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Flashback: Washington Times: Architects for 9/11 Truth Present Petition to Congress | Blair lied and lied again: Mandarins reveal that 10 days before Iraq invasion PM knew Saddam couldn’t use WMDs | Able Danger and DIA had advanced knowledge of 9/11 | A Sibel Edmonds Bombshell – Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 | 9/11 Commission Counsel: Government Agreed to Lie About 9/11 | FDNY Lieutenant Admitted Plan To ‘Take Down’ WTC 7 | Key Witness to WTC 7 Explosions Dead at 53 | US Government Questioned on Forged Letter Linking Saddam to 9/11 | Emergency Official Witnessed Dead Bodies In WTC 7 Prior to Collapse | 9/11 widows call for new investigation after revelations of White House, commission ties | Director of 9/11 commission “secretly spoke with Rove, White House” | Eight U.S. State Department Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 | Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11

The Corbett Report
March 5, 2010

When losing a discussion on the facts of 9/11, a so-called 9/11 “debunker” will often rely on an old canard to “prove” that 9/11 could not have been an inside job: “So many people want their quarter hour of fame that even the Men in Black couldn’t squelch the squealers from spilling the beans,” write self-satisfied defenders of the government story. According to the logic of this argument, if there are no 9/11 whistleblowers then 9/11 was not an inside job.

So what if there are 9/11 whistleblowers? What if these whistleblowers come from every level of government and private industry, individuals who have even had their cases vindicated by internal government reports? As you are about to see, there are numerous such whistleblowers and each one is a thorn in the side of those who want to pretend that the 9/11 Commission represents the sum total of knowledge on the 9/11 attacks.

That is precisely why these whistleblowers are not lauded by legislators or trumpeted by the media, but actively suppressed by government officials and the corporate media alike. These courageous insiders have been sidelined, gagged, hounded from their positions and ignored to the point where their stories are virtually unknown among the general public. And that is exactly why it is vital for the alternative media to make these stories known by bypassing the filters and control of the establishment media.

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The system eats its own.

Flashback: Alleged 9/11 mastermind to go on trial in NYC | CIA waterboarded 2 al-Qaida suspects 266 times | Sept. 11 suspects want to “confess” | Guantanamo 9/11 suspects on trial

Jennifer Loven, Associated Press
March 5, 2010

Senior officials say White House advisers are close to recommending military tribunals for self-professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen

In a potential reversal, White House advisers are close to recommending that U.S. President Barack Obama opt for military tribunals for self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his alleged henchman, senior officials said.

The review of where and how to hold a Sept. 11 trial is not over, so no recommendation is yet before the president and Mr. Obama has not made a determination of his own, officials said. The review is not likely to be finished this week.

Officials spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss private deliberations.

Attorney General Eric Holder decided in November to transfer Mr. Mohammed and the four other accused terrorists from the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to New York City for civilian trials. That was initially supported by city officials, but was later opposed because of costs, security and logistical concerns.

When opposition ballooned further into Congress and an attempted Christmas airline bombing brought massive scrutiny to Mr. Obama’s terrorism policies, the administration said it would review Mr. Holder’s trial decision and consider all options for a new location.

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Mr. Obama, tear down that wall. An unlikely prospect, since the executive has blocked 9/11 family lawsuits related to the issue, obfuscated Saudi connections, and refused to engage with the large segments of the population that support a call for a new investigation. Here is the website for the New Hampshire ‘Vote for Answers’ movement.

Flashback: Washington Times: Architects for 9/11 Truth Present Petition to Congress | Professor fingers Thermite charges as responsible for 9/11 demolition | Study claims ‘highly engineered explosive’ found in WTC rubble | Fire Consumes Beijing Skyscraper, Unlike WTC7 Building Does Not Collapse | National Post Columnist: Who dares to question the ‘Big Lie of 9/11′? | NIST WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed

Russia Today
March 4, 2010

A new movement to reinvestigate the 9/11 attacks is gaining pace in the US. With major public support, 12 towns are set to decide whether to ask the federal government for a new independent probe.

