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|description=Set up over a year after the event, refused access to the president's daily briefings, not testified to under oath by Bush or Cheney, the 9/11 Commission was termed a "cover-up" by former member Max Cleland, who resigned. His replacement declared that 9/11 was "a 30 year conspiracy". Their first report did not mention WTC7.
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|members=Thomas Kean, Lee H. Hamilton, Richard Ben-Veniste, Max Cleland, Fred F. Fielding, Jamie Gorelick, Slade Gorton, Bob Kerrey, John F. Lehman, Timothy J. Roemer, James R. Thompson, Philip D. Zelikow, Christopher Kojm, Daniel Marcus, John J. Farmer, Janice Kephart, Alvin S. Felzenberg
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|description=Set up over a year after the event, refused access to the president's daily briefings, not testified to under oath by Bush or Cheney, the 9/11 Commission was termed a "cover-up" by former member [[Max Cleland]], who resigned. His replacement declared that 9/11 was "a 30 year conspiracy". Their first report did not mention [[WTC7]].
 
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==Constitution==
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'''The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States''', a.k.a. '''The 9-11 Commission''' was set up on November 27, [[2002]], by [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] and the [[United States Congress]] "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks", on November 27, 2002 after a lot of lobbying from the [[Jersey Girls]].<ref name=pbs/><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090302221213/http://unansweredquestions.org/index.php/2007/09/09/uq-wire-companion-dvd-to-911-press-for-truth/</ref><ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090304133527/http://unansweredquestions.org/index.php/2007/09/09/uq-wire-campaign-for-new-911-investigation/</ref>
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The 9-11 Commission was set up "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks", on November 27, 2002 after a lot of lobbying from the [[Jersey Girls]].
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==Memership==
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==Official Narrative==
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[[Henry Kissinger]] was initially appointed to head the commission<ref name=pbs>http://web.archive.org/web/20090220061250/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/investigation_11-27.html</ref> but resigned a few weeks later to avoid disclosing the clients of his private consulting business.<ref>[[Cable News Network]] - https://web.archive.org/web/20100616051453/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/13/kissinger.resigns/ saved at [https://archive.vn/oMya Archive.is]</ref> Former U.S. Senator [[George J. Mitchell]] was originally appointed as the vice-chairman, but he stepped down on December 10, 2002, not wanting to sever ties to his law firm.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082114/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/mitchell.resigns/</ref> On December 15, 2002, Bush appointed former [[New Jersey]] governor [[Thomas Kean|Tom Kean]] to head the commission.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082119/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/commission.kean/</ref> [[Lee H. Hamilton]] was vice chairman.
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==Forgone conclusion?==
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Commission executive director [[Philip Zelikow]] and his long time associate [[Ernest May]] started work on a detailed outline of the final report - containing chapter headings, subheadings, and sub-subheadings - in March [[2003]]. Zelikow showed it to the chair and vice-chair and they approved it, but all three decided that - to prevent accusation of the commission being a foregone conclusion - it should be kept secret from the commission’s staff. When the commission members are given copies, over a year later, they were alarmed. Some circulated a parody entitled “The [[Warren Commission]] Report — Preemptive Outline” which has a chapter heading “Single Bullet: We Haven’t Seen the Evidence Yet. But Really. We’re Sure.”<ref>[[Philip Shenon]],''The Commission: The uncensored history of the 9/11 investigation'' (New York City: Twelve, 2008), pp. 388-389.</ref>
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===NORAD's Wrongdoing===
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The ''[[Washington Post]]'' reported in [[2006]] that in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in Summer [[2004]] to consider the misleading statements made by [[NORAD]] to the commission, "the commission reportedly debated referring the matter to the [[US Justice Department]] for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources. Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the commission... "We to this day don't know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us," said [[Thomas H. Kean]], "It was just so far from the truth. . . . It's one of those loose ends that never got tied."<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html?sub=new</ref>
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==Membership==
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Senior staffers at the 9/11 Commission included [[Daniel Byman]].<ref>https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/isis-was-state-sponsored-by-us-allies-says-former-government-intelligence-analyst-exclusive-51a9e999c437</ref>
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===Max Cleland - Resigned===
 
