I don’t know where to begin. Every single sentence is based on fallacious thinking on your part or a misunderstanding of my point of view. Please read what i wrote again. Carefully. Without too much anger. I can’t spend the time I’d need to deal with all your erroneous thinking. Sorry.
BB

My third email to William Blum:

I’m not angry at all, and I don’t know why you are insinuating that I am (the bold letters in the word “told” were simply taken from your initial response). In fact, your response would indicate that you are the one who is mad. I think I presented a reasoned approach to why I find your thinking on this issue quite odd, based on your career body of work. If I am mistaken, then I apologize. I realize you are busy, but if you could please find the time to at least give me one concrete example, rather than using vagaries such as “fallacious thinking,” “erroneous thinking” and other such euphemisms which, frankly, are a bit insulting.

If you do nothing else at all, then please tell me if you agree with my contention that referring to people who don’t believe the official story of 9/11 as “9/11 Truth people” leaves a false impression with your readers of a few wacko “conspiracy theorists” when in fact there are multitudes of professional people from all levels of government, academia, and private industry who refute the official story and who are actively working to investigate and put pressure on government officials. And further, would you be willing to publicize this fact in one of your columns?

Thank you

I sent that last email earlier today and I have yet to hear back from William Blum.

With all due respect, that’s a very strange answer, Mr. Blum. You were TOLD how they did it by the same government that you’ve been railing against for your entire career. You admit that there are “a thousand holes in the story,” yet you seem to need a precise reworking of the plan by the “9/11 Truth people” in order to even begin to consider that it did not happen the way the government and media have presented it to us. I find that quite odd, particularly from someone who is as familiar with intelligence capabilities and operations as you are, and who is as skeptical of official orthodoxy as you are.

Incidentally, the “9/11 Truth people” aren’t all trying to prove that the US government did it. They’re just trying to get at the truth, no matter what it may be. For many, it has led them to Israel and Mossad. Others have been led elsewhere. The point is to keep investigating and keep the pressure on those in power, rather than succumb to an official story that is so full of holes one hardly knows where to begin.

I still don’t understand why you need to be told how the operation was carried out in order to change your perspective. Obviously, no one knows exactly how the operation was carried out. That is the point of continuing the investigation. I would think you would know that.

My initial email:

Mr. Blum,

In your most recent anti-empire report, you stated:

“So it’s not the moral question that makes me doubt the inside-job scenario. It’s the logistics of it all — the incredible complexity of arranging it all so that it would work and not be wholly and transparently unbelievable.”

I would like to know how a man of your intelligence and experience has trouble believing that the most powerful, well-financed intelligence groups in the history of the world (Mossad, CIA, MI5, etc.) could have carried out the logistics of the 9/11 operation, yet you don’t extend those same doubts to the handful of angry Muslims who allegedly carried out the plot.

Thank you for your continuing coverage of world affairs via your newsletter. I look forward to reading it each month.

William Blum’s response:

Because I’ve been TOLD how they did it, albeit with a thousand holes in the story. The 9/11 Truth people have not told me how the US government did it.
BB

I’ve also wondered why people like Chomsky, Blum, Michael Albert, etc. don’t extend their structural analyses to how and why a fraudulent 9/11 could happen and be covered up.

http://911myths.com/html/war_games_cover_for_9-11.html

One thing is certain: the public is relentlessly manipulated by propaganda.

Challenging anyone to do so is only to get hits here. The 9/11 movement has been preyed upon by internet candidate Ron Paul for a reason, and it isn’t because the world can’t understand how an inside job could possibly have happened, or why.

>>just mention “Ralph Nader” and they go ballistic

What else is the agency to do?

The plane that allegedly flew into the Pentagon did so 34 minutes after the second World Trade Center Tower was struck. That was 34 minutes after it was a confirmed fact the United States was in a state of war! One of the world’s most heavily defended buildings was stuck by an amateur pilot who could barely keep a Cessna in the air! NORAD failed to intercept the plane due to at least five war games in operation on 9/11. On any other day, any derelict plane in US airspace could have been intercepted in less than 15 minutes!

Conspiracy theory? I call it common sense!

Operation Gladio — a series of bombings and “random” shootings attributed to communists over a period of several decades in Western Europe — was carried out by fascist cells (a so-called “stay behind” network ostensibly created to fight a Soviet invasion after WWII) funded by the CIA and NATO intelligence. As you are no doubt aware, similar operations were a mainstay of CIA operations in Latin America throughout the cold war. Anarchists have long been a target of provocateurs, and any study of COINTELPRO will surely include examples of FBI agents encouraging activists to resort to violence.

Gladio also puts to rest most of the evasions to 911 truth trotted out by the so-called “left gatekeepers”, of which I’m hoping you are not. It was a much larger operation than 911, encompassing dozens of countries and hundreds of bombings yet was not revealed (in an Italian parliamentary investigation) for some thirty years.

“Blowback” gels with the leftist critique of imperialism but the reality is much more complicated and much more sinister, I’m afraid. Take a hard look at any large scale terrorist attack and you’ll find the fingerprints of the state and her intelligence agencies. It’s a rational recourse for agents of state to terrify their citizens, demonize their political opponents and whip the population into a war frenzy. The only surprising thing about false flag operations is they don’t occur even more often than they already do.

The “left” needs to get up to speed and develop a more sophisticated analysis of terrorism — and quick. The category of “terror” is a contrivance long prepared. We are indeed at the mercy of the (real) terrorists until we come to terms with 911.

“There is no way that an aircraft . . . would not be intercepted when they deviate from their flight plan, turn off their transponders, or stop communication with Air Traffic Control …Something is rotten in the State.”

Capt. Daniel Davis, U.S. Army – Former U.S. Army Air Defense Officer and NORAD Tac Director.

“I knew within hours of the attacks on 9/11/2001 that it was an inside job.
Robin Hordon – Former FAA Air Traffic Controller at the Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center

“Osama bin Laden and “Al Qaeda” cannot be the organizers nor the performers of the September 11 attacks.”

General Leonid Ivashov – Former Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces on 9/11/2001, and Department Chief for General affairs in the Soviet Union’s Ministry of Defense.

I could go on all day here. The point is that all sorts of respectable military and intelligence professionals have stated point blank that it is the official story, not the alternative explanation, that is impossible, logistically and otherwise.

I recommend reading up on the war games to get a better idea of how the operation was pulled off. Military exercises “simulating” the exact same scenario were planned for the morning of 911. The same occurred with the 7/7 bomibings in London (same time, same place, same scenario) and the Oklahoma city bombing (again, same time, place and scenario). War games allow the perpetrators to carry out these operations under the guise of a drill.

Members of the Russian FSB were actually caught planting Hexogen explosives in an apartment complex in Ryazan with the presumed goal of pinning the attacks on Chechen separatists. In flagrante delicto, they claimed that the operation was in in fact a drill, and that the explosives were fake. The local police chief testified otherwise; the bomb was live and set to a timer. No action was taken. The culprits were allowed to flee the country by authorities.

It is not the responsibility of the 911 truth movement to provide you with a detailed account of how the attacks were carried out. It is sufficient that we prove that the official story impossible, which we have.

The “progressive” movement has dropped the ball big time on 911 truth. It makes no difference if you think the Bush administration is “incompetent” or that the operation would have been extremely difficult to pull off without getting caught (they have been “caught”, incidentally). The reality is that false flag operations are a mainstay of intelligence services all over the world and have been for quite some time. The evidence speaks for itself. It’s time to do the right thing and speak out.

And even though if a crane had take the upper sections off (above each crash sit), swung them over and dropped them into thin air they would obviously fall at the same free fall speed as they did when they splashed down through the most heavily redundant steel cored buildings in history. Everyone knows that the path of most resistance is the same as the path of least resistance; these nutters would have you think otherwise. Truthers don’t have any valid questions whatsoever. And so what about building 7, so it splashed down at free fall speed into it’s own footprint. “Walk away, McFly. McFLY, walk away!”

I agree with Blum, instead of looking at available evidence, make up a theory that makes sense, because nothing gets more respect right now than theories.

Ben Franklin

Thank you for at least being willing to look at the events of 911 as perhaps something other than an Arab terrorist attack. Whoever did it certainly had terrorism on his mind so that sad fact remains.

I found on the http://www.journalof911studies.com/letters.html site this interesting little pdf: http://www.journalof911studies.com/letters/e/VisualizationAidsWTCTowers.pdf. It shows gloriously simple why the plane and the kerosene would not be enough to topple the towers.

I suggest that you also visit my blog which has a handy page called 911 for beginners.

I do have theories about the need for the mayhem but that’s all they are, theories.
I don’t know who committed the horrors of 911 but I do know that 19 young Arabs and one kidney impaired fanatic in a cave in Afghanistan were not able to suspend the laws of physics. That, and the fact that the air force did not respond for some one and a half hours, would logistically be impossible for them to arrange, and that is enough for me to know that a new investigation is necessary