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|start=November 27, 2002 | |start=November 27, 2002 | ||
| + | |sourcewatch=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Commission_on_Terrorist_Attacks_Upon_the_United_States | ||
|end=August 21, 2004 | |end=August 21, 2004 | ||
|aim=To prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks | |aim=To prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks | ||
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|logo=911_commission_seal.svg | |logo=911_commission_seal.svg | ||
|status=captured | |status=captured | ||
| + | |constitutes=9-11/Cover-up | ||
|name=National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States | |name=National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States | ||
|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 | |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 | ||
| − | |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. | + | |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]]. |
|website=http://www.9-11commission.gov | |website=http://www.9-11commission.gov | ||
| − | |wikipedia= | + | |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission |
|image=911Commissioners HIGHRES.jpg | |image=911Commissioners HIGHRES.jpg | ||
}} | }} | ||
| + | '''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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==Official Narrative== | ==Official Narrative== | ||
| − | + | [[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?== | ||
| + | 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=== | ||
| + | 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> | ||
==Membership== | ==Membership== | ||
| + | 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=== | ||
| − | [[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> | + | [[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> |
===Bob Kerrey - "A 30 Year Conspiracy"=== | ===Bob Kerrey - "A 30 Year Conspiracy"=== | ||
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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> | ||
| − | === The | + | === 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."<ref name="cbc.ca"> | + | [[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> |
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==Report== | ==Report== | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist}} | {{Reflist}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:50, 17 February 2021
 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States  (9-11/Cover-up)     | |
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| Formation | November 27, 2002 |
| Extinction | August 21, 2004 |
| Status | captured |
| Purpose/focus | To prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks |
| Type |  whitewash |
| Exposed by | Max Cleland |
| Subpage | •9-11/Commission/Chair •9-11/Commission/Report |
| Membership | •  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 • 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]
Contents
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.
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
- 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:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Richard Ben-Veniste | A lawyer who has taken various legal roles for the US deep state, including securing the Watergate coup. |
| Alvin Felzenberg | Principal spokesman for the 9-11 Commission. |
| Fred F. Fielding | Member of 9-11/Commission. "World-class keeper of secrets". |
| Jamie Gorelick | USDSO, Deputy Attorney General of the United States 1994-1997, Clade X |
| Slade Gorton | |
| Lee H. Hamilton | Having 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 Kean | Chair of the 9/11 Commission, deep state cover-up artist |
| Janice Kephart | Military-industrial "expert" peddling biometric solutions to the US government. Formerly was a counsel to the 9-11 Commission. |
| Christopher Kojm | |
| John Lehman | US deep state operative who in 1989 met up with Donald Trump, Thomas Pickering, Ghislaine Maxwell & others on board Robert Maxwell's yacht |
| Daniel Marcus | Lawyer who was General Counsel of the 9-11 Commission. |
| Timothy Roemer | |
| James R. Thompson | 9/11 Commissioner, Governor of Illinois 1977-1991 |
| Philip Zelikow | Bush-administration insider and Chair of 911 Commission later head of the University of Virginia's COVID Commission Planning Group |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Ford-Zelikow email | 7 March 2003 | Trowbridge Ford | ||
| Document:How They Get Away With It | essay | 28 June 2006 | Michael B. Green | The mechanics of a cover-up |
| File:9 11 Commission Report's Significant Pattern of Omissions & Distortions.pdf | article | 27 September 2005 | David Ray Griffin | Analysis of some major discrepancies in 911 Comission report. |
| File:AdamMinetaClarkePaper.pdf | report | 2006 | Adam Letalik | Norman Mineta and Richard Clarke Contradict the 9/11 Commission Report |
| File:The 911 Commission Report A 571-Page Lie.pdf | article | 22 May 2005 | David Ray Griffin | List of discrepancies and not addressed points in the 911 Comission report. |
| File:The mineta testimony.pdf | report | 2005 | Gregor Holland | 9/11 Commission Report - one year later ... The Mineta Testimony: 9/11 Commission Exposed |
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References
- ↑ a b http://web.archive.org/web/20090220061250/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/investigation_11-27.html
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090302221213/http://unansweredquestions.org/index.php/2007/09/09/uq-wire-companion-dvd-to-911-press-for-truth/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090304133527/http://unansweredquestions.org/index.php/2007/09/09/uq-wire-campaign-for-new-911-investigation/
- ↑ Cable News Network - https://web.archive.org/web/20100616051453/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/13/kissinger.resigns/ saved at Archive.is
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082114/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/mitchell.resigns/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082119/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/commission.kean/
- ↑ Philip Shenon,The Commission: The uncensored history of the 9/11 investigation (New York City: Twelve, 2008), pp. 388-389.
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html?sub=new
- ↑ https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/isis-was-state-sponsored-by-us-allies-says-former-government-intelligence-analyst-exclusive-51a9e999c437
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090716055018/http://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/23/the_white_house_has_played_cover
- ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/678
- ↑ 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
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070108233707/http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
- ↑ http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch5.htm