===Max Cleland - Resigned===
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[[Max Cleland]], former [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] resigned from the commission in December 2003, stating that "the White House has played cover-up"<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/23/the_white_house_has_played_cover | title = "The White House Has Played Cover-Up" – Former 9/11 Commission Member Max Cleland Blasts Bush | publisher = [[Democracy Now!]] | date = March 23, 2004 | accessdate = July 7, 2009| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090716055018/http://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/23/the_white_house_has_played_cover| archivedate= July 16, 2009 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref>
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[[Max Cleland]], former [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] resigned from the commission in December [[2003]], stating that "the White House has played cover-up."<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20090716055018/http://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/23/the_white_house_has_played_cover</ref>
  
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===Bob Kerrey - "30 Year Conspiracy"===
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===Bob Kerrey - "A 30 Year Conspiracy"===
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When asked about the commission by WeAreChangeLA, [[Bob Kerrey]] stated that 9/11 was "a thirty year conspiracy".<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/678</ref>
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When asked about the commission by WeAreChangeLA, [[Bob Kerrey]] stated that 9/11 was "a thirty year conspiracy", perhaps an allusion to "[[the cabal]]".<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/678</ref>
  
 
===John Farmer - "There was an agreement not to tell the truth" ===
 
===John Farmer - "There was an agreement not to tell the truth" ===
 
The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, [[John Farmer]] – who led the 9/11 staff’s inquiry – said “At some level of the government, at some point in time... there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened“.<ref>http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/senior-counsel-to-the-911-commission-at-some-level-of-the-government-at-some-point-in-time-there-was-an-agreement-not-to-tell-the-truth.html</ref> He also said “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.”<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html</ref>
 
The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, [[John Farmer]] – who led the 9/11 staff’s inquiry – said “At some level of the government, at some point in time... there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened“.<ref>http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/senior-counsel-to-the-911-commission-at-some-level-of-the-government-at-some-point-in-time-there-was-an-agreement-not-to-tell-the-truth.html</ref> He also said “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.”<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html</ref>
  
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==Blaming the CIA==
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=== The chairman & vice-chairman - "Set up to fail... obstructed our investigation"===
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In a 2008 article in the [[New York Times]], the chairman and vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, [[Thomas H. Kean]] and [[Lee H. Hamilton]] wrote a joint article, "Stonewalled by the CIA" in which they complain about the CIA's failure to answer their questions for evidence - focusing particularly on the videos of [[torture]] sessions which the [[CIA]] reportedly destroyed. They write: "Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation".<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html?ref=opinion&_r=0</ref>
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[[Thomas Kean]] and [[Lee Hamilton]], have written that the government established the Commission in a way that ensured that it would fail. In their book ''Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission'' wrote that "there were all kinds of reasons we thought we were set up to fail."<ref name="cbc.ca">http://web.archive.org/web/20070108233707/http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html</ref> In a [[2008]] joint article in the ''[[New York Times]]'', "Stonewalled by the CIA" they complain about the [[CIA]]'s failure to answer their questions for evidence - focusing particularly on the videos of [[torture]] sessions which the CIA reportedly destroyed. They write: "Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation".<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html?ref=opinion&_r=0</ref>
  
 
==Report==
 
==Report==
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===Ommissions===
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The commission's original report failed to even mention [[WTC7]]. When asked whether this omission was deliberate, and if so, why, the chairman said he "couldn't remember". The commission wrote that "the U.S. government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance."<ref>http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch5.htm</ref>{{CN}}
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The report's conclusions have been widely dismissed by serious investigators. The commission's original report failed to even mention [[WTC7]]. When asked whether this omission was deliberate, and if so, why, the chairman said he "couldn't remember". The commission wrote that "the U.S. government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance."<ref>http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch5.htm</ref>{{CN}}
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===Errors===
 
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The commission's final reported stated that there were no witnesses to explosions in [[WTC7]], directly contradicting the testimony of [[Barry Jennings]], who had (reportedly) died in highly suspicious circumstances just 2 days earlier.
 
