Philip D. Zelikow

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Zelikow

Philip Zelikow has co-authored many books. He wrote a book with Ernest May on The Kennedy Tapes, and another with Joseph Nye and David C. King on Why People Don’t Trust Government. He wrote Germany Unified and Europe Transformed with Condoleezza Rice.

Prof. Zelikow's area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance of, in his words, “public myths” or “public presumptions,” which he defines as “beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community." In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called “‘searing’ or ‘molding’ events take on ‘transcendent’ importance and, therefore, retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene. In the United States, beliefs about the formation of the nation and the Constitution remain powerful today, as do beliefs about slavery and the Civil War. World War II, Vietnam, and the civil rights struggle are more recent examples.” He has noted that “a history’s narrative power is typically linked to how readers relate to the actions of individuals in the history; if readers cannot make a connection to their own lives, then a history may fail to engage them at all” ("Thinking about Political History," Miller Center Report , pp. 5-7).

In the November-December 1998 issue of Foreign Affairs, he co-authored an article entitled “Catastrophic Terrorism,” in which he speculated that if the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center had succeeded, “the resulting horror and chaos would have exceeded our ability to describe it. Such an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in American history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America’s fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like Pearl Harbor, the event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force. More violence could follow, either future terrorist attacks or U.S. counterattacks. Belatedly, Americans would judge their leaders negligent for not addressing terrorism more urgently.”

Sounds like he may be advising the neocon KKKabal, eh?
BHN

Prof. Zelikow's area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance of, in his words, “public myths” or “public presumptions,” which he defines as “beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community."

Bush good, brown people bad...
Terra, terra, terra!!!
BHN

this man was the gate keeper with Jamie Gorlich of the classified white house documents ..they were the only ones who saw the documents in entirety.

they decided what the others could see or not see.

many other family members also were concerned with this man being on the commission.

these are from my files..fly


read this in its entirety..

An Open Letter to Philip Zelikow and The Washington Post

By Nicholas Levis
911Truth.org

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041009142411882

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NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2004 -- Philip Zelikow, a high-level national
security adviser to both Bush administrations, acknowledges that
America faces a new infectious disease: lack of faith in the U.S.
government's 9/11 Commission report.

As executive director of the freshly-retired Kean Commission, Zelikow
was a principal author of the 567-page document, which purports to
explain everything that matters about September 11th, 2001.

Sales of the 9/11 report have far outpaced those of his earlier study
in statecraft, "Germany Unified and Europe Transformed." He co-wrote
that book in 1999 with one of his closest associates from the original
Bush White House, Condoleeza Rice.

Despite blockbuster sales for the 9/11 report, Zelikow tells the
Washington Post he is alarmed by the concurrent spread of "conspiracy
theories" about the attacks, which he describes as pathogens:


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http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/conason/2004/04/02/widows/index.html

The widows are watching

Four outspoken World Trade Center widows claim the 9/11 commission director's ties to the White House undermine the commission's credibility.

By Joe Conason



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To the four widows, those political victories represent a reason for pride but not complacency. They remain at battle stations, as Rice might say, concerned about the commission's integrity and credibility. What troubles them most at the moment is the role of Philip Zelikow , the commission's executive director.

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Former counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke revealed that Zelikow, as a member of the Bush transition team, had been extensively briefed on al-Qaida terrorism by the outgoing Clinton national security officials. When the widows learned first of Zelikow's close relationship with Rice and then of his presence at the terrorism briefings, they were outraged.

"As executive director, he has pretty much the most important job on the commission," said Mindy Kleinberg. "He hires the staff, he sets the direction and focus, he chooses witnesses at the hearings." She and her friends fear that even with the best of intentions, Zelikow's connections to the Bush White House will "taint the validity" of the commission's final report. Their demand that he resign or be fired has been rejected by the commission's co-chairmen, former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton.

