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Libertarian Institute, August 14, 2023<\/h3>\n

Trusting the 9\/11 Commission Is An Automatic Disqualification<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The nation\u2019s media and political establishment were horrified last week when a presidential candidate cast aspersions on the 9\/11 Commission report. Republican <\/span>Vivek Ramaswamy, in an interview on Blaze TV, responded to a question on the 9\/11 attacks, \u201cI don\u2019t believe the government has told us the truth\u2026Do I believe the<\/span><\/a> 9\/11 Commission? Absolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is laboring on the campaign trail while awaiting a miracle to save his candidacy, announced that he was \u201cdeeply offended<\/span><\/a>\u201d by Ramaswamy\u2019s doubts. But was Pence ever \u201cdeeply offended\u201d by government coverups?<\/p>\n

After the 9\/11 attacks, a joint House-Senate Intelligence Committee investigation in late 2002 exposed a vast array of federal intelligence<\/span><\/a> and law enforcement failures preceding the hijacking of four airliners. Because the George W. Bush administration often stonewalled the Senate investigation, 9\/11 widows and widowers pressured Congress to create an independent commission to investigate.<\/p>\n

Bush, along with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders, stacked the commission with former congressmen, high-ranking government officials, and others entwined in the Washington establishment (\u201cInsiders all,\u201d as a New York Times<\/em> headline<\/span><\/a> noted). Beverly Eckert, a 9\/11 widow, complained<\/span><\/a>, \u201cWe wanted journalists, we wanted academics\u2026We did not want politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the 9\/11 Commission\u2019s report was released in July 2004, it was instantly hallowed by the media because it was bipartisan and did back flips to avoid casting blame. The commission became the Bush administration\u2019s most famous faith-based initiative. The commission appeared far more concerned with restoring trust in government than in embarrassing their patrons. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were allowed to testify without a transcript<\/span><\/a> and not under oath. Americans never heard what they said. Instead, the commission offered a synopsis of their comments\u2014as if it would have been impious to quote them directly. The White House was allowed to edit<\/span><\/a> the final version of the commission\u2019s report before it was publicly released.<\/p>\n

Though the 9\/11 Commission report is beloved inside the Beltway, it would not be admissible in a court of law because the commissioners relied on torture to produce many of their key assertions. New York Times<\/em> reporter Philip Shenon, the author of The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9\/11 Investigation<\/em>, noted<\/span><\/a>, \u201cAn analysis by NBC News found that more than a quarter of the report\u2019s footnotes\u2014441 of some 1,700\u2014referred to detainees who were subjected to the CIA\u2019s \u2018enhanced\u2019 interrogation program, including the trio who were waterboarded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shenon reported that commission members \u201cforwarded questions to the CIA, whose interrogators posed them on the panel\u2019s behalf. The commission\u2019s report gave no hint that harsh interrogation methods [including waterboarding] were used in gathering information.\u201d<\/p>\n

The commission\u2019s report was released almost three months after the shocking photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad had been published, and two months after key Justice Department and Pentagon memos leaked out, exposing the Bush administration\u2019s bizarre torture regime and legal rationale. Yet, as Shenon noted, \u201cThe commission demanded that the CIA carry out new rounds of interrogations in 2004 to get answers to its questions.\u201d The 9\/11 Commission became profoundly complicit in the torture at the same time it pretended to objectively judge the Bush record.<\/p>\n

The commission report came out at the same time that Bush was exploiting the 9\/11<\/span><\/a> attacks and the Iraq War for<\/span><\/a> his re-election campaign. T<\/strong>he biggest boon the commission conferred on Bush was to deny the role of the Saudi government in financing the 9\/11 attacks. Commission executive director Philip Zelikow, who was in contact with Bush\u2019s<\/span><\/a> chief political advisor Karl Rove, fired a staffer<\/span><\/a> who pursued the Saudi connection too vigorously. Shortly before the report was finished, Zelikow and another staffer rewrote<\/span><\/a> key passages of the report to remove \u201cvirtually all of the most serious allegations against the Saudis.\u201d Commission member John Lehman<\/span><\/a> \u201cwas struck by the determination of the Bush White House to try to hide any evidence of the relationship between the Saudis and al-Qaeda,\u201d Shenon noted.<\/p>\n

