The Big Lie 9-11 and Government Complicity in Mass Murder [PDF]
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Lie</strong>” 9/<strong>11</strong> <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Government</strong>’s<br />
<strong>Complicity</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Mass</strong> <strong>Murder</strong><br />
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<strong>The</strong> FAA <strong>and</strong> NORAD were so unwill<strong>in</strong>g to assist the commission that subpoenas<br />
were required to be issued to get them to release documents. Initially, witnesses<br />
were not even sworn under oath to testify to avoid possibility of perjury. Senator<br />
Mark Dayton D-MN excoriated the 9/<strong>11</strong> Commission, the FAA, <strong>and</strong> NORAD<br />
when he stated <strong>in</strong> the 9/<strong>11</strong> Congressional Hear<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> particularly harsh language<br />
that the Commission’s Report is especially troubl<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> that government<br />
officials egregiously covered-up <strong>and</strong> lied <strong>in</strong> their testimony:<br />
It is a profoundly disturb<strong>in</strong>g report because it chronicles <strong>in</strong> excruciat<strong>in</strong>g detail the<br />
terrible attack aga<strong>in</strong>st our homel<strong>and</strong>, the despicable murder of so many American<br />
citizens <strong>and</strong> the horrible destruction to countless other lives <strong>and</strong> liberties<br />
throughout this nation.<br />
And because of the utter failure to defend them [American citizens] by their<br />
federal government, by their leaders, <strong>and</strong> the <strong>in</strong>stitutions that were entrusted to<br />
do so <strong>and</strong> because of serious discrepancies between the facts that you've set<br />
forth <strong>and</strong> what was told to the American people, to members of Congress, <strong>and</strong><br />
to your own Commission by those, some of those authorities.<br />
Yes, it was a surprise attack. It was unprecedented. Yes, it exposed serious flaws<br />
<strong>and</strong> as you noted our imag<strong>in</strong>ation, our policies, capabilities <strong>and</strong> our management<br />
designs but what I f<strong>in</strong>d much more shock<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> alarm<strong>in</strong>g were the repeated <strong>and</strong><br />
catastrophic failures of the leaders of the leaders <strong>in</strong> charge, <strong>and</strong> the other people<br />
responsible, to do their jobs.<br />
To follow established procedures.<br />
To follow direct orders from civilian <strong>and</strong> military comm<strong>and</strong>ers.<br />
And then they failed to tell us the truth later.<br />
Yet NORAD's public chronology of 9/18/01 <strong>and</strong> their Commission testimony 20<br />
months later covered up those truths. <strong>The</strong>y lied to the American people, they lied<br />
to Congress <strong>and</strong> they lied to your 9/<strong>11</strong> Commission to create a false impression<br />
of competence, communication, coord<strong>in</strong>ation <strong>and</strong> protection of the American<br />
people.<br />
And we can set up all the oversight possible at great additional cost to the<br />
American taxpayers <strong>and</strong> it won't be worth an Enron pension if the people