This I gotta see..

Some information about the 9/11 Commission which gets defenders of the official fairytale in a frothing tizzy, is the litany of super-critical comments that a large proportion of the senior members of the "Commission" have said about their own inquiry, including the two co-chairs: Here's a sample list I compiled some time back, and have printed out on a few occasions. I've witnessed some quite startled reactions, from disbelief, to "you made all this up" accusations to, "wow, I never knew that".

Here they are - a comprehensive (but undoubtedly incomplete) list:

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(1) "The greater part of the Commission's findings "are untrue"...

“The Commission's co-chairs said that the CIA the White House "obstructed our investigation". Indeed, they said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements".

"I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described .... The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years.... This is not spin. This is not true."

"It's almost a culture of concealment, for lack of a better word. There were interviews made at FAA's New York Center on the night of 9/11 and those tapes were destroyed. The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened".

"At some level of the government, at some point in time… there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened".

all the above from John Farmer, Senior Counsel, 9/11 Commission.

(2) " I don't believe for a minute we got everything right - that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue". 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton

(3) "Lee and I write in our book that, uh, we think that the Commission was set up to fail. Because we had, um, not enough money, we didn't have enough time. We had been appointed by the most partisan people in Washington, the leaders in the House and the Senate" 9/11 Commission co-chair Thomas Kean

(4) Former Sen. Tom Daschle said:

"Vice President Cheney requested (him) that there be no investigation into the 9/11 attacks".

(5) "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

(6) "There's something very sinister going on here... something desperately wrong... This involved what is right now the covering up of information that led to the deaths of 3,000 people".

and “I am appalled that the DoD IG would expect the American people to actually consider this a full and thorough investigation”.

Rep. Curt Weldon

(7) "[NORAD] lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 Commission...the most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence". Sen. Mark Dayton, Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services and Homeland Security.

(8) "...the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation". Rep. Ron Paul, Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee.

(9) "We purposely put together a staff that had, in a way, conflicts of interests". 9/11 Commissioner John Lehman

(10) "We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting". 9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer

(11) "It is a national scandal"; "This investigation is now compromised"; and "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9/11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up".

and... “At some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened".

9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland, who consequently resigned from the 9/11 Commission.

(12) "...the "9/11 Commission findings.... raises serious challenges to the commission's credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the Commission historically insignificant itself". Former Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh:

(13) A document discovered in the National Archives shows that, in a memo to the 9/11 Commission’s chairman and vice-chairman on false statements made by NORAD and FAA officials about the failure of US air defenses, the commission’s Executive Director Philip Zelikow failed to mention the possibility of a criminal referral. This supports allegations that Zelikow “buried” the option of a criminal referral by the commission to the Justice Department for a perjury investigation.

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I think it's time to make a bunch of copies and re-distribute - after all, its the 10th anniversary of what DRG called a "571 page lie", and a "national disgrace". It was clearly just that...and the corporate media still refer to it as "the definitive account" of what happened that day ?/!!