New York is dubbed as the Empire State for its wealth and resources and is rightfully regarded as America’s most famous city, a beacon of fashion, finance and fast paced action.

New Hampshire is the Granite State of so-called self sufficiency. Less flash and cash, most famous for hosting the first U.S. presidential primary.

New York and New Hampshire are more than 200 miles apart, but for all that distance, the two US locations intersect on one issue: the 9/11 attacks. While it was in Manhattan where three buildings fell, the people of Keene, New Hampshire are pushing for a new probe to find out why.

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The Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth website is found here. It has some very detailed Powerpoint slideshows that can be reviewed or shared with friends and family. We can but wish Mr. Gage luck in his crusade. The odds are against him, but major segments of the populations aren’t. In Canada, a September 2008 Angus Reid poll showed 39% of the population disagree or have doubts that Al-CIAda Al-Qaeda was involved.

Flashback: Professor fingers Thermite charges as responsible for 9/11 demolition | Study claims ‘highly engineered explosive’ found in WTC rubble | Fire Consumes Beijing Skyscraper, Unlike WTC7 Building Does Not Collapse | National Post Columnist: Who dares to question the ‘Big Lie of 9/11′? | NIST WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed

Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times
February 22, 2010

Inside the Beltway: Explosive Questions

A lingering technical question about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks still haunts some, and it has political implications: How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center.

“In order to bring down this kind of mass in such a short period of time, the material must have been artificially, exploded outwards,” says Richard Gage, a San Francisco architect and founder of the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

Mr. Gage, who is a member of the American Institute of Architects, managed to persuade more than 1,000 of his peers to sign a new petition requesting a formal inquiry.

“The official Federal Emergency Management [Agency] and National Institute of Standards and Technology reports provide insufficient, contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers’ destruction. We are therefore calling for a grand jury investigation of NIST officials,” Mr. Gage adds.

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It’s just mindblowingly bizarre that the Downing Street memo didn’t come up here.You know, the one where Blair’s senior ministers are talking about sexing up the evidence to fit policy. Evidently this hearing is a sham.

Flashback: Condi set sights on Iraq as 9/11 unfolded: UK diplomat | Blair lied and lied again: Mandarins reveal that 10 days before Iraq invasion PM knew Saddam couldn’t use WMDs | UK: Did MI5 kill Dr David Kelly? | Pakistani officers helped plan Mumbai attacks, says India | Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs” | German Intelligence Agents Caught Staging False Flag Terror in Kosovo | Cheney Considered False Flag Operation to Justify War with Iran | Wolfowitz: U.S. Future Hinges on Another ‘Crisis’ | US scales up covert destabilization efforts in Iran, continues funding ‘al-Qaeda’ | McCain adviser says terrorist attack would boost campaign | Rumsfeld to Pentagon Media Analysts: America Needs another Attack | US Counterinsurgency Manual Leaked, Calls for False Flag Operations, Suspension of Human Rights | Declassified: Israel, USA Attempted Deliberate Sinking of USS Liberty During Mideast War | The Lies that Led to War | British Special Forces Caught Carrying Out Staged Terror In Iraq? | Operation Northwoods Declassified: U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba

David Stringer, Jill Lawless, Associated Press
January 29, 2010

Former British PM grilled before government probe into how country joined U.S. in war against Saddam Hussein

Just the most recent in a long line of faked messages from the bogeyman. In this case, so utterly implausible that not even the US intelligence complex wants to chance the direct association of having ‘confirmed’ its authenticity. Hey, voiceprinting technology didn’t suddenly go away, you know. They could readily disprove its authenticity, but note that hasn’t happened. Like the existence of Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984, the by now largely mythical figure of Obama Bin Laden has become an article of faith for the supporters of these wars. The last time it’s reported anyone actually saw him, he was on dialysis in the American hospital in Dubai and was visited by the CIA in the months leading up to 9/11. The last time it’s reported anyone got close to him (Tora Bora, Afghanistan) the attack was called off by unnamed officials in the upper echelons of the military.

