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9/11 Commission Report
Questioned by Over 100 Professors

Many respected and distinguished university professors have expressed significant criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report. A number even allege government complicity in the terrorist acts of 9/11. Below are the highly revealing public statements on this vital topic of over 100 university professors with links for verification and further investigation.

The collective voices of these respected professors along with over 50 senior government officials, over 250 pilots and aviation professionals, and over 3,000 architects and engineers give credibility to the claim that the 9/11 Commission Report is tragically flawed.These dedicated individuals from across the political spectrum cannot be simply dismissed as irresponsible believers in some 9/11 conspiracy theory. Their sincere concern, backed by impeccable credentials, demonstrates that criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report is not only reasonable, it is in fact a patriotic duty.


  OVER 100 PROFESSORS QUESTION 9/11 REPORT

David Ray Griffin

David Ray Griffin, PhD

David Ray Griffin, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Claremont School of Theology. Author/editor of over two dozen books, Prof. Griffin first questioned the 9/11 official story in 2003 while exploring a 9/11 timeline filled with reliable, verifiable facts suggesting a major cover-up. He then switched his focus from theology to 9/11 research. His seminal book on unresolved inconsistencies in the 9/11 official story, The New Pearl Harbor, has sold over 100,000 copies. His recent Debunking 9/11 Debunking gives in-depth analysis showing that most critics of the 9/11 truth movement are avoiding the deep questions on key, easily verifiable facts.

Joel Hirschhorn

Joel Hirschhorn, PhD

Joel S. Hirschhorn, MS (Metallurgical Engineering), PhD (Materials Engineering) – Professor of Metallurgical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1965 - 1978. Senior Staff Member, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment 1978 - 1990. Testified over 50 times before Congress on technology, science, and environmental issues. Author of seven books and over 150 papers, articles, and book chapters on environmental science and technology.

  • Essay, "Painful 9/11 Truth, " 9/4/07: "Many technical analyses cast doubt on the official explanation of the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings, including those presented by an impressive new group: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. More difficult than discovering the truth, however, is convincing most of the public to accept [it].

    When it comes to 9/11, we face the strong belief that only al-Qaeda caused 9/11. But analyses by many experts reveal the collapse of the three WTC buildings was not caused by the two airplanes exploding into the twin towers. The general view is that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition.

    It would have taken considerable effort by a number of people with expertise and access to the buildings to rig them so that they could be intentionally collapsed when the two jets hit. Tough questions flood in: Who could have engineered all this? Could foreign agents accomplish such complex actions - and if they did, why not take credit? If Americans did it, why would they intentionally inflict inevitable mass death and devastation? Worse, they seemingly knew about the plan to fly the jets into the towers. Post-9/11, why have the government and official investigations not come to the same controlled demolition conclusion? This makes sense if the government was involved.
  • Blog: http://dailyscare.com/blog/joel_hirschhorn

A. K. Dewdney

A. K. Dewdney, PhD

A. K. Dewdney, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario. Author of Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" and "Mathematical Recreations" section, 1984 - 1993. Author of over 80 scientific papers on mathematics, computer science, engineering, astronomy and biology. Author of numerous books, including: Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science (2004), A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos (2001), Yes, We Have No Neutrons: (1997), 200% of Nothing: An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy (1996), The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science (1993).

  • Essay : "The debris found outside the Pentagon is inconsistent with the impact of a Boeing 757 or any aircraft of comparable dimensions. In particular, in the absence of some agency (possibly unknown to physical science) that removed the wings, there is no way to avoid the conclusion that the wings (and therefore the aircraft) were never present in the first place. In this case, no Boeing 757 struck the Pentagon building on the morning of September 11, 2001."
    http://www.physics911.net/mi...
  • Member: Scientific Panel Investigating 9/11. Panel Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of 9/11 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media."
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth
  • Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Dewdney
  • CV: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/akd/PERSONAL/hp.html

Richard Falk

Richard Falk, JSD

Richard Falk, JSD – Professor Emeritus, International Law, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. In 2001 he served on the three-person UN Commission on Human Rights for the Palestine Territories, and previously, on the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance; Human Rights Horizons; On Humane Governance: Toward a New Global Politics; and Human Rights and State Sovereignty. Honorary Vice president of the American Society of International Law.

  • Foreward to The New Pearl Harbor: "The New Pearl Harbor ... explores the most sensitive and controversial terrain—the broad landscape of official behavior in relation to the 9/11 disaster—in the best spirit of academic detachment coupled with ... a willingness to allow inquiry to follow the path of evidence and reason wherever it leads. [It shows that] there are so many gaping holes in the official accounts of 9/11 that no plausible coherent narrative remains.

    "[Author David Ray] Griffin shows, with insight and a firm grasp of the many dimensions of global security policy of the Bush Administration, that getting 9/11 right, even belatedly, matters desperately. The layer upon layer of unexplained facts, the multiple efforts by those in power to foreclose independent inquiry, and the evidence of a pre-9/11 blueprint by Bush insiders to do what they are doing on the basis of a 9/11 mandate is why the Griffin assessment does not even require a reader with a normally open mind. 30% receptivity will do, which means that all but the most dogmatically blinded adherents of the Bush presidency will be convinced by the basic argument of The New Pearl Harbor." http://www.transnational.org/SAJT/forum/meet/2004/Falk...
  • Bio: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/event_files/past/_winter03/falk

 

 

Robert Korol

Robert Korol, PhD

Robert M. Korol, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, McMaster University. Elected Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada for exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada. Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. Well known for research on steel structures; the plastic theory of metal structures, inelastic buckling, limit analysis, environmental assessment and life cycle analysis methodologies. Hamilton-Wentworth's 1998 "Engineer of the Year."

  • Video of Hamilton, Ontario, 9/11 Truth Symposium 3/23/07 Clip 2 Duration 28:47: (See http://www.911podcasts.com...)

    [At 12:40, regarding collapse of WTC Towers 1 & 2] "The whole idea of the pancake theory ... that NIST talks about means that you have no resistance on the way down at that particular floor level that was supposedly weakened significantly. And by significantly I mean all around the perimeter, all at the same time. What an amazing thing that all of the bolts would have failed at the same time. All of the welds would have failed at the same time. And the whole thing comes down very nicely.

    There isn't even an explanation for how the core of the structure [collapsed]. It contained the elevators and the stairwells. It is an extremely highly structurally resisting part of the structure. So it is a very strong part of the structure. And it ... was virtually ignored [in the NIST report]. They just talk about the trusses that go across from column to column. And all of them fail at the same time. They start coming down. Even if you were to accept that, you've got resistance as the floors come down.

    [At minute 26:05] I think Building number 7 is the big, big question mark and I don't know that there is an engineering explanation for that other than controlled demolition." http://www.911podcasts.com/files/video/hamilton...
  • Bio: http://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/engalumni/macengineer...

Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis, PhD

Lynn Margulis, PhD – Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. Former Chair, National Academy of Science's Space Science Board Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution. Recipient of the National Medal of Science, America's highest honor for scientific achievement. Dr. Margulis is best known for contributions to evolution, especially the theory of symbiogenesis. She is the author of over 130 scientific works and numerous books.

  • Personal statement to website, 8/27/07: "The 9/11 tragedy is the most successful and most perverse publicity stunt in the history of public relations. I arrive at this conclusion largely as the result of the research and clear writing by David Ray Griffin in his fabulous books about 9/11. It is clear to me that David Ray Griffin and his fellow critics are correct: the 9/11 'new Pearl Harbor' was planned in astonishing detail and carried out through the efforts of a sophisticated and large network of operatives. It was more complex and far more successful than the Allende assassination, the US bombing of our own ship, the Maine, that began the Spanish-American war, the Reichstag fire that was used to justify the suspension of most civil liberties in Germany in the 1930's, and even Operation Himmler, which was used by Germany to justify the invasion of Poland, which started World War II.

    "I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken."
  • Bio: http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/LynnMargulis

David Griscom

David L. Griscom, PhD

David L. Griscom, PhD – Research physicist, retired from Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, after 33 years service. Visiting professorships at the Universities of Paris and Saint-Etienne, France, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona (2004 - 2005). Fellow of the American Physical Society. Principal author of 109 of his 185 published works. Frequently cited by other researchers.

  • Personal blog 2/9/07: "David Ray Griffin has web-published a splendid, highly footnoted account of The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True. This scholarly work, rich in eyewitness accounts, includes 11 separate pieces of evidence that the World Trade Center towers 1, 2, and 7 were brought down by explosives.

    I implore my fellow physicists and engineers who may have time, expertise, and (ideally) supercomputer access to get to work on the physics of the WTC collapses and publish their findings in refereed journals like the Journal of Applied Physics.

    The issue of knowing who was really behind the 9/11 attacks is of paramount importance to the future of our country, because the "official" assumption that it was the work of 19 Arab amateurs (1) does not match the available facts and (2) has led directly to the deplorable Patriot Act, the illegal Iraq war, NSA spying on ordinary Americans, [and] repudiation of the Geneva Conventions.

    Surely these Orwellian consequences of public ignorance constitute more than sufficient motivation for any patriotic American physicist or engineer to join the search for 9/11 Truth!" http://impactglassman.blogspot.com
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
  • Bio: http://www.impactglassresearchinternational.com/index.html

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn, PhD

Howard Zinn, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University. Historian, social activist, author. Former U.S. Army Air Corps bombardier in World War II. Author of numerous books, including the highly popular A People's History of the United States (1980, 2005). Other books are Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (2004), Terrorism and War (2002), and The Zinn Reader (1997).

  • Endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor: "David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9-11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation of the Bush administration's relationship to that historic and troubling event."
  • Endorsement of Debunking 9/11 Debunking: "Considering how the 9/11 tragedy has been used by the Bush administration to propel us into immoral wars again and again, I believe that David Ray Griffin's provocative questions about 9/11 deserve to be investigated and addressed."
  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

Steven Jones

Steven Jones, PhD

Steven Jones, PhD – Former Professor of Physics at Brigham Young University. Retired Oct. 2006 to devote more time to 9/11 research. Principal Investigator for experimental Muon-catalyzed fusion for the U.S. Department of Energy. Author of over 40 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Founder of Journal of 9/11 Studies for scholarly papers questioning the 9/11 official story.

  • Peer reviewed paper, Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse? in Journal of 9/11 Studies, 9/06: "On the basis of photographic and video evidence as well as related data and analyses, I provide thirteen reasons for rejecting the official hypothesis, according to which fire and impact damage caused the collapse of the Twin Towers and WTC 7, in favor of the controlled-demolition hypothesis. The goal of this paper is to promote further scrutiny of the official government-sponsored reports as well as serious investigation of the controlled demolition hypothesis." http://www.journalof911studies.com...
  • [Editor's note: WTC Building 7 was 47 stories tall and was not hit by an airplane. However, no mention of the reason for 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.]
  • Founding Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the September 11, 2001 attacks."
  • Major media coverage: www.WantToKnow.info/steven...
  • Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones

John B Cobb

John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD

John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD – Professor Emeritus of Theology and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. Prof. Cobb was a Fullbright professor at the University of Mainz, and visiting professor at Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Chicago Divinity Schools. Author, co-author, and editor of numerous books on religion, his writings include; Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus (1989), For the Common Good co-authored with Herman Daly and winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (1991), Sustaining the Common Good : A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy (1994), Christ in a Pluralistic Age (1999), God and the World (2001), The Call of the Spirit: Process Spirituality in a Relational World (2005).

A. K. Dewdney

John N. Cooper, PhD

John N. Cooper, PhD – Professor of Chemistry, Bucknell University 1967 - 2003. Author of 35 published papers in the fields of chemical education and inorganic kinetics and structure.

  • Review of Prof. David Ray Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor 3/29/04: "Griffin's approach is utterly admirable: coherently, systematically and objectively, he scrupulously and minutely documents the flaws, contradictions, inconsistencies and discrepancies in the 'official version' of the events of that day. Ultimately he assembles and tabulates a list of thirty-eight apparent irregularities in the timeline of, and evidence remaining from, these attacks and asks how they might plausibly be reconciled: Why were the 'standard operating procedures' for the emergency scrambling of fighter jets in the event of a commercial airplane's highjacking not implemented until after the crash at the Pentagon? Why was there no evidence of a passenger jet debris at the Pentagon crash site? What happened on UA flight 93?

