Senior Military,
Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials
Question the 9/11 Commission Report
www.911truth.org
Many well known and respected senior
U.S. military officers, intelligence services and law
enforcement veterans, and government officials have
expressed significant criticism of the 9/11 Commission
Report or have made public statements that contradict
the Report. Several even allege government complicity in
the terrible acts of 9/11. This website is a collection
of their statements. It is not an organization and it
should be made clear that none of these individuals are
affiliated with this website. Listed below are
statements by more than 110 of these senior officials.
Their collective voices give credibility to the claim
that the 9/11 Commission Report is tragically flawed.
These individuals cannot be simply dismissed as
irresponsible believers in some 9/11 conspiracy theory.
Their sincere concern, backed by their decades of
service to their country, demonstrate that criticism of
the Report is not irresponsible, illogical, nor
disloyal, per se. In fact, it can be just the opposite.
U.S. MILITARY
OFFICERS 1.
General Wesley Clark, U.S. Army (ret) – Former
Commanding General of U.S. European Command, which
included all American military activities in the 89
countries and territories of Europe, Africa, and the
Middle East. Additionally, Supreme Allied Commander
Europe (SACEUR), which granted him overall command of
NATO military forces in Europe 1997 - 2001. Awarded
Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart for his
service in Viet Nam and numerous subsequent medals and
citations. Graduated valedictorian of his class at West
Point. (Bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark)
In a video interview in ABC's This Week with George
Stephanopoulos 3/5/06, General Wesley Clark said: "I
think when you look at this country, right now, we need
a 2-party system that works. We need Congress to do its
job. We need real investigation of some of the abuses of
authority that are apparently going on at the Executive
branch. ... We've never finished the investigation of
9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the
intelligence information it had. The evidence seems
pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time."
http://securingamerica.com/node/692
2. Major General Albert Stubblebine, U.S. Army (ret)
– Former Commanding General of U.S. Army Intelligence
and Security Command, 1981 - 1984. Also commanded the
U.S. Army’s Electronic Research and Development Command
and the U.S. Army’s Intelligence School and Center.
Former head of Imagery Interpretation for Scientific and
Technical Intelligence. 32-year Army career. Member,
Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. (Bio:
http://www.canadiansub.com/Board)
In a video made on 7/11/06, Albert Stubblebine said:
"One of my experiences in the Army was being in charge
of the Army’s Imagery Interpretation for Scientific and
Technical Intelligence during the Cold War. I measured
pieces of Soviet equipment from photographs. It was my
job. I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at
the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit
the Pentagon. And I said, ‘The plane does not fit in
that hole’. So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it?
Where is it? What's going on?"
[Editor's note: For more
information on the impact at the Pentagon, see Colonel
Nelson, Commander Muga, Lt. Col. Kwiatkowski, Lt. Col.
Latas, Major Rokke, Capt. Wittenberg, Capt. Davis,
Barbara Honegger, April Gallop, Colonel Bunel, and Steve
DeChiaro.]
3. Col. Ronald D. Ray, U.S. Marine Corps (ret) –
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Reagan
Administration and a highly decorated Vietnam veteran
(two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart).
Appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve on the
American Battle Monuments Commission (1990 - 1994), and
on the 1992 Presidential Commission on the Assignment of
Women in the Armed Forces. Military Historian and Deputy
Director of Field Operations for the U.S. Marine Corps
Historical Center, Washington, D.C. 1990 - 1994.
In an article written 7/10/06 Ray said: "The former
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under the Reagan
Administration and a highly decorated Vietnam veteran
and Colonel has gone on the record to voice his doubts
about the official story of 9/11 - calling it ‘the dog
that doesn't hunt.’ ‘I'm astounded that the conspiracy
theory advanced by the administration could in fact be
true and the evidence does not seem to suggest that's
accurate,’ he said." [Bio:
http://www.firstprinciplespress.org]
4. Col. Robert Bowman, PhD, U.S. Air Force (ret)
– Director of Advanced Space Programs Development under
Presidents Ford and Carter. U.S. Air Force fighter pilot
with over 100 combat missions. (PhD in Aeronautics and
Nuclear Engineering, Cal Tech). Former Head of the
Department of Aeronautical Engineering and Assistant
Dean at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology.
