Phone tapping scandal - when the cover up ends

Tweet

The phone tapping scandal may offer some hope to the patient supporters of 9/11 'Truth'. Phone hacking was allegedly dealt with by the 2006 police investigation. It uncovered a handful of cases - instead of the thousands now revealed - and only 1 journalist and 1 investigator were jailed. Now the leaders of the Murdoch empire are caught in a firestorm.
Comparing 9/11 with phone hacking may seen strange, after all no one died from phone hacking, but 9/11 was a massive crime leading to a decade of war. What is interesting is that the political class ignored phonehacking for fear of the mighty Murdoch. The Guardian however was prepared to do some real investigation and eventually blew the story with the help of two Labour MPs - Chris Bryant and Tom Watson. In the case of 9/11, both political and media class will not entertain questions about the veracity of the official 9/11 story.Meantime organisations like Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth and Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth are raising significant questions about massive inconsistencies in the official investigation.
Only Robert Fisk among mainstream journalists was bravve enough to question 9/11, while carefullu distancing himself from apparent conspiracy theorists. That was back in 2007.
Pilots for 9/11 Truth have really raised the lid on the deeply puzzling nature of the alleged story of how the four aircraft took off and were hijacked. The official data does not add up. Their website raises cast-iron questions from those who know. Such as the destruction of air traffic control tapes reported in the Washington Post.
Could 9/11 coverup ever blow up like phone hacking? Perhaps. But it would need new evidence or witnesses and some support within the system from politicians or media. Phone hacking was blown open by persistant investigative efforts by The Guardian's Nick Davies. And there was plenty of evidence coming out of the police's investigation Operation Motorman in 2006.
In contrast, there are no senior figures in the media or judicial institutions in the US (that I know of) who have ever called for the launch of an independent investigation into 9/11. Democrat Cynthia McKinney courageously accused the Bush administration of foreknowledge of the attacks in October 2001. She lost her seat in 2006 and later stood for the Greens. There is now a petition for such an investigation in New York, support for which is growing. The resistance to any new investigation will be intense from state institutions and the media because the stakes are much, much greater than they were in Hackergate.