9/11 Ten Years Later: When State Crimes Against Democracy Succeed [Paperback]

Before the body of the review I would like to include a few of the many notable comments made recently about this notable book.

"In this, his tenth book on 9/11 and its consequences, David Ray Griffin continues to report the facts and marshal the evidence that the mainstream media continue to ignore. Having previously demolished the official 9/11 story, Griffin now explains how the government got away with its crime against democracy", said
Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of the treasury (under Ronald Reagan) and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal.

"Our civilization cannot survive if we do not confront the unanswered questions about 9/11. David Ray Griffin does that with the same clarity and meticulous documentation that characterized his preceding books. Frightening as the enormity of the truth about 9/11 may be, we should also bear in mind that it is a window of opportunity for addressing a whole range of problems threatening the lives of our children and grandchildren. I am sure those who follow will recognize David Ray Griffin s body of work as one of the most important contributions of the last decade."
Niels Harrit, Associate Professor Emeritus, Nano-science Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen.

"Anyone who has actually studied Griffin's writings on 9/11 knows that the evidence against the truth of the official account is overwhelming. It is not surprising that the mainstream response has been to ridicule and ignore rather than to engage in reasoned discussion. What is disappointing is that leading liberals and responsible journalists have joined in by affirming ideas that contradict basic science and condescendingly rejecting solid research without examining it. In this book, Griffin describes the behavior of these journalists and attempts, in a remarkably charitable spirit, to understand it."
John B. Cobb, Jr., author of The Earthist Challenge to Economism and (with Herman Daly) For the Common Good

"Why yet another book on 9/11? Because, as David Ray Griffin points out clearly and persuasively, 9/11 continues to be not only the greatest crime in American history, but also the most strenuously covered up, and certainly the crime with the greatest political consequences. He shows how over a decade the events of 9/11 and the reports on them have been used to attack the American democratic system. Above all, he documents the success of this attack by the refusal of the media, the academy, and religious institutions to openly discuss these matters, and by the numbers of critics who at one extreme have made fools of themselves in echoing the Orwellian official version, and at the other extreme have been either fired or silenced after their dissent from it."
Peter Dale Scott, poet, former Canadian diplomat, professor at the University of California (Berkeley), and author of American War Machine.

9/11 Ten Years Later is David Ray Griffin s tenth, and maybe his equal-best book about 9/11 (may I mention one of the other best New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-up and the Expose ?.

David Ray Griffin in his new book, 9/11 TEN YEARS LATER: WHEN STATE CRIMES AGAINST DEMOCRACY SUCCEED, takes stock of what we know, after the passage of a decade of intensive grassroots research and analysis, about what really happened that day, and of the present state of the 9/11 truth movement - its strengths and its weaknesses, and how it can move forward most effectively. The book is a combination of important lectures given by Griffin in the last few years, revised and updated for publication, and of completely new essays on key topics, such as the strong evidence that the phone calls from the hijacked airliners must have been faked, and the powerful consensus about the Pentagon events that has been achieved by the movement.

The first four chapters highlight the strongest evidence that 9/11 was an inside job and the clearest implications of that evidence: the lack of evidence that Muslims attacked the US on that day (making clear that the ten-year-long series of wars on Muslim nations is morally and legally unjustified); the multiple occasions on which the laws of physics were miraculously inoperative in the destruction of the World Trade Center, if the official account so ferociously defended by erstwhile critics of government like Bill Moyers, Robert Parry, Alexander Cockburn and many others is to be believed; and the extraordinary case of WTC 7's classic demolition, which has been assiduously covered up by the mainstream media and government agencies (its collapse was never even mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report, and the final report on its destruction issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in November 2008 was fraudulent).

Chapter 5, "Phone Calls From The 9/11 Planes: Why They Are Not Authentic," examines all the evidence that has been discovered regarding phone calls from the hijacked airliners. The phone calls have been a crucial part of the official story of the day's events, purportedly establishing that the planes were hijacked by Arab Muslims and that Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. But after a careful, critical analysis Griffin is forced to conclude that the phone calls were not made from the planes. First he shows that there is no evidence that the alleged hijackers actually were ever onboard any of the planes, and further, that the failure of any of the eight pilots to "squawk" the hijack code into their transponders is "strong evidence that the official story about the 9/11 planes -- that the cabins were taken over by hijackers - is false." He then shows that the calls to Deena Burnett, which registered on her caller ID as calls from her husband Tom Burnett's cell phone (he was a passenger on board Flight 93), could not have been completed because cell phone technology in 2001 was not capable of completing calls from airliners at high elevation. Griffin concludes the calls had to have been faked, and suggests that they were faked by voice morphing, already a well-established technical capability at the time. After examining the claims made for many other calls, including those for Barbara Olson, wife of then Solicitor General Ted Olson, which were the basis for the claim that Flight 77 was still in the air and subsequently crashed into the Pentagon, Griffin concludes that "the evidence that the `calls from the planes' were faked is strong, ... far stronger than the evidence for the view that the calls were made by passengers and flight attendants, describing the activities of Middle-Eastern hijackers."