    Griffin refuses to throw out possibilities simply because they are outrageous, outlandish or shocking; he lets the evidence speak for itself. The results are deeply disturbing. With admirable academic objectivity, Griffin refuses to indict or endorse any specific hypothesis. Rather he presents a substantial body of very disturbing evidence. [He then] calls for a real, open, hardnosed investigation that does not begin with the proposition that only those scenarios in which the assumption that our government or its members play only a benign and benevolent role - seeking only the welfare and best interests of its citizenry - will be considered.

    The New Pearl Harbor - Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 is a book that ought to be thoughtfully read and considered by every thinking, voting member of the electorate." http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view...
  • Bio: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jcooper/

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD

Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD – Professor Emerita, Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union. Author and editor of numerous books including; Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing (1996), Women and Redemption: A Theological History (1998), Christianity and Ecology (2000), Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family (2001), The Wrath of Jonah (2002), Interpreting the Postmodern: Responses to "Radical Orthodoxy" (2006), Encyclopedia of Women And Religion in North America (2006).

  • Essay: "Until recently I dismissed the suggestions that the Bush administration might have been complicit in allowing 9/11 to happen as groundless "conspiracy theory." Thus it was with some skepticism that I agreed to read the new book written by David Ray Griffin ... that argues the case for just such complicity.

    "Griffin writes in a precise and careful fashion, avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. He argues for a high probability for the Bush's administrations complicity with allowing and facilitating the attacks, based not on any one conclusive piece of evidence, but the sheer accumulation of all of the data. He concludes by calling for a genuinely independent investigative effort that would examine all this evidence.

    "I personally found Griffin's book both convincing and chilling. If the complicity of the Bush Administration to which he points is true, then Americans have a far greater problem on their hands than even the more ardent anti-war critics have imagined. If the administration ... would do this, what else would they do to maintain and expand their power?" http://www.thewitness.org/agw/ruether010804.html
  • Bio:http://www.cgu.edu/pages/3563.asp

Niels Harrit

Niels Harrit, PhD

Niels Harrit, PhD – Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen. Member, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Member, European Photochemistry Association. Author of numerous scientific papers with a special focus on nano-science.

  • Essay 3/31/07: "Two official explanations of the events in Manhattan on 11 September have been put forward by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).

    In the final FEMA report, WTC7 is hardly mentioned. They note that there were fires in the building, but do not attempt to explain the collapse. The final NIST report was released in September 2005, but the section covering WTC7 was left out, with the promise that a final version would be released later. Publication has been delayed several times, and we are still waiting for it.

    The attack on the World Trade Center was a tragedy for the people in the towers and in the airplanes, and a tragedy for their families. It also marked the beginning of the tragic war on terror. The current trends in Western society towards greater surveillance and the loss of civil rights can also only be called tragic. If we have also been lied to, the tragedy is complete.

    How did WTC7 collapse? We are not asking 'why'. Some extremely simple observations have been made, and we want to hear an official explanation that is consistent with elementary physics and chemistry." http://www.911truth.dk/first/en/art_Harrit.htm
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice

Peter Phillips

Peter Phillips, PhD

Peter Phillips, PhD – Professor of Sociology, Sonoma State University. Director, Project Censored. Author of several books and chief editor of the highly regarded annual Project Censored books which uncover vital news neglected by the major media. Prof. Phillips is also a respected member of the intrepid WantToKnow.info team.

  • Essay 3/6/05: "A threshold concept facing Americans is the possibility that the 9/11 Commission Report was on many levels a cover-up for the failure of the US government to prevent the tragedy. The report failed to address sources of external assistance to the terrorists. Investigations into this area might have lead to a conclusion that elements of various governments - including our own - not only knew about the attacks in advance, but also may have helped facilitate their implementation.

    "Overall concerns with the official version of 9/11 have been published and discussed by scholars and politicians around the world. The response to most has been to label these discussions as "conspiracy theories" unworthy of media coverage or further review. Pursuit of a critical analysis of these questions is undermined by the psychological barrier about 9/11 issues as threshold concepts — too awful to even consider.

    "We must step past the threshold and have the courage to ask the questions, demand answers, and support research into all aspects of this American tragedy. Perhaps the closet isn't as dark and as fearful as we envision. If we don't courageously look and search into the deepest regions of our fears, how can we assure our children and ourselves a safe and honest future?" http://www.commondreams.org/views...
  • Bio: http://www.sonoma.edu/sociology/biopeter.htm

Hugo Bachmann

Hugo Bachmann, PhD

Hugo Bachmann, PhD – Professor Emeritus, former Chairman of the Department of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Author/co-author, Erdbebenbemessung von Stahlbetonhochbauten (Seismic Analysis of Concrete Reinforced Structures - 1990), Vibration Problems in Structures: Practical Guidelines (1995), Biege- und Schubversuche an teilweise vorgespannten Leichtbetonbalken (Structural Analysis of Linked Concrete Beams - 1998), Hochbau für Ingenieure. Eine Einführung (Structural Construction for Engineers - 2001), Erdbebensicherung von Bauwerken (Earthquake-proofing Buildings - 2002).

  • Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: "In my opinion the building WTC 7 was, with great probability, professionally demolished," says Hugo Bachmann, Emeritus ETH [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology], Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction."
    English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch/zeitungsartikel...
    Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch...
  • Book 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA: "As Bachmann told the Neue Züricher Zeitung Online on September 13, 2001, at first glance there seemed to be two possibilities in the fall of the towers. The first was the fire and its effect on the steel supports. But Bachmann had an alternative: "In the second scenario, an additional terrorist action would have caused the collapse of the buildings. In this way, according to Bachmann, buildings like the World Trade center can be destroyed without great logistical exertion." The article went on to say that "Bachmann could imagine that the perpetrators had installed explosives on key supports in a lower floor before the attack." If the perpetrators had rented office space, then these "explosive tenants" could have calmly placed explosive charges on the vulnerable parts of the building "without having anyone notice."
    http://educate-yourself.org/cn/collapseofWTCeyewitness...
  • Bio: http://www.ibk.ethz.ch/emeritus/Bachmann

Joerg Schneider

Jörg Schneider, Dr hc

Jörg Schneider, Dr hc – Professor Emeritus, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Former Vice President and honorary lifetime member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.

  • Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: "In my opinion ... building WTC 7 was, with great probability, professionally demolished," says Hugo Bachmann, Emeritus ETH-Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction. And also Jörg Schneider, likewise emeritus ETH-Professor of Structural Analysis and Construction, interprets the few available video recordings as evidence that "the building WTC 7 was with great probability demolished."
    English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch/zeitungsartikel...
    Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch/zeitungsart...
  • [Editor's note: WTC Building 7 was 610 feet tall, 47 stories, and was not hit by an airplane. 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.]
  • Bio: http://www.iabse.ethz.ch

Daniele Ganser

Daniele Ganser, PhD

Daniele Ganser, PhD Professor in the History Department at the University of Basel. Former Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Former Researcher at the Military Academy (MILAK) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Author of NATO's Secret Armies, on the history of U.S.-sponsored false flag operations in Europe after WW II.

  • Interview 4/8/05: "Academics who study secret warfare find themselves between these three theories—LIHOP [The US government knew the attack was coming, but Let It Happen On Purpose], SURPRISE [The US government was not expecting the attack], and INSIDE JOB [The U.S. government planned and executed the attack]. They all are "conspiracy theories," by the way. Researchers try to find out which theory is best able to account for all the known facts.

    "But unfortunately, the 600-page [9/11 Commission] report, published in July 2004 and accepted by Bush as the "official story" of what happened in respect to 9/11, does not even mention the LIHOP and INSIDE JOB theories! It presents SURPRISE as the only possible explanation.

    "Now, [9/11 Commission Executive Director] Philip Zelikow is a respected professor of history. As a fellow historian I was therefore very surprised to find that his report is totally unbalanced. Of course, Zelikow is aware of the LIHOP and INSIDE JOB theories, no doubt. How can he author a book on 9/11, which claims to search for the truth, but which totally ignores these theories?" http://www.danieleganser.ch/e...
  • Bio: http://www.danieleganser.ch/e/biographie/index.htm

John McMurtry

John McMurtry, PhD

John McMurtry, PhD – Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Author of several books dealing with public policy issues, including: Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy, and Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market As an Ethical System.

  • Contributor to 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I): Intellectuals Speak Out: "The documented details that expose 9/11 denial will not be repeated here, because this volume and others have already reported them. They are impressively massive in confirming ... the long open pathway to the attacks and the blocking of all independent inquiry since then." www.snowshoefilms.com/mcm...
  • Signatory: Petition For An Independent International 9/11 Truth Commission. "The Bush administration has never offered a detailed and documented account of its claims about the events of 9-11 which have allegedly revolutionized human affairs. Nor has it explained obvious and serious discrepancies in its own statements and actions. The Kean-Hamilton panel's limited funding from Congress makes a mockery of the tragedy of 9-11, considering that it is only a small fraction of the huge sums spent to investigate Bill Clinton [for his sexual indiscretions].

    "We therefore call upon statesmen, thinkers, journalists, investigators, artists, scientists, and other eminent personalities from around the world to form an Independent International Truth Commission dedicated to preventing unproven assertions about 9-11 from setting the stage for a new world conflagration." http://iitc.911review.org
  • Bio: http://www.uoguelph.ca/philosophy/faculty

Peter Dale Scott

Peter Dale Scott, PhD

Peter Dale Scott, PhD – Professor Emeritus of English at University of California, Berkeley. Former Canadian diplomat who served at the UN and the Canadian Embassy in Poland. Author of Drugs, Oil and War (2003), and several other books including Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1996) and The Iran-Contra Connection. Co-editor of 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out (2006). His writings deal, among other matters, with U.S. covert operations and their impact on democracy at home and abroad. Prof. Scott is also a respected member of the intrepid WantToKnow.info team.

  • Congressional briefing testimony 7/22/05: "The American people have been seriously misled about the origins of the al Qaeda movement ... just as they have been seriously misled about the reasons for America's invasion of Iraq. The 9/11 Commission Report assures Americans that 'Bin Ladin and his comrades had their own sources of support and training, and they received little or no assistance from the United States.' This misleading statement fails to consider that:

    – Al Qaeda elements received considerable indirect U.S. Government assistance, first in Afghanistan until 1992, and thereafter in other countries such as Azerbaijan (1992-95)

    – Key members of the network which became al Qaeda, such as Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, Ali Mohamed, Mohamed Jamal Khalifa, and lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, were granted visas to enter the United States, despite being suspected of terrorism.

    – Repeatedly al Qaeda terrorists were protected by FBI officials from investigation and prosecution." [Editor's note: See also Coleen Rowley and Bryan Sacks.] http://socrates.berk...
  • Bio: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/

Terry Morrone, PhD
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Terry Morrone, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Physics, Adelphi University. Author of several scientific papers on the physics of plasma. Researcher and innovator in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and holder of 17 patents in the field.

  • Essay in April 2007 Edition of Journal of 9/11 Studies Titled Proof That The Thermal and Gravitational Energy Available Were Insufficient To Melt Steel In The Twin Towers And 7 World Trade Center On 9/11
    "In this communication I shall show that only explosives could have produced the large amounts of molten steel found at the site of the World Trade Center (WTC) in the days following 9/11. There is universal agreement by scientists in and out of government that the temperatures reached in the fires were much lower than the melting point of steel. Steel could have only have melted (assuming no explosives were used) if it gained additional energy in falling. I shall show that this gravitational energy is insufficient to cause melting.

    Conclusions: Since there was molten steel in the wreckage of the World Trade Center, and since the temperatures of the fires were insufficient to melt steel, and since the gravitational energy was shown to be very much smaller than the energy needed to melt steel, the Twin Towers and 7 WTC could only have been brought down by explosives or cutter charges." http://journalof911studies.com/volume/200704/ProfMorrone...
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the 9/11 attacks."
Mike Hawryluk, MAT
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Mike Hawryluk, MAT – Professor Emeritus of Physics and former Division Chairman, Suffolk County Community College, NY.

  • Statement to this website 3/30/07: "My wife and I, transfixed in front of a TV as the horror of 9/11 unfolded, watched as the topmost, undamaged floors of the WTC South Tower started to gradually lean (rotate) in the direction of the damage due to impact. In an instant, the rotation stopped, and that which was rotating began to fall, as if only under the influence of gravity! The fulcrum was no longer there!

    I blurted out, "My god, they wired the building."

