I think some people are on to something, and you may look at 9/11 a different way after this:
"Stephen Lynch an unlikely hero of conspiracy theorists" by Bryan Bender | Globe Staff October 02, 2014
I'm so glad the Globe is taking up the torch regarding that CIA-created term to discredit and denigrate truth-seeking citizens.
WASHINGTON — It remains a hidden — and highly controversial — chapter of the official record of the 9/11 attacks: the 28 pages that were excised from an 800-page public report about what US spy agencies knew about the terrorist plot that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Related:
"In researching the Bush
administration’s manipulation of public perceptions, I came across an
interesting summary of the State Department’s Philip Zelikow, who was
Executive Director on the 9-11 Commission, that greatest of all
charades.
According to Wikipedia:
"Prof. Zelikow’s area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance of, in his words, 'public myths’ or 'public presumptions’ which he defines as 'beliefs (1) thought to be true ( although not necessarily known with certainty) and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community.’ In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called 'searing’ or 'molding’ events (that) take on transcendent’ importance and therefore retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene…. He
has noted that 'a history’s narrative power is typically linked to how
readers relate to the actions of individuals in the history; if readers
cannot make the connection to their own lives, then a history may fail
to engage them at all." ("Thinking about Political History" Miller center Report, winter 1999, p 5-7)
Isn’t that the same as saying there is neither history nor truth; that what is really important is the manipulation of epochal events
so they serve the interests of society’s managers? Thus, it follows
that if the government can create their own "galvanizing events", then
they can write history any way they choose.
If that’s the case, then perhaps the entire war on terror is cut from whole cloth; a garish public relations maneuver devoid of meaning."
How very interesting that the Zionist Jew Zelikow was in charge of the official narrative.
For Representative Stephen Lynch, a South Boston Democrat who has pored over them in a secure room in the US Capitol, declassifying the findings has been a goal for nearly a year — one he considers as urgent as ever.
According to multiple people who have read it, the secret annex from a special congressional inquiry in 2002 reveals support for some of the 19 Al Qaeda hijackers from Saudi Arabia.
The report and official story now looks like a blackmail plan against the Bushes and Saudis after the patsies were set up with stolen IDs, etc.
Lynch, who with a Republican colleague has sponsored a resolution calling on the Obama administration to make the report public, said he believes the information has direct bearing on the new war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and other militant Sunni Muslim groups that are believed to be drawing some of their funding from the same Arab states that America considers key allies.
The revelations are central to understanding “the web of intrigue here and the treacherous nature of the parties we are dealing with — the terrorists and their supporters,” Lynch said in an interview. “I am trying to get a sense of who our friends are.”
Related: The Israeli Spy Ring
Steve?
Shaking loose the information, however, is proving to be an uphill battle.
Only 17 members have cosponsored the resolution proposed last December by Lynch and Representative Walter B. Jones of North Carolina, which calls for release on grounds that “the families of the victims and the people of the United States deserve answers about the events and circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001, attacks.”
We deserve the truth!
In the meantime, the quest is making for some strange bedfellows. Lynch has become a hero of sorts to conspiracy theorists who assert US government complicity in the worst terrorist attacks in American history.
Yeah, right, he's a hero.
Some of them, according to Lynch, show up at his town hall meetings to ask about the secret pages and interrupt the events to discuss their multiple theories about what really happened on 9/11, including that Israel was to blame for the terrorist attacks.
OMG, the truth right in front of me!
One of these groups is the political action committee headed by longtime activist Lyndon LaRouche.
LaRouche, the 92-year-old New Hampshire native whose anti-establishment movement has roots in the leftist activism of the 1960s, held a webcast last week about the issue (and for good measure called for the removal of the British monarchy and the impeachment of President Obama as the only way to save the world from imminent destruction).
But the hawkish Lynch, who chairs a congressional task force on terrorist financing and is a member of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, is no conspiracy theorist. And he is quick to distance himself from such groups, whose members he says suffer from “some sort of glitch.”
But he's a hero. Of course, the immutable laws of physics prevent those three WTC towers from falling that way due to jet fuel fires, but that just must be some sort of glitch.
But on the issue of the infamous 28 pages, they are in lock step. And Lynch is not alone among establishment figures who want the full story about the government of Saudi Arabia and 9/11 to be disclosed.
It's looking very much like what I say it does.