  
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=== "A joke" ===
 
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[[Ray McGovern]], 27-year [[CIA]] veteran who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George H.W. Bush]], their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior government officials, said "I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke"
 
 
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Latest revision as of 21:50, 17 February 2021

Group.png National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States  
(9-11/Cover-up) Sourcewatch WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
911Commissioners HIGHRES.jpg
911 commission seal.svg
FormationNovember 27, 2002
ExtinctionAugust 21, 2004
Statuscaptured
Purpose/focusTo prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks
TypeCover-up.jpg whitewash
Exposed byMax Cleland
Subpage•9-11/Commission/Chair
•9-11/Commission/Report
Membership• Thomas Kean.jpg Thomas Kean
• Lee H. Hamilton.jpg Lee H. Hamilton
• Richard Ben-Veniste.jpg Richard Ben-Veniste
• Max Cleland.jpg Max Cleland
• Fred F. Fielding.jpg Fred F. Fielding
• Jamie Gorelick.png Jamie Gorelick
• Slade Gorton.jpg Slade Gorton
• Senator Bob Kerrey.jpg Bob Kerrey
• John Lehman.jpeg John F. Lehman
• Timothy J. Roemer.jpg Timothy J. Roemer
• Governor James Thompson.jpg James R. Thompson
• 4799290374 cff36621fa o.jpg Philip D. Zelikow
• Christopher A. Kojm.jpg Christopher Kojm
• D Marcus WCL.jpg Daniel Marcus
• John Farmer.jpg John J. Farmer
•  Janice Kephart
• 40px Alvin S. Felzenberg
Set up over a year after the event, refused access to the president's daily briefings, not testified to under oath by Bush or Cheney, the 9/11 Commission was termed a "cover-up" by former member Max Cleland, who resigned. His replacement declared that 9/11 was "a 30 year conspiracy". Their first report did not mention WTC7.

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, a.k.a. The 9-11 Commission was set up on November 27, 2002, by President George W. Bush and the United States Congress "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks", on November 27, 2002 after a lot of lobbying from the Jersey Girls.[1][2][3]

Official Narrative

Henry Kissinger was initially appointed to head the commission[1] but resigned a few weeks later to avoid disclosing the clients of his private consulting business.[4] Former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell was originally appointed as the vice-chairman, but he stepped down on December 10, 2002, not wanting to sever ties to his law firm.[5] On December 15, 2002, Bush appointed former New Jersey governor Tom Kean to head the commission.[6] Lee H. Hamilton was vice chairman.

9-11-cover-up.jpg

Forgone conclusion?

Commission executive director Philip Zelikow and his long time associate Ernest May started work on a detailed outline of the final report - containing chapter headings, subheadings, and sub-subheadings - in March 2003. Zelikow showed it to the chair and vice-chair and they approved it, but all three decided that - to prevent accusation of the commission being a foregone conclusion - it should be kept secret from the commission’s staff. When the commission members are given copies, over a year later, they were alarmed. Some circulated a parody entitled “The Warren Commission Report — Preemptive Outline” which has a chapter heading “Single Bullet: We Haven’t Seen the Evidence Yet. But Really. We’re Sure.”[7]

NORAD's Wrongdoing

The Washington Post reported in 2006 that in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in Summer 2004 to consider the misleading statements made by NORAD to the commission, "the commission reportedly debated referring the matter to the US Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources. Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the commission... "We to this day don't know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us," said Thomas H. Kean, "It was just so far from the truth. . . . It's one of those loose ends that never got tied."[8]

Membership

Senior staffers at the 9/11 Commission included Daniel Byman.[9]

Max Cleland - Resigned

Max Cleland, former U.S. Senator resigned from the commission in December 2003, stating that "the White House has played cover-up."[10]

Bob Kerrey - "A 30 Year Conspiracy"

When asked about the commission by WeAreChangeLA, Bob Kerrey stated that 9/11 was "a thirty year conspiracy", perhaps an allusion to "the cabal".[11]

John Farmer - "There was an agreement not to tell the truth"

The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer – who led the 9/11 staff’s inquiry – said “At some level of the government, at some point in time... there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened“.[12] He also said “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.”[13]

The chairman & vice-chairman - "Set up to fail... obstructed our investigation"

Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, have written that the government established the Commission in a way that ensured that it would fail. In their book Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission wrote that "there were all kinds of reasons we thought we were set up to fail."[14] In a 2008 joint article in the New York Times, "Stonewalled by the CIA" they complain about the CIA's failure to answer their questions for evidence - focusing particularly on the videos of torture sessions which the CIA reportedly destroyed. They write: "Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation".[15]

Report

Full article: 9-11/Commission/Report

The report's conclusions have been widely dismissed by serious investigators. The commission's original report failed to even mention WTC7. When asked whether this omission was deliberate, and if so, why, the chairman said he "couldn't remember". The commission wrote that "the U.S. government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance."[16] [Citation Needed]


 

Known members

14 of the 17 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Richard Ben-VenisteA lawyer who has taken various legal roles for the US deep state, including securing the Watergate coup.
Alvin FelzenbergPrincipal spokesman for the 9-11 Commission.
Fred F. FieldingMember of 9-11/Commission. "World-class keeper of secrets".
Jamie GorelickUSDSO, Deputy Attorney General of the United States 1994-1997, Clade X
Slade Gorton
Lee H. HamiltonHaving chaired some key house committees, Hamilton appears to have established himself as a safe pair of hands for handling potentially damaging information, explaining his choice as fallback vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
Thomas KeanChair of the 9/11 Commission, deep state cover-up artist
Janice KephartMilitary-industrial "expert" peddling biometric solutions to the US government. Formerly was a counsel to the 9-11 Commission.
Christopher Kojm
John LehmanUS deep state operative who in 1989 met up with Donald Trump, Thomas Pickering, Ghislaine Maxwell & others on board Robert Maxwell's yacht
Daniel MarcusLawyer who was General Counsel of the 9-11 Commission.
Timothy Roemer
James R. Thompson9/11 Commissioner, Governor of Illinois 1977-1991
Philip ZelikowBush-administration insider and Chair of 911 Commission later head of the University of Virginia's COVID Commission Planning Group

 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Ford-Zelikow emailemail7 March 2003Trowbridge Ford
Document:How They Get Away With Itessay28 June 2006Michael B. GreenThe mechanics of a cover-up
File:9 11 Commission Report's Significant Pattern of Omissions & Distortions.pdfarticle27 September 2005David Ray GriffinAnalysis of some major discrepancies in 911 Comission report.
File:AdamMinetaClarkePaper.pdfreport2006Adam LetalikNorman Mineta and Richard Clarke Contradict the 9/11 Commission Report
File:The 911 Commission Report A 571-Page Lie.pdfarticle22 May 2005David Ray GriffinList of discrepancies and not addressed points in the 911 Comission report.
File:The mineta testimony.pdfreport2005Gregor Holland9/11 Commission Report - one year later ... The Mineta Testimony: 9/11 Commission Exposed
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References

  1. ↑ a b http://web.archive.org/web/20090220061250/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/investigation_11-27.html
  2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090302221213/http://unansweredquestions.org/index.php/2007/09/09/uq-wire-companion-dvd-to-911-press-for-truth/
  3. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090304133527/http://unansweredquestions.org/index.php/2007/09/09/uq-wire-campaign-for-new-911-investigation/
  4. ↑ Cable News Network - https://web.archive.org/web/20100616051453/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/13/kissinger.resigns/ saved at Archive.is
  5. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082114/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/mitchell.resigns/
  6. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082119/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/commission.kean/
  7. ↑ Philip Shenon,The Commission: The uncensored history of the 9/11 investigation (New York City: Twelve, 2008), pp. 388-389.
  8. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html?sub=new
  9. ↑ https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/isis-was-state-sponsored-by-us-allies-says-former-government-intelligence-analyst-exclusive-51a9e999c437
  10. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090716055018/http://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/23/the_white_house_has_played_cover
  11. ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/678
  12. ↑ http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/senior-counsel-to-the-911-commission-at-some-level-of-the-government-at-some-point-in-time-there-was-an-agreement-not-to-tell-the-truth.html
  13. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html
  14. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070108233707/http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html
  15. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
  16. ↑ http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch5.htm
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