There is a new essay at one of the 9/11 web sites, one I consider to be among the best, which can be found in its entirety here:

http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/green/H...AwayWithIt.html

I'd post it all, but it is very long. I urge you to read it; it's very good.

It is entitled "How They Get Away With It" by Michael Green, Ph.D.
It is footnoted.

(The author is a clinical psychologist and former assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin.)

It is essentially about the war games and the Mineta testimony, but it goes beyond these to show how the 9/11 Commission and others served to throw an obscuring blanket over the obvious evidence.

Here are some highlights:

".... the example offered here begins to illustrate the kind of mass mind control that the Central Intelligence Agency has accomplished through its control of the media: the most damning facts can be right out there on the table in front of people, but most people cannot see them, or if they can see them they cannot reason from them clearly and productively. The natural cognitive and affective vulnerabilities of the masses against seeing unpleasant truths have been enhanced and refined by the establishment media shaping not only what they know through disinformation, but also how they think about what little they do know. (See footnote #1)

"USGIC domestic covert operations succeed in part by appointing “investigative” panels or commissions that function as a profound tribal ritual intended to produce consensus; the greater the ceremony, the more compelling the conclusions seem. Key members whose principal purpose is to conceal the guilty actions of the culpable parties always control such “investigations”.

"The cover-up is done in front of our eyes, in plain sight, and succeeds because the public cannot think...."

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"USGIC domestic covert operations do not come from nothing. They have a history, and Lee Hamilton has a history of covering them up. To be brief, and regrettably cryptic through summary: the 1980s were rocked by a series of gargantuan scandals about activities whose underlying purpose was in part the consolidation of power by the factions responsible for 911.

These included:

1) October Surprise, the secret deal cut between the Bush-Reagan team to have the Ayatollah hold the Iranian Embassy hostages until after the November 1980 election, to assure a Bush-Reagan victory over Carter, in return for US arms delivered to Iran via Israel. Principals directly involved included George Casey, Donald Gregg, and George H. W. Bush;

2) Inslaw, the theft by the USGIC of William Hamilton’s PROMIS software, and its enormously profitable privatization by Bush41 cronies, to facilitate world-wide economic spying on competitive and allied countries. PROMIS and its successors also serves as the software foundation for the data integration of the growing police state, Poindexter’s TIA, and its privatized versions in Florida using the Matrix software provided by Seisint, a company founded after 911by Hank Asher and since sold to Lexis-Nexis for $750,000,000. Asher also founded DBT (Database Technologies), the company that rigged the 2000 presidential election for Jeb Bush in Florida on behalf of his brother by scrubbing eligible Democratic voters from the voter rolls. Hank Asher by his own admission spent the early 1980s flying cocaine and marijuana to and from South American but dismissed this major felony as due to “a hunger for adventure” and remarked of it “I didn't feel like I had done a crime.” The only persons I know of who do not feel that their participation in international drug running is a crime are CIA sponsored and protected drug-runners.13

3) The Savings & Loan scandal, a deliberate scheme to de-regulate the thrifts so that the CIA, the Mafia and their friends in high places could buy up such institutions, commit gross fraud free from government regulation, and pass on the nearly trillion dollar costs to the taxpayer.14

4) Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI), a CIA/military controlled bank that channeled S&L lucre as well as laundered drug and arms profits into covert operations throughout the world. 5) Iran-Contra, a keystone in the destruction of the Congress as an autonomous political body. The Secret Government, in which Bush41 played a major direct operational role during Iran-Contra, deliberately and flagrantly ignoring both versions of the Boland Amendment in funding the Contras by setting up secret training sites for the Contras in the United States and in Mexico outside the regular chain of military command. These sites trained privatized armies for covert military and para-military actions that were outside regular command structure but that had access to support and supplies from the US military, i.e., a privatized off-books department of covert operations. Financing was through CIA drug running, and the sale of illegal arms often obtained from military storehouses though such figures as Generals John K. Singlaub and Richard Second. Dick Cheney (ranking House Republican in Iran-Contra) played a key role working directly with Lee Hamilton (who chaired the Iran-Contra panel) to make certain that Bush41 did not have to testify before Congress, and was rewarded accordingly. (The “Iran” part of the scandal was a separate operation that was put into the mix to confuse the public by pretending that a patriotic motive of freeing the Lebanon hostages was involved; it wasn’t.) And, most importantly, recall that just before Bush41 left office, he issued a Christmas Eve blanket pardon to all his Iran-Contra co-conspirators, on the grounds of their “patriotism,” whose upcoming trials threatened to expose Bush’s central role in the operation. 15

Lee Hamilton played key roles in covering up two of these inter-connected scandals, October Surprise and Iran-Contra."

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"... most Americans are, both by natural bent and by CIA media-influenced control of the popular consciousness, inclined to accept such things at face value and not go much further."

"It is not easy to recognize that the rulers of the United States are cold-blooded mass murderers of the very people they are pretending to protect from their own terror by a process of systematic control and incremental construction and implementation of the infrastructure of a fascist state. It is so much easier to remain blinkered, since doing so makes what I am suggesting here seem like a mere phantasm, a novelist’s imaginary nightmare, as one’s daily life so far proceeds largely unperturbed except for the prices at the pump and those seemingly irrelevant declarations of dictatorial powers by the deranged fool that a faction of the rulers have seated in the presidency." (See footnote #20)

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From footnote #1: "... USGIC domestic covert operations are invariably “transparent conspiracies” revealed by the evidence for any who wish to see them, hence are a declaration of power; see his False Mystery, Chpt. “A Model of Explanation,” Square Deal Press, 2004. Salandria’s close friend, psychiatrist E. Martin Schotz, explored the mass denial that refuses to recognize these transparent conspiracies...."

From footnote #3: "It is also always worth reminding ourselves that for producing and managing the dramatic crises associated with domestic covert operations, the media already is under the direct operational control of the USGIC through a skein of ownership, asset placement, and class allegiance that is loose on the periphery (so some genuine news gets out but is then forgotten and not integrated into a continuing truthful narrative) but tight at the center (so that the primary goal of confusing and misinforming the populace is accomplished). Also, the USGIC does learn from their mistakes. Alex Jones’s DVD The Road to Tyranny contains a dozen contemporaneous on-the-scene local TV station reports from Oklahoma City in the aftermath of its 1995 USGIC domestic covert terrorism operation that report the presence of very powerful unexploded bombs within the Murrah Federal Building."

From footnote #13: "I have also had the privilege of reading three drafts of Professor Steve Freeman’s forthcoming book, Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count."

From footnote #19: "... on the final day of the 911 hearings, Commissioner Lehman conveys that he still has no idea who was in minute-to-minute operational charge of the US “defense” on 911. Myers reminds Lehman that the Commission has already talked to Cheney & Bush in private session, so that if Lehman does not know from them (that Cheney was in charge), Myers isn’t going to tell him either. And that’s that. “Who was in charge on 911?” is none of the 911 Commission’s business, and certainly none of ours. Still, no alarm goes off. What clearer example of mind control of the general population, deracinated citizens, could there be?"

From footnote #23: "A vivid and damning example of the Establishment’s involvement at the operational level in the assassination [of JFK] is provided by McGeorge Bundy, who like Richard Clarke was in control of the White House Situation Room, confidently assuring both Air Force One and Air Force Two of what could not possibly be known at the time, viz., that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin and that he acted alone. This thinly veiled “in plain sight” message from Bundy was appreciated by those on the flights, but was lost on all other persons except an attorney in Philadelphia. See Vincent Salandria, “The Tale Told by Two Tapes” at http://www.jfklancer.com/upfront/2tapes.html .

