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By Dave Champion:
Dear Friends,
Well, yesterday was my meeting with the IRS pursuant to a summons that they had left at my house several weeks ago.

First of all I want to say that I had a GREAT time!!!!!! If you are properly prepared (both mentally and with documents), remain calm, and pay strict attention to all that is being said and done in the meeting room you can demolish their purported authority to summons from many different legal perspectives. I know I said this before, but I had FUN!!!

As always, I was affable as could be with the Revenue Officers (herein RO); after all, if you’ve got the law on your side, there’s no reason to be unpleasant. The old adage, “kill them with kindness [or at least civility]” comes to mind. This also has the added benefit of helping to over-turn the garbage that they are fed in training about us “Patriots”. Being well mannered and having sufficient evidence to devastate their authority is the best revenge! They HATE that!!!!

Whether it be the style of the new, more friendly, IRS or just the “tactics” of these particular RO’s, we sat and BS’d for about an hour before they ever asked any questions that fell within the scope of “producing books and records”. That was fine with me because I had blocked out several hours for the meeting and and I had decided many days ago that I would not “take the fight to them”, but rather would allow them to voluntarily enter the minefield! It was kinda cute because the lead RO (Billingsley) just sort of slipped a question in about what I’m doing for a living these days. It really sounded quite conversational. It almost sounded like a common question that someone might ask you over a friendly beer - almost, but not quite!

At that point I asked if we were entering the portion of the meeting that would fall under his alleged authority to summons me for books and records. He was not happy that his little ploy had not worked, but he admitted that we were now in that area. As I had written to him in advance and had requested several documents to support his claim of alleged authority, he voluntarily handed me (without being asked a second time) a copy of the Delegation of Authority Order which he stated showed his delegated authority from the District Director to summons me. Interestingly, upon review, the Order [LA-6 (rev 16)] showed that the authority to “issue” summons was indeed delegated to RO’s with a GS-9 and above rating [item 3 in the Order]. However, in item 4 of the Order I found that the authority to “serve” the summons was delegated ONLY to a Tax Fraud Investigative Aide. Isn’t it nice of the District Director to be so specific! I asked the RO who had served the summons at my home if he was also a Tax Fraud Investigative Aide. He stated that he was not. I informed him that we had a little problem. I told him that if he was not a Tax Fraud Investigative Aide, then his service of the summons was a nullity because he exceeded his authority and everything from that moment forward was legally void. He wasn’t too hot on that little reality check!

RO Billingsley then started making accusations of non-cooperation. In the spirit of cooperation (and having far more ammunition up my sleeve) I told him that if he preferred, we could pretend that his service was good and move on. He liked that idea and then requested my books and records. I explained that I meant that we should go on to the next question concerning the validity of his alleged authority. I wish I had a blood pressure monitor hooked up to that guy! I think it would have exploded!

I thought I’d go easy on him a while, so I moved directly to the language of IRC section 7602. Section 7602 state (in its relevant part) that, “…the Secretary is authorized…to summon the person liable for tax…”. I pointed out to the RO’s that the language of 7602, i.e. “the person liable”, is present tense. In other words, in order for 7602 to have any legal effect, the IRS must ALREADY KNOW that the person IS liable for a tax. I pointed out that section 7602 does not contain any authority for the Service to go on a “fishing trip” in the hope of uncovering some fact(s) that might then create liability. I then asked the RO’s to place “on the record” (I was taping the meeting) any evidence they had that proved I was liable for any tax contained in the IRC for the years indicated on the summons. As could be expected, there was no evidence.

I thought it was time to get ugly again, so I shifted to the IRS’ history and organizational statement in Part 1100 of the Internal Revenue Manual (IRM). I asked the RO’s in which Division they worked. Both stated that they worked in the assigned to the Collections Division. I had brought copies of the section which outlines the organization of the various Offices/Divisions/Departments, etc. of the Service. In the section I brought, it numerically designates the Office of the Assistant Commissioner (International) as 1132. Every division/department within the Office of the Assistant Commissioner (International) is designated with 1132 followed by a period and then one or two more digits. As an example, the Office of Resource Management is 1132.5, while the Director of the Office of Resource Management is 1132.51.

