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Daniël Ellsberg, voormalig militair analyst en tegenwoordig activist, is vooral bekend door zijn vondst van de Pentagon Papers. Hij kwam er achter dat het Amerikaanse volk was voorgelogen over de Vietnam-oorlog, en maakte dat via de NY Times bekend.Hij is er nu van overtuigd dat de mist rond de aanslagen van 11 september voldoende aanleiding geven tot een diepgaand onderzoek naar de betrokkenheid van de regering Bush. Daarnaast waarschuwt hij voor een mogelijke nieuwe inside job-aanslag om een aanval op Syrië en Iran te rechtvaardigen:
I have looked at a lot of [evidence of BushCo. 9-11 complicity], and I’ll tell you without going into it all which would take a lot of time, I find some of it very implausible and other parts of it quite solid, and there’s no question in my mind that there’s enough evidence there to justify a very comprehensive and hard hitting investigation of a kind that we’ve not seen, with subpoenas, general questioning of people, and raising the release of a lot of documents, there’s no question that (D.E. chuckles) put it this way, very serious questions have been raised, about how much they knew beforehand and how much involvement there may been. Is the, is a administration capable, humanly and physiologically of engineering such a provocation?
Yes, I would say that, I worked for such an administration myself, Johnson, ah, President Johnson put destroyers in harm’s way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it. And what I’m saying now, by the way though is this, and here there’s a very strong analogy, to this day there is a controversy gone back and forth historically, as to who caused the Reichstag fire, the burning of their parliament, the Reichstag, on February 27 th 1933. Goering, at one point, the number two man in the Nazi regime, said “I set that fire”, later he denied that at Nuremberg, and I’ve noticed that the latest history suggests, that it wasn’t the Nazi’s. The point is that all this time later is there is still a controversy about that. But, what there’s no controversy about is the use the Nazi’s made of it, that very night and the next day.