    I haven't been at peace with myself, or the world, since then. I had no idea who the "they" in my utterance was, and to this day still do not. Since learning more about the events leading up, and subsequent to the tragedy, I have become firmly convinced that the conspiracy being sold to the world by the Government, the media, and debunkers is the greatest Red Herring of our time, if not in history. Those of us who are seeking the "Truth about 9/11" face a formidable but not insurmountable challenge: to convince those who don't want to know to join us in applying a continuing and increasing pressure on the media to force those who don't want us to know into the light of day." Link to full statement
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the 9/11 attacks."

Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky, PhD

Michel Chossudovsky, PhD – Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa. Consultant to several international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (AIEDEP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Prof. Chossudovsky is the author of several important books, including his popular War and Globalisation: The Truth Behind September 11.

Bruce Henry

Bruce R. Henry, PhD

Bruce R. Henry, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Mathematics and Computer Science, Worcester State College. Former guidance systems engineer for Polaris and Trident missiles, General Electric.

  • Statement to this website 6/11/07: "It is clear extraordinarily powerful explosives were used to destroy the WTC Twin Towers. Careful scrutiny of video of the collapse of the South Tower (WTC2) shows the upper segment (above the airplane strike) listing, then dropping, then disintegrating or pulverizing. There was a massive explosion near ground level immediately before those events. The tilt-then-drop sequence shows the building's central structural steel core ... had by some agency been made insubstantial and unable to bear weight. Putting that together with the ground level blast and the subsequent pulverization it is clear very powerful explosives had to have been in play. The airplane strike was a mere smokescreen.

    Who planted the explosives? What kind of explosives were used? When were they planted? And for what reasons would someone destroy ... the Twin Towers? Simple logic requires of a credible account of the 9/11 events that it explain ALL details clearly shown in documentary footage, together with all other known facts. The Official Story does not even come close to meeting that standard."
  • Article 8/12/06: "The sudden collapse, the seamless downward cascade of the crumbling WTC towers planted doubt in Bruce Henry's mind. The way the buildings fell didn't seem right. The implosion-like plummeting, the absence of central beams and girders refusing to fall, the speed of the collapse -- all raised suspicion for the retired mathematics professor from Worcester. "To me it seems so transparent with a minimal amount of reflection that there's something catawampus," or cockeyed, with the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Finally, he came to a shocking conclusion that runs counter to the accepted history of America's darkest day: The towers, he believes, "were brought down by planted explosives." http://www.informationliberation.com
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth
Martin Walter, PhD
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Martin Walter, PhD – Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder. Member, Executive Committee of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Sierra Club.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."
  • Bio: http://www.colorado.edu/math/earthmath/marty.html
William Rice, PE
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William Rice, PE – Former Professor of Engineering at Vermont Technical College where he taught engineering materials, structures lab, and other building related courses. Registered Professional Civil Engineer who worked on structural steel and concrete buildings in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.

  • Essay Vermont Guardian 3/1/07: "Having worked on structural steel buildings as a civil engineer in the era when the Twin Towers were designed and constructed, I found some disturbing discrepancies and omissions concerning their collapse on 9/11. The interesting fact is that each of these 110-story Twin Towers fell upon itself in about ten seconds at nearly free-fall speed. This violates Newton's Law of Conservation of Momentum that would require that as the stationary inertia of each floor is overcome by being hit, the mass (weight) increases and the free-fall speed decreases.

    Even if Newton's Law is ignored, the prevailing theory would have us believe that each of the Twin Towers inexplicably collapsed upon itself crushing all 287 massive columns on each floor while maintaining a free-fall speed as if the 100,000, or more, tons of supporting structural-steel framework underneath didn't exist.

    Controlled demolition is so politically unthinkable that the media not only demeans the messenger but also ridicules and "debunks" the message rather than provide investigative reporting. Curiously, it took 441 days for the president's 9/11 Commission to start an "investigation" into a tragedy where more than 2,500 WTC lives were taken. The Commission's investigation also didn't include the possibility of controlled-demolition, nor did it include an investigation into the "unusual and unprecedented" manner in which WTC Building #7 collapsed. http://www.vermontguardian.com/commentary/03...

Robert Boyer

Robert S. Boyer, PhD

Robert S. Boyer, PhD – Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin. Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Awarded the 2005 Software System Award by the Association for Computing Machinery. Awarded the 6th Herbrand Award (1999) for exceptional contributions to the field of Automated Deduction, by the Conferences on Automated Deduction. Co-author of A Computational Logic Handbook. Editor of Automated Reasoning.

Joanna Rankin

Joanna Rankin, PhD

Joanna Rankin, PhD – Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Vermont.

  • Member: Vermonters for a Real 9/11 Investigation. Association Statement: "We do support a new, thorough, and truly independent forensic investigation of the events on and surrounding 9/11. We believe that without such an investigation, the threat of further attacks like those of 9/11 remains unabated, our government will continue to erode our civil liberties, and our government will continue to support foreign policies that are destructive to the U.S. and to the world."
  • Bio: http://www.uvm.edu/~jmrankin/?Page=default.html

Kenneth Kuttler

Kenneth L. Kuttler, PhD

Kenneth L. Kuttler, PhD – Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University.

  • Essay: "I provide a short computation, focused on World Trade Center building 7. Based on very favorable assumptions for achieving a fast fall, including ignoring resistance due to intact steel columns, I could only get the building to fall in about 8.3 seconds, whereas the observed roof-fall time is approximately 6.5 seconds. The problem is the large number of floors and conservation of momentum in a collision. Some of the "official" explanations about progressive collapse are evocative but they do not explain the difficulty in the rapid fall of the building along with what is evidently taking place when the video of the falling building is observed." http://www.journalof911studies.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 5 1/2 years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet to publish its promised final report that explains the cause of its collapse.]
  • Bio: https://math.byu.edu/~klkuttle/
  • CV: http://www.math.byu.edu/%7Eklkuttle/vitaforweb.pdf


Robert Stern

Robert J. Stern, MS

Robert J. Stern, MS – Associate Professor, Mathematics, Pellissippi State Technical Community College.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the 9/11 attacks."

Jack Keller

Jack Keller, PhD, PE

Jack Keller, PhD, PE – Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University. Selected by Scientific American magazine as one of the world's 50 leading contributors to science and technology benefiting society (2004). Member, National Academy of Engineering. International advisor on water resources, development and agricultural water use. Awarded State of Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology (1988).

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."

Carter Heyward

Carter Heyward, PhD

Carter Heyward, PhD – Howard Chandler Robbins Professor Emerita of Theology, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass. Author of books A Priest Forever: One Woman's Controversial Ordination in the Episcopal Church (1999), When Boundaries Betray Us (2000), Staying Power: Reflections on Gender, Justice, and Compassion (2001), God in the Balance: Christian Spirituality in Times of Terror (2002).

Gerald Slusser

Rev. Gerald H. Slusser, PhD

Rev. Gerald H. Slusser, PhD - Professor Emeritus, Theology and Education, Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis. Past President, Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education. Author or co-author of From Jung to Jesus: Myth and Consciousness in the New Testament (1986), Technology: The God That Failed: The Environmental Catastrophe (1971), A Christian Look at Secular Society (1968), A Dynamic Approach to Church Education (1968)

  • Review of The New Pearl Harbor 4/12/04: "A new book written by David Ray Griffin ... raises significant and pungent questions about the involvement of the Bush administration in the tragedy now known as 9/11. This book reads like a fine detective novel. Its author has done his research very carefully and it is in the marshalling of the evidence that the suspense is created. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of this book in bringing to our attention facts that challenge any attempt of the administration to explain away its responsibility, or even complicity, in the events of 9/11. Whatever you now think of the Bush administration and its handling of 9/11, this book is must, essential reading because it presents in careful, scholarly manner facts that have to be dealt with in any further analysis of the 9/11 tragedy and its aftermath, the war on terrorism. ...

    In closing this review I want to make two comments. First is to commend Professor Griffin for an independent, careful and systematic examination of the evidence. Secondly, the conclusions of this book make it abundantly clear that we have the greatest problem in our history on our hands, far greater than the Nixon Watergate scandal. We seem to be being led like sheep into an imperialist stance in which America is to rule the world for the sake of American business and profit." http://www.amazon.com/gp/pro...

Horst Ehmke

Horst Ehmke, PhD

Horst Ehmke, PhD – Professor of Law, University of Freiburg. Former Minister of Justice (West Germany). Former Minister for Research and Technology. Cabinet Member under Chancellors Kurt Kiesinger and Willy Brandt 1966 - 1974. Author of Politik der praktischen Vernunft: Aufsätze und Referaten (Pragmatic Politics) (1969), Politik als Herausforderung (The Challenge of Politics) (1974), Democratic Socialism and Eurocommunism: The Policy of Detente and Ideological Controversy (1977), Das Portrait, Horst Ehmke: Reden und Beiträge (Self Portrait of Horst Ehmke: Speeches and Essays) (1980), Beiträge zur Verfassungstheorie und Verfassungspolitik (Writings on Constitutional Theory and Politics) (1981), A Second Phase of Detente (1987), Mittendrin: Von der grossen Koalition zur deutschen Einheit (In the Midst of It: From the Federal Republic to German Unification) (1994).

Burns Weston

Burns H. Weston, JSD

Burns H. Weston, JSD – Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Director, Center for Human Rights, University of Iowa. Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science. Honorary Editor, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law (Washington, DC). Senior Human Rights Adviser, IKEA Social Initiative. Senior Human Rights Adviser, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy.

  • Endorsement of The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions: "In this masterful sequel to The New Pearl Harbor, David Ray Griffin unveils a disparity between official 9/11 "spin" and independently researched 9/11 fact so glaring as to suggest the possibility of a constitutional crisis unlike anything our country has ever known. In this new study, as in its predecessor, he simply details the hard, cold evidence that seriously--and alarmingly--challenges the independence, impartiality, and thoroughness of the 9/11 Commission. For anyone serious about combating terrorism, let alone upholding constitutional democracy, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, is a must read."
  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

Francis Boyle

Francis Boyle, PhD, LLD

Francis Boyle, PhD, LLD – Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois, Champaign. A leading practitioner and advocate of international law. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia- Herzegovina at the World Court. He holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University.

  • Article 12/13/06: "The real culprits behind the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress were most likely US government scientists at the army's Ft. Detrick, MD., bioterrorism lab according to a former government biological weapons legislator and University of Illinois Professor.

    Dr. Francis A. Boyle says the FBI covered up these facts and has also quite clearly stated that he doubts the official government story that 19 arabs with boxcutters perpetrated the attacks of 9/11.

    "I believe the FBI knows exactly who was behind these terrorist anthrax attacks upon the United States Congress in the Fall of 2001, and that the culprits were US government-related scientists involved in a criminal US government bio-warfare program," Boyle says in his new book Biowarfare and Terrorism.

    Boyle goes on to inquire, "Could the real culprits behind the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, and the immediately following terrorist anthrax attacks upon Congress ultimately prove to be the same people? Could it truly be coincidental that two of the primary intended victims of the terrorist anthrax attacks - Senators Daschle and Leahy - were holding up the speedy passage of the pre-planned USA Patriot Act ... an act which provided the federal government with unprecedented powers in relation to US citizens and institutions?" http://infowars.net
  • Bio: http://www.law.uiuc.edu/faculty

C. Peter Erlinder

C. Peter Erlinder, JD

C. Peter Erlinder, JD – Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law. Past President, National Lawyers Guild.

  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

William G. Weaver, JD, PhD
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William G. Weaver, JD, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Director of Academic Programs, Institute for Policy and Economic Development, University of Texas, El Paso, specializing in executive branch secrecy policy, governmental abuse, and law and bureaucracy. Former U.S. Army Signals Intelligence officer. Author, co-author, and editor of several books on law and political theory, including: Presidential Secrecy and the Law (2007), New Perspectives on American Law: An Introduction to Private Law in Politics and Society (1997), Political Science and Feminism: Integration or Transformation? (1997), Pragmatism in Law and Society (1991).

  • Essay 9/5/06: Regarding the 9/11 Commission - "In their responsibility to report all the facts: They either refused to interview all relevant experts and witnesses, or, they censored the reports provided to them by those with direct and first-hand information. Both these acts were selective and intentional. Contrary to their pledge to establish accountability: They refused to hold anyone accountable and lamely justified it by saying, "We don't want to point a finger at anyone." http://www.nswbc.org
  • Bio: http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=21347

Mark Conrad

Mark Conrad, JD

Mark Conrad, JD – Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Troy University. Associate General Counsel, National Association of Federal Agents. Retired Agent in Charge, Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs, responsible for the internal integrity and security for areas encompassing nine states and two foreign locations. Former Federal Sky Marshall. 27-year U.S. Customs career.