The cochairmen of the 9/11 commission that investigated the attacks have also called for the public release of the blacked-out pages. So has the cochair of the congressional inquiry that gathered the information from hundreds of secret government files and interviews with counter terrorism officials.
“One of the remaining questions is whether the 19 hijackers acted alone or had external support,” said former senator Bob Graham, a Democrat from Florida who also chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Graham claims that the information contained in the 28 pages shows financial links between at least two of the hijackers and the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington.
“There is hard evidence in there that would directly implicate individuals,” added Lynch, without discussing the details because they remain classified.
And the whole limited hangout would reinforce the conventional myth of an official story.
Graham said he believes keeping the pages secret amounts to “excessive deference to Saudi Arabia,” where all the hijackers were from.
In response to a request by the White House earlier this year on behalf of Lynch, the director of national intelligence is reviewing whether the pages can be made public, according to a spokesman, Michael Birmingham.
The Saudi government, through its Washington, D.C., public relations firm, did not respond to a request for comment. In the past it has insisted it has nothing to hide.
“Twenty-eight blanked-out pages are being used by some to malign our country and our people,” its former ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, was recently quoted as saying in The New Yorker magazine. “Saudi Arabia has nothing to hide. We can deal with questions in public, but we cannot respond to blank pages.”
But for Lynch and his supporters, Saudi government denials of involvement in 9/11 miss the point — which is whether rogue individuals inside Saudi Arabia or its extended royal family were and may still be supporting Al Qaeda-like groups.
Asks Graham: “What evidence is there that network has been taken down or is it still in a position to service a new [terrorist] group?”
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"Lynch paints bleak picture of allies’ ability to confront ISIS" by Bryan Bender | Globe Staff October 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — Representative Stephen Lynch of South Boston made a visit to Iraq and Turkey this week and painted a bleak picture Thursday of the readiness of key allied ground forces to confront the Islamic State.
Lynch said Kurdish militia leaders in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil reported a lack of sufficient weapons. And he said it is a “huge problem” that Syrian rebel forces — who he met with in Istanbul, Turkey — remain severely split.
Both the Kurds and the Syrian opposition, along with the Iraqi Army, are seen as critical to the overall US strategy to roll back the organization known as ISIS, which has seized parts of both countries and continues to press its attack, most recently against the Syrian town of Kobani.
It's been more than a month since I've covered such SILLIness.
“My confidence on the Syrian opposition is around a three” on a 10-point scale. Lynch said. The congressman, who is on his second tour of the region in six weeks, spoke in a telephone interview from Turkey, where he also visited a refugee camp, and was scheduled to meet with the top Obama administration architect of the new campaign, retired General John Allen.
The Syrian rebels, he added, “need a lot more work. Some of it is the fact that these smaller groups don’t get along. Some won’t sit in the same room as each other.”
Lynch, one of two members of the nine-person US House delegation from Massachusetts to vote for arming the Syrian rebels last month, also said that rebel leadership remains preoccupied with fighting Syrian President Bashir Al-Assad, whose forces have killed thousands of Syrians and displaced more.
“They acknowledge that ISIS is an immediate threat because know what is going on in Kobani but they kept dragging us back to the fact that for them to be successful Assad had to go. It is a targeting issue -- and a priority issue.”
He said seeking to topple Assad at this point, however, would be “long and arduous” and not in the US national interest.
Lynch, who is a member of the national security subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Government, said his confidence in the readiness of the Kurdish Peshmurga across the border in Iraq is much better.
“My confidence in the Kurdish piece of this is about an eight -- seven and a half to eight,” Lynch said.
But its leaders told Lynch that they need more firepower to contend with the Islamic State, which has been able to press its advantage in some areas despite being targeted daily by allied combat planes.
“Apparently the big push is for some heavy weapons, some heavier caliber machine guns,” he said. “What they are working with now are really very old.”
Lynch said he would not support the use of US ground troops against ISIS and urged regional allies such as Turkey, which have far more men under arms, to play a bigger role.
They are already there, so....
“ISIS are the most effective fighters on the ground right now but they are only 30,000 at most,” he said. “A half a million [regional] troops on the ground here ought to be able to take care of that themselves. It is not a question of ability, it is a question of willingness.”
So how many will have to be ours, Steve?
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Maybe it is time to start stringing people up.
UPDATE: Stephen Lynch quest to release pages of 9/11 report gains support
Why now?
