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9/11...What Happened?
So many unanswered questions reamin and the Bush administration sweeps all criticisms under the carpet. This must be examined fully and consciously and without bias.
Date: 9/21/2005 1:18:47 AM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 1689 times Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Reopens Hearings on 9/11--What Really Happened?
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McKinney Reopens 9/11
- Conspiracy theories implicating president aired at 8-hour hearing
By Bob Kemper
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
07/23/05
McKinney's entire hearing is being archived for viewing on her website -
http://www.house.gov/mckinney/ - and videos of all the DC Emergency Truth
Convergence events will also be available online by August 10th. We will
post links here as segments are posted. - Ed.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney chairs Friday's hearing, reopening the issue that
brought her criticism and her 2002 ouster. Photo: Rick McKay/AJC
Washington < Revisiting the issue that helped spur her ouster from Congress
three years ago, Rep. Cynthia McKinney led a Capitol Hill hearing Friday on
whether the Bush administration was involved in the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001.
The eight-hour hearing, timed to mark the first anniversary of the release
of the Sept. 11 commission's report on the attacks, drew dozens of
contrarians and conspiracy theorists who suggest President Bush purposely
ignored warnings or may even have had a hand in the attack < claims
participants said the commission ignored. "The commission's report was not
a rush to judgment, it was a rush to exoneration," said John Judge, a member
of McKinney's staff and a representative of a Web site dedicated to raising
questions about the Sept. 11 commission's report.
The White House and the commission have dismissed such questions as
unfounded conspiracy theories.
McKinney first raised questions about Bush's involvement shortly after the
attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, generating a furious
response from fellow Democrats in Washington and voters in Georgia, who
ousted her in 2002.
"What we are doing is asking the unanswered questions of the 9/11 families,"
McKinney, a DeKalb County Democrat who won back her seat in 2004, said
during the proceedings.
She rebuffed a reporter's repeated attempts to ask her why she would so
boldly embrace the same claims that led to her downfall.
"Congresswoman McKinney is viewed as a contrarian," panelist Melvin Goodman,
a former CIA official, said. "And I hope someday her views will be
considered conventional wisdom."
Though she left the testimony and questioning of panelists to others,
McKinney was the main attraction, presiding over more than two dozen
participants, including the author of a book that claims the U.S. government
had advance knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack and allowed it to happen,
and Peter Dale Scott, who wrote three books on President John F. Kennedy's
assassination.
Georgia peanuts, Cokes and coffee were available to more than 50 attendees,
whose casual dress was a decided change from the gangs of blue-suited
lobbyists who usually crowd Capitol Hill hearings.
McKinney herself offered witnesses bottled water and found additional trash
cans to place around the room.
Nearly a dozen 9/11 enthusiasts lined one side of the room, camcorders at
the ready, broadcasting the hearing live over the Internet or recording it
for later release. C-SPAN cameras documented the hearing, and a DVD
recording of the proceedings will soon be available.
Ten people sat in a section reserved for family members of 9/11 victims.
"Nine-eleven could have been prevented," said Marilyn Rosenthal, a
University of Michigan professor who lost a son in the attacks, echoing the
premise of the hearing.
Panelists maintained that Bush ignored numerous warnings from the CIA, the
Federal Aviation Administration, foreign governments and others who told him
before 9/11 that Osama bin Laden was planning to attack the United States
and that terrorists were likely to use hijacked airliners as weapons.
But why would the president or his administration want the 9/11 attacks to
occur? Power, the panelists agreed.
In the wake of the attacks, the administration was able to greatly expand
the president's power and the reach of the federal government, they said,
but whistle-blowers and other potential witnesses who could have testified
to the Sept. 11 commission about such things were either prevented from
speaking or ignored in the commission's final report. Panelists called the
commission's report "a cover-up."
"The American people have been seriously misled," said Scott.
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