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When Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee last year, he was asked whether he "ordered or approved the use of sleep deprivation, intimidation by guard dogs, excessive noise, and...

In discussing my second 9/11 book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, I have often said, only half in jest, that a better title might have been "a 571-page lie." (Actually, I was saying "a 567-page lie," because I was forgetting to count the four pages of the Preface.) In making this statement, one of my points has been that the entire Report is constructed in support of one big lie: that the official story about 9/11 is true.

Here Shaw wraps up his piercing inquiry into the ongoing dysfunction and self-censorship of the ostensible leaders of the "anti-war left." Whether dissecting the dark ironic roots of major "progressive" icons' funding or their blithe "lesser evil" boosting of corporatist Dems, he exposes troubling motives for both their 9/11 phobia and aversion to looking behind the curtain at how the show is really run. Let us hope this brave little home team truthout inspires many more of us to move beyond muzzled leaders and reclaim the power of fearless dissent.

Washington -- Former FBI contract translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and her attorneys were ordered removed from the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse so that a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel could discuss...