Author Of 9/11 Commission Report: Almost All Lies

Well, finally, someone is doing what should have been done a very long time ago, though I can certainly understand why Mr. Farmer waited until the criminals of the last administration were out of power before he published this book. 

This book is a must read, Pelican Indies. I'm well aware that we have disagreed, often contentiously, about the truth regarding the events of 9/11 and the ensuing anthrax attacks. I guess the only thing we have all agreed upon is that the official story could not possibly be true. If Farmer is telling it straight, and I can see no reason why he would not be given what a pariah he may well become for having written about this topic at all, let alone advising the American people that their government has tried to deceived them, almost completely,; an event that has led to an even worse disaster for our nation than the actual attacks of 9/11. about the most important event in this country since Pearl Harbor

I know that Daniel Elsberg has been calling for whistle-blowers with documentation of any and all crimes to come forward, as patriots of this country, and tell whatever truth they know and can reasonably prove about the Bush/Cheney administration. He and I both know, for similar reasons, that until the people are informed by highly credible people, there will be no accountability for the very serious, appalling crimes most of us agree were committed during the last administration.



I have said, many times, that until the path of truth-seekers and credible truth-tellers leads us back to the events of 9/11, there is really no lasting hope for this nation. Without the truth about 9/11, no matter what it is, we will remain split as a nation, leading, I am afraid, to irreconcilable differences. Every disaster, both foreign and domestic, in the last 8 years is a result of the events of that day and the terrifying anthrax attacks that followed.




If ever there was a time for the light of truth to shine into dark corners and strength and courage of all Americans to face it, no matter how horrifying, sickening and embarrassing we might find that truth, it is now. We have, for too many decades, allowed whitewash commissions and the results of limited hang-out investigations/confessions to stand unchallenged, even when it became obvious we were being sold a bill of goods.



We have allowed duly elected presidents and congresses to "move on," forgive and forget serious crimes of their predecessors, more often than not crimes against the American people and our constitution. Many of the events since the election of 2000 may well be the greatest crimes ever committed by a supposedly "democratically" elected government upon it's own people, not to mention innocent people around the world.

 

The 9/11 Commission Rejects own Report as Based on Government Lies

Gordon Duff Salem-News.com

How long have we watered the Tree of Deceit with the blood of patriots? 

John Farmer’s book: “The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11″

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - In John Farmer’s book:  

“The Ground Truth: The Story Behind

America’s Defense on 9/11″, the author builds 

the inescapably convincing case that the official version... is almost entirely untrue...

The 9/11 Commission now tells us that the official version of 9/11 was based on false testimony and documents and is almost entirely untrue. The details of this massive cover-up are carefully outlined in a book 

by John Farmer, who was the Senior Counsel for 

the 9/11 Commission.

Farmer, Dean of Rutger Universities' School of Law

and former Attorney General of New Jersey, was responsible for drafting the original flawed 9/11 report.

Does Farmer have cooperation and agreement from other members of the Commission? Yes. Did they say Bush ordered 9/11? No. Do they say that the 9/11 Commission was lied to by the FBI, CIA, White House and NORAD? Yes. Is there full documentary proof of this? Yes.

Farmer states...“at some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened... I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The [Norad air defense] tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years. This is not spin.”

The 9/11 Commission head, Thomas Kean, was the Republican governor of New Jersey. He had the following to say... “We to this day don’t know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us, it was just so far from the truth. . . " When Bush's own handpicked commission failed to go along with the cover up and requested a criminal investigation, why was nothing done?

9/11 Commission member and former US Senator, Bob Kerrey, says, "No one is more qualified to write the definitive book about the tragedy of 9/11 than John Farmer. Fortunately, he has done so. Even more fortunately the language is clear, alive and instructive for anyone who wants to make certain this never happens again."

Here's my never answered question regarding the last sentence of the of the above paragraph: What, pray tell, can we, the people, do to make sure this never happens again? I mean, exactly, what can we do? 

What lengths, short of violence, must we be willing to go to in order to assure that no official in administrations to come, people within political parties in coming congresses, corporate officers in major international corporations and in the military-industrial-security-fossil fuel complex or in financial institutions will think not only twice but several dozen times before any of them would even entertain more than a very fleeting thought of conspiring against the American people through deceit, especially deceit involving fear-mongering?

With the only "official" 9/11 report now totally false, where do we go from here? Who is hurt by these lies? The families of the victims of 9/11 have fought, for years, to get to the truth. For years, our government has hidden behind lies and secrecy to deny them closure.