Now watch this series carefully:

Officer of Asst. Commissioner (International) 1132 Office of Taxpayer Service and Compliance 1132.7 Director, Office of Taxpayer Service and Compliance 1132.71 Collection Division 1132.72.

Hello! That doesn’t take a rocket scientist. And for those inquiring minds - yes, 1132.72 is the ONLY collection division listed in the entire IRS organizational statement. Needless to say, both RO’s vehemently denied that they work for the Assistant Commissioner (International), but could not provide any evidence to refute their own manual.

I then read them the functional description of their division from 1132.72, to wit; “Executes the full range of collection activities in delinquent accounts which includes securing delinquent returns involving taxpayers outside the United States and those in United States territories, and possessions and in Puerto Rico. Administers the program for mutual collection assistance under tax treaties. Provide assistance…”. Despite the fact that there is only one collection division mentioned in the org statement and that the functional description is from their own manual, they were adamant that I had lost my mind! Of course when I suggested that they return me to sanity by providing documentary evidence which would dispute 1132.72, they demurred. Hmmm.

I then went to the old standard - there are no implementing regulations for 7602 in Title 26. The only reg promulgated by the Secretary for 7602 is found in Title 27 (which deals exclusively with ATF matters). The RO’s stated that the statute was sufficient and that there was no need for regs in this matter. I simply reminded them that the Secretary obviously thought otherwise because he had promulgated regs for 7602 in Title 27. I pointed out that that fact clearly confirms that a reg IS needed to implement 7602 and that the Secretary had apparently decided that 7602 was NOT to be applied to tax matters other than those relating to alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Of course, once again, the RO’s assured me that I was an idiot and that they did have authority to apply 7602 to me in matters of non-ATF taxes. Needless to say, I was told that I would simply have to take their word for it.

And last but not least, I informed them that Treasury Decision 120-01 (which transferred the functions of the IRS’ Division of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to the newly-created “Bureau” of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) specifically transferred the functions of Revenue Officers to the BATF. Boy oh boy! You would have thought I set off firecrackers in their pants! They got down right nasty about this time. Anyway, I asked them if they had any evidence that I was involved in ATF activities. Of course the answer was “no”.

About this time I think they were getting tired of getting beat down with their own agency’s paperwork showing the authority they DIDN’T have, so they decided that our meeting was over. Too bad - I was having such a good time and I had so much more to offer!

Take care,
Dave Champion

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”– Patrick Henry

By Christopher Hansen,

My dear wife has a rare skill. It is making up new words and phrases that are very useful but very technical. She came up with a new one last week concerning reviewing evidence so that you get down to the meat of the evidence. It is “exfoliation of evidence.”

Today she came up with a new phrase. We have been “exfoliating evidence” for months now concerning the violations of our rights by Las Vegas METRO Thugs..I mean police.

The key thug’s name is Wally Pinjuv. He is now a retired METRO Sergeant (retiring after 35 years on the job.) When asked by my wife why we were being treated like criminals after we called them after we were attacked by a Pit Bull in our own yard and then threatened by the Pit Bull’s owner, Wally said to my wife, “I don’t know where you’re from lady but this is the wild wild west and we do things different out here.”

He was right. They violated NRS 171.123 and NRS 171.1232. They violated the 4th amendment. They violated Art. I Sec. 18 of the Nevada Constitution. I could go on and on but you get the picture. They violated our rights and justified it saying that officer safety was more important than the Constitution or the laws on this subject.

So this is where my wife came up with the very useful new phrase, “Going Pinjuv.”

This can be used whenever people in authority go nuts and or intentionally violate people’s rights.

Examples:

“What…are you going all Pinjuv on us.”

“Please don’t go Pinjuv on me. I am already hurt.”

“I know you are lying to me, Cop, so stop going Pinjuv on me and tell me the truth.”

Or by a Cop: “Shut up you F***ing Patriot or I will go Pinjuv on your ass.”

“Just go Pinjuv on him and he will confess.”

Please use this new phrase at your leisure.

