Jed Rothwell wrote:
The person in this video asserts that the Twin Towers were destroyed on
purpose, with explosives. As Ed Storms and I have pointed out
previously, hundreds of the world's best civil engineers examined the
videos and physical evidence from the Towers, such as the melted steel.
This was the most detailed, expensive and thorough engineering
investigation in history.
Baloney!! This is not only false on several levels, but absurd.
There is no consensus among the so-called "hundreds of the world's best
civil engineers" and many excellent engineers on or associated with the
9/11 commission had their contrary opinions eliminated from the final
report by direct order from Philip Zelikow. And this was NOT an
exhaustive investigation by any means.
The commission was a terribly underfunded, hastily conducted effort
which was little more than a white-wash for an administration going
head-long into War. To put the failure of the commission into
perspective, the total investigation was conducted for tens of millions
of dollars less than was spent by Kenneth Starr over a minor sexual
indiscretion.
The most glaring error in Rothwell's logic is the failure to realize
that there are sins of commission and sins of omission. "Omission" in
the same sense as the "New Pearl Harbor" charge of preplanned
non-responsiveness.
The administration did not need to be directly involved in the hijacking
itself, nor even to encourage it though double agents, in order to be
guilty of an unforgivable sin of omission, which is certainly
treasonous, IF they had detailed information that the plot was underway
[which they did according to the agents who provided it] - and yet did
nothing to stop it.
IOW at some high level in the Pentagon/CIA - but not necessarily the
White House, our government knew that there was an Al Queda plot
underway, knew the target, knew the names of most of the Arabs plotters,
knew the time frame within a window of hours, and received a call that
morning that Atta was boarding the plane at Logan, and yet did nothing
to intercede - knowing that the results would probably justify a War in
the Middle East, which had been preplanned in advance...
... at least that is the claim of those who were formerly part of the
Bush Administration, but who cannot live with a guilty conscience, like
the Official in the video. The "omitters" probably did not realize that
the end results would be so horrific - but nevertheless, they may bear
the full guilt of these ~3000 murders - IF these underlying accusations
are accurate. Personally, I do not believe they are totally accurate-
but do recognize that a complete and non-partisan investigation needs to
be run - or else this thing will grow and fester. At lease the public
deserves a higher-level Warren Commission white-wash <g> to avoid the
kind of future civil discontent already seen possible in this kind of
payback scenario [of the OK-city variety].
The 9/11 Commission’s so-called investigative work was carried out under
the minute-by-minute control of the White House’s man inside the
Commission, Philip Zelikow, a fact that the mainstream press has not
emphasized. Under Zelikow’s leadership, the Commission took the role of
the prosecution for the Bush administration’s brief against al-Qaeda. In
doing so, it implicitly took the role of the defense for the Bush
administration and eliminated all contrary opinions. The report was a
joke to many.
That is the contention of those who want the investigation reopened.
Even if they are wrong in some minor details they have made an excellent
prima facie case to go back and conduct a decent investigation - under
the control of N. Pelosi, this time around.
Jones
