BY MICHAEL McAULIFF — DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
New York Daily News – http://www.nydailynews.com
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
WASHINGTON – President Bush won’t be the only one making political points about 9/11 at tonight’s State of the Union speech.
At least two New Yorkers invited to the address by state lawmakers will be there to illustrate their own, very different points.
“Let’s see if we get some truth,” said Monica Gabrielle, who lost her husband on Sept. 11, 2001, and will listen to Bush with Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.).
Bush, who has made his response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks a cornerstone of his administration, has featured New Yorkers prominently in the address every year since.
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Story – Url.: http://prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb338782.htm
Scholars claim government’s account violates laws of physics and engineering.
The society includes U.S. and international faculty and students of history, science, military affairs, psychology, and even philosophy.
(PRWEB) January 27, 2006 – An influential group of prominent experts and scholars have joined together alleging that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. The members of this new non-partisan association, “Scholars for 9/11 Truth” (S9/11T), are convinced their research proves the current administration has been dishonest with the nation about events in New York and Washington, D.C.
These experts contend that books and articles by members and associates have established that the World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the official story about the attack on the Pentagon.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060130/bs_prweb/prweb339303_5
Scholars for 9/11 Truth call for verification and publication by an international consortium.
Duluth, MN (Newswire) January 30, 2006 — A group of distinguished experts and scholars, including Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne Madsen, John McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow, have concluded that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11.
They have joined with others in common cause as members of “Scholars for 9/11 Truth” (S9/11T), because they are convinced, based on their own research, that the administration has been deceiving the nation about critical events in New York and Washington, D.C.
These experts suggest these events may have been orchestrated by elements within the administration to manipulate Americans into supporting policies at home and abroad they would never have condoned absent “another Pearl Harbor.”
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We’re already halfway down that slippery slope we were worried about…
ACLU: Government Spied on Georgians
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75151
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January 24, 2006
The Bush Administration has continually used 9/11 as an excuse to break the laws of our great nation. A simple reading of the September 11th story shows that General Michael Hayden and the Bush Administration are, once again, contradicting themselves in their use of 9/11, this time with regard to President Bush’s illegal domestic spying program.
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By W. David Jenkins III – January 21, 2006
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/dave3_039.htm
There are simply too many dots! I’m not kidding around here. I’ve been through a carton of marking pens and a case and a half of extra strength Excedrin following the trail from the Sibel Edmonds case to Plame to Libby to the NSA to the Whistleblowers Coalition to Turkey to Hastert to Abramoff to the White House and back again. This is not an exercise equivalent to playing “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” but a monstrous series of lines and dots that would produce a flow chart bigger than Rush Limbaugh’s mouth.
Speaking of Limbaugh, his recent slam of Ms. Edmonds and fellow whistleblower, Russell Tice, prompted me to congratulate Sibel the last time we talked. “They must be worried if they’re calling out the right wing radio mouths,” I told her. However, Rove and Co. may want folks like Rush to shut up about Edmonds because the more people hear about her case, the more trouble it invites for this most corrupt administration. Besides, they’ve spent the last few years imposing gag orders on Edmonds out of fear of what she knows.
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Press Release:
Monday 23 January
Oxford Union Society: “Was 911 a Conspiracy”
Today one of the world’s most famous debating forums will consider the taboo
question at the heart of the war on terror. Is the official Washington story
of the 911 attacks correct, or is 911 a myth created by Washington’s
military industrial complex to justify a generation of lucrative wars?
The Oxford Union has invited 911 sceptics David Shayler and Annie Machon,
both ex-MI5 officers, Ian Henshall co-author of non-fiction best-seller 911
Revealed, and risk analyst Bill Durodié to discuss whether the attacks
occurred in anything like the way the mainstream Washington news
organisations claim.
Ian Henshall said today:
After the WMD fiasco, newsrooms have so far been unwilling to ask whether
they were duped by their intelligence sources over 911 as well. So much
evidence has been seized by the US authorities and never made public that it
is impossible to say for sure how the 911 attacks happened. There are now
several versions of the official story which stand in open conflict with
each other. Many believe the attacks were manipulated or allowed to succeed
and quite a lot of evidence has leaked out to support this.
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BookTV on CSpan2 1/21/06
Tape of Perkins’ appearance at a Washington DC bookstore on 1/10/06
Excerpt from the Q & A session
Q: I’d like to commend you for the work you’ve done, really showing the American public how deeply evil the people who run this country have been willing to stoop. It’s very hard for a lot of people to really face how evil our leaders have chosen to become. I’m active on the 9/11 issue and most of the respected people in the movement, in the peace movement, won’t even give proper respect to that. I’m going to ask you what your knowledge is if you’ve looked at the issues involved, with claiming that there is a coverup. I’ll ask one very specific question which is very concise. Did you know that the Kean commission, an official goverment commission, did not even mention that Number 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building, collapsed at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11/01 without being hit by a plane? Taller than any building in Maryland or Virginia. It wasn’t mentioned, and the NY Times and the Washington Post didn’t mention that it wasn’t mentioned.
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Harvey Wasserman – Column at Free Press — January 19, 2006
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2006/1303
It’s not really terrorists George W. Bush wants to bug and torture. It’s YOU.
It’s not really terrorism he wants to fight. It’s opposition from people he can’t control.
It’s not really US security he wants to protect. It’s the power of his regime.
The Constitutional debate about whether these executive privileges are allowable in war is a smoke screen.
This isn’t about war: It’s about dictatorship. It’s about making power permanent by using private information against you, and by terrifying you with torture.
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By Dan Eggen — Washington Post Staff Writer — Thursday, January 19, 2006; A05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011802158_pf.html
The Bush administration appears to have violated the National Security Act by limiting its briefings about a warrantless domestic eavesdropping program to congressional leaders, according to a memo from Congress’s research arm released yesterday.
The Congressional Research Service opinion said that the amended 1947 law requires President Bush to keep all members of the House and Senate intelligence committees “fully and currently informed” of such intelligence activities as the domestic surveillance effort.
The memo from national security specialist Alfred Cumming is the second report this month from CRS to question the legality of aspects of Bush’s domestic spying program. A Jan. 6 report concluded that the administration’s justifications for the program conflicted with current law.
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