  • Signatory of a Letter to Congress regarding the 9/11 Commission Report 9/13/04, signed by 25 military, intelligence, and law enforcement veterans:

    "[W]e the undersigned wish to bring to the attention of the Congress and the people of the United States what we believe are serious shortcomings in the report and its recommendations. …

    Omission is one of the major flaws in the Commission's report. We are aware of significant issues and cases that were duly reported to the commission by those of us with direct knowledge, but somehow escaped attention. …

    The omission of such serious and applicable issues and information by itself renders the report flawed, and casts doubt on the validity of many of its recommendations. ...

    The Commission, with its incomplete report of "facts and circumstances", intentional avoidance of assigning accountability, and disregard for the knowledge, expertise and experience of those who actually do the job, has now set about pressuring our Congress and our nation to hastily implement all its recommendations. ...

    We the undersigned, who have worked within various government agencies (FBI, CIA, FAA, DIA, Customs) responsible for national security and public safety, call upon you in Congress to include the voices of those with first-hand knowledge and expertise in the important issues at hand. We stand ready to do our part." Link to signatories

Paul Zarembka

Paul Zarembka, PhD

Paul Zarembka, PhD – Professor of Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo. Editor, The Hidden History of 9-11-2001, published by Elsevier, 2006.

  • Essay: Initiation of the 9-11 Operation, with Evidence of Insider Trading in The Hidden History of 9-11-2001: "The peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Business by Allen Poteshman (2006) trumps casual new remarks about whether the stock market and/or airline stocks were going down before 9-11 as an explanation for rising put-option purchases. .. it goes beyond anecdotal comments ... . It is a complicated statistical exercise ... Poteshman finds ... these purchases [of options on American Airline stock] ... had only 1 percent probability of occurring simply randomly.

    We have focused on option trading in AA [American Airline] and UA [United Airline]. But there is a lot more to be discussed in a more complete study. For example, Mathewson and Nol (2001) report: At Morgan Stanley ... put options jumped between Sept 6 and Sept 10 , almost 27 times a previous daily average ...

    We are not surprised that the Commission avoided any and all such types of information."
  • Editor's note: The 9/11 Commission states in its Monograph on Terrorist Financing, "The U.S. government investigation unequivocally concluded that there was no evidence of illicit trading in the U.S. markets with knowledge of the terrorist attacks. The Commission staff, after an independent review of the government investigation, has discovered no reason to doubt this conclusion." For more information on 9/11-related investment irregularities, see Ernst Welteke and William Bergman.
  • Website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com

Morgan Reynolds

Morgan Reynolds, PhD

Morgan Reynolds, PhD – Professor Emeritus, Economics, Texas A&M University. Former Director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis. Former Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Labor under George W. Bush 2001 - 2002.

  • Video 6/2/06: "I first began to suspect that 9/11 was in inside job when the Bush-Cheney Administration invaded Iraq. … We can prove that the government's story is false." http://video.goo
  • Essay 6/9/05: "It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers [each 1300+ feet tall, 110 stories] and building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely [to] prove to be sound." http://www.l...
  • [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 1/2 years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet to publish its promised final report that explains the cause of its collapse.]
  • Bio: http://nomoregames.net/index.php?page=bio

Daniel Orr

Daniel Orr, PhD


Daniel Orr, PhD
– Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Department of Economics, University of Illinois.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."
  • Bio: http://www.economics.uiuc.edu/

Stephen LeRoy

Stephen F. LeRoy, PhD

Stephen F. LeRoy, PhD – Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara. Former Visiting Economist, Federal Reserve Bank.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."
  • Bio: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/faculty.cgi?f=sleroy

Robert Horn

Robert G. Horn, MD

Robert G. Horn, MD – Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

William Willers, PhD
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William Willers, PhD Professor Emeritus, Biology and Microbiology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Founder and President, Superior Wilderness Action Network. Editor of Learning to Listen to the Land and Unmanaged Landscapes: Voices For Untamed Nature.

  • Essay 12/15/06: "On December 8, The Nation ... published an essay by Christopher Hayes ... titled "9/11: The Roots of Paranoia," in which the author ... disparages the "so-called" 9/11 Truth Movement, which he calls "a rabbit hole of delusion." ... Two of the scholars he identifies by name: theologian David Ray Griffin and physicist Steven Jones. ...

    Regarding investigative thoroughness, the two scholars cited, Griffin and Jones, are scrupulous in their investigative methodology. Moreover, James Fetzer, a leading 9/11 skeptic and retired professor of philosophy, has written numerous well-received books on research technique and cognitive inquiry. Hayes' suggestion that the Truth Movement is based on half-baked ideas and lies is simply untrue.

    Nor are 9/11 skeptics of note only in academe. Go to www.patriotsquestion911.com (really, go to it) and find an astonishing list of figures who flatly reject the official version of the 9/11 Commission. They include individuals from the U.S. Senate (e.g., Mark Dayton, D-MN), the House (e.g., Curt Weldon, R-PA), the FBI (e.g., Louis Freeh, former director), the CIA (e.g., Raymond McGovern and Bill Christison), the Departments of Defense (e.g., Morton Goulder, under Nixon, Ford and Carter), Treasury (e.g., Paul Craig Roberts, under Reagan), Labor (e.g., Morgan Reynolds under Bush II), Justice (e.g., John Loftus, under Carter and Reagan), State (e.g., George Kenny, under Bush I), and the U.S. Military (e.g., Major General Albert Stubblebine). Given that such open expressions are dangerous for one's professional life, it is safe to assume that for each one who comes forward, there are many remaining silent. ...

    Yes, the Truth Movement "raises questions", and the questions are of vastly greater importance than any theories that might arise from them. It is not necessary -- perhaps not even desirable -- to resort to scenarios that can then be dashed by the belittling label of "conspiracy" which, like the word "paranoia", can be applied to neutralize valid concerns. The questions themselves are so numerous and significant that demands for honest answers are implicit within them." http://www.dissidentvoice.org

Charles Hux

Charles H. Hux, MD

Charles H. Hux, MD – Associate Professor, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Faculty Member, Monmouth Medical Center. Obstetrician & Gynecologist, specialist in Maternal & Fetal Medicine.

  • Signatory of Petition of Solidarity to the Attorney General of New York for a new independent grand jury investigation of 9/11 11/19/04: "We the undersigned: a) think that there is ample evidence and probable cause to believe that many grave and still unresolved crimes were committed by US officials prior to, during and after the events of 9/11; b) observe that most of these apparent crimes, including but not limited to abetment of mass murder, criminal negligence, insider trading, and obstruction of justice fall well within the jurisdiction of New York's top law enforcement officials ..." http://www.justicefor911.org
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."

Faiz Khan

Faiz Khan, MD

Faiz Khan, MD – Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. Director of Medical Observation Unit and Assistant Residency Director - Emergency Medicine, Hershey Medical Center, Penn State College of Medicine. Practicing physician with dual board specialization in Emergency and Internal Medicine. A 9/11 first responder.

  • Co-founder: Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, a group of scholars, religious leaders and activists dedicated to uniting members of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths in pursuit of 9/11 truth.
  • Signatory 11/19/04: Complaint filed with the Attorney General, State of New York for a new independent grand jury investigation of 9/11.

    "We, the complainant signatories below, petition the Attorney General of New York, on behalf of millions of New Yorkers who also call for a fearless independent inquiry; for the sake of residents, workers, and business owners in New York—most particularly in and near "Ground Zero" and also on behalf of other Americans who have lost employees, friends, and family members as well as health, business, and personal assets and civil, privacy, and other rights in the events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath.

    We approach your office as concerned citizens desiring to bring to light the truth about the events of 9/11." http://www.justicefor911.org
  • Bio: http://www.suficircle.com/event-khan.html

John Pepper

John Pepper, PhD

John Pepper, PhD – Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.

Marcus Raskin

Marcus Raskin, JD

Marcus Raskin, JD – Senior Fellow and Professor of Policy Studies, George Washington University. Co-founder and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. Former member of the special staff of the National Security Council in President Kennedy's Administration. Advisor to the Episcopal Urban Bishops. Former member of the Presidential Commission on Education and advisor to the Bureau of the Budget and the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President. Author, co-author and editor of more than 20 books on national security and domestic affairs, including The Four Freedoms under Siege: The Clear and Present Danger from Our National Security State (2006), In Democracy's Shadow: The Secret World of National Security (2005), Liberalism (2003), Visions and Revisions: Reflections on Culture and Democracy at the End of the Century (1998), Abolishing the War System (1992), The Common Good: Its Politics, Policies, and Philosophy (1986), The Politics of National Security (1979).

John Maguire

John D. Maguire, PhD

John D. Maguire, PhD – President Emeritus since 1998 of the Claremont University Consortium, and a Senior Fellow and faculty member of Claremont Graduate University's School of Politics and Economics. He concurrently serves as a fellow at the Institute for Democratic Renewal, directing projects on racial and social justice and the renewal of democracy. He served as president of the State University of New York's College at Old Westbury from 1970-81. Dr. Maguire serves on the boards of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, the Eureka Communities and Union Theological Seminary. Former Director of the Salzburg, Austria Seminar. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Fellow of the Society for Values in Higher Education. Senior Consultant to Project Change.

  • Review of The New Pearl Harbor 4/27/04: "I found Griffin's book a profoundly disturbing compendium of all the arguments for why there has been a conspiracy around 9/11. He begins with a table of eight levels of complicity, from little to overwhelming and lets the reader decide where along the scale reality may lie. Two reminders of my Yale training jumped to mind: one was Leslie Weatherhead's distinction between the permissive and ordaining wills of God; some things God allows to happen; other things God directs to happen. (Application. Since it is overwhelmingly clear the Bushies knew such an attack was coming, did they--so overwhelmed with a passion to get into a war with Iraq--simply allow the events of 9/11 or actually conspire and were involved in various ways in their happening?) The other "ancient artifact" is Griffin's style of presentation. It reminded me deeply of St. Thomas' Summas, more Contra Gentiles than Theologica. Griffin methodically lays out the argument, gives you counter arguments and leads you to the profoundly disturbing conclusion that not only was there complicity, there was conspiracy." http://www.amazon.com
  • Bio: http://www.race-democracy.org/ABOUT_BIOS.htm

John Rensenbrink

John Rensenbrink, PhD

John Rensenbrink, PhD – Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Government, Bowdoin College. Co-founder, US Green Party. Author of Against All Odds: The Green Transformation of American Politics .

  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:
    • Immediate investigation by NY Att. General Eliot Spitzer
    • Immediate investigation in Congressional hearings.
    • Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.
    • The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026...

James G. Smart, PhD
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James G. Smart, PhD – Professor Emeritus of History, Keene State College. Former Assistant Professor of History, University of Chattanooga.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."

Georg Kreis

Georg Kreis, PhD

Georg Kreis, PhD – Professor of History and Director of the Europe Institut of the University of Basel. President, Swiss Federal Commission Against Racism.

  • Tages Anzeiger Article 9/9/06: "If the official and final investigation of September 11th only speaks of the collapse of two skyscrapers [omitting the collapse of Building 7, 610 feet tall, 47 stories, and not hit by an airplane] , while in fact and truth three skyscrapers collapsed in Manhattan, then it is difficult to classify the Kean Report as a solid historical source for the monumental incident that is 9/11."
    English translation: http://www.danieleganser.ch
    Original in German: http://www.danieleganser.ch
  • [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 1/2 years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet to publish its promised final report that explains the cause of its collapse.]
  • Bio: http://www.europa.unibas.ch/cms4/index.php?id=40&L=2

Melvin Goodman

Melvin A. Goodman, PhD

Melvin A. Goodman, PhD – Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Professor of International Security at the National War College 1986 - 2004. Former Division Chief and Senior Analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs, CIA,1966 - 1990. Senior Analyst at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State Department, 1974 - 1976. Author and co-author of several books on international relations, including: Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze, Gorbachev's Retreat: The Third World, and Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk.

  • Congressional briefing testimony 7/22/05 (p.85): "I think the 9/11 Commission has taught me that we need to be extremely rigorous and extremely tenacious in pursuing that truth, because there is a corporate mentality in this country that is working against allowing the truth to surface, even in tragedies, such as the 9/11 tragedy. ...

    I want to talk about the [9/11] Commission itself, about the flawed process of the Commission and finally about the conflict of interest within the Commission that is extremely important to understand the failure of the Commission." http://www.vt911.org
  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

John Newman

Major John M. Newman, PhD

Major John M. Newman, PhD, U.S. Army (ret) – Professor of History and International Relations, University of Maryland. Former Executive Assistant to the Director of the National Security Agency. Former military attaché in China. 21-year career in U.S. Army Intelligence.