22-year Air Force career. Also taught Mathematics and
English at the University of Southern California, the
University of Maryland, and Phillips University.
In a video made 9/11/04 Bowman said: "A lot of these
pieces of information, taken together, prove that the
official story, the official conspiracy theory of 9/11
is a bunch of hogwash. It’s impossible. … There’s a
second group of facts having to do with the cover up. …
Taken together these things prove that high levels of
our government don’t want us to know what happened and
who’s responsible.…
Who gained from 9/11? Who covered up crucial information
about 9/11? And who put out the patently false stories
about 9/11 in the first place? When you take those three
things together, I think the case is pretty clear that
it’s highly placed individuals in the administration
with all roads passing through Dick Cheney. I think the
very kindest thing that we can say about George W. Bush
and all the people in the U.S. Government that have been
involved in this massive cover-up, the very kindest
thing we can say is that they were aware of impending
attacks and let them happen. Now some people will say
that’s much too kind, however even that is high treason
and conspiracy to commit murder."
5. Col. George Nelson, MBA, U.S. Air Force (ret)
– Former U.S. Air Force aircraft accident investigator
and airplane parts authority. Graduate, U.S. Air Force
War College. 34-year Air Force career. Licensed
commercial pilot. Licensed airframe and power plant
mechanic.
In a recent essay he wrote: "In all my years of direct
and indirect participation, I never witnessed nor even
heard of an aircraft loss, where the wreckage was
accessible, that prevented investigators from finding
enough hard evidence to positively identify the make,
model, and specific registration number of the aircraft
-- and in most cases the precise cause of the accident.
...
The government alleges that four wide-body airliners
crashed on the morning of September 11 2001, resulting
in the deaths of more than 3,000 human beings, yet not
one piece of hard aircraft evidence has been produced in
an attempt to positively identify any of the four
aircraft. On the contrary, it seems only that all
potential evidence was deliberately kept hidden from
public view. …
With all the evidence readily available at the Pentagon
crash site, any unbiased rational investigator could
only conclude that a Boeing 757 did not fly into the
Pentagon as alleged. Similarly, with all the evidence
available at the Pennsylvania crash site, it was most
doubtful that a passenger airliner caused the obvious
hole in the ground and certainly not the Boeing 757 as
alleged. …
As painful and heartbreaking as was the loss of innocent
lives and the lingering health problems of thousands
more, a most troublesome and nightmarish probability
remains that so many Americans appear to be involved in
the most heinous conspiracy in our country's history."
http://www.physics911.net
6. Col. Ann Wright, U.S. Army (ret) – Retired
Army officer and former U.S. Diplomat. Served 13 years
on active duty with the U.S. Army and 16 years in the
U.S. Army Reserves. She was a member of the
International law team in Operation Urgent Fury in
Grenada and served in Panama and Somalia. She joined the
Foreign Service in 1987 and served as Deputy Chief of
Mission of U.S. Embassies in Sierra Leone, Micronesia
and Afghanistan. She helped reopen the US Embassy in
Kabul in December, 2001. One of three U.S. State
Department officials to publicly resign in direct
protest of the invasion of Iraq in March, 2003. [Bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Wright]
In an interview with Laurie Van Auken, conducted by
Richard Greene on Air America Radio 9/11/07, Wright
said: "It's incredible some of these things that still
are unanswered. The 9/11 Report that was totally
inadequate. I mean the questions that anybody has after
reading that. You know, like -- One of the questions,
"Why would people even get in planes and come after us?"
That question was not at all addressed, much less all of
these very, very interesting events that were going on
that day, like Laurie was talking about. How could our
national intelligence and defense operations be so inept
that they could not communicate; that they could not
scramble jets; that they could not take defensive
action? And I totally agree. I always thought the
Pentagon had all sorts of air defense sort of equipment
around it; that they could take out anything that was
coming at it. And for a plane to be able to just fly low
right over Washington and slam into that thing is just
-- I mean, you still just shake your head. How in the
world could that happen? ...
