Author Claims Admin Complicit in 9/11 (To Be on C-SPAN2 Sat 10:30am est)

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Author Claims Admin Complicit in 9/11 (To Be on C-SPAN2 Sat 10:30am est)

Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:24:31 -0500

Summary:

 

Thanks to the tireless Kyle Hence for passing this one along. Author

David Ray Griffen spoke to a crowd of 400+ where he presented a

detailed case as to why he believes the Bush Administration played a

role in the 9/11 attacks. The amazing part is that the talk is

scheduled air Saturday on C-SPAN2 at 10:30am. Oddly, if you go through

the front door of C-SPAN to the link the schedule for C-SPAN2 is

missing for Saturday. Hmm. Also strange is if you follow the trail to

the original PDF archive of another story that appeared in a

conservative Wisconcin Paper, the link is either misdirected or the

story has been deleted, note the blank space. Am I paranoid or is this

a media blackout in action?

[Posted By ian]

By Samara Kalk Derby

Republished from The Capital Times

David Ray Griffin presents his case at UW-Madison

 

David Ray Griffin asks the tough questions about Sept. 11, contending

U.S. officials had some knowledge of what was coming and possibly

orchestrated the attacks.

 

Griffin, whose book, " The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About

the Bush Administration and 9/11, " came out a year ago, drew an

enthusiastic standing ovation from the majority of the 400 or so

people who packed his lecture Monday night at Bascom Hall.

 

A retired Christian theologian, Griffin, 65, taught for more than 30

years at the Claremont School of Theology in California.

 

His comments Monday night were directed at religious people, who he

said need to respond to Sept. 11 – and the American empire that has

ensued – based on the moral principles of their religious traditions.

 

Drawing laughter from the crowd, Griffin said he had in mind

principles like: " Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors' oil " and " Thou

shalt not murder thy neighbors in order to steal their oil. "

 

While Griffin noted that his books and talks have not received

attention from the mainstream media, C-SPAN had a cameraman at the

event and plans to air the lecture at a future date. Madison's public

access cable television station, WYOU-TV/Channel 4, meanwhile, will

air the talk at 7 p.m. Thursday.

 

Americans interpret the events of Sept. 11 in one of four ways,

Griffin said:

 

• A first group accepts the official interpretation that Sept. 11 was

a surprise attack by Islamic terrorists. It is easy for these people

" to think of America's so-called War on Terror as a just war, " Griffin

said.

 

• A second group accepts the official line but thinks Sept. 11 has

been used opportunistically by the Bush administration to extend the

American empire. People who hold this view often believe that

America's response to Sept. 11, which has led to hundreds of thousands

of deaths, is far worse than the attacks themselves, he said.

 

• A third group believes the Bush administration knew the attacks were

coming and let them happen. It shows the government as " deliberate and

cold-blooded, " advancing its imperial designs while hypocritically

portraying itself as promoting a " culture of life, " Griffin said.

 

Although there has been no national survey, a Zogby poll taken last

year indicated that almost half of the residents of New York City

share this view, he said.

 

• A fourth group believes that the government orchestrated the

attacks. While no poll shows how many Americans believe this, polls in

Canada and Germany have found as many as 20 percent of those

populations do, Griffin said.

 

In his follow-up book, " The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and

Distortions, " Griffin examines the questions that he and others in the

" 9/11 Truth Movement " charge were never examined by the federal

government's 9/11 Commission.

 

Evidence to support the theory that U.S. officials had at least had

some foreknowledge of the attacks comes from David Schippers, the

chief prosecutor for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, who

reportedly received warnings from FBI agents about the attacks six

weeks earlier, Griffin said.

 

Other government officials, including Attorney General John Ashcroft,

would not respond to the warnings, he added.

 

There was the extraordinarily high volume of " put options " purchased

in the three days before the attacks, Griffin said, with investors

betting that stock in United and American Airlines – the two airlines

used in the attacks – would go down. There were also a suspiciously

high number of put options for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, which

occupied 22 stories of the World Trade Center.

 

" U.S. intelligence agencies monitor the market, partly to look for

signs of impending attacks, " Griffin said. " One wonders how

information could be much more specific than this. "

 

Griffin then made a case that government officials planned and

executed the attacks.

 

For one, the United States military neglected to send fighter jets to

intercept the hijacked planes. Such interceptions usually occur within

10 to 20 minutes after the first signs of trouble and are routine,

happening about 100 times a year, Griffin said.

 

It seems implausible, he said, that the Pentagon was struck by Flight

77, since it is " surely the best defended building on the planet. " The

U.S. military has the best radar systems in the world and " does not

miss anything occurring in North American airspace, " he added.

 

Griffin also made a case that the collapse of the World Trade Center

buildings was brought on by thousands of explosives placed throughout

each of the buildings. They went straight down, at free-fall speed, as

in controlled demolitions, and many people in the buildings reported

that they heard or felt explosions, he added.

 

" High-rise steel-frame buildings have never – before or after 9/11-

been caused to collapse by fire, " he said.

 

Sue Adams, 50, introduced herself to Griffin after the talk, calling

him heroic. " I think some day we may really know the truth, " she said,

adding that it will likely be after the Bush administration is gone.

 

Orion Litzau, a UW freshman studying engineering, agrees that the

answers the government put out through the 9/11 Commission were more

than a simple deception.

 

" They were not only partly false but a complete, bold face lie, " he

said. " David Ray Griffin brings out interesting points about what

could be the true story behind the 9/11 attack. "

 

Jim Goulding, 67, who teaches religious studies at Edgewood College,

admitted at first he wondered whether Griffin was a crackpot, but

instead found he had a " tremendous reputation as a theologian. "

 

Goulding has read both of Griffin's Sept. 11 books.

 

" I think he makes a convincing case – well documented, well

footnoted, " he said.

ian