  • Congressional briefing testimony 7/22/05 (p.36): "It falls to me this morning to bring to your attention the story of Saeed Sheikh, whose full name is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, and his astonishing rise to power in Al Qaeda, his crucial role in 9/11, which is completely, utterly, missing from the 9/11 Commission report…

    The 9/11 Commission which studied US intelligence and law enforcement community performance in great detail, (maybe not so much great detail, but they did), neglected to cover the community's performance during the weeks following the attacks to determine who was responsible for them, not a word about that in the Report.

    The Report does discuss the immediate US responses but the immediate investigation is never addressed, and anyone who has closely studied the post-9/11 investigation knows that the first breakthrough came two weeks into the investigation when the money transfers from the United Arab Emirates to the hijackers were uncovered.

    Furthermore, if you have studied that investigation, you know there is no disputing that while investigators may have struggled with the identity of the paymaster, they were clear about one thing, he was Al Qaeda's finance chief. For this reason alone you have to ask why the 9/11 Commission Report never mentions the finance chief's role as the 9/11 paymaster." http://www.vt911.org

Michael Andregg

Michael M. Andregg, PhD

Michael M. Andregg, PhD – Professor, Justice and Peace Studies, University of St. Thomas. Lecturer, University of Minnesota. Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Wisdom, at Ground Zero Minnesota (a non-profit educational organization) 1982 - present. Author of On the Causes of War, winner, National Peacewriting Award for 1999.

  • Statement to this website 1/9/07: "There is persuasive physical, photographic and other evidence to support the hypotheses of controlled demolition of the towers and of a cruise missile at the Pentagon rather than a full-sized, commercial aircraft. These require inside operators, and there is evidence of 3 or 4 intelligence agencies active behind the screen of Osama bin Laden and his 19 - 200 associates. Much of that evidence of involvement by intelligence agencies is independent of the evidence of controlled demolitions, yet must be accounted for either way one goes on engineering and physics issues. The really daunting question is what to do about this national and international security crisis once one accepts the physical impossibility of the official story."
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
  • Member: Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven Association Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations."
  • Bio: Ph.D. in genetics, University of California Davis, 1977. Medical genetics research at University of Minnesota 1977 - 1979. Instructor, University of Minnesota, 1981 - present. Professor, University of St. Thomas 1993 - present. Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Wisdom, at Ground Zero Minnesota 1982 - present.

Carolyn Baker

Carolyn Baker, PhD

Carolyn Baker, PhD – Adjunct Professor of History, New Mexico State University. Author and former psychotherapist. Her books include U.S. History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn't Tell You (2006), The Journey of Forgiveness: Fulfilling The Healing Process (2000), and Reclaiming the Dark Feminine: The Price of Desire (1996).

  • Review of 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out 1/18/07: "Professors David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott have edited a masterpiece of critical thinking and scholarly analysis in this collection of articles by intellectuals who have broken silence on the atrocities of September 11, 2001. ...

    In my opinion, one of the most important aspects of critical thinking is asking questions which is due, in part, to my preference for questions rather than answers written in stone. This is the paramount reason for my enthusiastic support for the 9/11 truth movement. As long as a community of thinkers, and indeed, the citizenry at large, continue to question the events of September 11, there is at least a spark of hope that at some point, with the proper conditions and at the right time, that spark might be fanned into a flame of revolution." Link to the review
  • Article originally published in From the Wilderness 9/06 : "On this fifth anniversary of the horror that gripped America on September 11, 2001, one thing feels extraordinarily appropriate to me: Acknowledging not only our grief for the innocent victims of that day's butchery, but our grief for all of the valiant men and women who have sacrificed everything but their lives to illumine the reality of the coup d'etat that took place on that day as the United States government orchestrated the attacks then immediately implemented its pathetic, shabby coverup which non-questioning Americans have accepted ever since." http://www.intellectual
  • Bio: http://carolynbaker.org/administrative/about-me

James Petras

James Petras, PhD

James Petras, PhD – Bartle Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY, New York, and Adjunct Professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Author and co-author of numerous books on society, economic systems, and social justice, including: Mediterranean Paradoxes: The Politics and Social Structure of Southern Europe (1994), Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century (2001), The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America (2004), A System in Crisis: The Dynamics of Free Market Capitalism (2004), Social Movements and State Power (2005), Empire with Imperialism: The Globalizing Dynamics of Neoliberal Capitalism (2006)

  • Essay 4/6/03: "... Al Queda as an effective international terrorist organization never existed - nor has it even come into existence under conditions of maximum Western terrorist assault on a Muslim population.

    The idea of an 'international terrorist conspiracy' was completely fabricated by Washington and embellished by the empty bellicose rhetoric of Bin Laden, a leader without a following, a leader created by the mass media, a leader incapable of directing a single operative terrorist attack.

    If there is no evidence of the operative existence of Al Queda, and if Bin Laden has no effective following, it is clear there never was any terrorist conspiracy. The idea was fabricated by Washington to justify previous plans designed by Wolfowitz and Perle (1992, 1998) to conquer the Middle East.

    The fact that the 'worldwide terrorist conspiracy' is a clear fabrication, raises fundamental questions about the event which triggered the US drive for military conquest - 9/11.

    It is now a well known fact that there was no connection between Iraq and Bin Laden/Al Queda, despite forceful efforts by Colin Powell to present the UN with bogus evidence. But what is equally important, the US, the UN, Tony Blair, the Afghan narco-warlords and other US allies have never found a single piece of evidence linking Bin Laden/Al Queda with the terrorist incidents of 9/11. ... The logical conclusion is that Bin Laden/Al Queda had at best a marginal role, if any. What we do know is that several of the terrorists easily obtained multiple entry visas in Saudi Arabia from the US embassy. That at least two of the hijackers were trained at US military bases. That the FBI and CIA had prior notice of a hijacking and let the operatives proceed. That Condaleeza Rice admitted to prior knowledge of a "traditional hijacking" a short time before it occurred. That US airforce planes were not commanded to action until after the hijackers succeeded. ... At the least we can say that those who fabricated stories of weapons of mass destruction, of Iraqis welcoming US invaders, of all powerful international terrorist organizations are at the least capable of fabricating the story of 9/11." http://www.rebelion.org
  • Bio: http://en.wikigadugi.org/wiki/James_Petras

Ralph Metzner

Ralph Metzner, PhD

Ralph Metzner, PhD – Psychologist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies and former Academic Dean, California Institute of Integral Studies. Author of Maps of Consciousness, The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self, and Green Psychology.

  • Statement to this website 1/13/07: "I've come to believe, in accord with many people who are certainly far more qualified than I am to arrive at informed judgments on this matter, and who can in no sense of the word be regarded as "conspiracy theorists", that the official 9/11 story is an unbelievable cover-up of a major crime against the American people and the world. For the sake of our collective soul and the future of our world, this story cries out to be investigated and the truth made known. Only the truth will set us free. ... As one of my teachers used to say: "knowing the truth has never hurt anyone". And we all know the corrupting effect of lies and deceit."
  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

Marilynn Rosenthal

Marilynn M. Rosenthal, PhD

Marilynn M. Rosenthal, PhD – Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Michigan. Adjunct Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UM Medical School. Elected Fellow of the British and Swedish Royal Societies of Medicine. Recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Danforth Fellowship, UM Hopwood writing award, a Distinguished Faculty Research Award and a Fulbright Western European Research Award. Her son, Josh Rosenthal, a portfolio manager at Fiduciary Trust International, was a victim of the collapse of the World Trade Center South Tower. Author or co-author of numerous books about the practice of medicine, including: Medical Error (2002), Medical Mishaps (1999), Health Policy: Understanding Our Choices (1998), Medical Mishaps (1997). The Incompetent Doctor: Behind Closed Doors (1995), Health Care Systems and Their Patients: An International Perspective (1992), Dealing with Medical Malpractice: British and Swedish Experience (1988), Health Care in the People's Republic of China (1987).

  • Signatory of Petition to Release Information Pertaining to 9/11 10/5/06: "We, the undersigned, demand the immediate declassification and release of:
    • all transcripts and documents relating to the July 10, 2001 meeting that took place between former CIA Director George Tenet and then National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice. It has been alleged that this urgent and out-of-the-ordinary meeting was called to discuss the increasingly dire warnings of an imminent al Qaeda attack within the U.S. ...
    • the redacted 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Into The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (JICI), and
    • the CIA Inspector General's report, CIA Accountability With Respect To The 9/11 Attacks
    • Personal statement in support of above petition: "The American Public will no longer tolerate the dishonest use of "national security" as an excuse for keeping information from the American people. It's bad enough that knowledge of the July 10th 2001 meeting was kept hidden so long." http://www.petitiononline.com
    • Bio: http://www.med.umich.edu/psm/rosenthal.html

David MacGregor

David MacGregor, PhD

David MacGregor, PhD – Professor, Department of Sociology, King's University College at the University of Western Ontario.

  • Contributing author, The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 ("September 11 as "Machiavellian State Terror"), published by Elsevier, 2006: "September 11 may be an example of expedient destruction, ordered from within the state ... Machiavelian state terror advances the ruling agenda while disguising itself as the work of individuals or groups opposed to the state's fundamental principles. ...

    I want to show how September 11 follows a typical pattern: a convenient terrorist event explained by the media in terms of widely shared stereotypical understandings and then embellished and deepened by compliant intellectuals."
  • Bio: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mcgregor/personal.html
William Woodward, PhD
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William Woodward, PhD – Professor of Psychology, University of New Hampshire. Co-author of B. F. Skinner and Behaviorism in American Culture.

Catherine Lowther, PhD
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Catherine Lowther, PhD – Professor of Psychology, Goddard College.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the 9/11 attacks."
Charles Simpson, PhD
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Charles Simpson, PhD – Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Plattsburgh.

  • Member: Vermonters for a Real 9/11 Investigation Association Statement: "We do support a new, thorough, and truly independent forensic investigation of the events on and surrounding 9/11/2001. We believe that without such an investigation, the threat of further attacks like those of 9/11 remains unabated, our government will continue to erode our civil liberties, and our government will continue to support foreign policies that are destructive to the U.S. and to the world."
    (State University of New York is mentioned for identification purposes only and in no way signifies the University's views on this matter.)
  • Bio: http://www.plattsburgh.edu
Diana Ralph, PhD
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Diana Ralph, PhD – Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Carleton University. Author of Work and Madness: The Rise of Community Psychiatry.

  • Contributing author, The Hidden History of 9/11 ("Islamophobia and the "War On Terror": The Continuing Pretext for U.S. Imperial Conquest"), published by Elsevier, 2006: "Researchers are uncovering extensive, credible evidence that the official account of the 9-11 attacks is untenable. Although al-Qaeda may have had the resources to get hijackers onto planes with box cutters, it did not have the power to shut down FBI investigations of suspected hijackers, to set up distracting war games on 9-11-2001, to issue stand-down orders preventing effective military response, or to cause two WTC towers [each 1300+ feet tall, 110 stories] plus Building 7 [610 feet tall, 47 stories, and not hit by an airplane] to collapse using demolition explosives. ... Western intelligence knew about the 9-11 attack plans as early as 1995, and may have facilitated and exploited them for their own ends. Some suggest that the U.S. may even have directly planned and carried them out. Regardless of whether it simply facilitated the attacks or carried them out themselves, there is little doubt that the U.S. was involved."
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the 9/11 attacks."

Angana Chatterji

Angana Chatterji, PhD

Angana Chatterji, PhD – Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies.

  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

Benjamin Demott

Benjamin Demott, PhD

Benjamin Demott, PhD (1924 - 2005) – Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Amherst College. Former board member, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Author of several works of cultural criticism, including Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind (2005), Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Gender and Power (2000) and The Trouble With Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Race (1995).

  • Essay in Harpers Magazine, 10/04 Whitewash as Public Service: "The plain, sad reality—I report this following four full days studying the work—is that The 9/11 Commission Report, despite the vast quantity of labor behind it, is a cheat and a fraud. It stands as a series of evasive maneuvers that infantilize the audience, transform candor into iniquity, and conceal realities that demand immediate inspection and confrontation.

    At the core of all these failures lies a deep wariness of earnest, well-informed public debate. ...

    There's little mystery about why the Commission is tongue-tied. It can't call a liar a liar. ...

