The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions

David Ray Griffin

Olive Branch Press, 2005 - History - 339 pages

The 9/11 Commission's Report, by popular reckoning, has made an impression with its heft, its footnotes, its portrayal of the confusion of that sobering day, its detail, its narrative finesse. Yet under the magnifying glass of David Ray Griffin, eminent theologian and author of The New Pearl Harbor, the report appears much shabbier. In fact, there are holes in the places where detail ought to be thickest: Is it possible that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld has given three different stories of what he was doing the morning of September 11, and that the Commission combines two of them and ignores eyewitness reports to the contrary? That the Commission fails even to mention Coleen Rowley, FBI whistleblower and Time person of the year? Griffin's critique of the Kean-Zelikow report makes clear that that the Commission charged with investigating all of the facts surrounding 9/11 has succeeded in obscuring, rather than unearthing, the truth.

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User Review  - Snow - Goodreads

Certainly will have you questioning the whole process of commissions. What an eye-opener.

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User Review  - Brian - Goodreads

Essentially a list of things that David Ray Griffin thinks the 9/11 Commission should have addressed. Some of his points are interesting, but simply comparing the footnotes for this book with the ...

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• The Commissions Omissions and Distortions: 17
• The Alleged Hijackers: 19

About the author

David Ray Griffin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Theology at Claremont School of Theology, Professor Emeritus of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, and Co-Founder of the Center for Process Studies. He is the author of "Two Great Truths: A New Synthesis of Scientific Naturalism and Christian Faith", and coauthor, with John B. Cobb Jr., of "Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition". Author of numerous books in philosophy of religion, he has also published two popular books on the World Trade Center attacks: "The New Pearl Harbor: Distubing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11" and "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions".

Bibliographic information

• Title: The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions
• Author: David Ray Griffin
• Publisher: Olive Branch Press, 2005
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 28, 2009
• ISBN: 1566565847, 9781566565844
• Length: 339 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / 21st Century; Political Science / Intelligence & Espionage; Political Science / Terrorism; Social Science / Conspiracy Theories