Thread by @gumby4christ

Thread of writers, intellectuals, journalists who have questioned the official 9/11 narrative.

Feel free to drop more examples below, ideally with link

GORE VIDAL: "Will the suspects please line up...The United States? Elements of corporate America would undeniably prosper from a 'massive external attack' that would make it possible for us to go to war whenever the President sees fit..."
ratical.org/ratville/CAH/E…

PETER DALE SCOTT: "They were telling us right away who had done [9/11] without having an investigation…This is a crime but they're not investigating it as a crime. They've already solved the crime…it was very much like the JFK assassination." wewereliedtoabout911.com

HUNTER S. THOMPSON: "Just looking around and looking for who had the motive, who had the opportunity, who had the equipment, who had the will. Yeah, these people were looting the treasury and they knew the economy was going into a spiral downward." openculture.com/2014/07/hunter…

MICHAEL PARENTI: "9/11 might lead one to entertain certain suspicions...[PNAC] said, the American people are not going to go along with an agenda of perpetual war...unless they are driven into it by some catastrophic danger like Pearl Harbor."

RICHARD FALK: "What fuels suspicions of conspiracy is the reluctance to address the sort of awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations that David Ray Griffin (and other devoted scholars of high integrity) have been documenting...." richardfalk.org/2011/01/11/int…

RALPH NADER: "My first criticism was of the 9/11 Commission Report, which was prohibited in its charter from assigning responsibility for any culpabilities it may have documented...That in effect aborted the full purpose of any investigative commission."

DANIEL ELLSBERG: "There is no question in my mind, that there is enough evidence to justify a very comprehensive and hard hitting investigation of the kind we have not seen, with subpoenas, general questioning of people, releasing a lot of documents." 911truth.org/eight-u-s-stat…

DAVID RAY GRIFFIN: "'Were the 9/11 attacks engineered by Muslim hijackers?' The answer to this question is No. But the attacks were engineered by non-Muslim terrorists, especially Vice-President Richard Cheney and his buddy Donald Rumsfeld." tehrantimes.com/news/452302/Da…

JAMES RIDGEWAY: "Why was the airline industry…permitted to resist safety regulations that could have saved lives? How did our foreign policy and “allies”…help pave the way for the attacks?…Who was in charge as the attacks unfolded?" motherjones.com/politics/2009/…

JOHN JUDGE: "I don’t think we yet know who is responsible for 9/11 on either the mechanical or the broader level. We certainly don’t know who was on the planes and who the specific pilots were..." ratical.org/ratville/JFK/J…

JOHN GRAY ("Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus"): signed 9/11 truth statement demanding deeper investigation 911truth.org/911-truth-stat…

THOM HARTMANN: signed 9/11 truth statement demanding deeper investigation 911truth.org/911-truth-stat…

GERALDO RIVERA: Building 7 "does appear to come down in a way that is reminiscent of a controlled demolition."

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: "It’s hard for me to believe that it came down by itself…I think twenty years from now, people will look at 9/11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn’t possibly have been done the way the government told us." colorado911truth.org/2010/11/andrew…

DYLAN RATIGAN: "This could very well be insider trading at the worst, most horrific, most evil use you’ve ever seen in your entire life." (h/t @petercastagno_)

PAUL ZAREMBKA: "[T]here are three studies showing high probability of insider trading prior to 9/11, while there are no reports out there showing the opposite. We only have the 9/11 Commission report saying something different." (h/t @petercastagno_) countercurrents.org/schall270412.h…

MAX KEISER: "When I was talking to Cantor Fitzgerald brokers & bankers in the days leading up to 9/11, they themselves were buying these airline puts…based on rumors that were coming out of Alex Brown, associated with Buzzy Krongard." h/t @petercastagno_

ROBERT FISK: "I am increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11…where are the aircraft parts…from the attack on the Pentagon? Why have the officials involved in the United 93 flight been muzzled?" (h/t @petercastagno_) belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-new…

JOHN PILGER: "I think the most plausible is the ‘let it happen.’ Now at what stage it was let happen, I don’t know…There’s no doubt that 9/11 became the opportunity for a new Cold War, basically." (h/t @petercastagno_) soundcloud.com/9-11-truth-new…