There's a very specific glide path that comes in for
planes to land at [Reagan] National Airport [one mile
from the Pentagon]. And you know whether it's somebody
using a different transponder but even a plane any
plane, a military plane with a transponder going -- that
was flying that low into Washington, a big plane like
that should have set off alarm bells." Occurs at about
the 60% point of the two-hour recording.
7. Col. James R. Uhl, MD, MC, U.S. Army (ret) –
Retired Army physician. Served in several theaters of
operations, from Viet Nam through Iraq. Former Member,
Certification in Military Medicine Working Group.
38-year Army career.
In a statement to this website 9/20/07, Uhl said: "There
is a well-organized cover-up of the events of 11 Sep
2001. The 9/11 Commission was a white-washed farce.
There is evidence that US Government officials had
advance knowledge of and are probably implicated in the
events of 9/11. A huge body of physical evidence has
been ignored, suppressed, and ridiculed by the media and
by our Government. Why did WTC 7 collapse? It was never
hit by an airplane and was apparently brought down by
explosives. How could Al-Qaida terrorists have had
access and time to plant bombs in a top secret
installation? Why did the 9/11 Commission fail to seek
the reason for the WTC 7 collapse? The more one studies
the evidence, the more apparent it becomes that our
Nation, our Bill of Rights, and our Constitution are in
grave danger!"
8. Lt. Col. Shelton F. Lankford, U.S. Marine Corps
(ret) – Retired U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot with
over 300 combat missions flown. 20-year Marine Corps
career.
In a letter to the Editor 2/5/07 Lankford commented
regarding 9/11 thus: "Our government has been hijacked
by means of a "new Pearl Harbor" and a lot of otherwise
good and decent people who are gullible enough to think
that the first three steel-framed buildings in history
fall down because they have some fires that the fire
fighter on the scene said could be knocked down with a
couple of hoses and through which people walked before
they were photographed looking out the holes where the
plane hit . One of these - bldg 7, was never hit by a
plane and even NIST is ashamed to advance a reason for
its collapse. And, miracle of miracles, these three
buildings just happened to be leased and insured by the
same guy who is on tape saying they decided to "PULL"
the last one to fall."
http://michigandaily.com
[Editor's note: WTC Building 7 was
610 feet tall, 47 stories, and was not hit by an
airplane. It would have been the tallest building in 33
states. However, no mention of its collapse appears in
the 9/11 Commission's "full and complete account of the
circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks." Watch the collapse video here. And
six years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet to
publish its promised final report that explains the
cause of its collapse.]
In a statement to this website 2/20/07, he further
stated: "This isn't about party, it isn't about Bush
Bashing. It's about our country, our constitution, and
our future.... Your countrymen have been murdered and
the more you delve into it the more it looks as though
they were murdered by our government, who used it as an
excuse to murder other people thousands of miles away.
If you ridicule others who have sincere doubts and who
know factual information that directly contradicts the
official report and who want explanations from those who
hold the keys to our government, and have motive, means,
and opportunity to pull off a 9/11, but you are too lazy
or fearful, or ... to check into the facts yourself,
what does that make you? Scholars for 9/11 truth have
developed reams of scientific data. Michael Ruppert
published an exhaustive account of the case from the
viewpoint of a trained investigator. David Ray Griffin
provides a context for the unanswered or badly answered
questions that should nag at anyone who pretends to love
this country. Are you afraid that you will learn the
truth and you can't handle it? ... Do a little research.
Google is a wonderful tool. What does it all add up to?
The Commission was, as was the Warren Commission before
it, a dog and pony show ... "
9. Lt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski, PhD, U.S. Air Force
(ret) – Former Political-Military Affairs Officer in
the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Also served on
the staff of the Director of the National Security
Agency. 20-year Air Force career. Member adjunct
faculty, Political Science Department, James Madison
University. Instructor, University of Maryland
University College and American Public University
System. Author of African Crisis Response Initiative:
Past Present and Future (2000) and Expeditionary Air
Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (2001).
