With regard to the crash into the Pentagon, they ignore several of the most puzzling questions, assuming the official theory.  That is, why would terrorists have struck the West Wing which was being renovated so it had very few people, and when all the top brass and Rumsfeld were in the East Wing.  [AB-1] They do not discuss the fact that photos taken by the Associated Press and even by a marine, show that up to 30 minutes after the building was allegedly hit by a 757 going 400 some mph, the facade had not collapsed.  They don't discuss the fact that these photos show the hole that was created was very tiny, that no Boeing could have gone inside it.  They don't mention that no photos show there was a Boeing outside the Pentagon.  They don't mention that the Pentagon's anti-missile system should have brought down any commercial airline coming near the Pentagon. 

With regard to Bush's behavior that day, they do not force the question as to why the Secret Service did not whisk him away when there should have been fear that he would have been one of  the terrorist targets. [AB-2]

They do not discuss the most specific of the advanced warnings.  They do not ask Ashcroft, what was the warning he got so that he would no longer fly commercial airplanes.  They do not mention David Schippers' report [AB-3] that prior to 9/11 he tried to inform Ashcroft that several members of the FBI were telling him that they knew the attacks were scheduled for that time in lower Manhattan.

They do discuss the PUT options.  But they dismiss it saying, "We found the man who bought most of the United Airlines PUT options had no conceivable connection to Al-Qaeda, therefore he could have had no foreknowledge.  This is a perfect example of how the official theory dictated what evidence was relevant.

With regard to the claim that we were hunting Bin Laden prior to 9/11, the Commission fails to mention that he reportedly showed up in July before 9/11 in a hospital in Dubai where he was treated by an American doctor, visited by a local CIA agent, and the head of Saudi intelligence.  They ignore the testimony of Abu Zubaydah, the Al Qaeda operative who reported that three members of the Saudi Royal Family had advance knowledge that there would be attacks on America on 9/11 and that a Pakistani general also had this knowledge.  Testimony that tended to be verified by the fact that all four of those men ended up dead in a few months.

In regard to these Saudi flights that Michael Moore made well-known in his movie based on Craig Unger's book, the Commission claims there was nothing wrong with the flight on September 11th from Tampa to Lexington.  American airspace had been open.  They leave out the crucial point which Craig Unger had stressed that American airspace had only been open for commercial aircraft, not for private.  This seemed a particularly blatant attempt at deliberate deception.

They ignored all the allegations that FBI headquarters had blocked investigations.  They ignored Robert Wright's charges.  They omitted the crucial element in the Coleen Rowley case, the Moussaoui case.  And they omitted virtually every detail of Sibel Edmonds' 3-1/2 hour testimony. They omit any reference to the fact that the head of the Pakistani Intelligence Service was in Washington that very week and that he had ordered $100,000 wired to Mohammed Atta.  It ignores the Project for the New American Century formed by many members that are now part of the Bush administration.  With its explosive statement that a new Pearl Harbor would be very helpful.  They ignore the fact that many members of the White House, including the President himself, after 9/11 described the attacks as "opportunities."  They ignore the fact that there were pre-existing plans for war in both Afghanistan and Iraq and that both of these had to do primarily with oil.

I've talked primarily about the Commission's omissions, but there is another remarkable dimension -- the revisionism of this report.  In Chapter 1, they give us a completely new version, which is actually the third official version of what happened on 9/11.  This version is clearly intended to absolve the Pentagon of all blame by portraying the FAA as staffed by incompetent bunglers, ones who couldn't recognize a hijacking when all three or four regular characteristics were staring them in the face.  And then people at FAA headquarters who could not bring themselves to pick up the phone and call the military even after they knew of hijackings.  This part should win a prize for creative fiction.

In short, the 9/11 Commission Report is a national disgrace.  But what can we do?  We cannot get on the mainstream media to make these truths known.  Probably we need to organize massive protests, massive enough to force the mass media to pay attention.  The first step in this, of course, is to get enough people informed about the facts about 9/11 and about the cover-up so that we can create this mass movement.  That, of course, is the importance of this event, and I'm pleased to have been a part of it.