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9/11 Truth movement is the collective name of organizations and individuals that question whether the United States government was either negligent toward or complicit in the September 11 attacks.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] When negligence is alleged, motives given are nefarious such as allowing the launch of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or curtailing civil liberties.[2] Members of the movement are frequently referred to as “Truthers”. [1][8][9]

History

In January 2002, President Bush and

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to limit the investigations to "intelligence failures."[10]

Both before and after the 9/11 Commission Report, there were questions about the official account published. Among others, Michael Ruppert

German authors Mathias Bröckers[14] and Andreas von Bülow[15]
published books critical of media reporting and advancing the controlled demolition thesis of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers.

In September 2002, the first "Bush Did It!" rallies and marches were held in San Francisco and Oakland, California organized by The All People's Coalition.[16] In October 2002, an anti-Bush parody of the dollar bill that includes addresses of websites which say they prove that 9/11 was an inside job, began being produced and handed out at protests and rallies.[17]

The 911 Visibility Project was formed in 2003 and in January 2004 they organized a demonstration at

anti-war demonstration in New York. 9/11 truth activists distributed thousands of "Stop the 9-11 Cover-Up" signs and the movement received national press exposure.[citation needed
]

Several academics challenging official reports of the 9/11 attacks lost their jobs. Steven E. Jones, who became a leading academic voice of the demolition theory

Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Citing academic freedom, the university provost declined to take action against Barrett.[20][21][22]

9/11 Commission Report reaction

To the consternation of the families and the "9/11 skeptics" in general, many of the questions that the

Jersey Widows", estimates that only 30% of their questions were answered in the final 9/11 Commission Report, published July 22, 2004. The story of the Families Movement and their monitoring of the commission is documented in the film 9/11: Press for Truth
(2006).

The 9/11 Family Steering Committee produced a website summarizing the questions they had raised to the Commission, indicating which they believe had been answered satisfactorily, which they believe had been addressed but not answered satisfactorily, and which they believe had been generally ignored in or omitted from the Report.[24]

In addition, the 339-page book The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions by David Ray Griffin, claimed that the report had either omitted information or distorted the truth, providing 115 examples. He summarizes his book in the article The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-page lie, claiming that "the entire Report is constructed in support of one big lie: that the official story about 9/11 is true."

On

controlled demolition theory and supporting a reopening of the 9/11 investigation.[25][26] In response to a questioner McCain, who wrote the forward to a Popular Mechanics book aimed at debunking the theories,[27] said he did not meet Gadsby "Because I don't take well to threats".[28]

NIST Report reaction

Immediately after the collapses of the Towers and Building 7, eyewitness testimony referring to explosions, along with features of the collapses caught on film that resembled footage of controlled demolitions, led many people, including some news anchors and engineers, to suspect that explosives had been pre-planted within the buildings.[

NIST
, was published in June 2005.

Following the NIST Report, numerous responses were written by members of the 9/11 Truth movement. Many of these responses claimed that it ignored key evidence suggesting an explosive demolition, "distorted reality" by using deceptive language and diagrams, and attacked straw man arguments, such as the 2005 article by Jim Hoffman entitled, Building a better mirage: NIST's 3-year $20,000,000 Cover Up of the Crime of the Century.[31]

In the Fall of 2005, then-Brigham Young University Physics professor Steven Jones announced a paper criticizing the NIST Report and describing his hypothesis that the WTC towers had been intentionally demolished by explosives. This paper garnered a small amount of mainstream media attention, including an appearance by Jones on MSNBC. This was the first such programming on a major cable news station. As of November 2006, Jones had not published his research in peer-reviewed mainstream journals. Although Jones has been criticized by his university for publicizing his claims before vetting them through the approved peer review process and has since been placed on paid leave,[32][33] he continues to remain a focus of public interest for his 9/11 research.

Accordingly, in April 2007, some 9/11 victims' family members and some members of the new Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice submitted an additional request for correction to NIST, containing their own views on the defects in the report.[34] NIST responded to this request in September 2007 supporting their original conclusions;[35] the originators of the request wrote back to them in October 2007, asking them to reconsider their response.

Criticism

The movement has attracted the attention of some major mainstream media publications.

While noting that the movement is "a mainstream political reality", Time magazine declared that "the [conspiracy] theories prompt small, reasonable questions that demand answers that are just too large and unreasonable to swallow."[36] The movement receives criticism from a variety of sources. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone wrote that he has "two basic gripes with the 9/11 Truth Movement":

"The first is that it gives supporters of
Republican somewhere picks up five votes.... Secondly, it's bad enough that people in this country think Tim LaHaye is a prophet and Sean Hannity is an objective newsman. But if large numbers of people in this country can swallow 9/11 conspiracy theory without puking, all hope is lost."[37]

MIT engineering professor Thomas W. Eagar was at first unwilling to acknowledge the concerns of the movement, saying "if (the argument) gets too mainstream, I'll engage in the debate." In response to physicist Steven Jones
publishing a hypothesis that the World Trade Center was destroyed by controlled demolition, Eager stated:

"These people (in the 9/11 truth movement) use the "reverse scientific method"… they determine what happened, throw out all the data that doesn't fit their conclusion, and then hail their findings as the only possible conclusion."[38]

Organizations

Since the publication of the official reports, a number of interconnected 9/11 Truth movement organizations have been formed to research the events of the day, to promote the 9/11 Truth movement and 9/11 conspiracy theories to the general public, and to try and force a new investigation.[citation needed]

911 Truth

This organization was launched in June 2004 and has become the central portal for all the 9/11 Truth movement organizations. It is run by Janice Matthews[39] (Executive Director), David Kubiak[40](International Campaign Advisor) and Mike Berger[41] (Media Coordinator), among others, and its advisory board includes Steven Jones, Barrie Zwicker and Faiz Khan.[42]

