9-11 Truth
From: http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/062904Chin/062904chin.html Cover-up and propaganda: The 9/11 commission finishes its dirty work
By Larry Chin
June 29, 2004-The 9/11 Independent Commission is an orchestrated cover-up, controlled by the Bush White House and Bush Justice Department, headed by Bush-appointed directors, and run by legendary Washington fixers and veteran war criminals with direct ties to the most likely 9/11 planners, operatives and beneficiaries.
This fact has been amplified, as the commission has begun to wrap up its final report, burying the truth about 9/11, under new piles of spin, distortion, theater, unsupported allegations, warmed-over Bush administration lies, and lurid new fabrications.
The highlights from the most recent releases speak loudly of the commission's political agenda: engineer a limited hangout that absolves the Bush administration for 9/11, concealing key complicity evidence. At the same time, the commissioners selectively criticize Bush for Iraq-related policy, while laying political groundwork for an "improved" and more aggressive "war on terrorism," and new US/UN operations in the oil-rich Middle East.
As journalist Joyce Lynn succinctly points out in her expose of the "9/11 Coverup Commission":
* The commission's report, due July 28, will render rationales to expand the security state at home and abroad and promulgate huge spending for the "war on terrorism." * The commissioners have ties with the very parties they are investigating, including the CIA, banking and financial interests, and Bush administration officials. * The commission's report will echo the "who would have ever thought" and bungling federal intelligence agencies that independent journalists and researchers dispelled long ago. * The Bush administration has written the plot line and these 10 "independent" commissioners are merely reading the script.
A Stage-Managed Damage Control Organ From Day One
Like the Congressional Joint Inquiry into 9/11, the insulting charade conducted in 2002, the 9/11 Commission is not an "investigatory" body, and never has been one. Indeed, the full name of the group-the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon America-is a dead giveaway. The phrase assumes that 9/11 was a "terrorist attack upon" the United States, carried out by "al-Qaeda terrorists" originating outside of the United States. In other words, case closed.
The commission was formed only after public pressure, notably by outraged 9/11 victims' families, forced the White House to undertake some measure of public damage control. Opportunistically, the Bush White House dictated the conditions under which the commission would operate. In addition to being granted numerous protections, Bush himself would appoint the commission's director, as well as dictate and approve its mandate. Another condition was that the commission had to be comprised of "prominent citizens"-political elites and Washington insiders.
Ultimately, the mandate was limited strictly to "how to prevent future breakdowns"-cementing into place the assumption of unintended "breakdown." In other words, its strict mission was to echo and reinforce the original White House lie that 9/11 was an act of "outside terrorists" ("al-Qaeda"), that the "failure to stop it" was the result of "intelligence failures," "incompetence," "breakdowns," "lack of preparedness," "inexplicable communications problems," and other excuses.
Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton proclaimed, "The focus of the commission will be on the future. We're not interested in trying to assess blame, we do not consider that part of the commission's responsibility." Criminal responsibility and complicity were never part of the mandate-assuring that no one would be brought to justice.
The commission went on to dutifully handicap itself further, by agreeing to numerous conditions and "compromises" with the White House. Six out of 10 of the commissioners had to agree on any request for a subpoena. Requests for documents from the executive branch had to be channeled through the Bush Justice Department. The White House requested, and received, the right to review commission material so that it could assert executive privilege. Kean cut a deal preventing Bush from testifying. He cut yet another deal allowing the White House to edit intelligence briefs before the commissioners could see them, while also limiting access to the pre-edited briefs to a minority of commissioners. Senator Max Cleland, who resigned from the commission over this issue, put it simply: "That decision compromised the mission of the 9/11 Commission, period." CLIP - Long but very revealing article!! Read the rest at http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/062904Chin/062904chin.html
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