    The Commission, in sum, offers peace through exculpation, evasion, and entertainment—and in doing so dangerously reenergizes a national relish for fantasy." http://www.harpers.org
  • Bio: http://www.boston.com

Eric Larsen

Eric Larsen, PhD

Eric Larsen, PhD - Professor of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York 1971 - 2006. Author of A Nation Gone Blind - America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit (2006) and two novels, An American Memory (1989) and I Am Zoë Handke (1994).

  • Endorsement of The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions: "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions ...... Exactly what it says. If you read the actual commission report and then read Griffin's point by point perusal and rebuttal of it, you'll be overwhelmed. Even if you don't read the actual report first, Griffin's effect is very nearly the same, since the care he takes to synopsize wherever necessary or useful, the ease of his pace, and the measured, calm, never sensational quality of his method and his voice all fill you in not only about what is in the report but what isn't. The result overall: Anyone who reads Griffin's book with an open mind and with an empirically based acceptance of commonsense logic—no such person will leave Omissions and Distortions without have been convinced that the "Kean Commission Report" is an enormous, partisan coverup, or, as Griffin himself has says, "a 571-page lie." http://www.ericlarsen.net
  • Essay "The Great Crime of 9/11" 11/5/06: "Book after book (see the bibliography at the end of Part Four), article after article, scholar after scholar—all of them provide overwhelmingly numerous examples of the absolute absurdity not only of the "official theory" itself of 9/11 but also of the "Kean Commission" report—and at the same time they show the absolute obviousness of 9/11 having been in fact a "black flag operation," a self-inflicted wound and self-generated "attack," whether one that was planned and perpetrated by the Bushiscti themselves (probably not), or by what Webster Tarpley calls the "oligarchy" or the "invisible" or the "rogue" government that's actually in control of the nation—these questions are matters for scholarship, and they've been and are still being ever more deeply and accurately explored through scholarship." http://www.ericlarsen.net
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth
  • Bio: http://www.ericlarsen.net/about.html

Richard McGinn

Richard McGinn, PhD

Richard McGinn, PhD – Professor Emeritus and former Department Chairman, Linguistics and Southeast Asian Studies, Ohio University. Former President, Consortium of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages.

Marcus Ford, PhD
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Marcus Ford, PhD – Professor, Humanities Department, and Past President, Faculty Senate, Northern Arizona University.

  • Review of Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11 8/18/06: "This is an important book, not simply because of the evidence it marshals in support of the claim that US officials planned and carried out the savage attacks on 9/11, but also because it places this argument within the wider context of how governments, including our own, have sometimes resorted to deadly and deceptive measures in order to advance their own causes. Even if there were no evidence to support the claim that the attacks of 9/11 were carried out by the US--and there is overwhelming evidence that it was--this book would be valuable in terms of its understanding of the nature of empires, recent American foreign policy, Jesus' teachings, and the role that religion (in this case Christianity) should play in modern life. ...

    Like all of Griffin's books this book is extremely well-documented, but unlike some of his books, it is also very readable. This is a book that must be read and discussed. Buy a copy, and buy additional copies for friends and libraries"
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the 9/11 attacks."

Michael Keefer

Michael Keefer, PhD

Michael Keefer, PhD – Professor, College of Arts, University of Guelph. Former President, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English. Graduate, Royal Military College of Canada.

  • Essay, a rebuttal to Alexander Cockburn 12/16/06: "As anyone who presumes to hold forth on this aspect of the 9/11 evidence should know, what is really incriminating about the failure to intercept the aircraft which were flown on that day into the Twin Towers and (by the official account) into the Pentagon is not the simple absence of fighter-interceptors over New York and Washington, but rather the fact that that absence was ensured by a series of concurrent military exercises which had transferred most of the available interceptors out of the northeastern region, and which for a crucial period that morning left the military air traffic controllers responsible for vectoring the remaining fighters into position unable to determine which of the many blips appearing on their radar screens represented actual as opposed to simulated threats. We can add to this what seems the no less incriminating testimony of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta to the 9/11 Commission, which suggests very strongly that Vice President Cheney had ordered a stand-down of missile defenses protecting Washington DC. ...

    But like the 9/11 Commission, he [Cockburn] manages quietly to forget about the collapse of WTC 7 late in the afternoon of 9/11: this [610 feet tall] 47-story steel-framed tower, which was damaged by debris from the North Tower but not struck by any aircraft, collapsed at free-fall speed into its own footprint in what half a dozen different videos show to have been a classic implosion demolition. Significantly, FEMA and NIST have failed to offer any plausible alternative explanation of this collapse.

    As to the questions of how, when, or by whom demolition charges may have been planted: there is evidence, though Cockburn may not be interested in exploring it, of activity on unoccupied floors of the Twin Towers just prior to 9/11 that is consistent with the placing of such charges." http://www.911truth.org
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
  • Bio: http://www.mos.umu.se

Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer – Director of the Privacy Project and Clinical Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Former instructor University of California; Irvine campus, Los Angeles campus, and Berkeley campus. 30-year journalistic career. Former Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Ramparts magazine. For 15 years, National Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Currently, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of truthdig.com, an online magazine. Author of Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I and Clinton (2006), The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us about Iraq (2003), Essays on the Pornography of Power (1991); With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War (1982), and America After Nixon: The Age of Multinationals (1974).

  • Essay Gaping Holes in the 9/11 Narrative 9/11 06: "What we still don't know about 9/11 could kill us. By "we" I mean the public that has been kept in the dark for five years by a president who may know the truth but has chosen to ignore it.

    Last week, Bush conceded that there were indeed secret CIA prisons, when finally announcing that the group of "key witnesses" to the 9/11 disaster would be moved to Guantanamo and for once afforded visits from the Red Cross and minimal legal representation. Some of them have been interrogated in secret for up to five years, with the Bush Administration left as the sole interpreter of what they revealed.

    After five years of official deceit, it is not too difficult to believe that the isolation of those prisoners was done less for reasons of learning the truth about 9/11 and more in an effort to politically manage the narrative released to the public.

    There is glaring evidence that the latter was the case. The 9/11 Commission report contains a disclaimer box on page 146, in which it is stated that the report's account of what happened on 9/11 was in considerable measure based on what those key witnesses allegedly told interrogators, and that the commissioners were not allowed to meet the witnesses or their interrogators.

    "We submitted questions for use in the interrogations, but had no control over whether, when or how questions of particular interest would be asked. Nor were we allowed to talk to the interrogators so that we could better judge the credibility of the detainees and clarify ambiguities in the reporting."

    In short, the most cited source that we have on what happened on 9/11, the much celebrated 9/11 Commission Report, was stage-managed by the Bush administration, just as it has controlled and distorted so much other information.

    In light of that sorry record of the propagandistic exploitation of the 9/11 tragedy for partisan political purpose, is it any wonder that large numbers of Americans have doubts about all of it and that a considerable industry of documentaries and investigative reports has sprung up with alternative theories ranging from the plausible to the absurd? http://www.commondreams.org
  • Bio: http://annenberg.usc.edu

Mark Crispin Miller

Mark Crispin Miller, PhD

Mark Crispin Miller, PhD – Professor, Culture and Communication, New York University.

  • Endorsement of 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out: "For far too long, the very reasonable questions raised by 9/11 have been ignored and even ridiculed by America's press and politicians, who treat the subject with the sort of willful blindness that suggests a wish not to find out unpleasant truths. We, the people, therefore owe the editors of this important new collection our warm thanks for their intelligent and unrelenting work." http://www.interlinkbooks.com
  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

Joseph Hough

Joseph C. Hough, Jr., PhD

Joseph C. Hough, Jr., PhD – President of the Faculty and William E. Dodge Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University. Former Dean, Vanderbilt Divinity School. Ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Congregational. Author of Christian Identity and Theological Education (1985), Beyond Clericalism: The Congregation As a Focus for Theological Education (1988), Theology and the University (1991), The Theological Work of the University Scholar (1992).

Richard Horsley

Richard A. Horsley, PhD

Richard A. Horsley, PhD – Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Former Chair of the Department of the Study of Religion, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Author of more than fifty articles and a dozen books on religion and society, including; Christian Origins: A People's History Of Christianity (2006), Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder (2002).

  • Endorsement of Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11 7/1/06: "Do American Christians want the United States to act like the New Rome, invading other countries to impose its imperial rule and its control of other peoples' resources? That, however, is just what the US is doing, increasingly so since 9/11, explains David Griffin. In this gripping summary of evidence for the truth behind 9/11 and the 9/11 Commission report, Griffin makes a compelling case that the imperial practices of the American government have become a destructive force in the world. And he clarifies the biblical and theological basis for Christians to challenge the resurgent American imperialism that often claims divine blessing on its destructive actions." http://www.amazon.com

Clark Kucheman

Clark A. Kucheman, PhD

Clark A. Kucheman, PhD – Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Christian Ethics, Claremont McKenna College. Former Assistant Professor, Divinity School, University of Chicago. Former Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force. Contributing author, Ethics, Religion, and the Good Society: New Directions in a Pluralistic World (1992) and Terrorism, Justice and Social Values (1990). Editor, The Life of Choice: Some Liberal Religious Perspectives on Morality (1978).

  • Review of The New Pearl Harbor 4/8/04: "Having been kept awake nights in the Bachelor Officer's Quarters at McGuire Air Force Base, NJ, by both Air Force and Navy jet fighters revving and taking off through the night in defense of New York City, I have wondered why, contrary to standard operating procedure, no McGuire jets were scrambled on 9/11. The standard operating procedure is to intercept aircraft that are off course or out of communication, but - even after the first tower was hit - this was not done. Having read Griffin's book, and even though he does not claim to have a conclusive answer to my question, I am beginning to understand. In fact, I am aware of and beginning to understand much much else as well. And I shudder.

    It may be too hot for the popular media to handle, but everyone - especially Air Force and Navy Air Corps veterans - should read and think carefully about the evidence and arguments considered in this book." http://www.amazon.com
  • Bio: http://academic.claremontmckenna.edu/faculty
Helen L. Goggin, EdD
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Helen L. Goggin, EdD – Professor Emerita of Religious Education, Knox College, University of Toronto. Contributing author, Theologies of Religious Education (1995).

  • Review of The New Pearl Harbor 4/3/04: "David Ray Griffin ... has written a very accessible book on the most complex event in the recent history of the United States - The New Pearl Harbor. The book makes no accusations but presents the accumulative questions and the events on which they are based in a manner that is compellingly persuasive of the need for a new fully independent investigative commission to be struck. In total the questions and events ask - was the Bush administration complicit in the events of 9/11? Yes, no one wants to believe such a possibility but the unanswered questions are startling. ... This is the most disturbing and chilling book I have ever read. This is a must read!" http://www.amazon.com
  • Review of The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions 5/5/05: "David Ray Griffin is a retired professor of theology and philosophy at the School of Theology in Claremont, California. This book [is] essential reading for both Americans and Canadians. David raises many questions about the official account of 9/11 in his first book and now in this second one he goes through the findings of the 9/11 Commission which he believes both ignored and distorted the mounting evidence that the official story cannot be the correct one. Griffin spoke to an assembly at the University of Wisconsin recently and the address was shown on C-SPAN. For him there is little doubt now that the Bush Administration was involved. The responses to the address were shock and surprise but the evidence presented was overwhelming. It is urgent for the people of both United States and Canada to at least become aware of the evidence presented in these two books. The unanswered questions are deeply troubling." http://www.amazon.com
Douglas Sturm, PhD
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Douglas Sturm, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion and Political Science, Bucknell University. Author of Solidarity and Suffering: Toward a Politics of Relationality (1998), Belonging Together: Faith and Politics in a Relational World (2003).

  • Endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor: "That 9/11 has become a defining moment in our history cannot be gainsaid. But its exact significance is an exceedingly contentious question notwithstanding the seeming clarity of prevailing accounts. David Ray Griffin deconstructs those accounts with a host of unresolved puzzles strongly suggestive of some sort of culpable complicity by US officials in the event. His book presents an incontrovertible argument of the need for a genuinely full and independent investigation of that infamous day." http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026...
  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:
    • Immediate investigation by NY Att. General Eliot Spitzer
    • Immediate investigation in Congressional hearings.
    • Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.
    • The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026...

James Goulding

James Goulding, PhD

James Goulding, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion and former Vice President for Academic Affairs at MacMurray College. Adjunct Member of Religious Studies Faculty at Edgewood College.

