Famous U.S. author Dr. David Ray Griffin’s Unassailable Contradictions: Death Knell for the 9/11 Myth

by Elizabeth Woodworth, British Columbia writer

Until now, the persistent and disturbing questions surrounding the official 9/11 story have confused and alienated journalists and politicians, because:

However, Griffin’s new book requires no technical expertise from the reader, because each elegantly written chapter revolves around one simple internal contradiction inherent in the public story. “If Jones says ‘P’ and Smith says ‘Not P’, we can all recognize that something must be wrong, because both statements cannot be true.”

9/11 Contradictions advances no theories. It simply exposes 25 glaring internal contradictions that will haunt the public story of this unparalleled event for all time.

Six years later, the controversy is by no means closed, nor is the trail cold. “The accepted story about 9/11 has been used to increase military spending, justify wars, restrict civil liberties, and exalt the executive branch of the government.” Indeed, this reviewer notes, the public story has recently been challenged in foreign forums (Japan Parliament, January 10, 2008, and at the European Parliament building in Brussels, February 26, 2008). The 9/11 Commissioners themselves have cast doubt on the credibility of the Commission Report in their January 2, 2008 New York Times article, “Stonewalled by the CIA.” (Ref. LINK)

Now let us turn to the contradictions. But first, to quote Professor Griffin:

Unacceptable, for example, is the following internal contradiction, quoted from the chapter summaries at the end of the book to aid interested investigative journalists and members of Congress:

Griffin had already noted, in his 2004 The New Pearl Harbor, that the Standard Operating Procedures regarding flight interceptions had been inexplicably dropped on September 11th. This reviewer suspects that because a complex network of defence systems could not have been fully disabled without coordination from a senior military level, it was logical for Dr. Griffin to open the current volume by asking questions that the 9/11 Commission failed to ask: Where were President Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and General Richard B. Myers, Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that morning? In each case, inexplicable contradictions emerged in the reports of their whereabouts, which also applied to Vice President Dick Cheney. None of these public officials were questioned alone, or under oath, and now it is eminently clear that the contradictions surrounding their activities must be laid to rest by a thorough and rigorous investigation.

	Dr. David Ray Griffin

In Part II, Griffin carefully tracks the disparities in the reported times that the military was notified about the erratic behaviors of Flights 11, 175, 77, and 93. In each case, the startling contradictions he unearths are shown to require a serious investigation into how this over-arching failure actually happened, and -- this reviewer suggests -- what connection it may have had to the unprecedented military (air) drills that were in progress throughout the attacks.

In Part III, probing questions regarding the pre-9/11 tastes and habits of the alleged hijackers are closely pursued through early press reports, with the unexpected revelation that these gentlemen had taken up Western sexual and drinking practices, and could certainly not be characterized as devout Muslims ready to meet their maker. Furthermore, the contradictions revealed in Griffin’s investigation of cell phone and airphone reports of hijacker actions on the planes is nothing short of brilliant, and negates the entire phenomenon of the aggregate onboard myth.

“Questions about the Pentagon”, Part IV, deals with the contradiction of a “terrible pilot”, Hani Hanjour, performing an acrobatic manoeuvre with a huge unwieldly airliner -- a manoeuvre that a growing number of pilots now claim to have been utterly impossible. This is followed by the conflicting reports regarding where Flight 77’s nose cone ended up: inside or outside of the Pentagon.

Finally, Part V deals with the towers themselves, including advance knowledge of their collapses, and the extraordinary oral testimonies of dozens of firefighters who reported, for example, massive explosions in the sub-basements of the buildings: a 50-ton hydraulic press reduced to rubble; a 300 lb. steel door wrinkled up like a strip of aluminium foil.

Dr. Griffin has functioned as an extraordinary one-man clearinghouse for the vast accumulation of evidence that has emerged from the events of 9/11. From this mass of evidence, he has isolated 25 unassailable contradictions -- each one of which should be intolerable to all of us, because it is clear that things did not happen as we have been led to believe.

This is the book that will end our tolerance. It will lead us to insist on knowing what is now hidden. Griffin is wielding the axe that will finally split the issue open.

As a writer myself, and as a retired professional librarian, it has been an honour to critique Dr. Griffin’s chapters, and to provide bibliographic support for the extensive research supplied in the footnotes. In this role, I was able to witness first-hand the precise, methodical, and ethical standards to which he works. One can only hope that the exceptional quality and responsibility evident in his work will inspire people in Congress and the press (and indeed in all walks of life) to rise to his challenge to call for a new and transparent investigation into this persistent pivotal issue.

About the writer:

Elizabeth Woodworth is a retired health sciences librarian and writer. Her books include "'What Can I Do?' Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament", 1987, and "The November Deep", 2001, a Canadian novel. She also writes op-ed pieces on sociopolitical issues for Canadian newspapers. She has been voluntarily assisting Dr. David Ray Griffin since 2006.

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