NAFEEZ AHMED: "Five years on, even core elements of the official narrative taken for granted by the 9/11 Commission Report, remain absurdly unresolved. To this day…the real identities of most of the alleged hijackers are unknown." (h/t @petercastagno_) nafeezahmed.net/thecuttingedge…

JOHN McMURTRY: "Well, who did benefit from 9/11? Although it’s not very difficult, the question has not been posed and there’s been no official investigation or even a media investigation or even raising of the question."
(h/t @petercastagno_)

MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY (9/12/01): "While Islamic jihad…is blamed for the terrorist assaults on the WTC & the Pentagon, these same Islamic organisations constitute a key instrument of US military-intelligence operations in the Balkans & former Soviet Union." archives.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO10…

ROBERT SCHEER: "Would George W. Bush have been re-elected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?" (h/t @petercastagno_) latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

PEPE ESCOBAR: "Year after year, 9/11 is essentially a You Have The Right to Accept Only The Official Version ritual ceremony, even as widespread evidence suggests the US government knew 9/11 would happen and did not stop it.” (h/t @petercastagno_) asiatimes.com/2019/09/we-are…

@petercastagno_ AMIRI BARAKA:
Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers
To stay home that day
Why did Sharon stay away?

(h/t @the_hague_ICC) lem.seed.pr.gov.br/arquivos/File/…

RON INSANA (CNBC): "So they did manage for one to take [WTC Building 7] down in a controlled implosion later on. And the exchange was up and running the following Monday." (h/t @petercastagno_)

TARIQ ALI:
Q: Do you buy the official explanation of events?
ALI: I don't know, and I don't think anyone does.
(h/t @Hereditarian98) leftbusinessobserver.com/Ali.html

CHRISTOPHER PRIEST: "The third law of thermodynamics would prevent the tower from collapsing in that way, the top collapsing down onto undamaged floors below, and then damaging them enough that they collapse down." (h/t @roryoconnorXYZ) fantasy-hive.co.uk/2018/09/interv…

DAVE McGOWAN (9/12/01): "Does anyone really believe that a few guys wielding toothbrush handles embedded with razor blades could quickly & efficiently gain control of a commercial airliner?…[They'd] have their hands full trying to hold-up a liquor store." wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:…

TOURÉ: "Van Jones was forced to resign partly bc questions the truth of 9/11 but that Pentagon attack is really fishy...How could a plane crash into the Pentagon? And not appear on video cameras?? And leave little wreckage??? #Don'tbuyitfiremenow" buzzfeednews.com/article/dorsey…

DARIO FO: "Even if we suppose that such an incompetent pilot had the opportunity to fly a Boeing 757, we still have to ask ourselves how he managed to violate the most heavily protected airspace in the world."

RUSS BAKER: "[T]he family of the people who actually run the country…[were] in direct contact with these hijackers, you see CIA all over it, you see a possibly CIA drug operations and weapons operations running out of the same airfields in South Florida." whowhatwhy.org/uncategorized/…

MARK CRISPIN MILLER: "9/11 was a crime against humanity, and we frankly don't believe the government's conspiracy theory of how that happened."

ERIC MARGOLIS: "A large number of Americans still don’t believe the official version of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. I am one of them." ericmargolis.com/2019/09/who-wa…

SEYMOUR HERSH: "I don’t necessarily buy the story that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11...We don’t know anything empirical about who did what. The guy was living in a cave. He really didn’t know much English." independent.co.uk/news/long_read…

JUSTIN RAIMONDO: "Israelis were engaged in spying on U.S. soil in the months leading up to [9/11]…they were concentrated in the two areas where the 9/11 hijackers lived…they did not share all they knew about preparations for the attack" (h/t @CBDEpic420) original.antiwar.com/justin/2005/08…

LYNN MARGULIS: "19 young Arab men & a man in a cave 7,000 miles away, no matter the level of their anger, could not have masterminded and carried out 9/11: the most effective television commercial in the history of Western civilization." h/t @kyparissiotes dailycollegian.com/2007/09/umass-…