- An open letter to America's editors and journalists.
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- The contrite manner in which the New York Times and the
Washington Post admitted to being "conned by the neocons in the Pentagon"
does not excuse what was, in plain language, a massive and inexcusable
lapse of editorial and jounalistic integrity. In short, the mainstream
media in the US lied to the American people from September 11th. onwards.
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- There was no connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam
Hussein. No connection between Saddam and September 11th. There were no
Weapons of Mass Destruction. There were no nuclear weapons programmes,
no uranium yellow cake from Niger. There was no threat to the United States
from Iraq, no possibility of Saddam launching WMD's within 45 minutes.
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- Yet journalists, many of them supposed "top class
investigative journalists" were totally unable to sort the truth from
the falsehoods put out by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Luti, Feith,
Abrams, their good friend Chalabi and the other neo-conservatives in the
White House, Pentagon and the Office of Special Plans. Why was this? Fear
of not towing the "patriotic" line? Fear of being called "anti-American"?
Fear of losing your job? Fear of losing influence and access in the corridors
of power and the offices of the establishment?
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- Excuse me! I thought the job of a good journalist in
a democracy was to challenge the establishment, question their motives,
report their misdeeds and uncover their lies and sophistry. Only Seymour
Hersh got things right, and for his pains Richard Perle called him "The
closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist".
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- That's something Sy Hersh should be extremely proud of.
Journalism is not meant to walk hand in hand with the establishment, with
politicians or with those who wield power. It is the job of the journalist
to report the truth. To find out what is really going on. Nothing else
will do. If you lie to the public then they will not believe you next time.
Remember the little boy who cried wolf?
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- How best, then, for the US mainstream media to once again
become respected and more importantly, believed, by the American public.
Well, how's this for an idea. Why not investigate the biggest newspaper
story of all time. Make your name as the journalist who uncovered the greatest
crime ever committed in America. Win the Pullitzer prize. Become more
famous than Woodward and Bernstein. Scoop the entire world with the most
important story of all time.
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- How? Simply investigate which companies and which individuals
profited by placing "PUT" options on US airlines in the days
before September 11th. There must be a paper trail that shows who made
those "put" options and by checking the people involved with
those companies and who their major investors are, it should be possible
to find out once and for all who REALLY knew beforehand about September
11th. Perhaps an investigation into the Carlyle Group, with whom the bin
Laden family invested heavily would be a good place to start, followed
by The Freemont Group, owned by the Bechtel family, who also have the bin
Ladens as investors. Both companies also have very close connections to
the Bush family. Maybe Richard Perle's investement vehicle, Trireme Partners
is also worth a look?
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- A parrallel line of enquiry should also investigate who
told San Francisco's Mayor Brown not to fly on the 10th. or 11th. of September.
Did that information come from the White House, perhaps from Condoleezza
Rice as some allege?
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- By thoroughly investigating these matters it should be
possible to finally uncover who it was that REALLY planned and excecuted
the greatest criminal event in America's history. Now surely, isn't that
a story worth investigating?
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- Copyright Ian Gurney June 2004. Ian can be contacted
at info@caspro.com
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- Ian Gurney is a journalist, broadcaster and author of
the bestseller "The Cassandra Prophecy" published by International
Global Press. ISBN 0953581314.
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