On June 13, 2011, reporter Jason Leopold, along with Jeffrey Kaye, broke a story about 9/11 that was released on truthout.org. The story appears “to cast further doubt on the official narrative and suggests high-level military and intelligence officials withheld key evidence from Congressional lawmakers probing the attacks.”

According to the report, “DoD officials held discussions about DO5’s intelligence activities between the summer of 2000 and June 2001 revolving around al-Qaeda’s interest in striking the Pentagon, the World Trade Center (WTC), and other targets. In other words, the Bush administration was fully aware the terrorist organization had set its sights on those structures prior to 9/11 and, apparently, government officials failed to act on those warnings.”

If true, this would further show that the multitude of statements made by Bush Administration officials and others after the attacks about not having “any inkling” about what was to come, was a lie. It would further show that the idea of a “failure of imagination” was also a lie (please also watch this).

How did the “9/11 Truth Movement” respond to this report? Unfortunately, truthout has removed the comments from the article. If you had the chance to read them, you would have seen people criticize the report as “Disinfo to sustain the bogus cover story.” You would have seen multiple statements about how this story doesn’t go far enough. That it doesn’t cover this theory or that theory. You would have even seen accusations against Jason Leopold. On other sites, people said this was “SLICK PROPAGANDA from Jason Leopold at Truncated TRUTHOUT.”

On truthout, I left a comment that said, “Thanks Jason for this article. This will help out your readers,” and I linked to my “Official 9/11 Justice Start-Up Kit.” Someone that is supposedly a member of the “9/11 Truth Movement” responded by saying, “nope, that’s just more racist limited hangout BS.”

Basically, it was a mess.

Over the years, I have spoken to many journalists that have written about discrepancies in the 9/11 narrative. I would show them this story, and that story, and hope that they would still have an interest in reporting on 9/11. The response I often got went like this: “Jon, I would, but every time I write about 9/11, I get bombarded by so-called members of the “9/11 Truth Movement” accusing me of this or that because I didn’t cover this or that. It’s become a circus now, and nobody wants to touch it.”

One thing people need to understand is that the media has not done its job with regards to 9/11. For the most part, it has attacked anyone that has questions about that day, and also not given many stories the attention that they deserve. This, in turn, has been very frustrating to many. I, myself, have gone “toe to toe” with journalists over the years, so I am not completely without fault. However, I have since learned from my mistakes, and no longer approach journalists with anger.

As I wrote in my facts piece, everyone has theories. Everyone has theories because those who should be able to answer our questions about that day, refuse to do so. It is human nature to theorize about what happened that day. However, and this is something I came to terms with long ago… We don’t know the truth about what happened that day. We don’t know who was ultimately responsible for what happened that day. This is a hard truth I’ve come to accept. I think because I’ve accepted this hard truth, I have become a better advocate for 9/11 Justice.

Many people in the “9/11 Truth Movement” think they know what happened that day and who was responsible. They don’t. I have read more than most on the subject, and I can honestly say that I don’t know. 9/11 was a crime, and as with every crime, there are suspects for that crime. If you look at ALL of the available information, you will see that elements within our Government and others have MORE THAN EARNED the title of suspect for the crime of 9/11. Along with people like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Osama Bin laden. However, without having had a real investigation, we don’t know the full truth.

Veterans of this cause have tried to give advice before on how best to reach people. I have written countless “pointers” over the years to try and help people. It seems as though these attempts at giving advice have fallen on deaf ears.

This kind of behavior is unacceptable. It doesn’t help, and instead, pushes people away. They don’t want to participate, and I can honestly understand why. We are a movement that is desperately trying to get reporters to report on what some of us are saying, and the very people that may be able to help us are being pushed away. How sad is that?

Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye wrote a story that exposed a lie. If we ignore the easy lies, which incidentally help to give credibility to the idea that we were lied to about that day and need real justice and accountability, then we are doomed to fail as a cause.

The 2,973 people that were brutally murdered that day, their family members, and the people of the world deserve better.

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On Sunday night as word of the death of bin Laden spread throughout the world, the media documented these celebrations at both Ground Zero and the White House. Many American citizens denounced the revelry, marking a line in the sand between, once again, us and them, referring to the reports of people throughout the Middle East dancing in the streets after the towers came down. As we sort through what this all does and should mean, I offer the following:

For nearly 10 years Osama bin Laden was portrayed not so much as a criminal mass murderer, but as an almost mythic supervillain, one who could only be brought down by superheroes. He was stripped of all humanity as he became the iconic correlative of evil and terror.

If we are uncomfortable now with the portrait of American people dancing at his death, we should not judge those caught up in the moment. Instead, we should be willing to take some responsibility for the crafting of this night. We should recognize the energy that came from the elimination of this criminal at the hands of the U.S. government and we should try to craft, instead, the end of the terror years.

As a family member of a young woman killed in the attacks, I want the response to the death of bin Laden to be one of somber reflection, one that marks how far we have come from the days of that attack and accounts for all we have lost—our civil rights, our trust in our government to act ethically. I want our civil liberties back, our reliance on the Constitution and the rule of law. I want, again, for my children to feel free.

Let’s take that energy and reclaim our land as the land of the free, the civilized and the just. There are dire costs to shirking this duty. We’ve just seen it in our streets.

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Here are some words from those most affected.

The Telegraph:

“This is like a metastasized anti-Semitism,” said Daisy Khan, wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. “That’s what we feel right now. It’s not even Islamophobia, it’s beyond Islamophobia – it’s hate of Muslims. And we are deeply concerned.”

Philadelphia Inquirer:

“It’s a sin what [the fearmongers] are doing, making this about politics at the families’ expense,” said Robert McIlvaine, who lost his son when the planes hit the World Trade Center. “It’s producing hate, and it’s the last thing this country needs right now. People who have absolutely no connection to 9/11 are using it for their own political agendas. Fear and hatred help those agendas.”

Talking Points Memo:

“There is no simple, singular 9/11 group who really should or could speak for all 9/11 family members,” said Donna Marsh O’Connor of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, a coalition of more than 250 families which recently endorsed the mosque. Since the endorsement, the membership numbers have grown, she said.

O’Connor said it’s unfair for groups like Debra Burlingame’s 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America to act as if they are representing everyone who lost loved ones in the attacks. O’Connor’s 29-year-old daughter Vanessa, pregnant at the time, was killed working on the 93rd floor of one of the twin towers.

The Star-Ledger:

Lorie Van Auken of East Brunswick, widowed by the attacks on the World Trade Center, says she feels chilled by efforts to prevent a Sufi Muslim community to expand their facilities in an old warehouse two blocks from Ground Zero. “It’s only because of religious tolerance in this country that my family is here,” says Van Auken, one of the so-called “Jersey Widows” who led the fight to create the 9/11 Commission. “They escaped intolerance in Europe — now we see it here.”

Mindy Kleinberg, of East Brunswick, another “Jersey widow,” says she was stunned by the force of the anti-Muslim rhetoric, but says she has other fights. “We still don’t have all the truth of what happened that day. We still have Guantanamo. This should not be the most important issue.”

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