The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11

[RamboLiberal]

Amazon has release date as Sept 8, 2009. Farmer served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission. From Amazon.com

Review
“All Americans should read John Farmer’s The Ground Truth. With keen analytical insight, Farmer rips the lid off of many mysteries pertaining to both the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. A highly recommended historical curative for our times.
--Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge

"No one is more qualified to write the definitive book about the tragedy of 9/11 than John Farmer. Fortunately, he has done so. Even more fortunately the language is clear, alive and instructive for anyone who wants to make certain this never happens again."
--Bob Kerrey, Former US Senator and Member of the 9/11 Commission

“In revisiting the tragedy of the 9/11 attacks that still haunt America, John Farmer provides a devastating account of how what government and military officials told Congress, the 9/11 Commission on which he served, the media, and the public ‘was almost entirely, and inexplicably, untrue. The result is a major, carefully documented and deeply disturbing book, one that deserves the most serious attention of every American concerned about our future.
--Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author.

Physics teaches us that waves of the same frequency amplify each other. That's what brought down the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. The Ground Truth reveals 9/11 as a manifestation of that same phenomenon, with waves of history cresting together. It does so with perfect clarity, thanks to the brilliance of finding, in the examples of two "minor" national security agencies, the dysfunctionality that plagued the mightiest-seeming arms of the government. I made the mistake of not writing down the first two or three times I felt goosebumps. The Ground Truth is superbly conceived and carried out. What a great book.” --Jim Dwyer, author of 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

Farmer makes shattering new sense of the day’s events and exposes the true disarray and arrogance in the military and government responses.
—William Langewiesche, author of American Ground and The Atomic Bazaar

Product Description
From the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, a mesmerizing real-time portrayal of that day, why we weren’t told the truth, and why our nation is still at risk.

As one of the primary authors of the 9/11 Commission Report, John Farmer is proud of his and his colleagues work. Yet he came away from the experience convinced that there was a further story to be told, one he was uniquely qualified to write.

Now that story can be told. Tape recordings, transcripts, and contemporaneous records that had been classified have since been declassified, and the inspector general’s investigations of government conduct have been completed. Drawing on his knowledge of those sources, as well as his years as an attorney in public and private practice, Farmer reconstructs the truth of what happened on that fateful day and the disastrous circumstances that allowed it: the institutionalized disconnect between what those on the ground knew and what those in power did. He details —terrifyingly and illuminatingly—the key moments in the years, months, weeks, and days that preceded the attacks, then descends almost in real time through the attacks themselves, portraying them as they have never before been seen.

Ultimately, Farmer builds the inescapably convincing case that the official version not only is almost entirely untrue but serves to create a false impression of order and security. The ground truth that Farmer captures suggests a very different scenario—one that is doomed to be repeated unless the systemic failures he reveals are confronted and remedied.

[RoccoR5955]

1. The only reason why we weren't told the truth was...

...because 9/11 was an inside job!
I watched those towers being built. For years! NO WAY DID THOSE PLANES TAKE THE BUILDINGS DOWN!
And at the Pentagon, what happened to the wings of the 'plane,' did they disintegrate, along with the engines? What about the spools of wire that were still standing on end, after the shock wave of the explosion of the plane, or the grass that was still green after the incident?
Sorry, it was an inside job, and the Pentagon was not hit with a plane.

[Psephos]

4. birther-grade critical skills n/t

[RoccoR5955]

6. Birther-grade critical skills?

Then tell me how you explain what happened to the wings and the engines of the "plane" that hit the Pentagon, for starters?
Tell me in terms of physics that I can understand. I took two years of physics in college. Just tell me where the matter went to, logically. Where is the hole from the force of the wings that hit the Pentagon? Here's a picture, now tell me where the wings hit.

