@ Kay-Gell: 't valt mij vooral op dat de meeste mensen in deze thread niet verder komen als drogargumenten en ad hominems zoals 'tin foil hats' en 'anti-amerikanisme'.
Wanneer de voorzitter, vice-voorzitter en meerdere leden van de 911 commission (= het officiele verhaal), het zelf een farce noemen komt het nogal naief over als jij er wel blindelings in gelooft.
De makers van het officiele verhaal geloven er zelf niet eens in
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Ik denk ook even aan Henry Kissinger, de eerste voorzitter van de commissie en aangeduid door Bush, die moest opstappen, nadat duidelijk was dat hij (net zoals Bush) nauwe zakelijke relaties heeft met de Bin Laden familie.
Vreemd toch dat mensen zich vragen gaan stellen?
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The Sept. 11 commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by the Pentagon and FAA about their response to the 2001 terror attacks that it considered an investigation into possible deception, the panel's chairmen say in a new book.
Kean and Hamilton said the commission found it mind-boggling that authorities had asserted during hearings that their air defenses had reacted quickly and were prepared to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93, which appeared headed toward Washington.
In fact, the commission determined _ after it subpoenaed audiotapes and e-mails of the sequence of events _ that the shootdown order did not reach North American Aerospace Command pilots until after all of the hijacked planes had crashed.
The book states that commission staff, "exceedingly frustrated" by what they thought could be deception, proposed a full review into why the FAA and the Pentagon's NORAD had presented inaccurate information. That ultimately could have led to sanctions.
"Fog of war could explain why some people were confused on the day of 9/11, but it could not explain why all of the after-action reports, accident investigations and public testimony by FAA and NORAD officials advanced an account of 9/11 that was untrue," the book states.
Book: Sept. 11 Panel Doubted Officials
“I don’t believe for a minute we got everything right . . . the Commission was set up to fail
. . . people should keep asking questions about 9/11 . . . the 9/11 debate should continue. “
—9/11 Commission Co-chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton
“We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting.”
—9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer
“There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn’t have access . . . “
—9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey
“It is a national scandal . . . this investigation is now compromised . . . this White House wants to cover it up.”
—9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland, upon resigning from the Commission