Ed Begley, Jr. -- Host:  Kristina Borjesson is the author of "Into the Buzzsaw," a leading journalist who exposed the myth of a free press.  A collection of stories about reporters who acted courageously and discovered that no good deed goes unpunished.  She's won an Emmy and a Murrow Award for investigative reporting. 

Christopher Scheer is a co-author of "The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq."  He co-authored the Oscar nominated script for the film "Nixon." 

Paul Thompson has compiled the world's most compendious resource of mainstream press stories about the events of 9/11, "The Complete 9/11 Timeline"ories about the events of 9/11, "The Complete 9/11 Timeline" at CooperativeResearch.org.

Finally, Dr. Robert Bowman, an old friend of mine by the way, who flew 101 combat missions as a fighter pilot in Vietnam and who today takes a stand against war.  He headed the Star Wars programs under Ford and Carter and then opposed them under Reagan.  He now has the Institute for Space and Security Studies.  Welcome everyone.

Let me start with Dr. Bowman.  What is your assessment of the film clip about the Project for the New American Century that we just saw.  Do these guys really have that much influence?

Dr. Robert Bowman, Institute of Space and Security Studies: 

Absolutely.  As a matter of fact, this bunch not only drew up a plan for the foreign policy of the United States, they also drew up a plan for the foreign policy of Sharon's Likud government of Israel.  Both of these plans, drawn up by largely the same people, included regime change in Iraq as a central element and as the clip noted, they acknowledged it couldn't happen, the American people wouldn't allow it unless there was a New Pearl Harbor.  That was what 9/11 was.

Paul Thompson, Author/Research Writer:  If I could clarify, he's referring to a paper that came out in 1996 called "A Clean Break, A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" which was written for Benjamin Netanyahu, the just newly elected Israeli Prime Minister and it was written by, I believe, Douglas Feith and a number of the people who are lately involved in this Israeli Spy Scandal.  So David Wurmser is another one.  So the neo-cons, we refer to them, actually gave advice to Sharon and also pretty much the same people as in the Project for the New American Century.

Jamey Hecht, Ph.D. -- Co-Host:  Paul, what about 9/1?  Why is anyone doubting it?  Why weren't all of the real questions cleared up by the 9/11 Commission?

Paul Thompson, Author/Research Writer:  We can see so many instances of conflicts of interest.  For instance, Philip Zelicow, who is the Executive Director, and he was the person who was in charge of figuring out who the witnesses are going to be, what evidence they were going to look at, he co-wrote a book with Condoleeza Rice, the National Security Advisor, and has so many ties with the Bush Administration.  He was part of the transition team, so he actually had to be interviewed by his own Commission because he himself was involved in so much of what went on before 9/11.  And all of the Commissioners are very compromised by conflicts of interest.  Quite a few of them are working with legal teams that represent United Airlines or American Airlines.  I think half the Commissioners.  So that's one problem.

Another problem is that the final report was supposed to be a unanimous report.  So that means if there was a single commissioner who had any objection about anything, that fact would be dropped from the report.  So there is literally nothing in the 9/11 report that the Bush Administration did not approve of. 

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