Chertoff Family Member Wrote 9-11 Propaganda
March 4, 2005
Dictators like Saddam Hussein have
always used nepotism to protect their secrets and maintain control. Like a
dictatorship, the inner cabal that directs the actions of the Bush
administration uses the same tactics to confuse the public and conceal the truth
of 9-11.
Dictators have always employed nepotism,
the placing of family members in key positions, for one simple reason: only
loyal family members can be trusted with the secrets that keep them in power.
For this reason the shameless nepotism of the Bush administration should alarm
Americans because it indicates that a dictatorship is encroaching upon the
An egregious example of
dictatorial-style nepotism occurred when George W. Bush won the White House -
twice - thanks to the key "swing state" of
With high federal offices being given to
the wives, sons and daughters of senior members of the Bush administration, the
Hearst Corporation executives that publish Popular Mechanics magazine
probably didn't worry about the ethical considerations of hiring a cousin of
Michael Chertoff, the former Assistant Attorney General and new Secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as senior researcher. But the cover
story about 9-11 in the March 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics (PM) is the
fruit of nepotism and Hearst-style "yellow journalism." PM's senior researcher,
25-year-old Benjamin Chertoff, authored the propagandistic cover story entitled
"Debunking 9-11 Lies" which seeks to discredit all independent 9-11 research
that challenges the official version of events. "Conspiracy theories can't
stand up to the hard facts," the cover reads. "After an in-depth investigation,
PM answers with the truth," so it says. But the article fails to provide any
evidence to support its claims and doesn't answer the key question: What caused
the collapses of the twin towers and the 47-story World Trade Center 7?
The lead editorial by James Meigs,
Editor-in-Chief of PM carries the title "The Lies Are Out There." It continues:
"As a society we accept the basic premise that a group of Islamist terrorists
hijacked four airplanes and turned them into weapons against us." But do we,
"as a society" accept this basic premise? None of the 19 "Islamist terrorists"
were even found on the passenger lists that day. "Sadly," Meigs continues, "the
noble search for truth is now being hijacked by a growing army of conspiracy
theorists." What Meigs fails to acknowledge is that while the fact that a
conspiracy is behind the 9-11 attacks is obvious, the question being raised by
independent researchers is: Who was involved in this conspiracy?
The Meigs' editorial concludes, "But
those who peddle fantasies that this country encouraged, permitted or actually
carried out the attacks are libeling the truth - and disgracing the memories of
the thousands who died on that day."
Nobody says that the
The Chertoff article goes on to confront
the "poisonous claims" of 16 "myths" spun by "extremist" 9-11 researchers like
myself with "irrefutable facts," mostly provided by individuals in the employ of
the
This means that Hearst paid Benjamin
Chertoff to write an article supporting the seriously flawed explanation that is
based on a practically non-existent investigation of the terror event that
directly led to the creation of the massive national security department his
"cousin" now heads. This is exactly the kind of "journalism" one would expect to
find in a dictatorship like that of Saddam Hussein's
Because the manager of public relations
for Popular Mechanics didn't respond to repeated calls, I called Benjamin
Chertoff, the magazine's "senior researcher," directly. Chertoff said he was
the "senior researcher" of the piece. When asked if he was related to Michael
Chertoff, he said, "I don't know." Clearly uncomfortable about discussing the
matter further, he told me that all questions about the article should be put to
the publicist - the one who never answers the phone.
Benjamin's mother in