Is the Greatest Cover-Up of All-Time
Going on Right Before Our Eyes?

Everyone remembers the picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Department. That single gunshot silenced the suspected terrorist and eliminated any chance that he would have his day in court. Oswald’s story would never be fully told.

It is inconceivable that the same thing is happening today right before our eyes. Like sleepwalkers, the public and the press ignore the most obvious story out there– what do the 9/11 conspirators know, what are they saying, and why isn’t the American court system prosecuting them for their actions?

Like Jack Ruby, the Bush administration has silenced the debate. They have controlled the story and eliminated the witnesses, shipping them off to secret CIA black sites and sequestering them at the inaccessible and highly secretive Guantanamo Bay. They have kept evidence to themselves, out of the public view, and out of the courtroom. Now, they have destroyed evidence, seemingly, in order to protect themselves.

When it came out that the CIA had destroyed interrogation videos of at least two suspected 9/11 conspirators, everyone jumped to the conclusion that they were destroying incriminating evidence of their use of torture. But are we sure that’s why the tapes were destroyed?

Another explanation is that the interrogations were successful and the tapes would have revealed what the suspects confessed to. Obviously, confessions about Bin Laden, al Queda and other possible terrorist conspirators would be a gold mine for the Bush administration. The CIA could easily edit out any security breeches or leads still in progress, so it’s unfathomable that they would destroy them, unless…

Unless they implicate the wrong people. Unless people like Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and Abu Zubaydah are saying the “wrong” things. Whatever these “enemy combatants” did confess to, it has since been destroyed by CIA Director Michael Hayden. General Hayden is the man behind the domestic surveillance program and headed the National Security Agency during 9/11.

We are now engaged in an endless war where conventional rules do not apply. There is no guarantee that these suspects will ever see the light of day. It is time for the American public to insist on hearing what the masterminds of 9/11 have to say. Whatever their intelligence value was, it is no longer an excuse to hide away the greatest terrorists in American history.

Though Lee Harvey Oswald was a despicable character, he deserved his day in court and the American people deserved to hear his story. Likewise, the full story of 9/11 needs to be told and the perpetrators should have their story on the record. We were cheated by Jack Ruby, we are being cheated right now. The press and the public need to cut through the canard that has kept the full story of 9/11 from being told.

Aaron Dahl