Chapter 6 discusses Vice President Dick Cheney's changing account of his whereabouts and activities at key times during the morning of 9/11. After admitting on national TV five days later that he had been present and in charge in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center in the basement of the White House before the Pentagon was attacked, he changed his story in November and claimed he did not reach the PEOC until after the Pentagon attack. Griffin shows that the 9/11 Commission Report upheld Cheney's otherwise unsupported second account, which absolved him of responsibility during two key incidents, the Pentagon attack and the destruction of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. He shows further that much evidence, ignored by the Commission, contradicted Cheney's second story, including Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta's testimony before the Commission, Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke's published account of the morning, and reports from ABC News on the first anniversary of 9/11, all of which the Commission buried without mention.

The gem of the book is the seventh chapter, "The Pentagon: A Consensus Approach." In this very detailed analysis Griffin shows that the 9/11 truth movement has developed a complex, broad-based refutation of the official story of what happened at the Pentagon (that "the Pentagon was attacked by American Airlines Flight 77... under the control of al-Qaeda"). He examines fourteen facts which have been established by independent researchers, upon which there is universal agreement, and any one of which is enough to demolish the official account. Griffin argues that the movement should concentrate its Pentagon energies on further strengthening and advocacy of these points of agreement, and avoid dissipating time, energy and trust on a question which has taken up much of these resources in recent years, the question of "what hit the Pentagon?" He shows that this question is unanswerable with the evidence available; only a genuine investigation of the 9/11 attacks will enable it to be answered.

Chapter 8 illuminates the psychology of resistance to the truth about the 9/11 events which is so widespread, arguing that the real faith of the nominally-Christian US is "nationalist faith." The critique of the official story laid out by the 9/11 truth movement is literally unthinkable for many, even for devout Christians whose religion calls upon them to avoid all kinds of idolatry, including nationalism. Griffin concludes that "[w]hen Christian faith is subordinated to faith in American goodness ... it becomes a blinding faith, producing Christians with eyes wide shut."

The subtitle of the book indicates that the 9/11 attacks, in being a false-flag operation carried out by elements of the US government, were a "State Crime Against Democracy" or SCAD, with the primarily political purpose of imposing policies by force upon the country, and that the failure to carry out a genuine investigation, arrest the perpetrators and reverse the policies adopted by the government after 9/11 means that the operation has succeeded. But only to this point in time: the future is still open. Read more ›

I pretty much stumbled across this book whilst passing through an airport and its title almost downplays the enormity and sensational subject matter contained therein. I have barely been able to put it down and have read it in almost record time. Until the moment of buying this book whilst I had occasionally since 9/11 heard muted strains of a Government conspiracy, Inside Job etc I had never given it much attention and whilst not being an American had probably unconsciously subscribed to the American 'Nationalist Faith' mandate as covered by the author in Chapter 8. That is essentially that the Government of supposedly one of the world's freest and most democratic Nations could never conceivably do such a thing of atrocity to its own people.
Well this book exhaustively supported by evidence, facts and sources blows that faith out of the water in my opinion.
In my 48 years of life thus far and being an avid reader I have been simply 'blown away' by the revelations in this book and more so astounded that none of this material has reached mainstream news.

May I add that prior to reading this book I had no preconceptions, views or even any actual knowledge on stories supporting 9/11 'conspiracy theories' (as defined by the mainstream press and US Government to describe any view that differs to the official US Government story), before I accidentally came across this book 2 days ago and had never even looked at a website on the subject until now so I started reading simply as an interested an open minded semi intelligent British male. Having just completed it I defy anyone choosing to read this book not to be stunned by the weight of evidential facts, proof, contradictions, lies and unanswered questions against the official government version of events surrounding 9/11.

Others who have reviewed this book have done so in a far more detailed and eloquent way than I will even attempt to try and I will simply sum up by saying that if you were told today that you can ever only read one more book then this must be it if you want to educate yourself on what must surely qualify as the greatest governmental conspiracy and cover up you are ever likely to read about in your lifetime. This will be your greatest ever Crime Fiction read but it is in fact a true and mind blowing one.

"9/11 Ten Years Later" is the second book by David Ray Griffin I have purchased. The first was "The New Pearl Harbor". On the one hand it is sad these books had to be written. But they most certainly did and I am so grateful to David Ray Griffin for writing them because someone has to counter the criminals (terrorists really) our government has fallen under.

Like his earlier book, David Ray Griffin's "9/11 Ten Years Later" does not disappoint! It is clear that it was carefully researched. It is also written clearly and logically, thus easy to follow.

Early on David Ray Griffin points out that the official explanation for the events of 9/11 is every bit a conspiracy theory as those presented by '9/11 Truthers', thousands of professionals, now including over 1,500 Architects and Engineers.

After acknowledging the many miracles required in order for the govt's official explanation to be true and accurate, one wonders how anyone with a reputation to uphold such as a journalist would align themselves with the government / NIST's official account.

In fact, as David Ray Griffin points out:
"...virtually no scientist or professionals in the relevant fields have gone on record in defense of the official story except for people whose livelihood would be threatened if they refused to support it."

and:
"...virtually everyone who has expertise in a relevant field, and who has seriously studied the evidence, rejects the official conspiracy theory. It is time, therefore, for journalists and everyone else to take a look."

I fully concur! Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country (and the world) and it begins with reading this book.

Roark Dority, Vancouver, BC