Video about the head of the 9/11 Commission, Phillip Zelikow
Video from Snowshoe Films--
http://snowshoefilms.com/
As Webster Tarpley notes, Zelikow is very important in the 9/11 cover-up.
In
1998, Philip Zelikow published an article in Foreign Affairs, the journal
of
the Council on Foreign Relations, entitled "CATASTROPHIC TERRORISM:
Imagining the Transformative Event." Nearly two years later, PNAC picked
up
the CFR-Zelikow language, saying that the desired transformation "is
likely
to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a
new Pearl Harbor..."
In part one of this series, we hear from author Webster Tarpley, Professor
Graeme MacQueen (religious studies, McMaster University, ret.), Ken
Jenkins
(filmmaker), and Peter Dale Scott, author.
Zelikow, hired as a Bush II transition team member for his expertise on
al-Qaeda (according to Karen Hughes), didn't want to hear anything about
al-Qaeda from Richard Clarke, chief counter-terrorism expert on George W.
Bush's national security council. Similarly, John Ashcroft at the Dept. of
Justice didn't want to hear anything about al-Qaeda before 9/11 from
Thomas
Picard, acting director of the FBI. In these and other instances, Zelikow
as
executive director of the 9/11 Commission, suborned perjury, Webster
Tarpley
charges.
Tarpley reveals Zelikow's cover-up role in the Able Danger FBI effort to
expose "al-Qaeda" cells. Prof. Graeme MacQueen calls attention to
Zelikow's
unique role in predicting then explicating the consequences of "the
transformative event" as head of the commission charged with investigating
the catastrophic terrorism of 9/11. Ken Jenkins and Peter Dale Scott note
that Zelikow's expertise is in creating and exploiting public myths, and
that Zelikow's links to the neo-cons date to the early 1980s. The 9/11
investigation was itself an inside job. (more) (less)
Wikipedia helps to clarify this point by adding: "In the Nov-Dec 1998
issue
of Foreign Affairs he (Zelikow) co-authored (with the former head of the
CIA) an article entitled 'Catastrophic Terrorism' in which he speculated
that if the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center had succeeded, "the
resulting horror and chaos would have exceeded our ability to describe it.
Such an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in
American
history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in
peacetime and undermine America's fundamental sense of security, as did
the
Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like Pearl Harbor, the event would divide
our past and future into a before and after. The United States might
respond
with draconian measures scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider
surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force."
ZELIKOW (part one/snowshoefilms series): 10 min. 16 sec.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuoQZkBFj9A
Wikipedia helps to clarify this point by adding: "In the Nov-Dec 1998
issue
of Foreign Affairs he (Zelikow) co-authored (with the former head of the
CIA) an article entitled 'Catastrophic Terrorism' in which he speculated
that if the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center had succeeded, "the
resulting horror and chaos would have exceeded our ability to describe it.
Such an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in
American
history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in
peacetime and undermine America's fundamental sense of security, as did
the
Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like Pearl Harbor, the event would divide
our past and future into a before and after. The United States might
respond
with draconian measures scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider
surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force."
According to Wikipedia: "Prof. Zelikow's area of academic expertise is the
creation and maintenance of, in his words, 'public myths' or 'public
presumptions' which he defines as 'beliefs (1) thought to be true
(although
not necessarily known with certainty) and (2) shared in common within the
relevant political community.' In his academic work and elsewhere he has
taken a special interest in what he has called 'searing' or 'molding'
events
(that) take on 'transcendent' importance and therefore retain their power
even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene. . . . He has
noted that 'a history's narrative power is typically linked to how readers
relate to the actions of individuals in the history; if readers cannot
make
the connection to their own lives, then a history may fail to engage them
at
all." ("Thinking about Political History" Miller center Report, winter
1999,
p 5-7)
SOURCE: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=17359
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