Cynthia McKinney, as member of the House, questioned the official story from the beginning; was misrepresented and pilloried by media and political peers; faced death threats; and was finessed out of office.
Mike Gravel ran for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination, appeared in early televised debates and on primary ballots, but was then excluded from most debate. He supports the campaign in New York City for a ballot initiative to mandate a privately funded 9/11 commission with subpoena power. He was an Army intelligence officer in the ‘50s, but then “politically awoke.” As member of the Senate, he released the Pentagon Papers to Beacon Press before the Supreme Court could sequester them—the beginning of the end of the war in Viet Nam.
In his autobiography, A Political Odyssey, he writes:
Given Saudi, Pakistani, and US intelligence support for extremist groups in the murky world of black markets, black operations, and espionage, I’m not sure we will ever know why September 11 happened. The 9/11 Commission certainly didn’t tell us. That’s why I’ve called for a new investigation. The administration taking office in 2009 should have the guts to do it. These networks still operate inside the US.
Sibel Edmonds began translating Turkish and Azerbaijani and monitoring Farsi for the FBI nine days after 9/11. After six months, she was fired for whistle-blowing. By request from the State Department and the Pentagon, she was gagged by the Justice Department, which later retroactively classified her statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the 9/11 Commission. She now leads a whistle-blowers coalition of over 70 members from intelligence and law enforcement including the FBI, CIA, DIA, DEA and Department of Homeland Security—with average 21 years professional experience.
David Ray Griffin, professor emeritus, has written seven books on 9/11. The first, a best seller, borrows a term from a neocon position paper for its title, The New Pearl Harbor. He began this work by compiling takes on 9/11 just for a look. He lost skepticism of 9/11 contentions as disparities in the official story became more glaring.
An article in OpEdNews directs us to counter-terrorism experts, military leaders and intelligence professionals who don’t buy the official 9/11 story.
This short list scratches the surface of serious doubt. With discretion, hard information and solid leads can be gleaned from the Web and databases like NexisLexis. But until there is arm’s-length inquiry with powers to subpoena and indict and a mandate to uphold the rule of law, what really happened on 9/11 is left to folklore, and state skullduggery stays armed with a vague and powerful excuse.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
—Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of Independence, 1776)
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