A Doctor’s Puzzlement -
Most people remember what they were doing on the day of September 11. On that day, I was working as a medical director for the U.S. Postal Service. I remember walking in to the lunch room at the main post office in CITY DELETED and everybody was watching the television set. Nobody was eating. Then I asked somebody what was going on. And I watched for few minutes, then went to my office and did my work for the day and didn’t think too much about it.
The next day, I had lunch with my boss and he said “they know the guy who did it. It was Osama bin Laden.” And I thought, that’s great they already figured out who the criminal is behind this and now they’re going to go catch him.
And I didn’t think too much more about it.
Then, a month later, all hell broke loose at the post office. This was because of the anthrax letters. I spent most of my time for the next several months focused on this because I was in charge of handling all of the telephone calls about anthrax questions from postal workers in much of the country. Several postal workers died because of the anthrax letters, so we were very worried.
I talked to a lot of people, and I gave lectures to educate the workers and managers. I met with the postal inspectors and with public health officials and with the FBI, and we participated in evacuation exercises.
So I became a kind of an expert about anthrax. I would tell people that they didn’t have to worry because they were only a few letters that were mailed in the whole United States, and the kind of dangerous anthrax that was sent was very, very special. This was called “weaponized anthrax” that would stay in the air for a long time. So because I was spending so much time learning about anthrax and meeting with officials, coordinating our responses, I learned a lot and I became interested in other aspects of the investigation. I wanted to know who sent those letters.
In October, 2001, the Administration was trying to get the Patriot Act passed. That’s when the BBC reported Vice President Cheney said there “could be a connection between the anthrax cases and bin Laden’s terror network”.
One day, I heard that the FBI had done an analysis of the anthrax and found that it was called the Ames strain. This type of anthrax had been specially treated with certain chemicals to make it “weaponized” it turns out that this process was developed at a U.S. Army facility called Fort Detrick. So it turns out that the source of the anthrax that killed the postal workers was probably the United States government. I then asked myself who could get their hands on that weaponized anthrax from Fort Detrick?
So I then I heard that the FBI was questioning one of the scientists who had worked with the U.S. biological weapons program, however, he was not arrested.
And then, the investigation just stopped. There was no more news about who sent the letters.
And I said to myself, “That’s strange”.
So I looked into this a little bit more, and found out that there were only a few letters sent. It turns out that the Senators who got letters (Daschle and Leahy) were both Democrats who were opposed to the rapid passage of the Patriot Act. But after they got their letters, the Capitol buildings were closed, and lots of people in Washington were scared. And then, shortly after that, the Patriot Act was voted on and passed, even though most senators did not have a chance to read it before they voted for it.
And then, a couple months later, I remember hearing that President Bush wanted us to go to war with Iraq. And he said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. And that Saddam Hussein wanted to attack the United States with anthrax and other weapons. And I remember the terrorist alerts, yellow, orange. And postal workers called me, very afraid when the homeland security chief said to go by plastic sheets and duct tape to protect against terrorist chemical and biological attacks. But I told the postal workers “Don’t worry, I’ve checked with the Centers for Disease Control and you don’t have to buy duct tape”.
But people were very frightened.
And then, I remember watching General Colin Powell, our Secretary of State on TV at the United Nations. He held up a little bottle file of white powder and said, if this were anthrax and distributed just the right way, thousands of people could die.
And shortly after that, we invaded Iraq.
But then we found out that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. They didn’t have weaponized anthrax. And we found out that the president’s state of the union message about Iraq trying to buy uranium and the question about the aluminum centrifuge tubes was all wrong. And there never was any danger of our first warning being a mushroom cloud. And later, it was called an “intelligence failure”. So I didn’t understand why, when CIA director George Tenet resigned, President Bush gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
And about that time, I was listening to a morning radio talk show.
The host of the show took a telephone call, and interviewed a young man who had produced a video. This video was about how the government of the United States was hiding the truth from us about September 11. And he said that the Twin Towers in New York could not have fallen led the way to the ground from just from the airplanes and from the fires. And he said that they never did find that Boeing 757 that was supposed to have crashed at the Pentagon.
And I thought that was pretty interesting. But then, the radio talk show host asked this young man “Who in the United States government would possibly want to kill thousands of our own citizens. Who would want to crash those planes. Why would they want to do that. Who would benefit?”
And then, the young man tried to answer that question. He said he didn’t really know. And then, the talk show host changed his attitude. He was no longer just asking questions. He was now being very aggressive. It was obvious that he thought the young man was a crazy fool, and he almost caught him unpatriotic. The young man had mentioned a book called 9/11 - The New Pearl Harbor.
So I ordered that book and read it. The book was written by Professor David Ray Griffin. That book raised lots of questions and pointed out that much of the official government story did not make sense.
And then, the 9/11 commission report was published. And it was a best seller. It sold more than Harry Potter for a while. Finally, we were going to have the answers to what happened on 9/11. But then, I heard some criticism of the report and of the Commission. I remember that at first, President Bush did not want a Commission. After the Challenger space shuttle blew up, there was almost an immediate investigation, and millions and millions of dollars were spent to investigate. But the 9/11 commission did not start for more than one year after 9/11, and did not have very much money to run the investigation.
So it does not look like President Bush was supporting this commission very much. But when it was finally started, he appointed Henry Kissinger to lead the commission. But then, Mr. Kissinger resigned, he said because he refused to disclose the names of the clients for his consulting company. It turns out that the man who ran the investigation day to day and who was responsible for editing the final report, was Mr. Phillip Zelikow. And Mr. Zelikow had worked with the Bush transition team on national security matters when Clinton was leaving office, and he had co-authored a book with Condoleezza Rice, who was one of the key witnesses who finally testified to the Commission.
