We note the wide publication of a speech you gave on January 27, 2011 titled “Is This a Private Fight or Can Anyone Get In It?” In it you described “truthers” (your designation) – people seeking the truth about the attack of 9/11 – as guilty of disinformation, of sophistry and of cherry-picking anomalies in order to perpetrate what you claim to be a “Big Lie.” You also stated that the central claim of “truthers”, that the Government has lied about the attacks, has not taken hold in the public mind.
Regarding public opinion, that a sizable proportion of people throughout the world believe there was federal involvement of some form in the attack has been mainstream news for years, and there is now a Wikipedia page devoted to global opinion polls about 9/11. As well, you know that the Commission was established only after more than a year of entreating by families of victims, that it was severely limited in both time and funding, that it was under the absolute control of a director with ties to the Administration, and that abundant information inconsistent with an official story was excluded.
What has become known as the “9/11Truth Movement” includes a great diversity of people, many with impeccable credentials and reputations, who have in common an understanding that the official governmental story of 9/11 is filled with obvious fabrications and who feel impelled to pursue the truth. The collective that you have painted with the “liar” brush includes us, many of our esteemed colleagues and a multitude of fine and prominent people the world over. We the undersigned have come together to state unequivocally that we have not cherry picked information or lied. We believe that by any reasonable standard we are owed a public apology.
Dr. Robert M. Bowman
Director of Advanced Space Programs Development
under Presidents Ford and Carter
John B. Cobb, Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Claremont School of Theology
Dwain Deets
Former Director for Research Engineering
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Richard Gage, AIA Architect
Founder, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth www.ae911truth.org/
David Ray Griffin
Emeritus Professor of Theology
Claremont School of Theology
Niels Harrit
Associate Professor Emeritus
Dept. Chemistry, University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Barbara Honegger
Former White House Policy Analyst
Senior Military Affairs Journalist
Dr. Steven E. Jones
Professor of Physics (retired)
Brigham Young University
Reverend Rich Lang
Trinity United Methodist Church
6512 23rd Ave. NW
Seattle, WA 98117
Shelton F. Lankford
Lt. Col., U.S. Marine Corps (ret.)
Distinguished Flying Cross
Graeme MacQueen, Ph.D.
Emeritus Associate Professor
Dept. of Religious Studies
McMaster Univeristy
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Lynn Margulis
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
William B. Willers
Emeritus Professor of Biology
University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh
Dr. John D. Wyndham
Former Research Fellow in Radio Astronomy
California Institute of Technology
Barrie Zwicker
Author, “Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11”
Journalist, formerly with Detroit News, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail
