Dr. David Ray Griffin
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Dr. David Ray Griffin is interviewed by Rob Kall of Opednews.com. Regardless of what you believe about the event on September 11, 2001, there are unanswered questions. Griffin is an unlikely advocate of the 9-11 truth movement.
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David Ray Griffin
Reveals Major 9/11 Cover-up
On C-SPAN and in Washington Post
Dear friends,
Professor David Ray Griffin is considered by many the most respected leader of the 9/11 movement. Prof. Griffin is professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, where he taught for over thirty years. He has authored or edited over two dozen scholarly books. First appearing in the national media May 7, 2004 on C-SPAN 2, his program was repeated a week later due to popular demand. In this 80-minute lecture to a standing room audience of 400 at the University of Wisconsin, Prof. David Ray Griffin, one of the most respected theologians in the US, discusses his extensive research into the 9/11 cover-up. (View now) Links to an excellent Washington Post article and other resources on Prof. Griffin and his revealing work are also included below.
Prof. Griffin was initially very skeptical of claims of a major cover-up around 9/11. But in April of 2003, a trusted friend sent him an email referring him to the reliable, easily verifiable information on the two-page 9/11 summary from our website, WantToKnow.info. After exploring the links to revealing articles on major media websites and progressing eventually to our 60-page 9/11 timeline and other excellent resources, he became convinced of a major cover-up around 9/11. Putting aside all of his work in theology, Prof. Griffin then devoted himself to writing The New Pearl Harbor (2004), a devastating book with detailed footnotes which systematically presents a powerful account questioning the official story of 9/11.
Following the publication of the government's 9/11 Commission Report, Prof. Griffin published a second highly compelling book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions (2005), which convincingly deconstructs the official story presented in the report. He shows, among many other things, that the Commission's executive director was strongly biased in support of the secrecy desired by the White House. Two more important books followed in 2006, Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11 and 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out (co-edited with fellow WantToKnow.info Team member, Peter Dale Scott).
In 2007 Prof. Griffin published his most remarkable book on 9/11, Debunking 9/11 Debunking, a detailed response to the well-funded official and semi-official attempts to debunk the 9/11 Truth movement. His next book, 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press, published in March, 2008, focuses on serious internal contradictions within the official story.
On the seventh anniversary of the attacks, September 11, 2008, Prof. Griffin published a companion volume to The New Pearl Harbor, entitled The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, which updates and comments on each chapter from the earlier book. It includes in more accessible form all the most important findings from his intervening books on 9/11, as well as much entirely new information. The two volumes together provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive statement of the 9/11 truth movement's case against the official conspiracy theory.
In May 2009, Griffin published Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?, in which he examines all the evidence suggesting either that OBL is still alive or is in fact dead. He concludes that bin Laden is almost certainly dead, probably since December, 2001, and that the series of audio and video "messages" from him are fakes, part of an eight-year-long US military and intelligence psyop directed at the American public.
On the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in September, 2009, Griffin published The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False, a searing indictment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's "Final Report" on the collapse of World Trade Center 7. In this crucially important book Griffin demonstrates that NIST, a federal scientific agency, resorted to scientific fraud of many different types to construct its defense of the official acccount.
Prof. Griffins' 9/11 books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies both in the US and abroad. They have been translated into several languages, and have convinced many key people of the need for a truly independent investigation into that fateful day.
We encourage you to watch the revealing C-SPAN program and explore the other excellent resources on Prof. Griffin below, and to invite your friends and colleagues to learn about the 9/11 cover-up, as well. We are moving ever closer to the critical mass necessary to force the media to cover this vital issue in news headlines where it belongs. Together, we can and will build a brighter future for all of us.
With best wishes,
Fred Burks and Tod Fletcher for PEERS and the WantToKnow.info Team
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton
Note: Prof. Griffin is also a member of the WantToKnow.info team
View the C-SPAN 2 program online now for free. Windows Media Player required (free download)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3538037502590699697
Free audio version of the C-SPAN program online. Windows Media Player required (free download)
http://www.septembereleventh.org/documents/drg_cspan.mp3
View several other excellent lectures by Prof. Griffin on Google Video
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=david+ray+griffin
Excellent Washington Post article featuring David Ray Griffin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701669.html or
http://www.WantToKnow.info/060908.911conspiracytheorists (links added for verification of facts listed)
Concise summaries of a number of other major media articles on David Ray Griffin with links for verification
http://www.WantToKnow.info/davidraygriffinnewsarticles
Biographical information on Prof. David Ray Griffin
http://www.ctr4process.org/about/CoDirectors/CPSGriffin.htm
List of Prof. Griffin's books, including several scholarly books on the 9/11 cover-up
http://www.amazon.com (link will take you directly to the list)
C-SPAN 2 announcement for the program featuring Prof. Griffin
http://www.booktv.org/General/index.asp?segID=5677&schedID=362
Order a copy of David Ray Griffin's show from C-SPAN 2 at:
http://www.c-spanstore.org/shop/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=186335-1&template=4
Article covering lecture in Wisconsin's The Capital Times (see below for full text)
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=36617&ntpid=5
Theologian calls for response to 9/11
By Samara Kalk Derby for The Capital Times
April 19, 2005
David Ray Griffin asks the tough questions about Sept. 11, contending U.S. officials had some knowledge of what was coming and possibly orchestrated the attacks.
Griffin, whose book, "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," came out a year ago, drew an enthusiastic standing ovation from the majority of the 400 or so people who packed his lecture Monday night at Bascom Hall.
A retired Christian theologian, Griffin, 65, taught for more than 30 years at the Claremont School of Theology in California.
His comments Monday night were directed at religious people, who he said need to respond to Sept. 11 - and the American empire that has ensued - based on the moral principles of their religious traditions.