And I remember that President Bush and Vice President Cheney did not want to testify in front of the commission. And finally, when they did, they had to be together in the same room at the same time, but it was not under oath, and the commissioners could not take notes from the room until the White House approved them.
And the press kept calling this the “independent” commission. But the commission’s draft report was given to the White House for vetting before final publication, and the White House helped edit the report before it was published.
So I wondered about this commission report’s conclusions. It turns out that nobody in our government was to blame for the 9/11 attacks except the Federal Aviation Administration. And we had “intelligence failures”. But they forgot to mention World Trade Center Building 7. Not one word about that building that fell all the way to the ground even though it was not hit by an airplane. And they forgot to mention lots of other things. They also got some things completely wrong. When discussing the “collapse” of the Twin Towers, they say the towers had hollow cores comprised of stairways and elevators. In fact, the towers each had 47 central steel support columns. (David Ray Griffin has published a very good book called the 9/11 Commission: Omissions and Distortions.)
I don’t think anybody was disciplined or fired because of incompetence over what happened on September 11. This seemed very strange to me.
Then, I read the newspaper story about a man who had died in Memphis Tennessee. He had fallen off of a bridge and drowned in the Mississippi river. That was very strange, so I wondered who was this man? And it turns out that he was a Harvard microbiologist who was visiting Memphis for a science conference.
His rental car was found abandoned on the Hernando de Soto bridge 11/16/01 with the keys in the ignition pulled over to a lane that was closed at the side of the bridge without hazard flashers on.
His body was found on 12/20/01 snagged on a tree in the water in Vidalia, La., 300 miles south of Memphis.
His obituary reads:
Don C. Wiley, one of the most distinguished structural biologists of his generation, has died. He was 57. Wiley, whose teaching and research career spanned three decades at Harvard University, conducted key research on the structure of viruses and of proteins in the human immune system. His work focused on the molecular mechanisms that enable viruses to infect cells, and on how cells respond to external challenges by presenting antigens and mobilizing defensive cells. A senior investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Wiley studied the structure of such viruses as the AIDS virus, Ebola, herpes simplex, and influenza. He examined the ways in which viruses bind to cell surfaces, enabling their entry into the cell, and the ways in which viruses evolve to infect different organisms and to escape the immune response of their hosts. By understanding these processes, Wiley sought to find new ways to combat these viruses
The coroner ruled that he had “likely lost his balance on a narrow curb of a Memphis bridge, fell over the thigh-high guardrail and down 135 feet to his death.”
(When I looked this up with a search engine, I found reports of other microbiologists dying around the same time, including Dr. Robert M. Schwartz, Dr. Benito Que, Dr. Set Van Nguyen, and Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik who was reported to be the former chief of the Soviet bioweapons program.)
Then, I heard about a physics professor at Brigham Young University, Doctor Stephen Jones. Doctor Jones had published a paper on the Internet that described problems with the official government story about how the twin towers crashed all the way to the ground on September 11. He says that the best explanation seems to be “controlled demolition”. That is when a company puts explosives inside a building, and then sets them off in a very specific away, to cause the building to collapse into its own foot print. Also, World Trade Center building 7 fell exactly this way, but it was not hit by a plane. They say the fires caused building seven to crumble all the way to the ground. But fires have never caused a steel framed high-rise building to ever collapse all the way to the ground, before or after September 11.
The government’s own FEMA investigation was unable to explain what happened to WTC building 7 seven, but they did not consider the hypothesis of controlled demolition.
I wonder why the American press hasn’t done a better job informing the public. Most people don’t know about building 7, and most people think that Osama bin Laden has never denied that he was behind the 9/11 attacks. In fact, he has denied it publicly at least twice. The press did tell us about a video that was provided by the Pentagon, in which a man they claim to be bin Laden admits guilt. But the press forgot to tell us that experts believe this video tape was a fake.
Recently, somebody sent me an e-mail that got me to thinking.
Sometimes, when politicians don’t like somebody they call him a “Hitler”.
It turns out that Hitler was very good at fooling and manipulating the citizens of Germany. In some ways, he tricked them into war. He did this using a technique called the Big Lie. When I read about the Big Lie, I remembered that phone call with the radio announcer and the young man in Idaho. Mr. Hitler said that people are unable to believe that the government would tell them a very very Big Lie. And because the people were psychologically unable to believe a very Big Lie, the government could fool the people and manipulate them.
But the lie must be very very big. So big, that it seems impossible. Most people find it impossible psychologically to believe that our government could in any way be involved with any kind of harm being done to American citizens.
Some people say that the Bush administration knew about the September 11 attacks before they happened, and purposely did nothing to stop them. This is called complicity with the attacks.
Other people say that there is a “secret government” within our intelligence community that actually helped plan and carry out those attacks. This is such an outrageous suggestion that most people are completely unable to consider it, even for one minute. I hope this is not what happened. But, I must ask more questions because the 911 commission report leaves so much out. There are so many omissions, and distortions.
There are many very important questions that have not been answered. Now, there is a group of academic professors who have come together to propose a credible challenge to the 9/11 commission report. They say that the buildings came down probably because of controlled demolition.
Their web site is
http://www.st911.orgAnother site that asks about the collapse of the buildings is
http://www.911truestory.comThis is where we need to start the investigation. If this turns out to be true, then many other questions should be asked. It’s time for the 9/11 puzzle to be finally and accurately solved piece by piece.
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