Dear Mr. Kara,<\/p>\n
Thank you for your \u201cOpen Letter<\/a> to the 9-11 Working Group of Bloomington.\u201d\u00a0 As a member of that group, I\u2019m glad to see you express interest in our work and I appreciate your invitation to further discuss the 9\/11 Commission report in a public forum.\u00a0 It\u2019s unfortunate that you\u2019re not willing to engage in Q&A, however, as the questions are many and, to this day, the answers are very few.\u00a0 It is also unfortunate that you are not willing to debate the facts, because we would be happy to have you come to Bloomington for a public debate.\u00a0 But a dialogue of any sort is a welcome start.<\/p>\n For six years now, I\u2019ve been focused on the work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the ongoing independent investigation into what happened at the World Trade Center (WTC).\u00a0\u00a0 The WTC reports finally generated by NIST have been shown to be dismally weak<\/a>, highly inconsistent<\/a>, and completely false<\/a>.\u00a0 Frankly the NIST reports are a shameful excuse for science.\u00a0 Add to this the independent discovery of explosive residues in the WTC dust<\/a>, which NIST did not test for or even consider, and we must suspect that a cover-up has been intended with regard the events of 9\/11.<\/p>\n Although I have not had as much time to evaluate the 9\/11 Commission report, my understanding is that it too is mostly, if not entirely, false.\u00a0 This is evident from the very start, where the report<\/a> states its primary aim to \u201cprovide the fullest possible accounting of the events surrounding 9\/11.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 It is now widely known that many of the most important events of 9\/11 were never mentioned in the 9\/11 Commission report at all, let alone presented in the fullest possible accounting.\u00a0 These complete omissions include the destruction of WTC building 7, the testimony of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta\u2019s testimony concerning the Vice President and the approach of Flight 77, the connections between al Qaeda and the Pakistani ISI, and many other examples.\u00a0 A number of the omissions and distortions<\/a> in your report have been detailed by Dr. David Ray Griffin in an easy to reference book<\/a>.<\/p>\n Considering these facts, our group\u2019s excitement about your offer to collaborate with us is tempered by the suspicion that you might continue to engage in the same \u201cexacting investigative work\u201d that the Commission report attributes to you.\u00a0 For my own part, this suspicion is aggravated by your stated appreciation for Joel Hirschhorn, who you claim is \u201cvalue added.\u201d\u00a0 My experience with Hirschhorn, someone I\u2019ve met and presented with, is that he does not strive for a \u201cparadigm shift\u201d by any means.\u00a0 In fact, he appears to promote a futile pandering to the status quo that would result in the 9\/11 Truth movement becoming as useless as a concrete parachute.\u00a0 Worse yet, Hirschhorn was involved with misrepresenting an honest group of investigators<\/a> and promoting a poorly considered draft bill for Congress that called for investigation of WTC theories that literally no one supports.<\/p>\n Therefore I\u2019m not encouraged by your suggestion that we subscribe to a new three-part plan of action, which in fact is not new.\u00a0 There have been countless attempts at engaging corporate media sources in reporting the basic facts about 9\/11, and most of those attempts have failed.\u00a0 There have also been a number of 9\/11 lawsuits filed, and to date, all of those have been rejected before the evidence could be discovered or presented.\u00a0 Finally, there have been many attempts to reach Congress with the facts.\u00a0 The 9\/11 Working Group has met with the staff of our own congressman, and also with our former congressman, 9\/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton.\u00a0 Unlike you, Mr. Hamilton was not opposed to a new investigation, and he gave us a long list of excuses for why your 9\/11 Commission investigation report was not sufficient.<\/p>\n We can no longer afford to ask our politicians and media to cure our corrupt system.\u00a0 It is the corporate media itself, and the corporate-funded politicians that maintain the corrupt system, and that are the problem.\u00a0 We must rebuild our media and our government, and the truth about 9\/11 has the power to do just that.\u00a0 In doing so we will need to be aware, as you wrote, of \u201cthe frauds, opportunists, and paper millers who serve primarily as a major distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n This brings me to John Farmer and his new book, which I agree does not intend to state that the 9\/11 Commission report is completely false.\u00a0 To the contrary, although I have not read the book I understand from others that its approach is much the same as that of the Commission\u2019s report.\u00a0 I learned this through attorney John Ekonomou, who wrote to Farmer a few weeks ago and later copied me on his message.\u00a0 Ekonomou purchased the Farmer book and was appalled at how quickly he realized that it was a \u201cflat-out misrepresentation\u201d of the facts.<\/p>\n But getting back to the struggle for truth, and your offer to help, we should see if there is common ground as you mentioned.\u00a0 You say that an event occurred on 9\/11, and you call it a terrorist attack.\u00a0 Having met many of the Americans around the country who are alarmed by the lack of truth about 9\/11, I can tell you that this appraisal is shared by almost all of them.\u00a0 We know it was a terrorist attack.\u00a0 What we don\u2019t know is:\u00a0 Who were the terrorists?<\/p>\n You can help us continue building an honest answer to that question.\u00a0 As you\u2019re no doubt aware from our website, our group has received a number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses from government agencies<\/a>.\u00a0 Some of those responses are enlightening, while others are not particularly useful due to the ongoing lack of transparency surrounding the events of 9\/11, and the extreme redaction that is involved.\u00a0 But among the documents we received, we have noticed many facts that do not support your Commission\u2019s report, and we\u2019ve noticed a number of surprising things that should have been in your report but were not.<\/p>\n Starting out in a small way, let\u2019s talk about \u201cWe have some planes.\u201d\u00a0 Can you tell us where this phrase originated from, in terms of records made by air traffic controllers or others involved in the events of 9\/11, and how you attributed it to the alleged hijackers?\u00a0\u00a0 It is the title of one of the chapters of the 9\/11 Commission report, and I believe you have taken credit for that analysis to some degree.<\/p>\n With a small step such as this, I think we might be able to begin working together for the benefit of all.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Kevin R. 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