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9/11 does not go away. It is with us on a daily basis. It has been the emotional rationale for a long list of radical changes in US policy, many of which continue with us even under the Obama administration:

  • a supposed "War on Terrorism"
  • actual wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • possible future wars against a supposed "axis of evil"
  • condoning torture and indefinite detention without any kind of due process
  • scuttling the Geneva conventions
  • the sacrifice of civil liberties at home

If 9/11 "changed everything," as George W. Bush has said, then it is extremely important that we "get it right." What really happened that day?

The administration made a rush to judgment, immediately destroyed much of the evidence, stamped much of the remaining evidence "Secret," and implied that critics were "with the terrorists"


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Lance Ciepiela is a retired senior who had an interesting career in government service - a United States Marine Corps (USMC) Vietnam-Era veteran, who became interested in restoring the Constitution after I realized that W Bush had attacked (more...)
 

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