9/11 CitizensWatch

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 7 2007

Contact:
Kyle F. Hence, 401-935-7715
kylehence@earthlink.net

Ray Nowosielski, 317-698-4642
ray@bandedartists.com

9/11 Expose’ Led by 9/11 Families Drives National Campaign for New Investigation

Since it’s release a year ago, the documentary 9/11 Press for Truth, an independent expose of an under-reported 9/11 cover-up as revealed by leading 9/11 families and author Paul Thompson, has become an underground hit that continues to garner support and positive recognition as time passes and word spreads. The film has received near universally excellent critical reviews while being officially selected and screened at three international film festivals including in Brazil and Mexico. Here in the US several hundred home, library and theatrical screenings rallied tens of thousands to support a new investigation while US satellite networks, FreeSpeech TV and LINKTV, beamed the film to millions of households across the country. Overseas, the film has reached tens of millions via television networks in Spain, Poland, Norway, Sweden and throughout the Middle East via Al-Jazeera. On the net, the complete film has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.

In the run-up to September 11th this year there is continued interest.  In Australia and New Zealand on the 11th, Foxtel owned History Channel will broadcast the television premiere of the film in both countries.  FreespeechTV will broadcast the documentary 5 times on Tuesday while LinkTV will broadcast the film on both Monday and Tuesday.

In Minneapolis former FBI agent Colleen Rowley has recorded public service announcements for the Air America affiliate to promote a screening of 9/11: Press for Truth in a 700 seat theater.  Rowley, who blew the whistle on her superiors’ spiking of an investigation into Zacarias Moussoui, will speak at the Minnesota screening. In Wisconsin, a victim family member will host a home screening while in Oakland, 9/11 Press for Truth is part of a 9/11 focused film festival hosted by one of the City’s largest cinemas.  Details about these screenings and a dozen in other states are available at filmmaker Robert Greenwald’s website BraveNewTheaters.com.

On the political front, 9/11 Press for Truth is central to ongoing national and local lobbying campaigns to have 9/11 re-investigated.  DownsizeDC, a libertarian group, and a number of liberal organizations including Democrats.com and Progressive Democrats of America have supported the call for nationwide screenings and house parties as part of an effort to compel Congress to re-open inquiries into the unresolved, covered-up or outstanding issues surrounding the attacks.

The Accountability project organized by DownsizeDC allows Americans supportive of a new investigation to sponsor the mailing of a DVD and letter to their representative in Congress.  They have been joined by a group in Canada that has sponsored a DVD mailing to each of the Presidential primary candidates, as well as other prominent leaders including former President Carter. The film’s Executive Producer and co-writer, Kyle F. Hence has personally presented a copy of the documentary to Rep. Kucinich and to Senators Clinton and Obama, each a current Presidential candidate.  Only Rep. Kucinich has responded by pledging to hold hearings in the Oversight subcommittee on domestic policy that he Chairs.  9/11 Commissioners Kean, Hamilton, Roemer, Gorelick and Ben-Veniste have each personally been given a copy.

In the coming week, screenings across the country together with rallies and other activities will bring focus to the failure of Congress to fully exercise their oversight responsibilities.  Since the release of the 9/11 Report in July of 2004, Congress has not held a single hearing to review the flawed, deceptive and incomplete “findings of fact” presented by the 9/11 Commission.  “No one has been held accountable and we do not yet know the whole truth about what happened,” insists co-writer Kyle F. Hence, “so it’s immensely gratifying knowing that public screenings across the country this coming week and national satellite broadcasts Monday and Tuesday as well as television broadcasts in Sweden, Australia and New Zealand will bring added pressure for a full accounting and a new investigation either by Congress, by ballot initiative in New York City or a duly constituted legal body.”

Members of the press interested in interviewing any of those involved with production of the film or any of the above outreach activities are encouraged to contact the Director Ray Nowosielski and the Executive Producer, Kyle F. Hence.  While 9/11 family member availability is limited at this time, the producers are pleased to respond to any inquiries or requests for interviews.

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February 24, 2005

From the Desk of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton:

Dear Friends and Supporters:

Recently, I’ve received feedback from some of you that the use of bullet points is causing formatting errors in the Weekly Update, making it difficult to read. Hopefully this new format will do the trick.

Here are this week’s headlines…

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JW Files Two New Lawsuits

As usual, our legal department has been very busy this week. Here is a brief summary of two lawsuits filed over the past few days:

Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense for withholding a video(s) that allegedly shows United Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The Pentagon claims it cannot release the video because it is “part of an ongoing investigation involving Zacarias Moussaoui,” but this is a specious argument. Moussaoui already pled guilty in April 2005 for conspiring with al Qaida to fly planes into U.S. buildings.