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, PhD

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, PhD – Professor Emerita of Theology and Co-director of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. Considered one of the leading philosophers of Process Theology. Former professor of systematic theology and dean of Wesley Theological Seminary. Visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in 1996 and 1999, and at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. Author of The End of Evil (1988), God-Christ-Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology (1989), The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology (1995), In God's Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer (1996), The Whispered Word: A Theology of Preaching (1999), Divinity and Diversity: A Christian Affirmation of Religious Pluralism (2003).

David Polk

Rev. David P. Polk, PhD

Rev. David P. Polk, PhD – Former Vice President of Christian Board of Publication and Editor-in-Chief of Chalice Press 1990 - 2003 (ret). Former Harold Glen Brown Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. Also taught at Lexington Theological Seminary and at Coe, Mt. Mercy, and Drury Colleges. Former Senior Pastor, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Author, co-author, and editor of numerous books on religion, including; Chalice Praise: Pew Edition (2004), Shaken Foundations: Sermons from America's Pulpits After the Terrorist Attacks (2001), You Might Be a Disciple If (1997), And the Angels Wept: From the Pulpits of Oklahoma City After the Bombing (1995), Now What's a Christian to Do? (1994), If Only I Had Known: Dramatic Monologues for Advent and Lent (1994), Partners in Prayer (1996), Education of the Practical Theologian (1990), On the Way to God: An Exploration into the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg (1988).

  • Review of Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11 10/9/06: "Discovering the courage to confront a demonic American empire This is truly two books in one. Each half is vitally important to all Americans, but especially to those of us who wish to be identified as Christians.

    Part I explores the question of how complicit members of the Bush administration were in the tragedy of 9/11. ...

    In Part I he [David Ray Griffin] offers compelling evidence that 9/11 was an American "false flag" operation in which previously planted explosives allowed the THREE towers of the World Trade Center--including one building not even struck by the passenger jets! [WTC 7] --to implode in the manner of controlled demolitions. ... The point is that this is a vital issue about which we Americans ought to be crying loudly to be examined by some subsequent commission of inquiry that will not simply gloss over or totally ignore discrepancies, inconsistencies in testimony, and unexamined facts." http://www.amazon.com


Graeme MacQueen

Graeme MacQueen, PhD

Graeme MacQueen, PhD – Associate Professor of Religious Studies and founding Director, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

  • Interview 11/19/06: "... there's no way those 3 towers were brought down by planes, jet fuel and fire. One tower, maybe. A structural flaw in the tower, a set of coincidences. Two towers — we're getting into a highly unlikely situation, even though their construction was similar, because the planes hit in different ways. Three towers (including WTC 7 now, which wasn't hit by a plane), the odds against this are astronomical." http://americanbuddhist.net/node/3390
  • Essay 8/21/06: Regarding the recorded oral accounts of 503 members of the Fire Department of New York taken by the Department shortly after 9/11. "Claims that explosions contributed to the collapses were made on 9/11 and have persisted, but studies supportive of the U.S. government's account of events have ignored or denied these claims. ...

    We begin by facing the simple number of individual witnesses (118) and the even greater number of references, direct or indirect, in their accounts to explosions. We next have to deal with the rich, mutually supportive detail of these accounts. ... I cannot read this material without being struck by the ways in which the witnesses' testimony is not merely cumulative but complementary and multidimensional. ...

    It appears (references are somewhat unclear) that the Commission did, in fact, make fairly extensive use of the oral histories. ... But what about all the references in the FDNY material to explosions? The Report makes no mention of them." http://www.journalof911studies.com
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
  • Bio: Appears at the end of the article at http://americanbuddhist
David Sprintzen, PhD
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David Sprintzen, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and former Co-director, Institute for Sustainable Development, C.W. Post College at Long Island University. Founder and currently Secretary of the Long Island Progressive Coalition.

  • Statement to this website 1/9/07: "I believe there are many serious unanswered questions about 9/11 that call out for a complete, independent investigation, without pre-judging the results of such an investigation. The official 9/11 Commission report is not credible."
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth
  • Bio: BA from Queens College. MA & Ph.D. from Penn State. Author of Camus; A Critical Examination and Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation. Founder and Co-Chair for 20 years, and currently Secretary of the Long Island Progressive Coalition. Board member of Citizen Action of New York. Founder and former co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development at Long Island University.

Kerry Walters

Kerry S. Walters, PhD

Kerry S. Walters, PhD – Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Gettysburg College. Co-founder of the Center for Nonviolent Living. Director of PeaceWay: A Ministry of Christian Nonviolence. Co-editor of Episcopal Peace Witness the national quarterly of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship. Author and editor of numerous books on philosophy and ethics, including; Merciful Meekness: Becoming A Spiritually Integrated Person (2004), Finding Perfect Joy With St. Francis of Assisi (2002), Godlust: Facing the Demonic, Embracing the Divine (2000), Benjamin Franklin and His Gods (1998), Re-Thinking Reason - New Perspectives in Critical Thinking (1994), Rational Infidels: The American Deists (1992)

  • Review of The New Pearl Harbor 3/17/04: "We ignore this book at our peril. I've just spent an entire night and part of a day rereading and rereading Professor Griffin's thoroughly researched, judiciously argued, and incredibly disturbing book. Griffin takes on the task of investigating the official account of the 9/11 attacks, asking questions that beg to be asked,... analyzing possible scenarios, and asking what kinds of evidence would properly address unanswered questions.

    Griffin invites the reader to examine two possible explanations to account for the inconsistencies: the "incompetence" theory and the "complicity" theory. The former rests on the assumption that stupid mistakes were made both before and after the attack. The latter rests on the assumption that false official accounts were made about advance notice of the attacks and/or that after-the-fact obstruction of investigations took place. Griffin's conclusion is that it's reasonable to suppose that complicity rather than incompetence is the more likely explanation, and he painstakingly makes his case by examining five major challenges to the official version of what happened.

    On the second anniversary of 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld made the shocking public claim that the attacks were really blessings "in disguise." Rumsfeld's point was that the US was motivated by the attacks to ramp up its military strength. But if even part of Griffin's analysis is on the money, the "blessing," which has led to great subsequent loss of life and expenditures of monies in Afghanistan and Iraq, is built on a deception. A frightening, but not implausible, possibility." http://www.amazon.com
  • Bio: http://www.gettysburg.edu

John Milbank

John Milbank, PhD

John Milbank, PhD – Professor in Religion, Politics, and Ethics, University of Nottingham. Former Francis Ball Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Virginia . Author, co-author, and editor of numerous books on philosophy and religion, including; Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (1993), The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language and Culture (1997), Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (1998), Truth in Aquinas (2000), Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon (2003), Theological Perspectives on God and Beauty (2003), The Suspended Middle: Henri De Lubac And The Debate Concerning The Supernatural (2005).

  • Essay 5/16/06: "As to the precise causes of 9/11 I remain entirely agnostic. It certainly appears that while certain strange circumstances surrounding that event have been satisfactorily explained, certain others have not been accounted for in any unequivocally emphatic way (and in particular the tardiness of response to the planes' initial capture). Quite definitely we can say that on the part of someone a terroristic conspiracy was fomented and that who that someone really was is not as yet entirely apparent.

    I must stress however, that there is as yet absolutely no clear evidence for such a supposition and indeed that there is every reason for scepticism in the face of it. But on the other hand, there remains a case to answer and the refusal of nearly all public organs to press this point remains striking." MS Word doc located at http://www.theologyphilosophycentre.co
  • Bio: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/

Sean Kelly

Sean Kelly, PhD

Sean Kelly, PhD – Professor of Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral Studies.

  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

Jeffery D. Long, PhD
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Jeffery D. Long, PhD – Associate Professor of Religion and Asian Studies and Chair of Religious Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.

  • Review of The New Pearl Harbor 3/23/04: "David Ray Griffin, long known for his contributions to the fields of philosophy and theology, turns his logical mind and keen powers of analysis on the official story of the events of 9/11 and finds it, frankly, incredible.

    Griffin has performed an invaluable public service by writing this book, and at no small risk to his reputation. By exposing the flaws in the official version of these events he raises the possibility that mainstream journalists find too terrible to contemplate: that elements of the U.S. government, and possibly even the President, were complicit in bringing these events about.

    To those (and they are many) who would dismiss such a suggestion out of hand, I would recommend taking this book seriously. Griffin is no wild-eyed fanatic, and one could not accuse of him of making unwarranted logical leaps. He treats this topic with the same care and rational rigor exhibited in his philosophical works. This book is not so much an indictment of the Bush Administration as a call for a serious public investigation (and not a mere whitewash) of events that have been used to justify unprecedented infringements upon the civil liberties of Americans at home and imperial adventures abroad.

    Ultimately, such an investigation (were it ever to occur) would likely lead to impeachment. If the evidence points in the direction that Griffin's analysis suggests, the current government of the United States is guilty of the highest crimes imaginable. It is vital to our democracy that this book receive the widest possible readership, and that the public demand answers to these questions." http://www.amazon.com
  • Bio: http://www.etown.edu

James Fetzer

James Fetzer, PhD

James Fetzer, PhD – Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Former Captain, U.S. Marine Corps. He has published more than 100 articles and reviews and authored, co-authored, and edited over 20 books on the philosophy of science, the theory of knowledge, and the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, including: Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are not Machines (2002) and The Evolution of Intelligence (2004).

  • Essay 9/11: Rational Beliefs are not Paranoid 12/8/06:
    "The impact of the planes cannot have caused enough damage to bring the [World Trade Center] buildings down, since the buildings were designed to withstand them (as Frank De Martini, the project manager, has observed), the planes that hit were very similar to those they were designed to withstand, and they continued to stand after those impacts with negligible effects. ...

    WTC-7 came down in a classic controlled demolition at 5:20 PM/ET after Larry Silverstein suggested the best thing to do might be to "pull it", displaying all the characteristics of classic controlled demolitions: a complete, abrupt, and total collapse into its own footprint, where the floors are all falling at the same time, and so forth, an event so embarrassing to the official account that it is not even mentioned in THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT.

    There are more, especially about the alleged hijackers, including that they were not competent to fly the planes and their names were not on any passenger manifest. Several have turned up alive and well and living in the Middle East. The government has not even produced their tickets as evidence." http://www.scholarsfor...

  • Co-founder: Scholars for 9/11 Truth
  • Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fetzer
James K. Powell II, PhD
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James K. Powell II, PhD – Visiting Assistant Professor, Buddhist Studies, Department of the Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin.

  • Essay: Regarding the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center:
    "... having seen some 12 times the collapse of Building 7 throughout these videos, it has dawned upon me what a dupe I have been. Everyone has been. The DVD captures news anchors and experts at the time commenting at how like a demolition job the destruction seemed. In the videos we see an official deciding whether to "pull it" meaning Building 7. From whatever source, I urge skeptics to watch building 7 just make a free fall. Compare the destruction of these buildings with that of the Madrid Hotel that raged with fires but still did not fall.

    It is up to citizens to investigate the smoke that points to the fire. As Franklin indicated, those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither." http://mujca.com/powell.htm
  • [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 1/2 years after 9/11, the Federal government has yet to publish its promised final report that explains the cause of its collapse.]
Robert Merrill, PhD
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Robert Merrill, PhD – Professor of Literature and Humanities, Maryland Institute College of Art. Founder and director of the Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies. Editor, Maisonneuve Press.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."
  • Bio: http://www.mica.edu/

William Cook

William A. Cook, PhD

William A. Cook, PhD – Professor of English, University of La Verne. Author of Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy.

John Dragstedt

John Albert Dragstedt, PhD

John Albert Dragstedt, PhD – Professor of Classics and Philosophy, St. Mary's College of California.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."
Derrill Bodley

Derrill Bodley

Derrill Bodley (1945 - 2005) – Professor of Music, University of the Pacific. Father of Deora Bodley, passenger on United Flight 93.

  • Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:
    "We want truthful answers to questions. … As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:
    • Immediate investigation by NY Att. General Eliot Spitzer
    • Immediate investigation in Congressional hearings.
    • Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.
    • The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026...

Raymond Munro

Raymond Munro, MAH

Raymond Munro, MAH – Professor of Theatre, Clark University.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."
  • Bio: http://www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=27

Clare Brandabur

Clare Brandabur, PhD

Clare Brandabur, PhD – Assistant Professor, English Literature, Dogus University.

  • Statement to this website 1/12/07: "When I first watched the mesmerizing pictures of the collapse of the Twin Towers and Building Number 7, my reaction was a kind of numb disbelief which later gave way to a perception of the whole event as an elaborately staged piece of theatre. ...

    But it had to be made to look like an attack by Arab/Islamic terrorists. Many researchers have now shown how the so-called hijackers were set up as a cover for the real professional state-terrorists who actually coordinated the attacks.

