Protest Zelikow- Executive Director of the 9-11 Cover-Up Commission!

Blow the Whistle on Philip Zelikow, Executive Director of the 9/11 Cover-Up Commission!

Kresge Auditorium, Stanford University,
next Wednesday, Oct 20, 4:15PM -5:30 PM,
free and open to the public.

Mr. Zelikow's speaking tour is part of what appears to be the continuing whitewash and cover-up of what really happened on 9/11. His appearance on Stanford campus is a chance for people to ask important unanswered questions, hand out Deception Dollars, and show banners saying "Stop the 9/11 Cover-up". 9/11 could be the Achilles heel of the Bush campaign.
The Bush administration, after suspiciously postponing an investigation of 9/11 for more than a year, created a commission populated by its cronies, headed by Mr. Zelikow.

The Harper's Magazine cover story this month is "Whitewash as Public Service, How the 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation". It's by Benjamin DeMott, a former English prof at Amherst College.

But it could even be a LOT worse than DeMott thinks. It's true that there are indeed MANY unanswered questions about 9/11. But there is also a lot of evidence that seems to suggest direct US government planning and execution of the horrible events of that day, in a successful plan to deceive and terrify the American (and world) public, in order to gain political power and support for the Iraq war. If this turns out to be true, then next Wednesday's speaker, Mr. Zelikow, intentionally or not, continues to play an essential role in the apparent cover-up.

More on the Zelikow-Rice Connection from http://www.911truth.org-

The Rice/Zelikow Connection
The Kean Commission and its Conflicts of Interest

MAY 16, 2004: Condoleeza Rice is a household name. But most Americans still have never heard of the man who wrote a book with her, Philip Zelikow. As the executive director of the Kean Commission, Zelikow is responsible for framing the agenda. He leads the research staff. He decides what evidence the commission sees.

In April, the world media focused on Rice's appearance before the commission. She claimed, not for the first time, that no one could have imagined terrorists would use hijacked planes as weapons against buildings. This is a demonstrable falsehood, which Bush himself inadvertantly exposed a week later. (See "Bush, Rice and the Genoa Warning")

Rice's testimony received mostly bad reviews. The commission was credited with investigative fervor. Few reports bothered to note that in the late 1980s, Rice and Zelikow worked closely together on George H.W. Bush's national security staff.

Zelikow and Rice co-authored a 1999 book about their experiences in the first Bush White House, "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft." The book presents "a detailed and fascinating account of behind-the-scenes discussions and deliberations" during the fall of the Soviet empire, according to Library Journal.

Zelikow again served alongside Rice as a member of the Bush transition team in 2000- 2001, when he took part in White House meetings on the terror threat. Since this was of interest to the 9/11 investigation, the Kean Commission recently called Zelikow as a witness, in a closed-door session.

Now imagine if the judge in a trial was a close associate of the star witness. Imagine if the judge called himself as a witness to the case, in secret testimony. A parallel situation has arisen, with Zelikow in the role of the judge, and Rice as the star witness.

Even after September 11, two days before the invasion of Afghanistan, Zelikow went back to work for the Bush national security staff, as a member of the White House advisory board on foreign intelligence.

Zelikow's evident conflicts of interest prompted September 11 family leaders to call for his resignation months ago. "It is apparent that Dr. Zelikow should never have been permitted to be Executive Staff Director of the Commission," the Family Steering Committee concluded in a March 20 statement. So far, the commission has ignored their plea.

The Rice/Zelikow connection should have set off alarm bells about the Kean Commission's independence. Yet it has barely caused a stir.

Announcement of the Stanford event by its co-sponsor, Stanford Institute for International Studies http://siis.stanford.edu/news/329/

9/11: Looking Backward and Looking Forward
Philip Zelikow is the Executive Director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better known as the "9/11 Commission." He will speak about his work with the Commission.

Dr. Zelikow is also the Director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs and White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia. After serving in government with the Navy, the State Department, and the National Security Council, he taught at Harvard before assuming his present post in Virginia to direct the nation's largest research center on the American presidency. He was a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and served as executive director of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former Presidents Carter and Ford, as well as the executive director of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.

Zelikow's books include The Kennedy Tapes (with Ernest May), Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (with Condoleezza Rice), and the rewritten Essence of Decision (with Graham Allison). Zelikow has also been the Director of the Aspen Strategy Group, a policy program of the Aspen Institute.


Examination of the Sponsoring Organization's website reveals that-

"CISAC receives Department of Homeland Security contract for research on organizational learning for terrorism response
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a 15-month $1.65-million contract to the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford Institute for International Studies. CISAC's program will be run as part of a joint project with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey.

CISAC co-director and professor of political science Scott Sagan and former co-director and professor emeritus (research) in the School of Engineering Michael May are the Stanford co-principal investigators of the new program.

CISAC's portion of the project entails a homeland security seminar and fellowship program, which will bring eight research fellows to campus in 2004-05. Fellows will join CISAC and other faculty to conduct research on some of the most daunting issues confronting the homeland security mission, such as how national and local agencies can learn to cooperate quickly and effectively and how they can learn from past emergencies, real and simulated. CISAC will undertake in-depth scholarly research that can help inform DHS efforts to improve the design and evaluation of future terrorism exercises of national and local response systems.

Scholars will study diverse approaches to learning--and failing to learn--from emergencies, including those of armed forces, medical emergency rooms, police and fire departments. Researchers will also investigate how government organizations can stay ahead of potential attackers in the "competitive learning" situation that terrorism presents--one in which terrorists and law enforcement officials alike try to learn from vulnerabilities exposed in public emergencies.

The DHS research contract resulted in part from CISAC's observation of the spring 2003 State Department-DHS sponsored full-scale exercise called TOP OFFICIALS-2 (TOPOFF-2), designed to prepare national, state and local officials to respond to potential terrorist attacks within the US. CISAC led 11 Stanford scholars in observing and analyzing the exercise involving officials from 25 federal, state, and local agencies. DHS Secretary Tom Ridge received a briefing of CISAC's findings, prepared under May's direction as principal investigator.

Lynn Eden, CISAC associate director for research, will manage Stanford's participation in the new project and mentor the homeland security fellows. Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, assistant professor of law at Stanford, will contribute research on how judicial review processes affect responses to terrorism. Dean Wilkening, director of CISAC's science program, will model uncertainties in biological weapons use, such as effects caused by different exposure rates and different doses of contaminants like anthrax. "