By Christopher Hansen,

Hooray for the words spoken by President Obama. They should be an inspiration to every freedom loving American to stand up for their “dignity and their rights.” To stand up for the “innocent who longs to be free.” To stand up for the “oppressed who yearns to be equal.” To stand up to the tyranny of the people of the United States that seek to force the “oppressed who yearns to be equal” to pay so called voluntary income taxes so that individual tyrants can get a Social Security check or other government welfare. Or that a multinational corporation and get a bailout. Or so the oppressed can pay for undeclared foreign wars, and (add socialist program here.)

President Obama told us all what we should do and yet the vast majority of so-called Patriotic Americans do not stand up but lay down under the tyranny of what Obama called the “people.”

Let us read with pleasure the wondrous words of President Obama!

We know the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words. Speeches alone will not solve our problems — it will take persistent action…Now is the time for all of us to do our part…
For just as no nation should be forced to accept the tyranny of another nation, no individual should be forced to accept the tyranny of their own people. (Applause.)
As an African American, I will never forget that I would not be here today without the steady pursuit of a more perfect union in my country. And that guides my belief that no matter how dark the day may seem, transformative change can be forged by those who choose to side with justice. And I pledge that America will always stand with those who stand up for their dignity and their rights — for the student who seeks to learn; the voter who demands to be heard; the innocent who longs to be free; the oppressed who yearns to be equal.

THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary, REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, United Nations Headquarters, New York, New York

Now let us all read the words of our President and follow them with our hearts and minds. Let us reject the tyranny of the “people” that seek to enslave us like the AARP and Goldman Sachs and GM and Ford Motor Company and the Federal Reserve Banksters and Congress and President Obama.

Let us transform Obama’s “change” and instead of supporting tyranny let us stand by those who choose to side with justice.

Let us pledge that America will always stand with those who stand up for their dignity and their rights.

And let us stand up for our dignity and rights by refusing to obey laws that are tyrannical.

Let us, like the Founders of this nations, be conscience bound to disobey all acts of the legislature apparently contrary to natural rights and justice.

“All acts of the legislature apparently contrary to natural rights and justice are, in our law and must be in the nature of things, considered void… We are in conscience bound to disobey.” –Robin vs. Hardaway, 1 Jefferson 109, (Va., 1772)

Let us get 100% behind our President concerning this wonderful advice.

This is an interesting bit of information.

For list Click Here

And remember that this list does not include the NEW Bush/Obama bailout.

Aren’t you glad you don’t pay income taxes? Don’t you wish nobody did?

And to those suckers that do pay the voluntary income tax. You reap what you sow, so shut up and pay up! LOL Millions of illegals and financial institutions and GM are counting on you.

And remember. If you “have” a Social Security Number you are a “taxpayer.” If you don’t you are a “tax payer.” Do you know the difference?

If you went to government schools you probably don’t.

Do you know the difference between voluntary slavery and liberty? If you are an average American then probably not. Yes sir, those Public Schools are sure doing the job they were created to do.

3 of 4 Oklahoma Students Can’t Name First President

Are you smarter about American history than a recent [legal] immigrant? Most of the students in Oklahoma’s public high schools aren’t. A conservative think tank asked thousands of high school kids to answer 10 questions drawn from the citizenship test given to recent immigrants. Would-be citizens have to answer six correctly, and 92% do so on their first try. By contrast, only 3% of the Oklahoma students would have.

A whopping 77% couldn’t name the first president, and 90% didn’t know how many justices are on the Supreme Court. (The question most knew—61%—involved naming the ocean on the East Coast.) The problem is not just an issue for Oklahoma; a study in Arizona yielded similar results. “It points to a real serious problem,” says one think tank member. “Jefferson said that a nation can’t expect to be ignorant and free.”

I recently took the entire citizenship test. I found that some of the questions were so poorly written that you could have several correct answers. The test itself must have been written by Arizona residents. Out of the 100 questions I got 99 correct. I admit that I did not know what form was required to apply for U.S. citizenship. OOPS. I not only knew there were nine justices on the Supreme Court I could name them. Can you?

