rprisingly, other major papers have not picked up this same story): "Griffin says the evidence indicates that this building, as well as the Twin Towers, was brought down by controlled demolition. Recently, Morgan Reynolds, the top economist in the Labor Department during Bush's first term, said the same thing in a Washington Times article, as did Kevin Ryan, a former executive at Underwriter Laboratories, the product safety compliance company that certified the fire-resistant steel used in the construction of the Twin Towers" (Berkowits 4).
Another problem Griffin has with 9/11 concerns our Air Defense scrambling of jets. Griffin believes there's no way that our air defense system -- the best in the world -- could have been so incompetent that it failed to raise the alarm earlier about not just one but four separate plane hijackings.
Griffin also believes there has to be another explanation for who flew those jets that crashed. He asks how could the alleged pilot, who could barely fly a small airplane, fly a jet on a complicated path that required a high degree of skill? It's painful to say, or even think about, but Griffin and surely many others are increasingly convinced that Bush and his top aides have lied about 9/11 in the same way that they have lied about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq's role in the terrorist attacks and
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