So the troops can legally be relocated to DC? Well, how convenient! Let them all go there - I believe there's some office space on K Street that could be requisitioned. Congress will need them around for its own protection soon, anyway.

To those 9/11 skeptics who commented above: Come on now, you know how this game is played. You know who holds the aces and trumps - or if not who exactly, at least you know it's not the Randolph Bourne Institute. Nobody questions 9/11 without getting slapped down, and the more prominent the questioner, the harder and more merciless the slap. Your comments were published on the Anti War web site, weren't they? Doesn't that tell you something? You wouldn't have received the same courtesy from Kos, or Huffpo, or Drudge. Give Justin some credit here and read between the lines.

..."Israel" should be "Iran"...

Not so; your irony nerve must be atrophied. Justin meant it exactly as written. He is proposing the same remedy for Israel's actual nuclear capability as Israel's supporters are urging the world to apply to Iran's theoretical capability.

Excellent article, Justin, and kudos for having the courage to publish it. It's the reaction to skeptics, nicely illustrated by some of the comments here, that most strengthens the case for a cover-up; I know of nothing like it in my life time. From the Drudge Report to the Daily Kos and in all the mainstream media, there is a coordinated effort to suppress any discussion that might cast doubt on the official report. Even Wired Magazine a few months ago found it necessary to give the "911 wacko" wheel another spin, though to their credit, they set up a straw man that even the most rabid truthers haven't thought of and buried it in part of the print mag that nobody reads. It would not surprise me if most of the Wired staff are skeptics and the order came down from Conde Nast HQ.

I know of only one group that has sufficient influence to keep the entire establishment in line like this.

As for Glen Beck, it didn't matter whether Van Jones was a truther, or a smoker; if it gave Beck an opening to damage the Obama administration he would have taken it.

The canonical work on Zionist political influence is Douglas Reed's "Controversy of Zion", which can be found online. It's a hefty read, over 400 pages. It was written in 1956 and displays some of the prejudice of the era, but students of more recent history can follow the strategies he reveals right up to the present day. It inspires a certain amount of paranoia in the reader but in the light of the methodical ruthlessness it exposes, perhaps that's not a bad thing.