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With permission of Utah State Valley College, we are proud to offer Professor Jones’ lecture entitled, “9/11 Revisited: Ethical and Scientific Questions” on DVD! The lecture, presented at UVSC on February 1, 2006, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics, addresses Jones’ scientific research into the possibility that pre-planted explosives toppled the World Trade Center towers as opposed to the widely-held belief that airplane crashes and fire triggered the

collapses.

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BYU physics professor said a group he co-founded will ask for a Watergate-style special federal prosecutor to look into unanswered questions surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Steven E. Jones gave a presentation at Brigham Young University on Thursday about his theory that World Trade Center Building 7 was destroyed by controlled demolition rather than a terrorist attack. Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which Jones co-founded, is putting together a list of questions and will ask for a special prosecutor like the one used to probe the Watergate scandal, he said.

“Remember, I’m not alone anymore. I’ve got over 100 plus,” he said, referring to the jump in membership in the Scholars group from about 40 to more than 140 since he spoke at Utah Valley State College on Feb. 1.
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Alex Massiein, Washington, D.C.

NEOCONSERVATISM has failed the United States and needs to be replaced by a more realistic foreign policy agenda, according to one of its prime architects.

Francis Fukuyama, who wrote the best-selling book The End of History and was a member of the neoconservative project, now says that, both as a political symbol and a body of thought, it has “evolved into something I can no longer support”. He says it should be discarded on to history’s pile of discredited ideologies.

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=266122006
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By WERTHER

http://www.counterpunch.org/werther02182006.html

The events of September 11, 2001 evoke painful memories, tinged with a powerful nostalgia for the way of life before it happened. The immediate tragedy caused a disorientation sufficient to distort the critical faculties in the direction of retrospectively predictable responses: bureaucratic adaptation, opportunism, profiteering, kitsch sentiment, and mindless sloganeering.

As 9/11, and the report of the commission charged to investigate it, fade into history like the Warren Commission that preceded it, the questions, gaps, and anomalies raised by the report have created an entire cottage industry of amateur speculation–as did the omissions and distortions of the Warren Report four decades ago. How could it not?
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http://www.communitycurrency.org/Feb23.html

Thursday, February 23rd

Grand Lake Theater in Oakland

Sponsored by the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance

Hosted by: Janette MacKinlay, 9/11 survivor, Speaking on “Art to Activism”

Door Open at 6:00 p.m.

Program begins at 7:00 p.m.

Reception & distribution of activist kits 9:00 p.m.
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/19/194633/395

This link-rich post focus on Lt. Col Shaffer’s testimony before two sub-committees of the House Armed Services, the corruption of the 9/11 Commission, and questions still unanswered concerning the attacks of 9/11.

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From Kevin Barrett khidria@merr.com:

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Pravda Prints 9/11 Truth–Will Americans Be the Last to Know?

During the Cold War, Pravda (“truth”) was an ironic name. Today, the US corporate media is as ruthlessly controlled as the Soviet media ever was–for a rare exception, see next item–and, irony of ironies, Pravda is telling US the truth about the 9/11 hoax that engineered American Stalinism:

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/16-02-2006/76020-terorrism-0

Mainstream US Newspaper Publishes Call to 9/11 Truth Insurrection

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/guest/index.php?ntid=72574

If you like this column let them know at:

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letter/letter_form.php

Tomorrow 2/20/06: Presidents’ Day March For Truth in N.Y.C.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/332307.shtml

Things You Can Do NOW:

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An Open Letter to Eliot Spitzer from 9/11 CitizensWatch regarding the NY Attorney General’s Complicity in Cover-up of key Intelligence regarding the attacks of September 11th 2001.

February 17, 2006

Dear Mr. Spitzer,

I learned during a Congressional hearing before two sub-committees of the Armed Service Committee this past Wednesday (hear audio at http://www.abledangerblog.com) that you had acted in such a way as to allow the #2 at the your office, your Deputy Dietrich Snell, a former 9/11 Commission counsel, to avoid having to answer questions as to his role in the 9/11 Commission’s failure and/or refusal to disclose details about the Able Danger counter-terrorist program either to the 9/11 Commissioners or in the 9/11 Report itself.

According to Stephen Cambone, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, who gave testimony before the Armed Services sub-committeess, there were five witnesses who said the program had identified Mohamed Atta by name and/or photo over a year before the attacks. According to Rep. Weldon an Able Danger chart created over a year before 9/11 showing a photo of Atta was presented by Representatives Weldon, Burton and Shays to Stephen Hadley, then Deputy to National Security Advisor Condi Rice, on September 25, 2001. On July 12, 2004 Dieter Snell met one of the Able Danger team members and witnesses, the actual hands-on head of the operation, Capt. Scott Phillpott, who told him that Able Danger had identified and planned offensive operations against four of the eventual 19 hijackers as part of what they called the “Brooklyn Cell.” According to Lt. Col Shaffer Dietrich Snell said, “What do you want me to do with this information, we go to print in 10 days?”

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