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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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'''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/>
 
==Official Narrative==
 
==Official Narrative==
'''The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States''', a.k.a. 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]].  was established on November 27, 2002, by [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] and the [[United States Congress]], with former Secretary of State [[Henry Kissinger]] initially appointed to head the commission.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/investigation_11-27.html |title=Investigating Sept. 11 |publisher=PBS |work=NewsHour |date=November 27, 2002 |accessdate=January 21, 2009| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090220061250/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/investigation_11-27.html| archivedate= February 20, 2009 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> However, Kissinger resigned only weeks after being appointed, because he would have been obliged to disclose the clients of his private consulting business.<ref>{{cite news | author = [[Cable News Network]] | url = http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/13/kissinger.resigns/ | title = Kissinger resigns as head of 9/11 commission | work = CNN Inside Politics | publisher = [[Time Warner]]|date = December 13, 2002 | accessdate = August 7, 2006}}</ref> Former U.S. Senator [[George J. Mitchell|George 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>{{cite news |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/mitchell.resigns/ |title=Mitchell quits 9/11 probe |date=December 10, 2002 |publisher=CNN |accessdate=January 21, 2009| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082114/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/mitchell.resigns/| archivedate= February 20, 2009 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> On December 15, 2002, Bush appointed former [[New Jersey]] governor [[Thomas Kean|Tom Kean]] to head the commission.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/commission.kean/ |title=Bush taps ex-New Jersey governor for 9/11 panel |date=December 16, 2002 |publisher=CNN |accessdate=January 21, 2009| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082119/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/commission.kean/| archivedate= February 20, 2009 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> [[Lee H. Hamilton]] was vice chairman.
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[[Henry Kissinger]] was initially appointed to head the commission<ref name=pbs>{{cite news |url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/investigation_11-27.html |title=Investigating Sept. 11 |publisher=PBS |work=NewsHour |date=November 27, 2002 |accessdate=January 21, 2009| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090220061250/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/investigation_11-27.html| archivedate= February 20, 2009 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> but resigned a few weeks later to avoid disclosing the clients of his private consulting business.<ref>{{cite news | author = [[Cable News Network]] | url = http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/13/kissinger.resigns/ | title = Kissinger resigns as head of 9/11 commission | work = CNN Inside Politics | publisher = [[Time Warner]]|date = December 13, 2002 | accessdate = August 7, 2006}}</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>{{cite news |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/mitchell.resigns/ |title=Mitchell quits 9/11 probe |date=December 10, 2002 |publisher=CNN |accessdate=January 21, 2009| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082114/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/mitchell.resigns/| archivedate= February 20, 2009 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> On December 15, 2002, Bush appointed former [[New Jersey]] governor [[Thomas Kean|Tom Kean]] to head the commission.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/commission.kean/ |title=Bush taps ex-New Jersey governor for 9/11 panel |date=December 16, 2002 |publisher=CNN |accessdate=January 21, 2009| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090220082119/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/16/commission.kean/| archivedate= February 20, 2009 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> [[Lee H. Hamilton]] was vice chairman.
  
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==Forgone conclusion?==
 
==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 chairman Tom Kean and vice-chairman Lee Hamilton and they approve of 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 of it, over a year later, they are alarmed. Some circulate 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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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>
  
 
===NORAD's Wrongdoing===
 
===NORAD's Wrongdoing===
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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?utm_content=buffer9fb7a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</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>{{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>{{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>
  
 
===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 two co-chairs - "Set up to fail"===
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=== 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">{{cite web | url = http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html | title = 9/11: Truth, Lies and Conspiracy Interview: Lee Hamilton | accessdate = 2010-07-28 | date = August 21, 2006 | work = CBC News, Canada | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070108233707/http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html | archivedate = Jan 8, 2007}}</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">{{cite web | url = http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html | title = 9/11: Truth, Lies and Conspiracy Interview: Lee Hamilton | accessdate = 2010-07-28 | date = August 21, 2006 | work = CBC News, Canada | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070108233707/http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html | archivedate = Jan 8, 2007}}</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>
 
 
==Blaming the CIA==
 
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>
 
  
 
==Report==
 
==Report==

Revision as of 15:09, 13 December 2018

Group.png National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States  
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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
Typewhitewash
Exposed byMax Cleland
Subpage9-11/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
• 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]

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.[2] 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.[3] On December 15, 2002, Bush appointed former New Jersey governor Tom Kean to head the commission.[4] 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.”[5]

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."[6]

Membership

Senior staffers at the 9/11 Commission included Daniel Byman.[7]

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."[8]

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".[9]

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“.[10] 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.”[11]

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."[12] 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".[13]

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."[14] [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 Gorelick
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. Thompson
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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