[Bio: http://militaryweek.com/]
Kwiatkowski, a contributor to 9/11 and American Empire:
Intellectuals Speak Out 8/23/06, and a Pentagon employee
and eyewitness to the events at the Pentagon on 9/11,
said: "I believe the Commission failed to deeply examine
the topic at hand, failed to apply scientific rigor to
its assessment of events leading up to and including
9/11, failed to produce a believable and unbiased
summary of what happened, failed to fully examine why it
happened, and even failed to include a set of unanswered
questions for future research. ...
It is as a scientist that I have the most trouble with
the official government conspiracy theory, mainly
because it does not satisfy the rules of probability or
physics. The collapses of the World Trade Center
buildings clearly violate the laws of probability and
physics. ... There was a dearth of visible debris on the
relatively unmarked [Pentagon] lawn, where I stood only
minutes after the impact. Beyond this strange absence of
airliner debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage
to the Pentagon structure one would expect from the
impact of a large airliner. This visible evidence or
lack thereof may also have been apparent to the
secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld], who in an
unfortunate slip of the tongue referred to the aircraft
that slammed into the Pentagon as a "missile". ...
I saw nothing of significance at the point of impact -
no airplane metal or cargo debris was blowing on the
lawn in front of the damaged building as smoke billowed
from within the Pentagon. ... all of us staring at the
Pentagon that morning were indeed looking for such
debris, but what we expected to see was not evident. The
same is true with regard to the kind of damage we
expected. ... But I did not see this kind of damage.
Rather, the facade had a rather small hole, no larger
than 20 feet in diameter. Although this facade later
collapsed, it remained standing for 30 or 40 minutes,
with the roof line remaining relatively straight.
The scene, in short, was not what I would have expected
from a strike by a large jetliner. It was, however,
exactly what one would expect if a missile had struck
the Pentagon. ... .More information is certainly needed
regarding the events of 9/11 and the events leading up
to that terrible day."
10. Lt. Col. Guy S. Razer, MS, U.S. Air Force (ret)
– Retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot (F-111, F-15E,
F-16, B-1, F-18, Mig-29, and Suu-22). Flew combat
missions over Iraq. Former instructor at the USAF
Fighter Weapons School and NATO’s Tactical Leadership
Program. 20-year Air Force career. [Website:
http://www.myspace.com/supereagle69]
In a statement to this website 3/25/07, Razer said:
"After 4+ years of research since retirement in 2002, I
am 100% convinced that the attacks of September 11, 2001
were planned, organized, and committed by treasonous
perpetrators that have infiltrated the highest levels of
our government. It is now time to take our country back.
The "collapse" of WTC Building 7 shows beyond any doubt
that the demolitions were pre-planned. There is simply
no way to demolish a 47-story building (on fire) over a
coffee break. It is also impossible to report the
building’s collapse before it happened, as BBC News did,
unless it was pre-planned. Further damning evidence is
Larry Silverstein's video taped confession in which he
states "they made that decision to pull [WTC 7] and we
watched the building collapse."
[Editor's note: WTC Building 7 was
610 feet tall, 47 stories, and was not hit by an
airplane. It would have been the tallest building in 33
states. However, no mention of its collapse appears in
the 9/11 Commission's "full and complete account of the
circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks." Watch the collapse video here. And 5
and 1/2 years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet
to publish its promised final report that explains the
cause of its collapse.]
We cannot let the pursuit of justice fail. Those of us
in the military took an oath to "support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic". Just because we have retired does
not make that oath invalid, so it is not just our
responsibility, it is our duty to expose the real
perpetrators of 9/11 and bring them to justice, no
matter how hard it is, how long it takes, or how much we
have to suffer to do it. We owe it to those who have
gone before us who executed that same oath, and who are
doing the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan right now.
Those of us who joined the military and faithfully
executed orders that were given us had to trust our
leaders. The violation and abuse of that trust is not
only heinous, but ultimately the most accurate
definition of treason!" top^
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