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9/11: The Myth and the Reality

Myth Number 1: Our political and military leaders simply would not do such a thing.
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Myth Number 2: Our political and military leaders would have had no motive for orchestrating the 9/11 attacks.
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Myth Number 3: Such a big operation, involving so many people, could not have been kept a secret, because someone involved in it would have talked by now.
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Myth Number 4: The 9/11 Commission, which has endorsed the official account, was an independent, impartial commission and hence can be believed.
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Myth Number 5: The Bush administration provided proof that the attacks were carried out by al-Qaeda terrorists under the direction of Osama bin Laden.
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Myth Number 6: The 9/11 attacks came as a surprise to the Bush administration.
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Myth Number 7: US officials have explained why the hijacked airliners were not intercepted.
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Myth Number 8: Official Reports have explained why the Twin Towers and Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed.
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Myth Number 9: There is no doubt that Flight 77, under the control of al-Qaeda hijacker Hani Hanjour, struck the Pentagon.

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Links to full transcript, footnoted, of the 2-hour presentation by David Ray Griffin,
9/11: The Myth and the Reality:

Part One
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060405112622982

Conclusion and Footnotes
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060405143535564

Audio:
http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/200...Griffin_32k.mp3

or here:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=prog..._id=17470&nav=&

and a special audio of the Q&A session that followed here:
ftp://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/tuc@tuc...inmyththree.mp3
in which you can hear the answer to this question:

"Does the government want us to know
that they know that we know that they did it and
that there is nothing we can do?"
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David Ray Griffin is professor of philosophy of religion at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University and one of the co-directors of the Center for Process Studies. He is the author of God, Power, and Evil: A Process Theodicy (1976) and Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (1998). He is the editor of The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals (1988). His next two books will be Religion and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts, and A Process Philosophy of Religion. (bio from http://www.meta-library.net/bio/dg-body.html )

“There was recently a report that there was to be a film and a discussion [on 9/11] in Tokyo, Japan and that the bureau chief for one of our major newspapers said that if he went to that meeting, he’d be fired.”

“I am more hopeful than I was six months ago and, partly because I think our corporate owners of the media may be getting more and more convinced that what this Administration is doing is not good even for corporate America… It may be that we are to the point that the wise men and women will say “They’ve got to go”, and maybe 9/11 is the best way to bring them down."

-- David Ray Griffin, Q&A session after his presentation
“9/11: The Myth and the Reality”

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"The only conspiracy is deception and silence. The only conspiracy is one that creates the lack of courage to participate in real democracy."
http://www.911inquiry.org/Presentations/BruceGagnon.htm

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Question:

“What do we do now?
A: Plan a revolution.
B. Non-violent resistance like Ghandi.
C. Move to another country.

They have the President, Congress, the NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, the military, the courts, industry, media, etc.

We have what?”

Answer:

“Well, we have each other and we have the Truth, for starters. And, of the three options, I would say A & B, both of them…. We do need a revolution, a non-violent revolution, against American imperialism, before it’s too late.”

-- David Ray Griffin, Q&A session after his presentation
“9/11: The Myth and the Reality”

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Question: “Why is a theologian one of the primary speakers for the 9/11 cause? Do you see any spiritual or religious implications for 9/11, and what are they?”

Answer: “Why is a theologian speaking about this? I didn’t have anything else to do.

What we theologians are supposed to be doing is to try to imagine and speak about the world from the Divine point of view and if the religions of the world are basically correct, the Divine is the Creator and lover of all peoples and all creatures and cares about the long-term good of the world and wouldn’t want people producing nuclear wars that would decimate all life on the plant, wouldn’t want the global warming to to continue 35 years after we’ve known about the ecological crisis…. I am convinced that this Administration is the most dangerous administration we have ever had for the future of this country and the future of the world… and if trying to save God’s planet isn’t a religious issue, I wouldn’t know what one was.”

-- David Ray Griffin, Q&A session after his presentation
“9/11: The Myth and the Reality”