January 2009

January 17, 2009
DC 911Truth has produced an attractive new brochure to be distributed at the
Obama Inauguration and surrounding events. On the cover, President Obama is
asked to “help America learn the truth about 9/11,” but the interior
is
aimed at general audiences who may not be aware of problems with the
official account, or who may be quick to dismiss any questions as conspiracy
theories.
In a concise and straightforward way, the brochure presents the many facts
that challenge the 9/11 Commission Report (including doubts expressed by
Co-Chairs Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton themselves), as well as
contradictions in the accepted narrative about air defense, the alleged
hijackers, the destruction of the World Trade Center, and the anthrax
attacks. Only statements that could be verified in mainstream news sources
were included and carefully footnoted, so as to maximize the credibility of
the piece.

January 16, 2009
by Steven Jones
The 116th peer-reviewed paper was published today in the Journal of 9/11 Studies:
“The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation of the NIST-Bazant Collapse Hypothesis”
by Prof. Graeme MacQueen and Tony Szamboti. Take a look!
http://journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/TheMissingJolt4.pdf
This fine paper underwent several months of rather arduous peer-review preceding
its publication in the Journal of 9/11 Studies. The paper supports work by James
Gourley published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics and recent analysis
by David Chandler. A few quotes from the paper should wet your interest:
“In its Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers, the
National Institute of Standards and Technology summarizes its three year study
and outlines its explanation of the total collapse of WTC 1 and WTC 2.[1] Readers
of the report will find that the roughly $20 million expended on this effort
have resulted in an explanation of the total collapse of these buildings that
is so vague it barely qualifies as a hypothesis. But it does have one crucial
feature of a hypothesis: it is, in principle, falsifiable. In fact, it is easy
to demonstrate that it is false.

“The Government has determined that continued prosecution of this case
as to LINDAUER would not be in the interests of justice.”*
Michael Collins”Scoop” Independent
News
(Jan. 16, Wash. DC) The Department of
Justice entered a motion to drop all charges against Susan
Lindauer yesterday morning, Jan. 15, 2009. The filing (see
below) at the federal district court in lower Manhattan ends
the government’s attempt to prosecute her for allegedly
acting as an “unregistered agent” for Iraq. Since her
arrest in early 2004, she has repeatedly asked for a trial
to present evidence that she had been a United States
intelligence asset since the early 1990’s.

By filing this order, the government surrendered forever its ability to prosecute
Lindauer as an “Iraqi foreign agent” and for lesser charges contained in the
indictment, including a one week trip to Baghdad in March, 2002.
Lindauer made the
following statement today, Jan 16, 2009: “I am disgusted by
this case. They think that they have defeated me by denying
my day in court. It could not be more wrong. If we can’t
have a criminal trial, we’re going to have a civil trial for
damages.” Lindauer was arrested in March, 2004 shortly
after offering to testify before a Bush appointed blue ribbon commission evaluating U.S.
pre-war intelligence on Iraq. In late February, she
informed the offices of two commission members, Sen. McCain
(R-AZ) and Trent Lott (R-MS), that she could testify that
U.S. pre-war intelligence was proactive and effective, not a
popular view at that time.

> Kucinich: UN should investigate Israeli Gaza strikes

> Gaza orgs: Silence is complicity
Appeal, various undersigned — With the death toll in Gaza growing hourly, silence is complicity. It is imperative
for concerned citizens to demand that their governments take immediate action
in order to stop Israeli genocide in Gaza.

> Israel Navy ships turn back boat carrying Gaza humanitarian aid
> Patients and refugees evacuated as Al-Quds hospital burns

> White Phosphorous and Dense Inert Metal Explosives: Is Israel Using
Banned and Experimental Munitions in Gaza?
> President-elect prepares diplomatic offensive
Right after inauguration, team to be appointed to deal with Middle East
troubles

By Bob Woodward
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 14, 2009; Page A01
The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring
Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured
a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks, interrogating him with techniques that included sustained isolation,
sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged exposure to cold, leaving him in a "life-threatening condition."
"We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani," said Susan J. Crawford, in her
first interview since being named convening authority of military commissions
by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in February 2007. "His treatment met
the legal definition of torture. And that’s why I did not refer the case"
for prosecution.
Crawford, a retired judge who served as general counsel for the Army during
the Reagan administration and as Pentagon inspector general when Dick Cheney
was secretary of defense, is the first senior Bush administration official responsible
for reviewing practices at Guantanamo to publicly state that a detainee was
tortured.