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To: maceng2 who wrote (65181)	6/17/2005 5:55:51 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: So, Pearly Button, do you see the pattern here? Yes. First a little humor... "President Bush called for a complete overhaul of the tax code. He said he was shocked to find out that some millionaires in this country were still paying taxes." --Jay Leno * Now, something a bit more serious... One of the excellent reviews of the antics of the Kean-Zelikow Comedy Hour is presented by Professor Benjamin DeMott who nails the coffin lid shut on the the fraudulent conveyance of BS by Governor Tom Kean: commondreams.org Published on Saturday, November 13, 2004 by Harper's Magazine Whitewash as Public Service How The 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation by Benjamin DeMott No book in memory has stirred greater anticipatory frenzy than The 9/11 Commission Report, or more universal acclaim at its appearance in July. Before it was out, news and interview shows were welcoming the Commissioners whose labor had produced it. CNN ran film footage of copies tumbling off printer-plant conveyor belts. Stores reported overnight sellouts of their orders. Officialdom, Republicans and Democrats, spoke of the work as magisterial. David Brooks hailed its 'moral aura' on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The President himself—at one time he not only had declined an invitation to answer the Commission’s questions but had opposed the Commission’s creation 'praised the work as “very constructive,' and he and the Vice President commenced citing it in speeches; so did John Kerry. By mid-August, 630,000 copies, priced to move at $10, had been sold.... The hostility to critical thought is evident, of course, in the remarkable vehemence of the Commission's assault on the blaming sensibility--its multifariousness, its canniness, the powerful synchrony between it and the nation’s ever increasing hunger for the upbeat and the positive. But almost equally telling is the decision not to treat the audience as citizens with minds to be challenged but--regularly--as children with a taste for fairy tales. The Commission's book comes on, bewilderingly, as a pop entertainment, observing the conventions of old-time nonfiction narrative, * The antidote to the joke called the Kean-Zelikow Report is Dr. David Ray Griffin's excellent "The 9/11 Commmisssion Report: Omissions and Distortions": tinyurl.com Spotlight Reviews Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. 86 of 93 people found the following review helpful: New Landmark in the 9/11 Investigation, March 7, 2005 Reviewer: Daniele Ganser (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) This book is arguably the most important landmark in the investigation into 9/11 available on the book market so far. It is a very important, but also truly disturbing, book. For it shows to the reader in meticulous detail that the official investigation led by Thomas Kean and Philip Zelikow into the story about 9/11 presented by the White House has omitted and distorted so many facts that it can never seriously be accepted as the true account of what happened on 9/11. Only very few people have read the 576 pages of the Kean/Zelikow report and tested the quality of the book. It is therefore of great value that Professor emeritus David Ray Griffin has carried out this task and described in detail how sensitive facts regarding mysterious or even illegal behaviour by senior US executives had been supplied in sworn testimony to the Kean/Zelikow commission by members of the FBI but then ignored in the Kean/Zelikow book. Griffin also explains that no mention, let alone explanation, is given of the collapse of WTC 7 or of the BBC report that six of the 19 hijackers were still alive. While Griffin explicitly suspects that the Bush administration and the Pentagon have covered up the true 9/11 story, he never claims to know it himself but asks for a new and truly independent investigation. It is this latter feature which greatly contributes to the credibility and importance of this courageous book. I use this book with my history students to illustrate how history can be distorted through omissions and distortions. I warmly recommend this book to all those who are interested in both 9/11 and the subsequent cover up. Dr. Daniele Ganser, Center for Security Studies, Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland Author of NATO's Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (Frank Cass, London and New York, January 2005)