At the Cannes Film Festival last week, a predominantly American audience gave maverick film director Michael Moore a standing ovation for his controversial film, Fahrenheit 9/11. The movie, which won the coveted Palme D’Or, is a blistering critique of the Bush administration’s motives for the “war on terror,” and even goes so far as to suggest that the Twin Tower atrocities provided a convenient mandate for America to invade Iraq.
Reaction to the film is one more sign of the growing cynicism over the President’s handling of the catastrophic events of 9/11. Yet the questions that Moore’s movie pose scratch only the surface. Now, an
explosive book on the happenings of 9/11, which raises even more controversial issues, is about to be published.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Director Michael Moore’s controversial documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11″ turned on the box office heat in its first day in theaters breaking single-day records at the two New York City theaters where it played.
The movie, which aims a critical eye at President Bush and his prosecution of the war in Iraq , sold $49,000 worth of tickets at the Loew’s Village 7 theater, beating the venue’s single-day record of $43,435 held by 1997′s “Men in Black,” according to distributors Lions Gate Films and IFC Films…
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Information Provided To Congress Two Years Ago Was Recently Reclassified By FBI To Secure Litigation Advantage
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a Whistleblower regarding 9/11 and is suing the FBI, filed a Motion last night challenging the Government’s illegal reclassification of crucial evidence needed for her lawsuit. The information in question was provided to Congress two years ago in unclassified briefings and was the subject of several Senate letters sent to the FBI and Department of Justice that were widely disseminated to the public.
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By Associated Press | June 24, 2004
WASHINGTON — A watchdog group sued Attorney General John Ashcroft yesterday for classifying previously public documents pertaining to a whistleblower’s claims of security lapses in the FBI’s translator program.
Citing national security, Ashcroft recently classified documents related to the case of Sibel Edmonds, a former linguist at the FBI. The lawsuit charged that reclassifying materials that had previously been in the public domain is illegal and unconstitutional.
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9/11 ACTION ALERT: Join the Fahrenhiet 9/11 Movie Theater Leafleting Campaign!
Dear 9/11 truth activists and concerned citizens,
Michael Moore’s new documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, is set to be released this week in theaters across the country. This is an historic opportunity to educate the masses of people about the unanswered questions and unexplained facts surrounding 9/11, and to motivate thousands to get involved in the 9/11 truth movement. [Film open tomorrow, June 25th, nationwide]
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by Joe Conason — June 23, 2004
With the prescience that often accompanies a queasy conscience, Vice President Dick Cheney opposed an independent investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks from the very beginning. In the spring of 2002, Mr. Cheney sought to intimidate Senator Tom Daschle, then the Senate Majority Leader, from undertaking or authorizing such an investigation. Any probe of the events leading up to the catastrophe might somehow damage the “war on terrorism,” he warned.
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–by Bryan Sacks
June 22, 2004
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Here, in classic doublespeak fashion, Doran gives an answer that is a non-answer. She had to be aware that several FBI “street-level” investigations into the activities of the 9/11 terrorists were stymied by higher-ups in the weeks prior to 9/11, each under strange circumstances, and well before the street-level agents felt like they had reached their “logical end”. Consider the following cases, all drawn from mainstream news sources…
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June 22, 2004
From the Streets of Little Beirut
Glen Yeadon
New allegations of criminal conduct by the Bush regime are now surfacing almost daily. The investigation of torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib has expanded to include rape of prisoners, deaths of over 100 prisoners and thousands of prisoners held in secret prisons. It is also clear the highest levels of authority in the Bush regime approved the torture. Cheney approved of a $7 billion dollar no bid contract with Haliburton, which has already resulted in more than $100 million dollars of overcharges for services not delivered. Moreover, Cheney is facing a possible criminal indictment for bribery over a scandal arising in Nigeria.
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By DAVID HACKETT — New York Times Regional Newspapers
Published Wednesday, June 23, 2004
In the Michael Moore documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11,” opening Friday, President Bush is shown listening to Sarasota second-graders read a story for nearly seven minutes after he was told that the nation was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
Moore contends it was an example of the president failing to take charge.
Emma E. Booker Elementary School Principal Gwendolyn Tose-Rigell, who was at Bush’s side most of the morning, is not buying Moore’s version.
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“Revealing the Lies” on 9/11 Perpetuates the “Big Lie”
by Michel Chossudovsky
Text of Michel Chossudovsky’s keynote presentation at the opening plenary session (27 May 2004) to The International Citizens Inquiry Into 9/11, Toronto, 25-30 May 2004. www.globalresearch.ca 27 May 2004
This is an abridged email version, which includes the first part of a lengthy review article. To read the complete text go to: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO405E.html
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