However, in my mind, not only the families of the victims who died on 9/11, but all Americans who have been hurt be the lies of the Bush administration and, God only knows,  how many co-conspirators outside of government. Neocons holding no official positions come to mind as well as some corporate pals of Bush and/or Cheney all of whom had something big to gain if the dreams of the Neocons of PNAC fame were realized. Many of us were completely deceived for various periods of time. Some of us still are. The nation has suffered in countless ways not the least of which is our loss of blood and treasure. Our country's reputation and credibility have been devastated way beyond what Vietnam did.  Two wars and the most un-freakin-believable war profiteering in modern history have left our nation on the brink of another great depression, while GOP foreign nor domestic policies have done nothing to make Americans more secure at home. As a matter of fact, their policies have, as usual, been more about corporate welfare than the welfare of the people.

It is past time for Americans to, for once, see the whole truth, no matter how ugly and embarrassing it is. Until we face the truth about ourselves and our government, our nation will continue on the road to wrack and ruin. Honesty with ourselves, transparency, confession of our transgressions, citizen demand for accountability for the "deciders" in our own government, as well as their own illegal combatant allies and, finally, recognize that we, the people, have become much too tolerant of deceit, whether the lies are by corporations, politicians or the corporate owned media.

In 2006, The Washington Post reported..."Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the 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..."

What does Farmer's book tell us? Farmer offers no solutions, only a total and full rejection of what was told and his own his own ideas concerning the total failure of honesty on the part of the government, a government with something to hide.

Farmer never tells us what. Nobody could keep a job in the public sector speaking out more than Farmer has. What were Farmer's omissions? There are some. Now that we know that intelligence given the 9/11 Commission wasn't just lies from our own government but based on testimony coerced through torture from informants forced to back up a cover story now proven false, a pattern emerges.

We know that, immediately after 9/11, many more potential suspects and informants were flown directly to

Saudi Arabia by Presidential order than were ever detained and questioned. We will never know what they could have said. Their testimony would have been vital to any real investigation were they not put beyond the reach of even Congress and the FBI.

Putting aside all other questions of recent evidence of CIA involvement with bin Laden prior to 9/11 or altered physical evidence involving the Pentagon attack, any failure to call to account the systematic perjury committed by dozens of top government officials, now exposed as a certainty is an offense to every American.

What do we know? We know the conjecture about 9/11 still stands but for certain, we know we were lied to, not in a minor way, but systematically as part of a plot covering up government involvement at nearly every level, perhaps gross negligence, perhaps something with darker intent.

If all we find is negligence, it is not merely gross, but criminal negligence.

Are we willing to live with another lie to go with the Warren Report, Iran Contra and so many others? Has the sacrifice of thousands more Americans, killed, wounded or irreparably damaged by a war knowingly built on the same lies from the same liars who misled the 9/11 Commission pushed us beyond willingness to confront the truth?

Have we yet found where the lies have begun and ended? There is no evidence of this, only evidence to the contrary. The lies live on and the truth will never be sought. The courage for that task has not been found.

Can anyone call themselves an American if they don't demand, even with the last drop of their blood, that the truth be found?

How long have we watered the Tree of Deceit with the blood of patriots?

Just guessing, of course,  I'd say around 60 years, at least. "The blood of patriots" may have been spilled for deceit before in our history, but for the last 60 years, the blood letting has been intense, even when it did not seem so, and pretty much continuous, even though, until the attacks on the WTC and Washington, D.C., war has not been declared by our Congress, the only part of our government who has the power to do so, since WWII.

Dwight Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial-complex in his farewell address to the nation. I imagine that were he resurrected into today's America, he would be horrified by corporate control of America, way beyond just the old military-industrial complex.

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How Can A Diseased, Dysfunctional Congress Be Expected To Do Anything About Broken Healthcare

So, what do we do about it? 

P.M. Carpenter


I try my best to avoid writing apocalyptic pieces, since, according to the blogosphere, the sky has been falling with almost daily regularity since roughly the blogosphere's creation. Still, it's time to look around and acknowledge that, to seize on just the latest example, Sen. Max Baucus' wasted days and wasted nights of fraudulent bipartisanship were but the tip of a representative democracy on the major skids. And recovery is questionable.


Yesterday I noted the Politico's characterization of contemporary bipartisanship as "The Great Myth" -- every Washington pol knows, observed the paper, "that the political incentives driving them toward conflict are vastly stronger than any impulses they may personally harbor for conciliation and compromise" -- yet failed bipartisanship is but a symptom, it seems to me and many others, of that far uglier disease mentioned above, which we'll return to momentarily.


First a rapid survey, as outlined by the Politico, of the reasons why modern bipartisanship nearly always crashes. And there's no better place to begin than at the Politico's beginning: the stain of redistricting, a corruption of democracy "that allows the two parties to conspire to make a big chunk of House seats virtual locks for one party or the other, meaning the typical member has scant reason to gravitate to the ideological center."


