9/11 panel considered criminal probe of Pentagon's apparent lies [View All]

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Mods: this is from a credible news source ... it does not offer "conspiracy theories" about 9/11 ... it provides documentation that the official 9/11 panel had problems with some of the testimony they received ... i hope this thread can remain in GDP ...

i offer the following news article (from AFP and the Washington Post) without comment:

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060802/ts_alt_afp/usattackspentagon_060802134114

The 10-member commission that investigated the US response to the September 11 attacks reportedly considered seeking a criminal probe of the Pentagon, believing it had deliberately misled the panel and the public.

The Washington Post said that the panel found discrepancies between statements officials of the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made about their response to the hijackings and audiotapes and e-mails later made available.

The panel, in a secret meeting at the close of its investigation in 2004, decided there was probable cause to believe the officials had broken the law by making false statements in the hope of hiding their bungled response, sources knowledgeable of the debate told the newspaper. <skip>

The Pentagon for the first two years after the attacks maintained that its response had been quick and that jets had been scrambled in response to the last two hijackings.

But after analyzing the audiotapes and other material the commission subpoenaed from NORAD and FAA, panel members found that the Air Force never had any of the hijacked airliners in its sights.

"I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described," John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general who led the staff inquiry into events on September 11, told the daily in a recent interview.

"The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years ... This is not spin. This is not true."