Transcript of CBC interview with Lee Hamilton - 911 conspiracy theories

[Hoping4Change]

CBC airing this week some indepth documentaries about 9-11. The excerpt below is from a story addressing the issues raised by Griffen, Loose Change etc. Below CBC correspondent Evan Solomon asks Hamilton about seismic data from 911 that shows that seismic activity occured seconds prior to the planes hitting the building -


"Solomon: The Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, which is about 20 odd miles away from New York, they released a report on seismic data coming from Manhattan on that day. And they released a spike in seismic data at 8:46:26, and they thought that was the moment of impact of the plane on the first World Trade Center, of American Airlines 11. But the plane didn’t hit until 8:46:40, and there are several of the same kind of early seismic spikes for the second flight. I guess the question is: how do we explain those discrepancies? When the public looks at that, how can we explain that kind of thing?

Hamilton: I haven’t seen that report. I don’t know the answer to your question. They didn’t come forward with that evidence while we were at the Commission - so far as I know. Now, staff filtered a lot of these things, so not necessarily would I know. I don't know what happened with regard to the.... What did they conclude? I don't know what they concluded.

Solomon: They had no conclusion; the evidence is sitting out there. You write about, in Chapter 12 of the book - and again it's one of those allegations that have come up - about who had foreknowledge of it? One piece of evidence that many critics have said is: 'well, there is lots of 'puts' - which is a form of financial stock trading. In other words, people are buying up stock, hoping that the airline stock would plunge, and there was an unusually large number of puts on American Airlines and United stock, and therefore people profited from this. What did you make of that theory?" "

http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html

ps Tonight at 10:00 p.m. est CBC will air story about The Falling Man.

[ClintonTyree]

1. Lee Hamilton is the most addle-minded, incompetent........

white-washing stooge in the country. Which is exactly why he was chosen for the job as co-chair of the 9/11 Commission. He did his job for the Bush Administration by selectively choosing which people were going to be heard by the commission, which people were going to have the opportunity to testify and which weren't. He carried the Bush Administration's water for them. Remember, Bush DIDN'T WANT and investigation at all. There's no need for an investigation, trust us! :eyes: Yeah, right! Hamilton guided the investigation exactly where the Bush Administration wanted it to go. Nowhere. :grr:

[davidwparker]

2. He doesn't know because that was his task to get to the bottom of it.

It was to sell a bit of goods and throw around bi-partisan hoping that would satisfy everybody. Everybody but those capable of critical thinking.

I concur with your post.

[Old and In the Way]

3. He was chosen for a reason......

he can be counted on not to rock the Republican Boat....he was a cupcake for Bush during the "Guns for Hostages/Iran Contra hearings.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/edit8.html

[KoKo]

5. Yep...you said it...and what about that other sychophant John Mitchell so

esteemed whenever "Bi-partisan" commissions and problems come up where one needs to put a "willing/compliant" Dem in place as "window dressing."

[Old and In the Way]

8. John Mitchell? I hope you don't mean George Mitchell.....

[Rageneau]

4. Hamilton's Job as a Quisling Will Soon Go To Lieberman.

The rightwing haters have to have a reliable Democrat stooge to put on various investigative committees that, after resisting for years, they finally have to concede to.

Until now, that job has usually gone to Ol Whitewash Lee Hamilton, who can always be counted on to keep nasty GOP secrets that the public would otherwise find out about.

But Lee's getting on, and it is harder and harder for him to bend over backwards to pull Republicans out of the arms of justice.

But help is on its way.

After Lieberman loses to Lamont, you can expect to see Joementum on every investigative panel that Bush is forced to appoint. Bank on it.

[FourScore]

6. EVAN SOLOMON --THE BEST INTERVIEWER

I have seen yet on 9/11. He asked so many important questions. Of course Lee Hamilton didn't answer any questions. How could he? He participated in a whitewash, not an investigation.

But the interviewer!!! I think we should all send emails of gratitude to Evan Solomon and CBC for airing this interview.

For all the dissing we do about journalists and the media...this time they got it right!

K&R

:kick:

[Hoping4Change]

10. I agree about Solomon. Even though Hamilton was evasive

at least he was confronted by these questions. Maybe I am just off the wall but I was struck by the fact that Hamilton let the interview go on as long as it did. I was struck that he never denounced any question as outrageous. Do you think it at all possible that Hamilton actually wanted these questions and issues aired? By giving a mainstream news channel the opportunity to to put the questions on the table, did not Hamilton give these questions credibility?


p.s. Did you see also CBC's report about the toxic residues of 911 and the EPAs cover-up? That report is A1 journalism.

[AntiFascist]

7. I just wanted to point out from the CBS 9/11 documentary...

which aired again last night...firefighters and one of the guys shooting the video documentary were investigating a gas leak prior to the first plane hitting the tower, which they caught on video. When they got to the lobby of the tower all the huge glass panes in the lobby had been blown out. They were told that jet fuel coming down the elevator shaft had exploded causing the glass to break. (Shouldn't there be more evidence of such a huge blast coming out of the elevators? Why were they able to so easily man the lobby immediately afterwards?) Also, I recall reading about a WTC workman seeing evidence of
an explosion in one of the basement levels. I'm trying to stick to facts, not promoting any conspiracy theories.

[FourScore]

9. I was thinking about some of that

when I saw the movie as well. You would think there would be more evidence than just broken windows if it were caused by a jet fuel explosion in the lobby.

I have to say though, I did not hear any bombs exploding during the time his camera was rolling in the building or outside it. I really listened for them.