Flashback: Bin Laden not in Pakistan, says prime minister | U.S. ‘missed chance’ to capture bin Laden in 2001 | Another dubious Bin Laden tape: Obama ‘powerless’ in Afghanistan | Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years – and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror? | A Sibel Edmonds Bombshell – Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 | CIA: Bin Laden still in Pakistan | Al-Qaeda Chief In Iraq: Captured, Killed, Never Actually Existed, Now Captured Again | IntelCenter Releases Video of Former CIA Employee Zawahiri Threatening America | Delta Force Officer: We Weren’t Allowed to Kill Osama Bin Laden | Purported bin Laden tape decries Israel’s anniversary | Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden Murdered | New Bin Laden Video: 100% Forgery | U.S. Government Caught Red-Handed Releasing Staged Al-Qaeda Videos | Swiss scientists 95% sure that Bin Laden recording was fake

The Associated Press
January 24, 2010

A new audio message purportedly made by Osama bin Laden has the al-Qaeda leader claiming responsibility for the plot to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner last month on Christmas Day.

The man speaking on the tape, broadcast Sunday, also vows further attacks on the United States.

A White House adviser said he could not confirm whether the voice was actually that of bin Laden. David Axelrod told CNN’s State of the Union that whatever the source, the message “contains the same hollow justification for the mass slaughter of innocents.”

The message suggests that bin Laden wants to show he remains in direct command of al-Qaeda’s many branches around the world.

In the minute-long recording carried by Al-Jazeera, the man the Arabic news channel identifies as bin Laden addresses U.S. President Barack Obama, saying the attack was a message similar to that of Sept. 11 and more attacks against the U.S. would be forthcoming.

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StatismWatch hasn’t covered the Moussaoui case until now since for the most part it preceded the creation of this journal, but felt this article warranted inclusion regardless for its exposure of morally questionable if not blatantly unconstitutional court proceedings. Happily, others have already exposed meny interesting aspects of the case – that is, the fact Moussaoui was granted a student visa for travel despite his presence on watch lists, the fact the FBI obstructed investigations though he was caught months prior to 9/11, the 9/11 commission’s coverup of known meetings between Moussaoui and Mohammed Atta, etc. History Commons has a comprehensive timeline of Moussaoui’s involvement in 9/11 here. The four links below contain brief mentions of Moussaoui in connection to tangential aspects of the case eg; destruction of evidence and FBI whistleblowers. Make of them what you will.

Flashback: Media hypes terror plot, despite the fact no one is charged with terror | Ex-FBI Agent: Why I Support a New 9/11 Investigation | CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes | Anthrax Coverup: A Government Insider Speaks Out

CBC News
January 04, 2010

A U.S. appeals court upheld the conviction and life prison sentence of Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday, the only person convicted in the U.S. in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Moussaoui pleaded guilty in 2005 to conspiring with the 19 men who hijacked the airplanes and crashed them into targets in New York and Washington. In a Virginia court, he was sentenced to life in prison.

Attorneys for Moussaoui suggested his constitutional rights were violated because he was barred from seeing the classified evidence against him and was left out of closed-door hearings in which that evidence was laid out.

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Oh where, oh where in the world is Osama bin Laden? This, ladies and gentlemen, is called misdirection. Essentially, a magic trick is being played on you. Allow me to demonstrate: Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden? Is he in Afghanistan? No, pick another cup. Is he in Pakistan? Let’s see, nothing up my sleeve…

Flashback: U.S. ‘missed chance’ to capture bin Laden in 2001 | Another dubious Bin Laden tape: Obama ‘powerless’ in Afghanistan | Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years – and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror? | A Sibel Edmonds Bombshell – Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 | CIA: Bin Laden still in Pakistan | Delta Force Officer: We Weren’t Allowed to Kill Osama Bin Laden | Swiss scientists 95% sure that Bin Laden recording was fake

Haroon Siddique, The Guardian
December 3, 2009

Yousaf Raza Gilani tells joint conference with Gordon Brown he does not believe the al-Qaida leader is in his country

The Pakistani prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, today claimed that Osama bin Laden was not in Pakistan – just days after Gordon Brown criticised the Islamabad government for not doing enough to capture the al-Qaida leader.

