Although
the United States is allegedly a democracy with a rule of law, it has taken 17
years for public pressure to bring about the first grand jury investigation of
9/11. Based on the work of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth led by
Richard Gage, first responder and pilots organizations, books by David Ray
Griffin and others, and eyewitness testimony, the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11
Inquiry has presented enough hard facts to the US Attorney for the Southern
District of New York to force his compliance with the provisions of federal law
that require the convening of a federal grand jury to investigate for the first
time the attacks of September 11, 2001. https://www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org
This puts
the US Justice (sic) Department in an extraordinary position. Every informed
person is aware that elements of the US government were involved either in the
perpetration of the 9/11 attacks or in a coverup of the attacks. There will be
tremendous pressures on the US Attorney’s office to have the grand jury dismiss
the evidence as an unpatriotic conspiracy theory or otherwise maneuver to
discredit the evidence presented by the Lawyers’ Committee, or modify the
official account without totally discrediting it.
We can
have hopes that the United States can establish the true story of its own
Reichstag Fire, but I am not holding my breath that the US Attorney for the
Southern District of New York can stand up to the powerful elements in the Deep
State that perpetuated or covered up the 9/11 false flag attacks or that he is
inclined to try.
What the
9/11 truthers and the Lawyers’ Committee have achieved is the destruction of
the designation of 9/11 skeptics as “conspiracy theorists.” No US Attorney
would convene a grand jury on the basis of a conspiracy theory. Clearly, the
evidence is compelling that has put the US Attorney in an unenviable position.
The
likely result will be comparable to the US Congress’ belated investigation of
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. No expert or informed person
believed the obviously false story that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated
President Kennedy. All evidence pointed to a plot by the Joint Chiefs, CIA, and
Secret Service whose right-wing leaders had concluded that President Kennedy
was too “soft on communism” to do what was necessary for the US to prevail in
the contest with the Soviet Union. Expert and public disbelief of the official
story was so great that in 1976, 13 years after Kennedy’s assassination,
Congress investigated. The real culprits were, of course, not identified, but
two important results were forthcoming. One was the conclusion by the Select
Committee on Assassinations that President Kennedy was the victim of a
conspiracy and not of a lone gunman. The other was the release of the top
secret Project Northwoods, which revealed the Joint Chiefs’ plan presented to
President Kennedy for the US government to kill US citizens and shoot down US
airliners and place the blame on Castro in order to gain public acceptance for
an invasion of Cuba.
The
conclusion that a conspiracy, although unidentified, was involved in Kennedy’s
assassination was the sop thrown to those who disputed the official lone gunman
account. The revelation of Project Northwoods created awareness of a previously
unknown US government plot that drew attention away from Kennedy’s
assassination.
If the
Lawyers’ Committee and the 9/11 truthers trust the US Attorney to go entirely
by the facts, little will come of the grand jury. If the United States had a
rule of law, something as serious as 9/11 could not have gone for 17 years
without investigation.