Can you answer 20% of the following questions:

How many Senators can be elected in any single election year?
How many States lawfully ratified the 17th Amendment?
What is the difference between the united States of America and the United States?
What is the current value of a U.S. dollar?
How can you legally determine what fair market value is?
How many original colonies were there?
What is the difference between a district court of the United States and United States District Court?
Is Tax Court a particularized tribunal?
Can Tax Court hear the claims of non-taxpayers?
How does an American become a taxpayer?
What is a Congressionally created right?
What is a God given right?
What is the difference between a United States Note and a Federal reserve note?
Who was the last President of the United States to print United States Notes.
What comes to your mind when you hear the phase “Back and to the left”?
What is the magic bullet theory?
Would you want to stay at Castle Anthrax?
Who created the magic bullet theory?
What do the 13 stripes on the flag stand for?
What color are the top and bottom stripes on the U.S. flag?
When a U.S. flag has gold trim what does that mean?
What was Nixon looking for at the Watergate?
Who is Daniel Ellsberg?
Where is Vietnam?
What is the difference between legal tender and a dollar?
What is the correct OMB number for a 1040 form?
What is the difference between a resident and a Citizen?
What is the difference between voluntary compliance and mandatory compliance?
What is the difference between a right and a privilege?
What is the difference between having a formal education and being educated?
What law requires a citizen of Nevada to obtain and use a Social Security Number to earn a living?
What law requires you to file an 1040 income tax return and pay the tax?
Did the United States Supreme Court ever rule that “This is a Christian Nation”?
How many of the 13 colonies required elected officials to be Protestants after they became States?
What is the difference between an oath and an affirmation?
Where is Park Place on a Monopoly board?
What political Party did George Washington belong to?
Did Thomas Jefferson sign the Constitution of the United States?
Were George Washington and Benjamin Franklin members of the Masons?
Did George Washington own slaves?
Who is buried in President Grant’s tomb?
Who is buried in Jesus Christ’s tomb?
Do you know what the meaning of the word “is” is?
How many of the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto do most Americans support?
Which plank of the Communist Manifesto calls for a graduated income tax?
Did Hitler, Mussolini, Clinton, Mao, Bush and Stalin all support Gun Control?
When did the word “welfare” change to mean “poor relief”?
What did the State of Illinois officially apologize for?
What did Mussolini define as being more properly called “corporatism”?
Was George W. Bush supporter of corporatism?
Is Obama a Socialist?
Is Obama a Communist?
Is Obama a Corporatist?
Is Obama a Fascist?
Does anyone really care what Obama is as long as he fixes Health care?
Does anyone believe that the government can do a better job with Health Care than the government did with Iraq?
Are you a moron?
What section of the U.S. Constitution allows for a Department of Education?
What President promised to abolish the Department of Education because it was unconstitutional?
What President promised that he would not take a member of the CFR as his Vice-Presidnetial running mate?
Was George Bush the Vice-President when Ronald Reagan was President?
Was George Bush a member of the CFR?
Was Ronald Reagan a traitor to the Constitution of the USA?
Was Reagan a true Conservative?
When did the Department of War become the Department of Defense?
What section of the Constitution allows for a separate and independent Air Force?
Was Adolph Hitler a force in the fashion world in 1942 AD?
What helmets in WWII were the most stylish?
Does the police in your area wear the same type Jackboots as the Nazis did?
How many Russians died in World War II?
How many Poles died in WWII?
How many Jews died in WWII?
How many Slavs died in WWII?
How many Gypsies died in WWII?
How many Americans died in WWII?
Do you know what the Nuremberg defense is?
How many former George W. Bush employees have used the Nuremberg defense?
What is the legal definition of torture?
Who is Judge Bybee?
Have you ever been water boarded?
Did you support the USA PATRIOT ACT?
Are you a Nazi?
Since it took a Constitutional Amendment to stop the sale and manufacture of alcohol what Amendment or section of the U.S Constitution allows for the arrest of Americans for growing and/or use of marijuana?
Are you high?
Did Lenin, Bush, Clinton, Stalin, Mao, Reagan, and Roosevelt support a graduated income tax?
