by DrDebugDU » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:53 pm
McKinney reopens 9/11<br>Conspiracy theories implicating president aired at 8-hour hearing<br><br><br><br>By BOB KEMPER<br>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<br>Published on: 07/23/05<br><br>Washington — Revisiting the issue that helped spur her ouster from Congress three years ago, Rep. Cynthia McKinney led a Capitol Hill hearing Friday on whether the Bush administration was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.<br><br>The eight-hour hearing, timed to mark the first anniversary of the release of the Sept. 11 commission's report on the attacks, drew dozens of contrarians and conspiracy theorists who suggest President Bush purposely ignored warnings or may even have had a hand in the attack — claims participants said the commission ignored.<br><br>Rep. Cynthia McKinney (upper right) chairs Friday's hearing, reopening the issue that brought her criticism and her 2002 ouster.<br><br>"The commission's report was not a rush to judgment, it was a rush to exoneration," said John Judge, a member of McKinney's staff and a representative of a Web site dedicated to raising questions about the Sept. 11 commission's report.<br><br>The White House and the commission have dismissed such questions as unfounded conspiracy theories.<br><br>McKinney first raised questions about Bush's involvement shortly after the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, generating a furious response from fellow Democrats in Washington and voters in Georgia, who ousted her in 2002.<br><br>"What we are doing is asking the unanswered questions of the 9/11 families," McKinney, a DeKalb County Democrat who won back her seat in 2004, said during the proceedings.<br><br>She rebuffed a reporter's repeated attempts to ask her why she would so boldly embrace the same claims that led to her downfall.<br><br>"Congresswoman McKinney is viewed as a contrarian," panelist Melvin Goodman, a former CIA official, said. "And I hope someday her views will be considered conventional wisdom."<br><br>Though she left the testimony and questioning of panelists to others, McKinney was the main attraction, presiding over more than two dozen participants, including the author of a book that claims the U.S. government had advance knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack and allowed it to happen, and Peter Dale Scott, who wrote three books on President John F. Kennedy's assassination.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/0705/23natmckinney.html">www.ajc.com/news/content/...inney.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.attica2abughraib.com/images/cynthia2.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>
