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Memo: 9/11 Commission Witnesses Were Intimidated By
Government "Minders"
More evidence of whitewash emerges
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 Somewhat
lost within the flu pandemic media hype this week is an important
new revelation concerning the cover up of the events of 9/11.
A recently uncovered 9/11
Commission memo dating from October 2003, half
way through the panel's investigation, addresses concerns that
government "minders" were intimidating witnesses and
shaping their testimonies.
The document was drafted by Kevin Scheid, a senior
staffer who led the commission’s Team 2, which
was responsible for reviewing the overarching structure of the
US intelligence community.
Names also appearing on the memo are those of
staffers Lorry Fenner, an air force intelligence officer, and
lawyer Gordon Lederman.
The memo, entitled “Executive Branch
Minders’ Intimidation of Witnesses,” states
the following:
- Minders “answer[ed] questions directed at witnesses;”
- Minders acted as “monitors, reporting to their respective
agencies on Commission staffs lines of inquiry and witnesses’
verbatim responses.” The staff thought this “conveys
to witnesses that their superiors will review their statements
and may engage in retribution;”
- Minders' notetaking “facilitates agencies in alerting
future witnesses to the Commission’s lines of inquiry
and permits agencies to prepare future witnesses either explicitly
or implicitly.”
- Minders “positioned themselves physically and have
conducted themselves in a manner that we believe intimidates
witnesses from giving full and candid responses to our questions.”
The staffers make it clear that intimidation by
minders was widespread and had not only occurred with their
team's witnesses.
The memo was discovered by an independent researcher
in the National Archives, to which it was added earlier this
year.
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The revelations come in the wake of an admission by the senior
counsel to the 9/11 Commission - John Farmer - who said that
the
government agreed not to tell the truth about the events of
9/11.
Farmer’s book about his experiences working for the Commission,
set to be released in September, unveils how “the public
had been seriously misled about what occurred during the morning
of the attacks,” and Farmer himself states that “at
some level of the government, at some point in time…there
was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened.”
Farmer's statements dovetail with those highlighted in an August
2006 Washington
Post report, which stated that “Some staff
members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that
the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the
2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort
to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection
of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved
in the debate.”
The report revealed how the 10-member commission deeply suspected
deception to the point where they considered referring the matter
to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.
These statements and testimonies, combined
with the swathes of still unanswered questions surrounding the
attacks, confirm that the 9/11 Commission was a complete whitewash
and intensify the need to establish a new
independent investigation.
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