Who was the first President of the United States to support a graduated income tax?
What is the Second Plank of the Communist Manifesto?
Who was the first President of the United States to support the printing of United States Notes?
What is the fifth plank of the Communist Manifesto?
Which President of the United States wanted to send all former African slaves to Grenada?
Which President of the United States was the first to abolish the right to habeas corpus?
Who was the Greatest of all American Presidents?
What is Big Block of Cheese day?
Who was Josiah Bartlett?
Name one United States President that kept a treaty with any American Indian tribe?
Who are the Dann sisters?
Why do we raise our right hand when we swear an oath?
Why do we stand when a judge enters a courtroom?
Which Founding Father is recorded by Madison as believing the following during the Constitutional Debates: “thought the words, if not struck out, would be as alarming as the mark of the Beast in Revelations.”
Which country gave us the foundations of the Jury system?
What is the Council on Foreign Relations?
How can you tell if a Policeman is lying to you?
How can you tell if a Policeman is talking to you?
Are police taught to lie to Americans?
Did the Supreme Court tell Americans they should trust the police to protect their rights?
What country is due south of Detroit, Michigan?
Did you ever have sex with Monica Lewinsky?
What is the 7th largest State in the United States of America?
How many wars have been declared by Congress since 1946 AD?
What is the fair market value of a $100 Federal Reserve Note?
What is the fair market value of $50?
Why is President Andrew Jackson so dearly beloved by Native American indians?
The picture of which President graces the front of the 20 dollar Federal reserve note?
What is the “Trail of Tears?”
What is the fair market value of a $20 Federal Reserve Note?
If you are a U.S. taxpayer how much international debt do you currently owe?
Who said: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
How many members are there on a football team?
What is the difference between AD and CE?
Is macro-evolution a scientific theory or a fact?
Is “our Lord” ever mentioned in the Constitution of the United States?
From whom do Americans obtain their God given rights?
Do rights come from God or the government?
Is America a Republic or a Democracy?
Was America a Republic or a Democracy after the 17th Amendment was placed into the Constitution?
What did James Madison say about Democracies?
Who is most commonly called the Father of the United States?
Who is most commonly called the Father of the American Revolution?
How many Sam Adams’ beers can you name?
What was Liberty Steak?
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Who is most commonly called the Father of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is most commonly called the Father of the Constitution?
Who was the King of England in 1776 AD?
How many wives did King Henry the VIII have?
Which Bible is the most correct Bible?
Which Bible is inerrant?
What is your favorite colour?
Does anyone know a good moose trainer?
How many times was Snoopy shot down by the Red Baron?
How many Americans were killed by Hessians soldiers at the battle of Trenton?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
What is a letter of marque and reprisal?
Can the President of the United States declare war?
What was the value of the “dollar” that is mentioned in the United States Constitution?
What is a thaler?
Is a thaler what Barney Frank calls a sailor?
Why do Americans spell “grey” “gray”?
Do you know the difference between a State Senator and a U.S. Senator?
Can you name your State assemblyman?
Can you name our County Commissioner?
Can you name the governor of your State?
Who wrote the first American/English dictionary?
What is the difference between a U.S. citizen and a Citizen of the United States of America?
What is the difference between a state and a State?
What is your quest?
Historically… who is more dangerous to your liberties…your government or a common criminal?
Did Europeans come to America for the good hunting?
What European country/people were the first to come to the Americas?
Who is Eric the Red?
How can you tell if a woman is a witch?
What weighs the same amount as a duck?
Can you name your Representative to the House of Representatives?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
Can you name your State Senator[s]?
When using a restroom at an airport do you use a wide stance?
Can you name your U.S. Senators?
What was Richard Nixon’s religious preference?
What is Barney Frank’s sexual preference?
Are you the Governor of South Carolina?
Have you ever walked the Appalachian trail nude?
Do you read People magazine?
Do you watch Fox News?
Do you watch MSNBC?
Is Glenn Beck Gay?
Is Keith Olbermann Gay?