"We respectfully disagree with them," replied Al Felzenberg, the commission's press spokesman, who said Zelikow was chosen "for his scholarly credentials and his knowledge of national security issues." He hastened to praise the widows for doing "a very positive thing," adding that while he understood their concerns, he expected that "they're not going to be satisfied with everything we do."

According to Felzenberg, Zelikow has "recused" himself from any deliberations that involve the Bush transition -- and insisted on being interviewed , under oath, about that period by the commission staff. The spokesman said he didn't know whether Zelikow had helped Rice to restructure the NSC.


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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/15/terror/main593493.shtml

Potential Conflicts On 9-11 Panel

Jan. 15, 2004


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The Times reports Zelikow is also close to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, whose briefings of the president might also be key to the inquiry.

The panel says Zelikow faces no conflict of interest problems because he has recused himself from any part of the investigation that concerns matters he worked on during the transition.
But, The Times reports, the panel's counsel is weighing whether that recusal goes far enough.

One of the ten commissioners has also been questioned by panel staff.
Jamie S. Gorelick was a deputy to Attorney General Janet Reno and so might have knowledge of the federal response to terrorism under Mr. Clinton.
Gorelick has also recused herself from matters related to her former work, The Times reports.

The newspaper says at least three commissioners, including Gorelick, have had to recuse themselves from some subjects because their law firms had airlines as clients.

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well this link no longer works but you might be able to find cached on goggle..


United Press International: 9/11 director gave evidence to own inquiry

9/11 director gave evidence to own inquiry
By Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
Published 1/15/2004 7:16 PM

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The panel set up to investigate why the United States failed to prevent the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, faced angry questions Thursday after revelations that two of its own senior officials were so closely involved in the events under investigation that they have been interviewed as part of the inquiry.

Philip Zelikow, the commission's executive director, worked on the Bush-Cheney transition team as the new administration took power, advising his longtime associate and former boss, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, on the incoming National Security Council.

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The news was greeted with dismay by many of the relatives of the victims who campaigned for the commission to be set up.

"This is beginning to look like a whitewash," Kristen Breitweizer, who lost her husband Ron in tower two of the World Trade Center, told United Press International.


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"We want the whole issue of who has access to the briefings revisited," said Breitweizer, "the entire commission has to have access to them."
A delegation of relatives traveled to Washington Thursday for an evening meeting with commission staff, which was expected to be stormy.


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if you can not find entire article pm me i can send it to you ..fly


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http://www.911independentcommission.org/mar202004.html


Statement of the Family Steering Committee
for The 9/11 Independent Commission

March 20, 2004

The Family Steering Committee is deeply disturbed to learn about Executive Staff Director Philip Zelikow’s participation in urgent post election briefings, December 2000, and January 2001, with Sandy Berger and Condoleezza Rice. In this particular meeting the Senior Clinton Administration official clearly warned that Al Qaeda posed the worst Security threat facing the nation.

It is apparent that Dr. Zelikow should never have been permitted to be Executive Staff Director of the Commission. As Executive Staff Director his job has been to steer the direction of the Commission’s investigation, an investigation whose mandate includes understanding why the Bush Administrations failed to prioritize the Al Qaeda threat. It is abundantly clear that Dr. Zelikow’s conflicts go beyond just the transition period.

It is extremely distressing to learn this information at this late date. This new information clearly calls into question the integrity of this Commission’s investigation. The Family Steering Committee repeatedly expressed concerns over all members’ conflicts requesting that the commission be forthcoming so as not to taint the validity of the report. The Family Steering Committee did not know about Dr. Zelikow’s participation in this intelligence briefing until today.

As such, the Family Steering Committee is calling for:

1. Dr. Zelikow’s immediate resignation.

2. Dr. Zelikow’s testimony in public and under oath.

3. Subpoena of Dr. Zelikow's notes from the intelligence briefings he attended with Richard Clarke

4. The Commission to apologize to the 9/11 families and America for this massive appearance of impropriety.