By "PR Newswire"
June 5, 2012, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Courtesy Of "Market Watch"
New evidence shows that the September 11th activities of former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were falsely reported by official sources.
The 20-member 9/11 Consensus Panel analyzed evidence from press reports, FOIA requests, and archived 9/11 Commission file documents to produce eight new studies, released today.
The international Panel also discovered that four massive aerial practice exercises traditionally held in October were in full operation on 9/11. The largest, Global Guardian, held annually by NORAD and the US Strategic and Space Commands, had originally been scheduled for October 22-31 but was moved, along with Vigilant Guardian, to early September.
Although senior officials claimed no one could have predicted using hijacked planes as weapons, the military had been practicing similar exercises on 9/11 itself -- and for years before it.
The Panel, discovering widespread reports of confusion and delays in the defense response, looked into who was overseeing the air defenses after the second Tower was hit at 9:03 AM.
Official sources claimed neither Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Joint Chiefs of Staff Acting Chairman General Richard Myers (filling in for General Hugh Shelton), nor war-room chief General Montague Winfield were available to take command until well after the Pentagon was struck about 9:37.
Yet emerging documents and memoirs show that top leaders were engaged earlier -- and later discussed a shootdown of the “let's roll” Flight 93 before debris was scattered widely around its alleged Shanksville, Pennsylvania crash site.
Most intriguing is the mystery of who was running the Pentagon's war-room during the critical early hours.
These findings follow hard on the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal's May 15th verdict that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were guilty of torture and war crimes.
The Consensus Panel has completed 25 educational studies (using a medical consensus model) offering the "best evidence" regarding specific official claims about 9/11.
Its goal is to “provide a ready source of evidence-based research to any investigation that may be undertaken by the public, the media, academia, or any other investigative body or institution.”
Website: www.consensus911.org
“September 11, 2001 seems destined to be the watershed event of our lives and the greatest test for our democracy in our lifetimes. The evidence of government complicity in the lead-up to the events, the failure to respond during the event, and the astounding lack of any meaningful investigation afterwards, as well as the ignoring of evidence turned up by others that renders the official explanation impossible, may signal the end of the American experiment. It has been used to justify all manner of measures to legalize repression at home and as a pretext for behaving as an aggressive empire abroad. Until we demand an independent, honest, and thorough investigation and accountability for those whose action and inaction led to those events and the cover-up, our republic and our Constitution remain in the gravest danger.”
Lt. Col. Shelton F. Lankford, US Marine Corps (ret.)
Website: www.consensus911.org
“September 11, 2001 seems destined to be the watershed event of our lives and the greatest test for our democracy in our lifetimes. The evidence of government complicity in the lead-up to the events, the failure to respond during the event, and the astounding lack of any meaningful investigation afterwards, as well as the ignoring of evidence turned up by others that renders the official explanation impossible, may signal the end of the American experiment. It has been used to justify all manner of measures to legalize repression at home and as a pretext for behaving as an aggressive empire abroad. Until we demand an independent, honest, and thorough investigation and accountability for those whose action and inaction led to those events and the cover-up, our republic and our Constitution remain in the gravest danger.”
Lt. Col. Shelton F. Lankford, US Marine Corps (ret.)
Further Reading From "Consensus 911"
The 9/11 Consensus Points
Factual Evidence Contradicts the 9/11 Story
The official account of the events of September 11, 2001, has been used:
- to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which have resulted in the deaths of millions of people; 1
- to authorize torture, military tribunals, and extraordinary rendition; and
- to suspend freedoms guaranteed by the American Constitution such ashabeas corpus in the USA, and similar freedoms in Canada, the UK, and other countries.
The official claims regarding 9/11 are contradicted by facts that have been validated by a scientific consensus process, and which include the following points of “best evidence”.
The 26 Consensus Points are divided into the seven categories below, which in turn link to the individual 26 points:
A. General Consensus Points
B. Consensus Points about the Twin Towers
C. Consensus Points about the Collapse of World Trade Center 7
D. Consensus Points about the Pentagon
E. Consensus Points about the 9/11 Flights
F. Consensus Points about US Military Exercises On and Before 9/11
G. Consensus Points about the Political and Military Commands on 9/11
A. General Consensus Points
Point G-1: A Claim Regarding Osama bin Laden (formerly Point 1, posted Sept. 2011)
Point G-2: A Claim that there was No Insider Trading in Put Options before September 11, 2001 (formerly Point 3A, posted Jan. 2012)
B. Consensus Points about the Twin Towers
Point TT-1: A Claim about the Destruction of the Twin Towers: Impact, Jet Fuel, and Fire Only (formerly Point 2, posted Sept. 2011)
Point TT-2: A Claim about the Destruction of the Twin Towers: Impact, Fire, and Gravity Only (formerly Point 3, posted Sept. 2011)
Point TT-4: A Second Claim Excluding Explosives in the Twin Towers (formerly Point 5, posted Sept. 2011)
Point TT-5: The Claim that the World Trade Center Dust Contained No Thermitic Materials (formerly Point 9, posted Sept. 2011)
C. Consensus Points about the Collapse of World Trade Center 7
Point WTC7-2: The Claim in NIST’s Draft Report that WTC 7 Did Not Come Down at Free Fall Acceleration (formerly Point 7, posted Sept. 2011)
Point WTC7-3: The Claim in NIST’s Final Report that WTC 7 Came Down in Free Fall Without Explosives (formerly Point 8, posted Sept. 2011)
D. Consensus Points about the Pentagon
Point Pent-1: Why the Attack on the Pentagon Was Not Prevented: The First Official Account (formerly Point 4A, posted Jan. 2012)
Point Pent-2: Why the Attack on the Pentagon Was Not Prevented: The Second Official Account (formerly Point 5A, posted Jan. 2012)
Point Pent-3: The Claim Regarding Hani Hanjour as Flight 77 Pilot (formerly Point 12, posted Sept. 2011)
E. Consensus Points about the 9/11 Flights
Point Flt-1: A Claim Regarding Hijacked Passenger Jets (formerly Point 10, posted Sept. 2011)
Point Flt-2: The Claim that Flight 93 Crashed Near Shanksville, Pennsylvania(formerly Point 11, posted Sept. 2011)
F. Consensus Points about US Military Exercises On and Before 9/11
Point ME-2: The Claim that the Military Exercises Did Not Delay the Response to the 9/11 Attacks NEW
G. Consensus Points about the Political and Military Commands on 9/11
Point MC-1: Why Was President Bush Not Hustled Away from the Florida School? (formerly Point 1A, posted Jan. 2012)
Point MC-2: The White House Claim as to How Long: President Bush Remained in the Florida Classroom (formerly Point 2A, posted Jan. 2012)
Point MC-3: The Claim about the Time of Dick Cheney’s Entry into the White House Bunker (formerly Point 13, posted Sept. 2011)
- G. Burnham, R. Lafta, S. Doocy, and L. Roberts, “Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: A cross-sectional cluster sample survey,” Lancet, October 11, 2006: 21;368 (9545):1421-28.
Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore.
This epidemiological study estimated 654,965 excess deaths in Iraq related to the war, or 2.5% of the population, through the end of June 2006.
Dr. Gideon Polya, author of Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality Since 1950, estimated by January 2010 that more than four million Afghanis died (from both violent and non-violent causes) since the 2001 invasion, who would not have died without the invasion. See:“January 2010 – 4.5 Million Dead in Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide.”
Dr. Gideon Polya, “Iraqi Holocaust: 2.3 Million Iraqi Excess Deaths,” March 21, 2009. ↩
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