Wait until you get a load of this!!!!
".... (Shenon’s book has itself prompted the former 9/11 commissioners to issue a statement in February defending their executive director, Philip Zelikow.)....
From the outset, the Bush administration tried to block not only the creation of the commission but also public Congressional hearings on pre-9/11 intelligence failures. Shenon reports that Vice President Dick Cheney called Tom Daschle, then the Senate majority leader, in January 2002 to warn him that questions about errors would be a “very dangerous and time-consuming diversion for those of us who are on the front lines of our response today. We’ve got our hands full.”
.... Bush caved and created the commission.... Soon enough, the commission would become mired in controversies over the looming Iraq war. Some of Shenon’s most scathing remarks are reserved for the conduct of Zelikow.
A talented historian who wrote a book with Rice, Zelikow came to be loathed by much of the commission’s staff for his arrogance. Some staff members and more than a few people in the Washington press corps even viewed him as a White House mole, intent on sanitizing the Bush administration’s record. According to Shenon, Zelikow did not inform the leaders of the commission of his role in drafting the White House’s September 2002 “pre-emptive defense” doctrine and was frequently in touch with both Rice and Karl Rove.
The very first expert witness to appear before the commission was the State Department’s legal adviser during the Reagan administration, Abraham Sofaer, who championed the notion of pre-emptive war in his testimony. According to Shenon, “members of the commission’s staff would look back on Sofaer’s testimony as the first evidence that Zelikow might try to use the commission to promote the war with Iraq.”
In addition, Zelikow extended an invitation to Laurie Mylroie, an eccentric academic at the American Enterprise Institute who believed that Saddam Hussein had been behind the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, to testify that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were linked. “After the hearing with Mylroie,” Shenon writes, Zelikow “made it clear to the commission’s staff that he wanted the issue of Al Qaeda-Iraq links pursued aggressively.”
Here's who is responsible for the 1993 WTC bombing, thus exposing Mylroie as a complete liar!
.... The commissioner John Lehman probably got closest to the truth when he told Shenon that before 9/11, Bush administration officials were “just besotted” with missile defense, Iraq and other issues, concluding, “They were living in another world.”
Yup, "besotted" with Iraq BEFORE 9/11!!! CUI BONO, readers?
Apparently, they still are."
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For my money, so is the New York Times when it comes to 9/11 and the Truth!
A world that ZELIKOW CREATED!!!!!
Here's the type of "historian" Zelikow is, readers:
According to Wikipedia:
"Prof. Zelikow’s area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance of, in his words, 'public myths’ or 'public presumptions’ which he defines as 'beliefs (1) thought to be true ( although not necessarily known with certainty) and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community.’ In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called 'searing’ or 'molding’ events (that) take on transcendent’ importance and therefore retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene….He has noted that 'a history’s narrative power is typically linked to how readers relate to the actions of individuals in the history; if readers cannot make the connection to their own lives, then a history may fail to engage them at all." ("Thinking about Political History" Miller center Report, winter 1999, p 5-7)
Isn’t that the same as saying there is neither history nor truth; that what is really important is the manipulation of epochal events so they serve the interests of society’s managers? Thus, it follows that if the government can create their own "galvanizing events", then they can write history any way they choose.
If that’s the case, then perhaps the entire war on terror is cut from whole cloth; a garish public relations maneuver devoid of meaning."
In the Nov-Dec 1998 issue of Foreign Affairs he (Zelikow) co-authored (with the former head of the CIA) an article entitled "Catastrophic Terrorism" in which he speculated that if the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center had succeeded 'the resulting horror and chaos would have exceeded our ability to describe it. Such an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in American history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America’s fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like Pearl Harbor, the event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force."
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Zelikow )
That was written in 1998!?!
Amazing. It is almost like Zelikow knew what was going to happen on 9-11 and was drawing attention to the "draconian measures" (scaling back civil liberties) which may seem attractive to ruling elites in the policy establishment.
Now, (coincidentally) everything has evolved almost exactly as Zelikow predicted. Just like Pearl Harbor, 9-11 has "divided our past and future into a before and after". The post-9-11 world relates to a world in which personal liberty is no longer protected, and where surveillance, detention and the use of deadly force are all permitted. It is a world in which "America’s fundamental sense of security" has been shattered and will continue to be shattered as a way of managing public opinion.
As Zelikow presciently implies, the post 9-11 world depends entirely on "public myths"; fairy tales invented by society’s supervisors which perpetuate the illusion of democracy, freedom and the rule of law."
