{"id":725,"date":"2009-09-28T12:10:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?page_id=725"},"modified":"2010-10-26T15:06:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T19:06:40","slug":"the-ground-truth-by-dean-john-farmer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/?page_id=725","title":{"rendered":"The Ground Truth by Dean John Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 26, 2010 Update<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just receive a personal copy of Ground Truth<\/em> paperback edition. \u00a0This edition is “First Riverhead trade paperback edition: September 2010.”<\/p>\n

Farmer has added an afterword, “Systemic Failures.” to account for the Fort Hood tragedy in November, 2009; the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, 2009; and the alleged attempted bombing of Times Square in May, 2010.<\/p>\n

The author concludes: “… the task of “fixing” the intelligence or emergency response systems [his reference is to the BP Gulf oil spill] is inseparable from the larger task of reinventing government, with one vital difference. \u00a0Given the stakes involved in the failure to protect public safety, it must be tackled first, and immediately.”<\/p>\n

Original Post<\/strong><\/p>\n

My Google alert “9-11 Commission” surfaces the occasional article arguing that John Farmer’s book discounts the 9-11 Commission Report.\u00a0 In its simplest form the argument is that the 9-11 Commission Report is false, according to Farmer.\u00a0 There is no arguing with that kind of false logic and I won’t attempt to even try.\u00a0 Let me just state for the record that, as John Farmer has it, the 9-11 Commission Report is an accurate presentation of the events leading up to and on 9-11.<\/p>\n

The Commission report clearly established what the Government did and did not do.\u00a0 Farmer’s book establishes that the story the Government reconstructed in the aftermath and then told the public, including testimony before Congress and the Commission, was wrong.\u00a0 It is the Government’s reconstruction of the actions it took that was false, not the actions themselves.<\/p>\n

The quote at the top of this<\/span> the what’s new<\/span> page from the work of the Commission Staff is instructive.\u00a0 Aspects of the issue have been previously addressed on this web site, here<\/a><\/strong>, here<\/a><\/strong>, and here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 26, 2010 Update I just receive a personal copy of Ground Truth paperback edition. \u00a0This edition is “First Riverhead trade paperback edition: September 2010.” Farmer has added an afterword, “Systemic Failures.” to account for the Fort Hood tragedy in November, 2009; the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, 2009; and … Continue reading The Ground Truth by Dean John Farmer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-725","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/725\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oredigger61.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}