April 2010

Napolitano stands by controversial report
Top Democrat says he’s ‘dumbfounded’
April 16, 2010By Audrey Hudson and Eli Lake
Washingtonimes.com

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she was briefed
before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands
by the report, which lists returning veterans among terrorist risks to the U.S.
But the top House Democrat with oversight of the Department of Homeland Security
said in a letter to Ms. Napolitano that he was “dumbfounded” that
such a report would be issued.

Republicans rabid over right-wing report
April 29, 2010
CapitolHillBlue.com
Republicans on Wednesday said a Homeland Security Department intelligence assessment
unfairly characterizes military veterans as right-wing extremists. House Republican
leader John Boehner described the report as offensive and called on the agency
to apologize to veterans.
The agency’s intelligence assessment, sent to law enforcement officials
last week, warns that right-wing extremists could use the bad state of the U.S.
economy and the election of the country’s first black president to recruit
members.
The assessment also said that returning military veterans who have difficulties
assimilating back into their home communities could be susceptible to extremist
recruiters or might engage in lone acts of violence.

April 21, 2010
AE911truth.org
Double header presentation: Two speakers, two nights, two Bay Area
cities
Friday and Saturday,
May 7 and 8, 2010
San Rafael and San Leandro, California
On September 11th, 2001 the greatest destruction and loss of life associated
with the terrorist attacks took place in New York City. After almost nine years
and numerous government investigations, many public misconceptions persist about
the events of that tragic day, especially regarding the unprecedented destruction
of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
During this live multimedia presentation Seattle firefighter Erik Lawyer and
SF Bay Area architect Richard Gage, AIA, will examine the myths surrounding
the events at the World Trade Center. Using well-documented forensic evidence,
news footage and eyewitness accounts, they seek to correct the public record.

[FULL TOUR DETAILS BELOW]
Nobel Peace Prize nominee speaking at Bradley
Peoria
Journal Star
April 18, 2010
PEORIA — “Is the War in Afghanistan Justified by 9/11?” is
the theme of Dr. David Ray Griffin’s speech set for Sunday at Bradley University.
Griffin is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, professor emeritus and co-director
of the Center for Process Studies at Claremont University in Claremont, Calif.
He also has appeared on radio and television programs on the British Broadcasting
Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Japan’s national network.
He was ranked 41st in the New Statesman’s “The 50 People Who Matter Today.”
Griffin will appear at Bradley as part of a 14-stop tour, which includes several
locations in Maine, as well as Chicago; St. Louis; Des Moines, Iowa; Milwaukee;
Louisville, Ky.; West Hartford, Conn.; Boston; Montreal; and Toronto.

David Ray Griffin
April 20, 2010
911Truth.org
A right-wing neocon organization called the Institute on Religion and Democracy
(IRD)1 — which devotes itself to attacking religiously and socially progressive
churches while supporting US imperial policies (going back to the Nicaraguan
Contras funded illegally by the Reagan administration2 ) — has recently
put out a press release attacking my next book, which is scheduled to be published
this coming fall. Saying that I am “back with another outrageous book”
in which I allege “new absurdities,” the IRD claims that I am “this
time alleging that the Obama administration is attempting to undermine 9/11
conspiracy theorists.”3
False Assumptions about My Forthcoming Book
However, if members of the IRD staff could have waited until my book had been
published, so they could have read it before attacking it, they could have seen
that it does no such thing. They could have seen that it simply deals with an
article, entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” co-authored in 2008 by Cass Sunstein
and another professor at Harvard Law School.4 Using the “9/11 conspiracy theory”
as their primary example of conspiracy theories, Sunstein and his co-author
argued that the government should try to undermine it and that the best way
to do this would be through a method they called “cognitive infiltration.” In
2009, President Obama appointed Sunstein as the administrator of the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs.5 My forthcoming book is entitled Cognitive
Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory.
Neither the title nor the book itself suggests that Obama will have Sunstein
actually carry out this plan.
The IRD’s premature criticism of my book is also wrong on another point.
By speaking of what I will be “alleging,” the IRD was supporting
its press release’s title, “9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Dreaming Up
New Absurdities.” The IRD’s suggestion, in other words, is that
I simply “dreamed up” the “absurdity” that someone connected
to the Obama administration had a proposal for undermining 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
However, the proposal made by Sunstein has been extensively discussed on the
Internet.6 With a little research, therefore, the IRD could have learned that
I had not simply made something up.

12 April 2010
France24.com
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers a speech during a ceremony to mark the National Nuclear Day day in Tehran on April 9. Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, news reports said on Monday.

AFP – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, news reports said on Monday.

“The minimum expectation from your excellency is to set up an independent and trusted fact-finding group to comprehensively investigate the real factors behind September 11,” Ahmadinejad said in the text of the letter carried by official news agencies.

They did not say when the letter was sent.

The hardliner, who in March dismissed 9/11 as a “big lie,” said in the letter that the attacks “were the main pretext for attacks” by NATO on Afghanistan and Iraq.