The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé

by David Ray Griffin

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566567297
• ISBN13: 9781566567299
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Olive Branch Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

a open letter to anyone who thinks 9/11 truth is plain dumb

If you think that saying 9/11 is an inside job is plain crazy please read on, I'm not trying to preach to the choir. Bush would did not want to conduct an investigation, as it would detract from the War on Terror. The jersey girls through a media campaign finally forced him to, he first appointed notorious insider Kissinger, until he had to resign because he refused to reveal his client list. Christopher Hitchens (no 9/11 truther he) has said that the appointment of Kissinger is tantamout to an attempt at a cover-up. All that many people in the 9/11 truth movement want is a better investigation. They have not (in most cases) posited an exact alternative scenario, but to believe the government's story one has to believe the following: two planes crashed into two steel framed buildings and bought down three, the 3rd WTC7 would be the tallest building in most cities, it just happened to be only half the height of the mammoth WTC 1 and 2. WTC7 is not mentioned even once in the 9/11 commission report The site was not treated like a crime scene for architects and engineers and law enforcement officers to conduct a truly thorough going investigation in how these towers could have shredded themselves from top to bottom in 10 to 15 seconds. This is valuable information that would have been a) necessary for future safety protocols b) is mandatory by law in any case The very fabric of the three buildings that was needed to do a deep and forensic analysis was either sent to landfill or in the case of the Steel nearly all the beams were sold to the Far East as scrap. This is beyond belief in itself, how could the world's single most important crime scene be dismantled before it had been thoroughly investigated. When NIST did their investigations, they had to overwhelmingly rely on computer models. Firefighter tapes were many said they had heard explosions were withheld for years until they were forcibly released to the New York times under the FOA. Why withold them in the first place? What is the national security implication. We know the buildings were attacked so what is there to hide? There were many wargames and terror drills going on on the morning of 9/11 they are classified, but this is a highly noteworthy coincidence. What has come out about them, makes them sound mighty suspicions. FEMA arrived in NY on the night 10th of Sept to conduct a bio-terror drill the next morning. The wargames involved hijack scenarios and mightily confused the FAA who were dealing with wargames and real planes without being able to know which were which. There is very little sign of an airplane at the crash site of the Pentagon. Whether there was or was not a plane is extremely hard to prove from just photographs or eye-witnesses one way or another, but if the govt had nothing whatsoever to hide, why not release the 80 plus CCTV cameras whose films they confiscated, instead they treated us to 5 frames that show no plane but a huge explosion. The govt itself says "a

It's the "Official Version" that has to be proven, not the other way around!

First, let me say that I'm not ready to declare with 100% certainty that 9-11 was an "inside job." I still have a hard time wrapping my puny little brain around the idea that this government, or any government, could pull off such a massive and devastating event. However, I AM convinced that the "official version" of this story is so full of holes and lies that a new, independent investigation is desperately needed. And that is the reason I'm writing this review and giving Dr. Griffin 5 stars for his exhaustive research. What is most frustrating to me about any 9-11 debate is the fact that everyone who refutes or simply laughs off the possibility that 9-11 could've been an inside job does so by shouting, "Where's your proof! You haven't proven anything! You're all just a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists!" Which brings me to the point of this review. The 9-11 truth movement doesn't have to prove a damn thing. Think of this as a criminal court case. The state (government in this case) has the burden of proof. The truth movement, and Dr. Griffin in particular, simply needs to sit back and shoot holes in the state's case, producing "reasonable doubt." Which I feel they have done and then some. To say that 9-11 was quite possibly an inside job does not mean that you have a complete and impenetrable timeline of events, nor does it mean that you have the "smoking gun." It simply means that you've studied the state's case and, with mountains of evidence to back you, you've concluded that their story cannot be true. And I believe Dr. Griffin, and many, many others, have accomplished this and beyond. They're simply saying, "Hey, your evidence doesn't add up, something stinks here." And they've forwarded their own theory of what possibly happened. It's called having an open mind. The people who say 9-11 was an inside job don't have a definitive, air-tight case. But what they do have are truck loads of evidence that contradicts the official story and they're just saying, "Look, we've got a major problem here!" We need a new, impartial, non-political investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. Why is that so hard to understand? The 9-11 Truth Movement just wants what their name says: the friggin' truth. And it's totally clear to me that the 9-11 Commission Report ain't the truth. It's a greatest hits collection hand-picked by the Bush Administration. Maybe when they're finally out of office we can get a real investigation going. Although I'm not too optimistic. So kudos to you, Dr. Griffin. Your evidence is compelling and frightening. You're making people think. And if you, and your many collegues, are right, God help us all.

