9/11 Inside Story

dredelstein · August 8, 2006, 2:14pm

9/11 COMMISSION CHAIRMEN ON WHITEWASHING CAUSE OF ATTACKS

Former 9/11 Commission chairmen Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton have a book coming out, WITHOUT PRECEDENT: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

"The book usefully details the [Bush] administration's willful misrepresentation of its incompetent actions that day, but makes the shocking admission that some commission members deliberately wanted to distort an even more important issue," writes Ivan Eland, director of the Independent Institute's Center on Peace & Liberty. "Apparently, unidentified commissioners wanted to cover up the fact that U.S. support for Israel was one of the motivating factors behind al Qaeda's 9/11 attack."

Worse, the administration's continued denial that the terrorist attacks were "blowback," i.e., a reaction to U.S. foreign policy, has enabled it to push for policies likely to motive more terrorist attacks: "Unfortunately, innocent Iraqis and Lebanese are unlikely to be the only ones afflicted with the damage from U.S. interventionism. Innocent Israelis and Americans have been, and will likely continue to be, the victims of policies that have been sold by President Bush on the basis of making the citizens of both countries safer and more secure, while the 9/11 Commission obediently has covered the administration's tracks."

See "9/11 Commission Chairmen Admit Whitewashing the Cause of the Attacks," by Ivan Eland (8/7/06)
http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1785

Also see, "9/11 Report Omits Key Player -- Foreign Policy," by Ivan Eland (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, 7/27/04) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1332

THE EMPIRE HAS NO CLOTHES: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed, by Ivan Eland
http://www.independent.org/store/book_detail.asp?bookID=54

Center on Peace & Liberty (Ivan Eland, director)
http://www.independent.org/research/copal/