The organization co-sponsored the Zogby Polls that have shown an increasing number of people believing the government has covered-up the real story of 9/11.[citation needed][43][44] A few of its sister and spin-off organizations include the 9/11 Visibility Project[citation needed] and Justice For 9/11[citation needed]. It also organizes gatherings and events, promotes "scholarly" research, warns about the discrediting effect of extreme alternative theories, and attempts to affect mainstream media coverage.[citation needed]

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

See also: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is an organization of architectural and engineering professionals

San Francisco Bay area based architect,[51] founded Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth in 2006.[52][53]

Investigations by the

National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) have concluded that the buildings collapsed as a result of the impacts of the planes and of the fires that resulted from them.[54][55] Gage critizised the government agency NIST for not having investigated the complete sequence of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers[56] and claims that "the official explanation of the total destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers has explicitly failed to address the massive evidence for explosive demolition."[57] To support its position, the group Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth points to the "free fall" pace of the collapse of the buildings, the "lateral ejection of steel", and to the "mid-air pulverization of concrete".[45]

Scholars for 9/11 Truth

The original 'Scholars for 9/11 Truth', founded by Dr.

September 11, 2001 attacks
.

Initially the group invited many ideas and hypotheses to be considered, however, leading members soon came to feel that the inclusion of some theories advocated by Fetzer—such as the use of directed energy weapons or small nuclear bombs to destroy the Twin Towers—were insufficiently supported by evidence and were exposing the group to ridicule. By December 2006, Dr. Steven Jones and several others set up a new scholars group titled Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, whose focus was in the use of the scientific method in analysis.[58] The original members took a vote on which group to join and the majority voted to move to the new group.[59] By 2007, James Fetzer had been openly rejected by the 9/11 Truth Movement, banned from and criticized on popular forums[60][61][62] [63] and no longer invited to public 9/11 events.

Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice

Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice formed in January

explosive demolition
.

In

super-thermite
are present in the samples of the dust.

9/11 CitizensWatch

Main article:
9/11 Citizens Watch

The group was formed in 2002 by John Judge and Kyle Hence and, along with the Family Steering Committee, played an active role in calling for the establishment of the 9/11 Commission, and monitoring the commission closely.[70]

Hispanic Victims Group

The Hispanic Victims Group is a group created after the 9/11 attacks and headed by William Rodriguez, who is now an outspoken member of the 9/11 Truth movement. The group was a key force behind the 9/11 Commission,[70] and was among the Families Advisory Council for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.[71] The group helped secure an amnesty for Hispanic illegal immigrants who died in the attacks.[citation needed]

We Are Change

The organization staged a protest march at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The group filmed protests in an effort to catch illegal action by protesters or police.[72]

Conferences

Members of the 9/11 truth organizations, such as the

Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, regularly hold meetings and conferences to discuss alternative theories about 9/11 and to strategize about how best to achieve their goals. Many of these conferences are organized by 911truth.org and some have been covered by the international media.[73]

Internal critique

While there is general agreement within the movement that individuals within the United States government (but not necessarily the government as a whole) are responsible for the attacks, alternative theories differ about what may have happened. There have been a number of articles and responses written by members critiquing the methods and theories of other members, often in a scholarly format, as in the Journal of 9/11 Studies.[74]

While

Scholars for 9/11 Truth, has said that the scientific method is unnecessary and that any imaginable theory is worthy of advocating to the public. For example, reporting on a conference involving Fetzer's group, a Madison Times article stated: "By Sunday the conference had covered weather control, weapons from space, and the idea that the planes that struck the towers never existed at all."[76]

Major media

Books

One of the best known authors of 9/11 Truth movement literature is theologian David Ray Griffin. His two books, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (March 2004), which outlined a methodical, deductive framework for researching 9/11, and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions (October 2004), became best-sellers. His Debunking 9/11 Debunking (May 2007) looks at the way magazines such as Popular Mechanics have sought to debunk the alternative 9/11 theories. His most recent work, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the cover-up, and the exposé (2008), was written to update his original book, The New Pearl Harbor, reflecting information and insights from five major developments that have occurred since his original publication.[citation needed]

In September 2004, the interactive "Complete 9/11 Timeline" website by Paul Thompson, which is a collection of mainstream media reports presented chronologically, was made into the book The Terror Timeline.[citation needed]

Michael Ruppert's Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (October 2004) identified potential key insider suspects in the 9/11 attacks and provide an examination of their context:

Gladio or the Red Brigades.[citation needed
]

Films

Popular films made by the 9/11 Truth movement include:

Loose Change:Final Cut (2007) by Korey Rowe,[citation needed
] Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State (2005) by
Alex Jones,[citation needed
] 911 Mysteries: Demolitions (2006),[citation needed] The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw (2004) by Barrie Zwicker,[citation needed] and 9/11: Blueprint for Truth (2007) and updated 2008 Edition (2008) by Richard Gage.[citation needed]

These documentaries present a range of alternate theories about how the attacks might have been carried out. In some cases, these theories have been rejected by other movement members[citation needed] In this case most objections raised against the movie were taken into consideration while creating the "Final Cut" version.[citation needed]

Al Qaeda managed to escape from US forces and flee into Pakistan.[citation needed
]

Alex Jones has made a number of films about perceived historical instances of

Homeland Security Bill and militarization of police forces.[citation needed
]

Independent Film Channel on May 26, 2009. The documentary while not endorsing the movement is described as the giving the movement "more sympathetic, or less critical, airing than they've yet had (except among the converted)".[77][78]

Mainstream media coverage

See also

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