Then the gauntlet of primaries does its damage. In any ideologically extreme district, or at a minimum, within any ideologically extreme primary base, there's no safety in the middle; this has been especially true in redder districts, where races to the bottom of Reason have dominated the candidate-selection process. The results: "The past three elections have basically clipped off the moderate wing of the GOP.... [M]ost of the Republicans left don’t consider the Democratic criticism -- that the GOP has become 'the party of no' -- to be much of an insult."

(Actually, moderate Republicans are now Democrats, making everything more confusing. Right now, the GOP is purely ideological and constantly courting the crusading crackpots and other wing-nuts on the Right and the Democrats are not. Still, because the Democrats, still seen by many as flaming Liberals, are actually liberal, moderate and conservative. For the most ideological party, it is true, that they have no incentive to do what's best for the people. Rather, they believe that it is in the best interest of everyone that they win, as they cannot possibly see any good in any ideas other than their own. That is the very definition of rigid ideology. Therefore, there is no need for reconciliation. Actually, they see any move toward compromise as against their own need to win power in order to codify their own beliefs. Who has not heard Republicans vilify Democrats because they cannot seem to get their own house in order?)

And in politics, crap runs uphill. Notes the Politico: "The Senate, which despite its public reputation as the reasonable, statesmanlike chamber, has been indisputably more partisan the past decade, in part because so many House members are graduating to the upper chamber and bringing their tactics with them."


Of not inconsiderable influence is the "new media culture" as well, a remorseless jackhammering of sensationalism and superficiality "that guarantees plenty of cable TV time and fundraising success for the most flamboyantly confrontational figures" -- just witness the sudden death and miraculous resurrection of Rep. Joe Wilson -- "and the partisan fire burns wildly."


An exiguous list, for sure -- hey, this is the Internet, where readers' attention span is as scanty as any list must be; if you've made it this far, my heartiest congratulations, you're one of the plucky few -- but rounding it out nicely the other night was a conversation, on "The PBS Newshour," between NY Times' columnist Ross Douthat and political historian Richard Norton Smith.

Actually it was more of a riveting mini-debate of a gargantuan issue -- a squaring off of the "extreme partisanship is only natural" side (Douthat) against the "extreme partisanship is unforgivable" argument (obviously, Smith's).

Thrusted Douthat: "What we're seeing, in a way, is the working out of something that's been happening for 50 years in the United States, which is that the parties are sorted by ideology in a way that they hadn't in the '40s, '50s and '60s.... [N]ow you have a much more -- you could say a much more rational system, where you have a liberal party and a conservative party. But what that means is that you're going to have ... real divergence, real heated debate, and real inter-party tension.... [Y]ou'd expect that a large Democratic Party and a shrunken Republican Party to have a very hard time finding common ground."

Parried Smith: "[I]t may be rational in theory to have a neat liberal party and a conservative party. But we see an awful lot of irrationality arising out of that equation this summer.... [N]ot only the political culture has been coarsened, the country has been coarsened over the last 40 years. Forty years ago ... they may have been liberals or conservatives. And they fought like cats and dogs until 6 o'clock. But at the end of the day, there were political incentives for them to seek out common ground. Consensus was not a dirty word. Differences were seen as something to be narrowed, rather than exploited."

Plus, added Smith, rather delightfully, "We [now] have cable networks that should be registered with the Federal Election Commission," and, more ominously, we "have all of these outside forces, including lobbyists, whose business ... it is to pour kerosene upon those differences rather than try to put out the fire."

I once subscribed wholeheartedly to Douthat's argument. A cleanly delineated liberal vs. conservative system is indeed a rational, perhaps even desirable, one. But ours, as Smith poignantly observed, has evolved as a harshly divided one without the rationality.


What we have, instead, is a vastly unrepresentative Congress -- the sorry result of rather acrobatic redistricting and hardcore-base groveling -- encouraged 24/7 by "outrage"-obsessed media -- ratings, ratings, ratings -- and fueled by the worst sort of capitalist concentrations of grotesque wealth -- corporate plutocrats -- and those who represent it -- lobbyists.

AMEN!

It only gets worse. And there seems to be no way out. Incumbents and their mothering parties positively adore the tidy ideological diaper-pinning of electoral safety; the media, from talk radio to Fox to MSNBC, aren't about to let loose of a profitable ratings game ruled by conflict; and the growing malignity of big money in politics is of course self-sustaining -- its recipients aren't about to cut their own throats with the sharp remedial blade of public finance.

What we're left with -- maybe, stuck with -- is a bracing, Congressional dysfunctionality, a gross corruption of representative democracy that indeed benefits the very few, but screws the hell out of most. Just take a gander someday at this nation's gaping income inequality -- to date, a statistical trajectory of steep ascent with only fleeting disruptions; I'd also advise having a stiff one, first, but after reading this, you may want to do that anyway.

Ironic, is it not, that our systemic political disease is now being tested by the matter of health care.

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