Drawing laughter from the crowd, Griffin said he had in mind principles like: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors' oil" and "Thou shalt not murder thy neighbors in order to steal their oil."
While Griffin noted that his books and talks have not received attention from the mainstream media, C-SPAN had a cameraman at the event and plans to air the lecture at a future date. Madison's public access cable television station, WYOU-TV/Channel 4, meanwhile, will air the talk at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Americans interpret the events of Sept. 11 in one of four ways, Griffin said:
• A first group accepts the official interpretation that Sept. 11 was a surprise attack by Islamic terrorists. It is easy for these people "to think of America's so-called War on Terror as a just war," Griffin said.
• A second group accepts the official line but thinks Sept. 11 has been used opportunistically by the Bush administration to extend the American empire. People who hold this view often believe that America's response to Sept. 11, which has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, is far worse than the attacks themselves, he said.
• A third group believes the Bush administration knew the attacks were coming and let them happen. It shows the government as "deliberate and cold-blooded," advancing its imperial designs while hypocritically portraying itself as promoting a "culture of life," Griffin said.
Although there has been no national survey, a Zogby poll taken last year indicated that almost half of the residents of New York City share this view, he said.
• A fourth group believes that the government orchestrated the attacks. While no poll shows how many Americans believe this, polls in Canada and Germany have found as many as 20 percent of those populations do, Griffin said.
In his follow-up book, "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions," Griffin examines the questions that he and others in the "9/11 Truth Movement" charge were never examined by the federal government's 9/11 Commission.
Evidence to support the theory that U.S. officials had at least had some foreknowledge of the attacks comes from David Schippers, the chief prosecutor for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, who reportedly received warnings from FBI agents about the attacks six weeks earlier, Griffin said.
Other government officials, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, would not respond to the warnings, he added.
There was the extraordinarily high volume of "put options" purchased in the three days before the attacks, Griffin said, with investors betting that stock in United and American Airlines - the two airlines used in the attacks - would go down. There were also a suspiciously high number of put options for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, which occupied 22 stories of the World Trade Center.
"U.S. intelligence agencies monitor the market, partly to look for signs of impending attacks," Griffin said. "One wonders how information could be much more specific than this."
Griffin then made a case that government officials planned and executed the attacks.
For one, the United States military neglected to send fighter jets to intercept the hijacked planes. Such interceptions usually occur within 10 to 20 minutes after the first signs of trouble and are routine, happening about 100 times a year, Griffin said.
It seems implausible, he said, that the Pentagon was struck by Flight 77, since it is "surely the best defended building on the planet." The U.S. military has the best radar systems in the world and "does not miss anything occurring in North American airspace," he added.
Griffin also made a case that the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings was brought on by thousands of explosives placed throughout each of the buildings. They went straight down, at free-fall speed, as in controlled demolitions, and many people in the buildings reported that they heard or felt explosions, he added.
"High-rise steel-frame buildings have never - before or after 9/11- been caused to collapse by fire," he said.
Sue Adams, 50, introduced herself to Griffin after the talk, calling him heroic. "I think some day we may really know the truth," she said, adding that it will likely be after the Bush administration is gone.
Orion Litzau, a UW freshman studying engineering, agrees that the answers the government put out through the 9/11 Commission were more than a simple deception.
"They were not only partly false but a complete, bold face lie," he said. "David Ray Griffin brings out interesting points about what could be the true story behind the 9/11 attack."
Jim Goulding, 67, who teaches religious studies at Edgewood College, admitted at first he wondered whether Griffin was a crackpot, but instead found he had a "tremendous reputation as a theologian."
Goulding has read both of Griffin's Sept. 11 books.
"I think he makes a convincing case - well documented, well footnoted," he said.
E-mail: skalk@madison.com
Note: On Wisconsin Pubic Radio (2/7/05) 27-year-CIA veteran Ray McGovern said he "used to be an agnostic" on the issue of official complicity in 9/11, but that Dr. David Ray Griffin's new book The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions has made a believer of him. McGovern is now fully convinced that the 9/11 Commission Report was an egregious cover-up and the case needs to be re-opened. McGovern is co-founder of a group called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, who represent the tip of a very large iceberg of insiders who are appalled at what has been going on and are hoping to do something about it.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701669.html
The Disbelievers
9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Are Building Their Case Against the Government From Ground Zero
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Friday, September 8, 2006
NEW YORK
He felt no shiver of doubt in those first terrible hours.
He watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and assumed al-Qaeda had wreaked terrible vengeance. He listened to anchors and military experts and assumed the facts of Sept. 11, 2001, were as stated on the screen.
It was a year before David Ray Griffin, an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why Bush listened to a child's story while the nation was attacked and how Osama bin Laden, America's Public Enemy No. 1, escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora.
He wondered why 110-story towers crashed and military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded, much less cashiered.
"To me, the report read as a cartoon." White-haired and courtly, Griffin sits on a couch in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, unspooling words in that reasonable Presbyterian minister's voice. "It's a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives."
Such as?
"There was massive complicity in this attack by U.S. government operatives."
If that feels like a skip off the cliff of established reality, more Americans are in free fall than you might guess. There are few more startling measures of American distrust of leaders than the widespread belief that the Bush administration had a hand in the attacks of Sept. 11 in order to spark an invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.
A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. Twelve percent believe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon.
Distrust percolates more strongly near Ground Zero. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government "consciously failed to act."
You could dismiss this as a louder than usual howl from the CIA-controls-my-thoughts-through-the-filling-in-my-molar crowd. Establishment assessments of the believers tend toward the psychotherapeutic. Many academics, politicians and thinkers left, right and center say the conspiracy theories are a case of one plus one equals five. It's a piling up of improbabilities.
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