Consider what happens when detectives investigate a suspected murder: All possibilities are taken into account no matter how unlikely one theory may be compared to another, or who it might implicate. For example, when a teenage girl is found murdered in her home, a detective does not exclude her parents as possible suspects simply because they are her parents. This same logic should follow with any investigation.
The 9/11 Commission did not follow this logic during their investigation, and the result was a flawed examination of the most influential event in recent world history.
The fact that the investigation did not explore any possibility of government, military or other clandestine U.S. involvement is inexcusable. While U.S. government involvement may seem like an unlikely possibility, it is a possibility nonetheless, especially since it would not be the first time in history that our government was involved in a false flag"" operation. The possibility of government involvement should never have been ignored.
The commission disregarded and ignored vast amounts of evidence and testimony including eyewitness claims of unexplained secondary explosions after the planes struck the towers. Even the manner in which the 9/11 Commission was formed is an enormous failure and an injustice to those who lost their lives Sept. 11, 2001. Instead of organizing an expansive, formal investigation of 9/11 immediately following the attacks, the 9/11 Commission was created more than year later. The White House was also highly resistant to 9/11 Commission requests during the course of its investigation.
Furthermore, the investigation should not have been conducted by a small panel of 14 presidentially and congressionally appointed government officials, but instead by a much broader, independent group of scholarly professionals from various backgrounds in order to ensure an impartial, objective investigation.
If there exists even a shred of evidence that the U.S. government was involved in 9/11, then that possibility must be investigated by an unbiased committee. Too much evidence has been ignored and too many questions have been left unanswered. There must be another investigation of 9/11. However, neither I, nor the government or anyone else can dictate what the truth really is. The only way to arrive at the truth is to examine all of the evidence objectively.
Jesse Allhands is a senior majoring in German and political science. Please send responses to opinion@dailycardinal.com.