The 9\/11 Commission ignored the joint House-Senate investigation\u2019s evidence of Saudi agents bankrolling multiple Saudi hijackers in the United States before the attacks (15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis). But the Bush administration suppressed the 28 pages<\/span><\/a> of that congressional report and they were not released until 2016. Bush had tightly embraced Saudi leadership after the 9\/11 attacks, despite that regime\u2019s complicity; instead, Bush administration officials repeatedly implied that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was somehow<\/span><\/a> to blame.<\/p>\n

If the 9\/11 Commission had quoted the 2002 memo<\/span><\/a> (apparently from the FBI) stating that there was \u201cincontrovertible evidence that there is support for these [9\/11 hijacker] terrorists within the Saudi Government,\u201d Bush might have been seriously damaged. But the commissioners didn\u2019t go looking under any rocks they were told to ignore. Former FBI Special Agent Stephen Moore, who led one of the key FBI teams investigating 9\/11, stated in a 2017 affidavit<\/span><\/a>: \u201cBased on evidence we gathered during the course of our investigation, I concluded that diplomatic and intelligence personnel of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia knowingly provided material support to the two 9\/11 hijackers and facilitated the 9\/11 plot. My colleagues in our investigation shared that conclusion.\u201d Former Senate intelligence committee chairman Bob Graham said in 2018<\/span><\/a> that the FBI has \u201cjust thrown the biggest blanket they can find over everything that has to do with the Saudi role in 9\/11,\u201d as Brian McGlinchey reported.<\/p>\n

Commission co-chairmen Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton touted their original report as a triumph of transparency and full disclosure. Yet, in their jointly-authored 2006 book, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9\/11 Commission<\/em>, they complained<\/span><\/a> that \u201cwe thought we were set up to fail\u201d in part due to the brazen lies by numerous federal agencies and their stonewalling of the investigation. But instead of being denounced for kowtowing, the 9\/11 commissioner co-chairmen became venerated as visionary statesmen.<\/p>\n

The 9\/11 Commission members have regularly issued \u201cupdate\u201d reports that should have earned them even more derision. Their tenth anniversary report in 2014 heaped praise on the utterly incompetent <\/span><\/a>Transportation Security Administration and scoffed<\/span><\/a> at Edward Snowden\u2019s revelations of National Security Agency crimes: \u201cSome reports exaggerated the scale of the programs. While the government explained that the NSA\u2019s programs were overseen by Congress and the courts, the scale of the data collection has alarmed the public.\u201d Almost everybody who followed Snowden\u2019s leaks recognized that Congress and the courts utterly failed to leash the NSA. The NSA was so paranoid that its definition of terrorist suspect includes \u201csomeone searching the web for suspicious stuff.\u201d<\/span><\/a> But the 9\/11 commissioners showed little or no concern about the NSA\u2019s cyber attacks on Americans. As a Techdirt analysis noted, the commission\u2019s 10th anniversary report \u201cis everything the DHS\/NSA\/FBI, etc. could have hoped for<\/span><\/a>. It calls for more of the same, only faster, harder and with bigger budgets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obliging presidential candidates to endorse the 9\/11 Commission report is as idiotic as requiring them to publicly confirm their belief in the legend of a young George Washington chopping down a cherry tree.\u00a0 <\/span>As Ramaswamy declared, \u201cThere is no credible evidence that 9\/11 was an \u2018inside job,\u2019 but ironically, when the government systematically lies about Saudi involvement and the media runs interference, that lends plausibility to an otherwise unlikely claim.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 9\/11 Commission report was the result of the political elite claiming a prerogative to blindfold other Americans.<\/strong> But as federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson declared<\/span><\/a> in 2019, \u201cIf people don\u2019t have the facts, democracy doesn\u2019t work.\u201d The 9\/11 Commission should be a warning that Washington dignitaries are the last people we should trust to expose the truth. If presidential candidates cannot recognize pious frauds from the political establishment, they should get out of the damn race.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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