30% of these questions. Bill Doyle, whose son Joey died in the attacks described the Commission as "...a sham, it really is. We had tons of questions that we asked them to ask; they wouldn't do it, and the continuing cover-up is just beyond belief". Among the glaring omissions in the report is a complete failure to even mention the mysterious collapse of Building 7 at the World Trade Center.
Many Commission members were criticized for serious business and political conflicts of interest, including Chairman Thomas Kean. Kean is a board member of Hess Corporation, a petroleum company with business in the Middle East. That aside, what most people fail to realize is that the Commission was truly controlled by just one man: Executive Director Philip Zelikow, a long-time White House insider who helped to write Bush's preemptive invasion doctrine for Iraq.
Zelikow's area of academic expertise is, in his own words, "the creation and maintenance of public myths or public presumptions," which he defines as "beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not neccessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community". In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called "searing or molding events [that] take on transcendent important and, therefore, retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene". He is, in other words, an expert at selling Big Lies (a specific propaganda strategy- look it up).
The Bush Administration did everything it could to block an investigation into 9/11. The commission report wasn't convened until an unprecedented 441 days after the attacks, and was given less money than was spent investigating Bill Clinton's sex life.
Questions raised by families of the victims were supposed to form the basis of the investigation, but the Commission only answered an insulting 30% of these questions. Bill Doyle, whose son Joey died in the attacks described the Commission as "...a sham, it really is. We had tons of questions that we asked them to ask; they wouldn't do it, and the continuing cover-up is just beyond belief". Among the glaring omissions in the report is a complete failure to even mention the mysterious collapse of Building 7 at the World Trade Center.
Many Commission members were criticized for serious business and political conflicts of interest, including Chairman Thomas Kean. Kean is a board member of Hess Corporation, a petroleum company with business in the Middle East. That aside, what most people fail to realize is that the Commission was truly controlled by just one man: Executive Director Philip Zelikow, a long-time White House insider who helped to write Bush's preemptive invasion doctrine for Iraq.
Zelikow's area of academic expertise is, in his own words, "the creation and maintenance of public myths or public presumptions," which he defines as "beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not neccessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community". In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called "searing or molding events [that] take on transcendent important and, therefore, retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene". He is, in other words, an expert at selling Big Lies (a specific propaganda strategy- look it up).