The Truth About September 11
By Bill Moyers, AlterNet.org
Much of
the truth about 9/11 is now public, thanks to the Commission's report:
Key government officials failed the system, and they failed the
American people.
It has
taken three years for the details of the terrorist plot of 9/11 to
emerge. The fateful turns that led to the attacks have finally entered
the public discourse. Their lessons, however, have yet to be learned.
The first lesson is that the highest officials in government did not want us to know the truth.
They
already had the story they wanted Americans to believe: Nearly 3,000
people had died, we were assured, because the terrorists turned our
liberties against us, had brazenly exploited our open society.
According to this official view, the atrocities were inevitable, the
plot so diabolical and its execution so precise that only a superhero
could have prevented it.
It
sounded right. For the American people, the terror seemed to have
fallen out of that near-perfect September sky, out of the clear blue.
We now know otherwise.
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