    Although I have spoken to people who fear what will happen if the public at large finds out the truth, I believe that dismantling the 9/11 hoax and exposing to public view the real perpetrators is essential for salvaging American democracy.
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the 9/11 attacks."
  • Bio: http://cosmos.ucc.ie

Bryan Sacks

Bryan Sacks

Bryan Sacks – Adjunct Professor, Department of English and Philosophy, Drexel University. Contributing author to Elsevier's The Hidden History of 9/11 ("The Compromised 9-11 Commission").

  • Essay 6/26/04: "... several FBI "street-level" investigations into the activities of the 9/11 terrorists were stymied by higher-ups in the weeks prior to 9/11, each under strange circumstances, and well before the street-level agents felt like they had reached their "logical end". ...

    1) Ken Williams of the Phoenix FBI office sent a now-famous July 10, 2001 memo to the counterterrorism division of the FBI suggesting that the organization institute a national program to keep tabs on suspicious flight-school students. ... Williams ... also warned of a possible "effort by Osama bin Laden to send students to the US to attend civil aviation universities and colleges" ... His suggestion for a national program was ignored before 9/11;

    2) FBI agent Robert Wright of the Chicago field office, who had been investigating a suspected terrorist cell for three years, was informed in January 2001 that the case was being closed. This despite Wright's contention that his case was growing stronger. ...

    Three months before September 11, Wright wrote a stinging internal memo charging that the FBI was not interested in thwarting a terrorist attack, but rather "was merely gathering intelligence so they would know who to arrest when a terrorist attack occurred." ...

    3) Legal officer Colleen Rowley worked in the FBI's Minneapolis field office when agents arrested Zacarias Moussaoui in August of 2001. ... The Minneapolis [office] felt so strongly about the need to detain him that a request was sent to FBI headquarters to search Moussaoui's laptop computer under the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act.

    Approximately 10,000 requests under FISA over the past 20 years had been made without a single request being turned down, but the Minneapolis agency's request never got out of the FBI. ... the request was never forwarded for FISA consideration, spurring Rowley to charge that the FBI was "sabotaging" the case, and another agent to charge that headquarters was "setting this up for failure." ...

    4) On Aug 28, 2001 the New York FBI office requested opening a criminal investigation in soon-to-be hijacker Khalid Almihdhar based on evidence he had been involved in the USS Cole bombing. The request was turned down, on the basis that, as Griffin puts it, "Almihdhar could not be tied to the Cole investigation without the inclusion of sensitive intelligence information." This led one frustrated FBI agent to write in an email that "someday someone will die--and. . . the public will not understand why we were not more effective."...

    There are several other aspects about the FBI's behavior pre- and post-9/11 that scream out for further investigation." http://www.count

Don Trent Jacobs

Four Arrows, aka
Don Trent Jacobs, EdD, PhD

Four Arrows, aka Don Trent Jacobs, EdD, PhD – Professor of Educational Leadership, Fielding Graduate University. Associate Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Northern Arizona University. Former Dean of Education, Oglala Lakota College. Former U.S. Marine Corps officer. Author of 12 books, including Primal Awareness and Teaching Virtues: Building Character Across the Curriculum; lead author American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone. Editor of the University of Texas Press text, Unlearning the Language of Conquest. Contributing author to Elsevier's The Hidden History of 9/11 ("The Military Exercises of 9/11: Bizarre Coincidence or Something Else?").

  • Statement to this website 1/9/07: "Available evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about what happened on and before September 11, 2001, and it should be the responsibility of every world citizen to bring forth the truth."
  • Member: Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven Association Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations."
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."
  • Bio: http://www.fielding.edu/elc/faculty/jacobs.htm
Lt. Col. Stephen L. Butler, EdD
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Lt. Col. Stephen L. Butler, EdD, U.S. Air Force (ret) – Former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the Defense Language Institute. Served as a B-52 Radar Navigator in the Gulf War. 24-year Air Force career.

David Gabbard

David Gabbard, EdD

David Gabbard, EdD – Professor, College of Education, East Carolina University. Editor, Public Resistance, an Academic Journal to Confront the Lies of the Right

  • Statement to this website 1/8/07: "The truth about 9-11 is that we do not know the truth about 9-11. Our government does not want us to know the truth about 9-11. If you want to know the truth about 9-11, then please help us lift the gag order that former Attorney General John Ashcroft placed on former FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, and call for a truly independent investigation of the information contained in the documents she translated while working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation after 9-11.

    She said, "If they were to do real investigations we would see several significant high level criminal prosecutions in this country. And that is something that they are not going to let out. And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up."
  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the 9/11 attacks."
  • Bio: http://web.mac.com/publicresistance

Walter E. Davis, PhD
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Walter E. Davis, PhD – Associate Professor, College of Education, Health and Human Services, Kent State University.

  • Essay "September 11th And The Bush Administration - Compelling Evidence for Complicity" 8/31/03: "As I outline below, there are numerous aspects regarding the official stories about September 11th which do not fit with known facts, which contradict each other, which defy common sense, and which indicate a pattern of misinformation and coverup. ...

    In this article, I outline twenty-two items of evidence and questions, each one sufficient reason to demand an investigation into why September 11th was not prevented. Together, these items suggest that the most plausible explanation of events is that the Bush Administration was complicit in the terrorist attacks. This should be a national and international scandal." http://www.informationclearinghouse
  • Member: Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven Association Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations."
  • Bio: http://physics911.ca

Norma Carr-Ruffino

Norma Carr-Rufino, PhD

Norma Carr-Rufino, PhD – Professor of Management, San Francisco State University. Member of the editorial board of the international scholarly journal Women in Management Review. Lay referee of the California State Bar Court. Business consultant to Safeway International, Hearst New Media & Technology, Bechtel Power, Pearson Educacion, International Association of Administrative Professionals, Texas Business Education Association, University of Colorado, University of South Carolina, Deere & Company and others. Author of Managing Diversity, Building Innovative Skills, The Promotable Woman, Business Students Guide, The Innovative Woman Diversity Success Strategies, and Making Diversity Work.

Jesus Nieto

Jesus Nieto, PhD

Jesus Nieto, PhD – Associate Professor, School of Teacher Education, San Diego State University.

  • Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the 9/11 attacks."

Richard Behan

Richard W. Behan, PhD

Richard W. Behan, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Natural Resource Policy and Dean Emeritus of the School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University 1975 - 1993. Former Professor of Natural Resource Policy, University of Montana. Former Member of the Board of Directors of the Forest History Society, American Forestry Association, and Council of Forestry School Executives. Author of nearly 100 articles and papers on public land management, economics, and politics. Author of Plundered Promise (2001) and Ecology, Economics, Environment (1971).

  • Essay 12/3/06: "The controversies rage on yet today about the events of 9/11. No steel building has ever collapsed from fire alone. Buildings falling precisely into their footprints are the marks of deliberate (and expert) demolition. The collapse of a third building that was not hit at all. The short-selling of airline stock in previous days. The Pentagon hit by a missile, not a civilian airliner.

    The smokescreen includes the coverup of the 9/11 attacks on the Trade Towers and the Pentagon. Initially and fiercely resisting any inquiry at all, President Bush finally appoints a 10-person "9/11 Commission." Its report places the blame on "faulty intelligence." President Bush and Vice President Cheney ... are not required to testify under oath, and they need not even testify separately. At the insistence of the White House, they are "interviewed" together in the Oval Office, with no transcription permitted.

    We need to know the truth and all the truth. The time has come, as well as the opportunity, for formal, Congressional investigations, based on subpoenas, sworn testimony, and direct evidence about 9/11 and about the created reality of the "war on terror." If such inquiries clearly exonerate the Bush Administration, the nation can breathe deeply and go on. If they do not, then but only then should impeachment be undertaken." http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1203-21.htm
  • Bio: http://www.rockisland.com/~rwbehan/author.html

Eric Karlstrom

Eric Karlstrom, PhD

Eric Karlstrom, PhD – Professor of Geography, California State University, Stanislaus. Former Professor of Geography at Northern Arizona University and The University of Kansas. Author or co-author of 23 professional papers on soils, geomorphology, and paleoclimate which have been published in peer-reviewed national and international journals. Author of 20 additional papers which have appeared in non-refereed journals, guidebooks, and books. Director and composer of the documentary film An Awakening Journey - Songs and Voices from the Earth (2006). Composer, recording artist and performer (piano, guitar, banjo and vocals) of nine CDs.

  • 75-page monograph 9/11 Was an Inside Job and a "Psy-Op" 9/20/06: "While overwhelming evidence indicates 9/11 was an inside job, even the FBI now admits that no credible evidence points to Osama bin Laden and the 19 alleged "terrorists" as perpetrators. No trial or impartial investigation of the crime has yet occurred. In fact, the official 9/11 story, that 19 alleged hijackers with box-cutters fooled the best military/defense system in the world, is itself an outrageous conspiracy theory. Certainly these men, at least six of whom are still alive, lacked the motivation and the ability to carry out the attacks by themselves. Certainly, 9/11 was not an "intelligence failure," as the government/media complex has characterized it. Rather, 9/11 was an elaborate hoax, a staged "war pretext incident," engineered to fool the American people into accepting wars of aggression abroad as well as a rollback of their civil liberties. As such, 9/11 is a typical example of "state-sponsored, false-flag terrorism" and a covert, "black op" orchestrated by rogue elements within the U.S. government. It is "false-flag" because it was blamed on a political target group, the Muslims." MS Word doc at http://erickarlstrom.com/Articles
  • Website: http://erickarlstrom.com/index.html

9/11 is unquestionably the most important event in American history since December 7, 1941, when Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. The magnitude of its impact on America and the world cannot be overstated. The terrible acts of 9/11 and the events leading up to them deserve a thorough and unimpeachable investigation to learn the facts. And if some rogue elements within the U.S. government were complicit in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11, as several of these individuals allege, it is critical that these elements be exposed and removed from power.

Note of acknowledgement: Most of this excellent data was compiled by Alan Miller. For the latest version of this chart on his website: http://www.patriotsquestion911.com. Please note that most of the individuals listed above are not affiliated with this website.

A PERSONAL NOTE ABOUT THIS WEBPAGE FROM ALAN MILLER

I believed the official explanation of 9/11 for four and one-half years. I remember, during that time, becoming angry at news stories about people who challenged that explanation. However, in the Spring of 2006, I saw the documentary, Loose Change, on the Internet. Although not entirely objective, it raised many serious and disturbing questions about the events of 9/11 that I had previously simply accepted without much critical thought.

And so I began a several month period of researching the events of 9/11. I found a great deal of material challenging the 9/11 Commission Report on web sites like 911truth.org, physics911.net, Scholars for 9/11 Truth and many others. I attended a lecture by Prof. David Ray Griffin. I learned much about what has become known as the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Much of the information and limited media coverage of the 9/11 Truth Movement focuses on college professors like David Ray Griffin, Steven Jones, James Fetzer, Kee Dewdney, and others. In August of 2006, I began searching for statements about 9/11 by members of the intelligence services, military and government. Because of their experience in these areas, I felt their opinions about 9/11 would be an additional valuable source of information. I was surprised by the amount of criticism of 9/11 from this group that I found scattered around the Internet. I had learned of virtually none of this criticism through newspapers, television, or radio news sources.

I don't know what really happened on 9/11. I greatly value these individuals' statements because most have spent large portions of their careers studying espionage, terrorism, and military operations throughout the world and personally planned and carried out United States' military and intelligence activities. They're experienced professionals, whom I trust.

My objective, at this point, is to have our government launch a new, extremely thorough and impartial re-examination of the terrible acts of 9/11 and the events leading up to them. In my opinion, and in the opinion of the above listed experienced individuals, the current 9/11 Commission Report is seriously inadequate in explaining what really happened.

For the sake of those who died on 9/11, their families, the American people, and for the sake of peace in the world, please continue to seek the truth about 9/11. Demand a thorough and impartial reinvestigation of 9/11.

If you are or know of an active or former senior member of the military, intelligence services, or government, who has publicly expressed concerns about the 9/11 Commission Report, and would like your comment to be added to this list, please email your information to me.

Sincerely,

Alan Miller
Email: [email protected]

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Complete 9/11 Timeline Loose Change Nat. Institute of Standards
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Peaceful Tomorrows
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911Truth.org 9/11 Mysteries   WTC United Family Group
Physics911.net Painful Deceptions  
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Veterans for 9/11 Truth 911 Eyewitness    
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