[RamboLiberal]

8. I agree that this is the same as the Birther Crap

Explain all these witnesses including those on film just after the crash.

http://www.flight77.info/witnesses.html

[RoccoR5955]

9. Uh huh, but where are the wings? Where is the debris? Where are the engines?

Some of these people could have been plants. Each person has a different account, and saw a different sized 'plane.' A couple saw a small plane, one saw a big plane, and one saw a huge plane. What was it?
Where are the wings, in a different dimension? Where are the engines? These things don't just disappear, though in this case, simple physics, which states that matter cannot be created, nor destroyed, is not the rule of the day.

[RamboLiberal]

11. Where are the passengers including RW Barbara Olson?

How many friggin' witnesses do you need telling you an American Airlines jet flew in to the Pentagon? Airplanes are lightweight metal - they disintegrate when hitting a concrete building. And much of the heavy wreckage, wheels, engine parts, etc. where photographed inside the Pentagon rings. There was one helluva hole in that building.

You guys are as bad as Orly Taitz and her Kenyan birth certificate.

Good gawd there would have to be so many people involved in this conspiracy one of them even if for the friggin' money would've spilled the beans by now.

Planes were hijacked that day, planes were flown into the buildings. We saw two of them hit the WTC, make friggin' sense that one of them hit the Pentagon. Just too damn bad the networks didn't have their TV cameras focused that day on the Pentagon as they did on the South tower of the WTC.

[RoccoR5955]

13. Nope, I don't believe you are correct.

So you are saying that matter disintegrated when it hit other matter?
That's just not possible in the four dimensions that we live in.
Again I ask, where are the holes that were made by the TITANIUM engines?
You saw what the media want you to believe were two planes go into the WTC. I even heard witnesses, firefighters say, that there were multiple explosions. A maintenance worker in the basement, said that he heard multiple explosions from both above and below the floor he was on. Yeah, something hit the buildings, but it wasn't a plane. Again, I watched those buildings being built, and there is no freakin' way that planes took them out. They were designed to take the force of a heavier plane hitting them, than the ones that were stated to have flown into them.

AFAIC, It was an insurance job, because the guy who bought them had one hell of an asbestos abatement to do.

Unless you watched them build the buildings, you can't say squat!

[RamboLiberal]

14. You are whacked if you really believe planes didn't hit the WTC

There were thousands of witnesses in NYC that day. All suffering hallucinations right?

[RoccoR5955]

15. Do you know any of them?

Many people say that they THOUGHT planes crashed into the WTC. The accounts range from small commuter planes, to jumbo jets, and all sorts of planes in between.
Even if planes crashed into the towers, they definitely did not take them down, as they were designed to be hit by planes twice the weight with twice the fuel that was in the planes that allegedly crashed into them.

I watched them build those towers from my bedroom window. There is no way that they fell due to crashes. There was just too much evidence that was removed from the crime scene to make me anything less than suspicious.

[RamboLiberal]

16. Do you know any?

That's what I love about you 9-11 truthers - not a damn one of you have actually gone back and talked to witnesses that day. You are as nutty as the birthers. You conveniently dismiss witnesses who were there & make up whole cloth the bits & scraps of what was said or written in the chaos of the day as proof of your whacky theories. That's why I dismiss most of what you people try to peddle as the crap it is.

There was no mistaking the live coverage of the 2nd jet that day that it was an airliner and that it flew directly in to the South Tower. The film that came out a couple of days later from the French filmakers - yeah guess they were Bush operatives - of the first plane screaming low over Manhattan in to the North Tower was also proof enough for me that the WTC was hit by an airliner.

I don't know about Flight 93 - now that may have been a shootdown but again I haven't heard of one damn investigator who believes in a shootdown of going to the Shanksville area and documenting and interviewing the witnesses.

Most of you are the Orly Taitz's and Philip Berg's of 9-11.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

18. You are the one not listening to witnesses, the Firefighters heard explosions

The Janitor heard explosions, People there talked about explosions, and you are the one just going along with Faux news reports about 19 men that should be dead, but some have reported themselves alive and well making the 'official explanation' clearly a fraud.

