It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information," the Solicitor-General, Theodore Olson, told the court on Monday. "It's an unfortunate reality that the issuance of incomplete information and even misinformation by government may sometimes be perceived as necessary to protect vital interests."(yahoo) (smh)

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INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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"Independent Analysis for the Promotion
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26th June 2002

SEPTEMBER 11th AND U.S. POLICY

THE NECESSITY OF AN INDEPENDENT INQUIRY

Dear Friends,

Acceptance of the official narrative of what happened on September 11, 2001 has become widespread on both ends of the political spectrum, right and left. But is the official version of those unprecedented events tenable? Mainstream right-wing commentators, of course, support the stance of the Bush administration and insist that any attempt to question or doubt the official version is tantamount to "conspiracy mongering". Recently, many respected progressive commentators have come to essentially the same conclusion. All of them are united in the view that questioning the U.S government-endorsed narrative of 9/11 is illegitimate.

In a thoroughly documented paper, Institute Executive Director Nafeez M. Ahmed suggests otherwise, confronting the writings of several leading commentators who forcefully argue firstly that acceptance of the official version of 9/11 is justified, and secondly that an independent inquiry into anomalies and inconsistencies in the official version is unnecessary. The paper is a comprehensive rebuttal of the irrational assumptions and arguments underlying such commentary, focusing specifically on writings available online at the social justice website, ZNet (www.zmag.org).

In reviewing the work of?these commentators on 9/11, Ahmed also analyses in detail the failure of the U.S. intelligence community in preventing the Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks; the casual repression and/or misrepresentation of facts related to 9/11; the failure of U.S. defence measures on 9/11; the historic and institutional basis for skepticism about the official narrative; and some salient facts which illustrate the need for proper research into the linkages between U.S. government, military, intelligence, and corporate policy, and the ease with which the September 11 terrorist attacks went ahead.

On this basis, this IPRD paper concludes that the documented facts pose a considerable challenge to the conventional wisdom about the 9/11 attacks, exposing glaring anomalies that need to be addressed. These anomalies in the mainstream version of events suggest a much wider picture of long-standing institutional corruption, involving the intertwined relationship between the interests of the U.S. military-corporate complex and the operation of international terrorism

This paper has been endorsed by "UnAnswered Questions" (http://www.UnAnsweredQuestions.org), the coalition of concerned American citizens and families calling for an independent inquiry into the 9/11 attacks.

See "9/11 'CONSPIRACIES' AND THE DEFACTUALISATION OF ANALYSIS: HOW IDEOLOGUES ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT THEORISE VACUOUSLY TO SUPPORT BASELESS SUPPOSITION - A Reply to ZNet",

http://www.globalresearch.org/view_article.php?aid=342536303

Information in this paper is based on Ahmed's extensive research on the 9/11 attacks from his internationally acclaimed new 400-page study, "THE WAR ON FREEDOM: HOW AND WHY AMERICA WAS ATTACKED, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001", http://www.TheWaronFreedom.com

Please use this information as best you can in the struggle against injustice worldwide. We would appreciate it if you forwarded this material to your friends, family and colleagues, in an effort to generate public awareness.

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In the last meeting (May 2001), participants discussed Washington and New York as the most likely targets, even discussing a scenario in which a plane is hijacked and crashed into a high-value target. In fact, this scenario had been discussed for some 40 years, the supposed target typically a nuclear reactor. Denver Council on Foreign Relations Reports

"The FOX TV series The Lone Gunmen (X-Files spin off) airs their opening episode "Pilot" six months before 9/11 which depicts a secret U.S. government agency behind a plot to crash a Boeing 727 into the WTC via remote control and blame it on foreign terrorists in the hopes of generating a bigger military budget. (webfairy-killtown)

"What's disturbing about it to me is, you think as a fiction writer that if you can imagine this scenario, then the people in power in the government who are there to imagine disaster scenarios can imagine it, too." - Frank Spotnitz, Co-Producer of The Lone Gunmen

"Anyway, I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And something was wrong with the plane, or -- anyway, I'm sitting there, listening to the briefing, and Andy Card came and said, "America is under attack." (Whitehouse News Release 20020105)

Like much of America, Bostick, and everyone else in the Pentagon's National Military Command Center, watched replays of the first passenger jet hitting the North Tower of the World Trade Center, thinking it was all a horrible accident. Fort Hood general recalls Pentagon attack 20020911

"evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."

• WANT TO KNOW MORE? Fox News Pulls Israeli Spy Story 20011222

11:16 2001-09-12
Notorious international terrorist Osama Bin Laden denies his involvement in the US terrorist acts. The Pakistani Khabrein daily with reference to some Taliban sources quotes him as saying that the terrorist act was committed by some American terrorist group and that he had nothing to do with it. (pravda.ru)