Now wasn’t that fun?

Can you imagine that 39% of students could not name the Atlantic Ocean? Yes sir… Those public schools are working just like your masters want them to. Now bundle up your kids and send them to those propaganda mills so they can learn to be good little Socialist/Fascists just like most Americans.

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Maybe you should compare your government school to the schools of Nazi Germany. I did.

Did you know that the original mandatory Pledge of of Allegiance was was opposed by… the ACLU? NOPE!

The Board of Education on January 9, 1942, adopted a resolution containing recitals taken largely from the Court’s Gobitis opinion and ordering that the salute to the flag become ‘a regular part of the program of activities in the public schools,’ that all teachers and pupils ‘shall be required to participate in the salute honoring the Nation represented by the Flag; provided, however, that refusal to salute the Flag be regarded as an Act of insubordination, and shall be dealt with accordingly.

The resolution originally required the ‘commonly accepted salute to the Flag’ which it defined. Objections to the salute as ‘being too much like Hitler’s’ were raised by the Parent and Teachers Association, the Boy and Girl Scouts, the Red Cross, and the Federation of Women’s Clubs. FN3 Some modification appears to have been made in deference to these objections, but no concession was made to Jehovah’s Witnesses. What is now required is the ‘stiff-arm’ salute, the saluter to keep the right hand raised with palm turned up while the following is repeated: ‘I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands; one Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’

FN3 The National Headquarters of the United States Flag Association takes the position that the extension of the right arm in this salute to the flag is not the Nazi-Fascist salute, ‘although quite similar to it. In the Pledge to the Flag the right arm is extended and raised, palm Upward, whereas the Nazis extend the arm practically straight to the front (the finger tips being about even with the eyes), palm Downward, and the Fascists do the same except they raise the arm slightly higher.’ James A. Moss, The Flag of the United States: Its History and Symbolism (1914) 108.

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette 319 U.S. 624, 629, 63 S.Ct. 1178, 1181 (U.S. 1943)

Do you have your children give the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag? Do you know the history of the pledge? Are you just a blind patriot that does not know why but only that you must? Have you ever honestly consider why you do? Have you ever considered the what the Ten Commandments say about such things?

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson

“A strict observation of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Colvin, 1810 AD

Today is 9/11.

Please remember all the lies our government told us because of this day.

The lies are legion. They continue. Republican/Democrat… no difference.

By Charles Charpentier,

On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment, courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn which would require all Members of Congress and their staff members to enroll in any new government-run health plan.

Congressman John Fleming has proposed an amendment that would require Congressmen and Senators to take the same health care plan that they would force on us. (Under proposed legislation they are exempt.)

Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go to his Website and sign his petition. The process is very simple. I have done just that at:

http://fleming.house.gov/index.html .

Senator Coburn and Congressman Fleming are both physicians.

Whether or not you agree with ObamaCare, it sure seems reasonable that Congress should have exactly the same medical coverage that they impose on the rest of us.

Please urge as many people as you can to do the same!

9/11 Commission Counsel: Government Agreed to Lie About 9/11

New book from man tasked by government to help investigate attacks unveils how “official story is almost entirely untrue”
http://www.amazon.ca/Ground-Truth-Behind-Americas-Defense/dp/0151013764

The senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission - John Farmer - says that the government agreed not to tell the truth about 9/11, echoing the assertions of fellow 9/11 Commission members who concluded that the Pentagon were engaged in deliberate deception about their response to the attack.

Farmer served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (officially known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States), and is also a former New Jersey Attorney General.

Farmer’s book about his experiences working for the Commission is entitled The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11, and is set to be released in September.

The book unveils how “the public had been seriously misled about what occurred during the morning of the attacks,” and Farmer himself states that “at some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened.”

Only the very naive would dispute that an agreement not to tell the truth is an agreement to lie. Farmer’s contention is that the government agreed to create a phony official version of events to cover-up the real story behind 9/11.

The publisher of the book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, states that, “Farmer builds the inescapably convincing case that the official version not only is almost entirely untrue but serves to create a false impression of order and security.”

In August 2006, the Washington Post reported, “Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.”

The report revealed how the 10-member commission deeply suspected deception to the point where they considered referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.

“We to this day don’t know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us,” said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. “It was just so far from the truth. . . . It’s one of those loose ends that never got tied.”

Farmer himself is quoted in the Post article, stating, “I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The [Norad air defense] tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years…. This is not spin. This is not true.”

Released portions of NORAD tapes from 9/11, which were featured in a Vanity Fair article, do little to answer skeptic’s questions about the impotence of U.S. air defenses on 9/11 and if anything only increase focus on the incompatibility of the official version of events with what is actually known to have taken place on that day.