Here is some old news from last year, I wonder how this event went and how we could learn of the followup:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34171
LAW SCHOOL TO ORGANIZE BUSH WAR CRIMES TRIAL
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2008-06-16 19:04.
Activism
Criminal Prosecution



By Sherwood Ross

A conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes will be held September 13-14 at the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover .

"This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the school. "It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth."

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The conference will take up such issues as the nature of domestic and international crimes committed; which high-level Bush officials, including Federal judges and Members of Congress, are chargeable with war crimes; which foreign and domestic tribunals can be used to prosecute them; and the setting up of an umbrella coordinating committee with representatives of legal groups concerned about the war crimes such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU, National Lawyers Guild, among others.

The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover was established in 1988 to provide an affordable, quality legal education to minorities, immigrants and students from low-income households that might otherwise be denied the opportunity to obtain a legal education and practice law. Its founder, Dean Velvel, has been honored by the National Law Journal and cited in various publications for his contributions to the reform of legal education. #

[RoccoR5955]

19. Oh, but there is a way of refuting the videos...

check this out: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8045542387672451515

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

17. When whatever hit the pentagon happened, within minutes video tapes were taken

from all the places that had cameras focused on the event. The people killed in the pentagon were trying to figure what happened to the Money Rumsfeld had mentioned the day before had "disappeared". Funny thing that huh? I think they were set up to be murdered. Just like the files in WTC 7 were destroyed and no one asked why the building was blown up. WTC 1 & 2 were also BLOWN UP see ae911truth.org the Architects & Engineers who have found explosive evidence in WTC dust. Pieces of humans have been found on the roofs of the buildings in the area from the explosions. That day there was an airport that was evacuated and two planes landed, which planes were they, what happened to the people on those planes? (explosives were supposedly on the planes, as a reason to evacuate the airport) Somewhere I read there was only one engine found in the pentagon wreckage, and it was too small to be the type from what was supposed to have hit the pentagon.... I watched a day long event of films and presentations by speakers in Oakland, Ca. at the Grand Theatre that explaned these things.

[stray cat]

21. Creation museums can make things look convincing as well

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. Let's see.... it's the Pentagon, seat of the military industrial complex

Any chance some of those people might be SERIAL FUCKING LIARS??

[SpiralHawk]

25. "Right on, Psephos. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[stray cat]

20. Are you confessing you did it?

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. If this book is written by a member of the whitewash commission and has Bob Kerrey's "blessing"

then you can bet every last word of it is a goddamned lie. :puke:

[TiredOldMan]

5. I agree

Neither are sources I trust.

[NYC_SKP]

3. About the Author

From Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1594488940/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

About the Author

John Farmer served as senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, where his areas of responsibility included assessing the national reaction to the terrorist attacks and evaluating the current state of national preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters. He has also served as attorney general of New Jersey (1999–2002), as chief counsel to Governor Whitman, and as a federal prosecutor, and he has advised the special envoy for Middle East regional security. He is presently a partner of a New Jersey law firm and an adjunct professor of national security law at Rutgers University Law School. His editorials and articles have appeared in The New York Times and elsewhere.

See also Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farmer_Jr.

:patriot:

[RoccoR5955]

7. Chief Liar for Gov. Whitman... yeah. I'll believe him.

After what she told us after the ordeal of 9/11. It seemed that as the director of the EPA, she was more concerned with the protection of the financial environment, than the protection of WE THE PEOPLE!
A liar for a liar makes him a liar!

[HamdenRice]

10. Unless he deals with the penetration of al Qaeda by western, Paki, Saudi, Arab & US intelligence

agencies, then he hasn't told the whole story. I'll wait and see when it comes out.

[Name removed]

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[ffellini7080]

23. I've been dying to read it

[stray cat]

24. I look forward to reading it