Forwarded with Compliments of Free Voice of America (FVOA): Accurate News and Interesting Commentary for Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free. NOTE: Here's news of a delay in the Griffin interview--plus an interesting review of his book; you can access Democracy Now via <www.democracynow.org>. -- kl, pp
Hi everyone,
We just got word that because of the breaking story of
Ahmed Chalabi, Democracy Now is postponing their
interview with David Ray Griffin until next week,
likely Wednesday.
Nevertheless, they will still be having Ellen Mariani
and her attorney, Phil Berg, on the show tomorrow
(Friday), so tune in.
We will keep you informed.
Emanuel Sferios
Webmaster, 9/11 Visibility Project
http://www.septembereleventh.org
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From: "jim hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 21, 2004 6:30:11 AM GMT+07:00
I think David Griffin's book is excellent, and that an interview
with him on DN could be a big breakthrough in waking up so many
people who continue to be led down the garden path by Larry Bensky,
David Corn, etc. First I'll summarize why I like the book and
second why I think this is an important opening.
The book is sober, well-organized, and very well-sourced.
Griffin avoids over-reaching conclusions, arguing points carefully,
and yet 'goes all the way' into the core physical evidence issues
of the WTC demolition and Pentagon attack. The biggest issue he
doesn't take on directly is the hijacker myth -- though even then
he points out the incompetence of the alleged hijackers of F77.
I think there is a reason he avoids that issue and that topics
like the WTC demolition don't jump out in the TOC -- I think he
designed the book to bring around readers who are conditioned to
reject such 'outlandish ideas'. The title and his whole approach is
questioning rather than assertive, and the chapters arrive at core
physical evidence issues from an indirect route -- like getting into
the demolitions by starting with the story of Flights 11 and 175.
I also know that when David Griffin was interviewed on Dennis Bernstein's
Flashpoints, he listed a series of unanswered questions that I think
would be difficult to improve on.
I think this book goes a long way to giving our movement what it needs
most -- credibility. Things that the book doesn't do -- like connecting
dots about criminality beyond the Bush Administration -- will be easier
for others to do with the opening his book affords. It's already well
on its way to being the most influential book on 9/11/01 to date.
I don't think that Amy Goodman's spiking of 9/11/01 research and findings
to date means that anything she does in the future is tainted, nor that
she could spin a David Griffin interview to make it useless.
There are a number of theories about Amy's position re 9/11/01 to date.
Two of them are:
(1) She is afraid to cover the truth of 9/11/01 for fear of retribution,
from defunding to things more sinister.
(2) She is afraid to do so because she is afraid it will destroy
her hard-won credibility.
The dynamics behind both of these will change over time.
As time passes, more people are willing to look at and discuss the attack
without fear. In regard to (1) The more extensive the body of work
exposing the attack grows, the less risky it is for a journalist to do
honest reporting on it. In regard to (2) I think we are approaching
a turning point where questioning the official story of the attack
will become fashionable among the standard-bearers of the left.
Griffin, whose careful, well-reasoned approach is much more difficult
for the naysayers to assail, may be the door to credible questioning
of the attack that Amy has been waiting for.
-Jim
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