Bin Laden is widely believed to be sheltering in the north of Pakistan – a belief reiterated by the CIA director, Leon Panetta, over the summer – and on Sunday Brown criticised the Islamabad government for not doing more to track him down.

But quizzed by British journalists at a joint press conference with the UK prime minister in London as to why the al-Qaida leader remained at large, Gilani said the Pakistani administration had not been provided with any “credible or actionable intelligence” as to his whereabouts.

“I don’t think Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan,” he said.

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Readers will know this is hardly a new revelation. Kerry and the Foreign Relations Committee – essentially the US Senate’s franchise of the Council on Foreign Relations – are putting this out now to justify Obama’s latest troop increase and dangle the bogeyman in front of the American public yet again. But notice that the Associated Press leaves out the one minor little detail that American special forces were not allowed to advance on Bin Laden’s supposed position. Missed chance? Try, instead, that the commandos were yanked from the field. That comes straight from the commander of the mission. So the spin and manipulation continues, as expected.

Flashback: Another dubious Bin Laden tape: Obama ‘powerless’ in Afghanistan | Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years – and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror? | A Sibel Edmonds Bombshell – Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 | CIA: Bin Laden still in Pakistan | Delta Force Officer: We Weren’t Allowed to Kill Osama Bin Laden | Swiss scientists 95% sure that Bin Laden recording was fake

Calvin Woodward, Associated Press
November 29, 2009

Al-Qaeda leader was within reach of American troops in Afghanistan just months after 9/11, U.S. senate report says

Iraq, having gotten all uppity in building a reasonably stable and wealthy nation in the Middle East, had to be wiped off the map. It wasn’t Iraq’s tyranny the US objected to – Iraq was a loyal asset in the previous war against Iran, and Saddam a product of the same sort of regime change the US practices in numerous third world nations as it trains and elevates dictators. It was that the empire had already staked the region for annexation. And when the garrisons have been built, the front line rolls on.

Flashback: Blair lied and lied again: Mandarins reveal that 10 days before Iraq invasion PM knew Saddam couldn’t use WMDs | UK: Did MI5 kill Dr David Kelly? | Pakistani officers helped plan Mumbai attacks, says India | Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs” | German Intelligence Agents Caught Staging False Flag Terror in Kosovo | Cheney Considered False Flag Operation to Justify War with Iran | Wolfowitz: U.S. Future Hinges on Another ‘Crisis’ | US scales up covert destabilization efforts in Iran, continues funding ‘al-Qaeda’ | McCain adviser says terrorist attack would boost campaign | Rumsfeld to Pentagon Media Analysts: America Needs another Attack | US Counterinsurgency Manual Leaked, Calls for False Flag Operations, Suspension of Human Rights | Declassified: Israel, USA Attempted Deliberate Sinking of USS Liberty During Mideast War | The Lies that Led to War | British Special Forces Caught Carrying Out Staged Terror In Iraq? | Operation Northwoods Declassified: U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba

Daniel Tencer, Rawstory.com
November 26, 2009

Not sure if Bush-Blair deal to invade Iraq was ’signed in blood,’ former UK ambassador says; Iraq war inquiry could be a cover-up, critics claim

A former British ambassador to the United States says then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice talked to him about Iraq and Saddam Hussein hours after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

Sir Christopher Meyer, who served as Britain’s top diplomat in Washington from 1997 to 2003, also told an inquiry into the Iraq war that the timeline the US and Britain set to invade Iraq made it impossible for the UN to determine if Saddam Hussein had active weapons of mass destruction programs.

He also criticized former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, saying that a “stronger prime minister” like Margaret Thatcher would have been able to exert more influence on Washington and allow more time for diplomacy, while insisting on a plan for what would happen after the invasion.

On September 11, 2001, Rice reportedly told Meyer that “there’s no doubt this was an Al-Qaeda operation [but] we are just looking to see if there could possibly be any connection with Saddam Hussein.”

Rice’s comments at the time are “important because they suggest that the United States quickly tied the attacks with Saddam’s regime,” writes David Stringer at the Associated Press. “Years later, President George W. Bush’s administration was forced to acknowledge that they could find no connection between Saddam and the attacks.”

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