Massive evidence

D.R. Griffin's second book on the 9/11 massacre is a terribly skilled comment on his first version, with some rectifications and some meticulous unraveling of controversial statements, timings and physical processes. His overall picture stands more firmly than ever `that every dimension of the official account is false beyond reasonable doubt.' Hereafter, a few crucial points: - the free vertical fall of the 3 WTC towers (of which one was not hit by a plane) makes a rather cynical joke of the NIST report. Controlled demolition is the only plausible explanation. - the official version of the fact that the airplanes could not be scrambled doesn't stand a close examination of all the timings involved. A stand down order explains everything. - the Pentagon could not have been hit by a plane, unless all its debris should have evaporated after the impact. A missile attack is more plausible. - the identity of the hijackers, if any, is extremely obscure. For D.R. Griffin, much of the evidence that there were hijackers on the planes dissipates upon close examination. The planes could have been flown by remote control. See M.H. Gaffey's book `The 9/11 Mystery Plane and the Vanishing of America'. - the true identity of Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda is anything but clear. - cell phone calls could not be made from inside the airplanes. - a close examination of the official 9/11 Commission Report shows that all controversial points were omitted or the subject of biased interpretations. It all insinuates that all the deadly attacks were an inside job. But why? They served as an excuse to wage war. D.R. Griffin: 'Members of the Bush-Cheney administration planned prior to 9/11 invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, after which they hoped to attack five other countries. The commission shielded its readers from evidence that this administration include people with an even more murderous ideology.' In the meantime, the public media continue to be completely gagged. A rather menacing silence is sometimes overshadowing the TV and radio studios and stations. D.R. Griffin incriminates nobody. All he wants is a new and independent investigation to discover the truth. This book with its perfect index and bibliography is a must read for all those interested in the 9/11 massacre and for all those who want to understand the world we live in.

My Apology

As soon as I finished reading the book I called my cousin up at college and I apologized to her. She'd been trying to tell the entire family about the 911 Truth and we all have called her crazy for years. I assumed because she was young that she was just wrong. I had watched the videos she'd given to me but part of me was refusing to accept the facts. David Ray Griffin's book has shed pure light on the matter and I cannot live in denial any longer. We have some real problems with a criminal government and the only ones to blame are the likes of people like me and others who have turned our backs on Truth. I don't know how we're going to fix it but I do know for sure that I will not be living a lie any longer. I've purchased five books and plan on giving them to family and freinds. Thank you David Ray Griffin for writing such a powerful and enlightening book. 5 STARS!

The Definitive Treatment of 9/11

In THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED, David Ray Griffin provides a brilliant and much-needed companion to his path-breaking and movement-building book on 9/11, The New Pearl Harbor (NPH; 2004). Now, on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of those horrific events, Griffin surveys in detail all the main lines of evidence against the official account of 9/11 to have emerged during the last four years. THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED (NPHR) has been designed as volume 2 of a two-volume set with NPH as volume 1; together they provide a thorough and up-to-date case against the official conspiracy theory (they can be bought separately, of course). Griffin has already published four other books that provide in-depth analysis of most of the evidence to have emerged since 2004. NPHR's main purpose is to provide an easily accessible survey of all of the new evidence, so that it is now possible for a beginner to the subject (including journalists and members of Congress) to master its enormous complexity simply by reading two books. NPHR is structured identically to NPH; each chapter in NPHR comments and builds on the corresponding chapter in NPH. Much of the content is entirely new; there are many facts and analyses in NPHR which Griffin presents for the first time, and which literally make the book an up-to-the-minute statement of the case. In the Preface, Griffin explains why he undertook to "update" The New Pearl Harbor. In the Introduction he outlines the continued failure of the press to investigate any of the questions raised against the official account, and the lame attempts, especially by the main "progressive" or "left" appendages of the press, to portray such questioning as lunacy. He provides a brief overview of the history of "false-flag" operations, including the Pentagon's Operation Northwoods, halted by President Kennedy. Griffin then argues that the term "conspiracy theory" is used dishonestly to prevent investigation of the claims of critics (and never to describe the government's theory about 19 Arab hijackers controlled from a cave in Afghanistan). The very substantial first chapter tackles two major issues, the timing of events related to flights AA 11 and UA 175 and the collapses of the WTC buildings. Griffin shows that the 9/11 Commission's new timeline is contradicted by much solid evidence and is inherently unbelievable. The Commission claims that the military was not notified by the FAA of the flight emergency on flight UA 175 until much later than the time the military itself had claimed during the years between 9/11 and the publication of the Commission's Report in 2004. The Commission based its new claim on the "NORAD Tapes," a set of purportedly genuine tapes of telephone communications between the FAA and NORAD on the morning of 9/11. But these tapes were never produced until 2004, after the glaring holes in the Pentagon's defense against the charge of a standdown had become evident, and are probable fakes, which Gr