Journal of 9/11 Studies | The radar coverage of the United States airspace is nearly complete. In particular the northeastern area, where all four hijackings took place on 9/11, has no “gaps” whatsoever in radar coverage. Nonetheless there was radar loss on 9/11 with respect to the third hijacked plane, American Airlines Flight 77, which was reported to have hit the Pentagon.

BrowardBulldog.org | A Saudi family who “fled” their Sarasota area home weeks before 9/11 had “many connections” to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001,” according to newly released FBI records.One partially declassified document, marked “secret,” lists three of those individuals and ties them to the Venice, Fla., flight school where suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi trained. Accomplice Ziad Jarrah took flying lessons at another school a block away.

LewRockwell.com | The government's fidelity to the Constitution is never more tested than in a time of crisis. The urge to do something – or to appear to be doing something – is nearly irresistible to those whom we have employed to protect our freedom and to keep us safe. Regrettably, with each passing violent crisis – Waco, Oklahoma City, Columbine, 9/11, Newtown and now the Boston Marathon – our personal freedoms continue to slip away, and the government itself remains the chief engine of that slippage.

NJ | On its individual merits, the 30-month sentence imposed last month on former CIA officer John Kiriakou seems straightforward enough.The investigation followed Kiriakou’s open discussion of the CIA’s waterboarding of terrorist suspects, but led eventually to his admitted disclosure of the name of another CIA officer to a reporter, in clear violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Although the reporter never made public the officer’s identity, and Kiriakou claims to have believed the officer had retired, in fact the officer was, at the time of the disclosure, on active duty overseas. The national security risk in disclosing the identity is clear.

Rawstory | The Central Intelligence Agency was responsible for a bizarre episode of live censorship during Monday’s pretrial hearing for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a Miami Herald reporter. The incident occurred during a question about a motion to preserve whatever remains of the CIA black site prisons where the defendants say they were tortured. Observers watching the trial from behind a pane of glass had their audio feed cut for about three minutes, and others viewing the trial remotely also lost video.

Fox News | The FBI suspected within days of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that the American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki may have purchased tickets for some of the hijackers for air travel in advance of the attacks, according to newly released documents reviewed exclusively by Fox News. The purpose of these flights remains unclear, but the 9/11 Commission report later noted that the hijackers had used flights in the lead-up to the attacks to test security and surveillance.

Paulcraigroberts.org | In the Western world truth no longer has any meaning. It its place stands agenda. Agenda is all important, because it is the way Washington achieves hegemony over the world and the American people. 9/11 was the “new Pearl Harbor” that the neoconservatives declared to be necessary for their planned wars against Muslim countries. For the neoconservatives to go forward with their agenda, it was necessary for Americans to be connected to the agenda.

Mad Cow Prod | The long run of Rudi Dekkers, 56, the Dutch national who first passed out bunks to Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi when they arrived in the United States to enroll at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida, ended last week when he was arrested for drug trafficking in Houston.(read the criminal complaint .pdf)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sept. 11th was surely one of the most defining and poignant moments in American history. The events of that day have been rehashed in countless television specials and documentaries, but in 2013 audiences can expect something different. A 9/11 "truther" fim titled "September Morn" is set to hit theaters and it has two big Hollywood names at the helm.

The Excavator Blog | Washington's covert alliance with Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria proves that the U.S. war against Al Qaeda was never genuine. The official 9/11 story served as a sacred myth to brainwash the world and a propaganda cover for the pursuit of criminal imperialist and Zionist goals in the Middle East.

Gothamist | Libertarian icon Rep. Ron Paul is not in Florida to accept the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention. But he is in Florida to tell folks at Southern Florida University that he would have stopped 9/11. Or something!

Excavator | When did telling the truth become a sign of madness in America? Was it on September 12, 2001? How about November 23, 1963? Who can remember now? It seems like forever ago. The ghost of legendary American poet and heroic patriot Ezra Pound would argue it happened before the 1950s. Pound was mislabeled "insane" for his political speech by the fascist U.S. government after the conclusion of WWII and subsequently thrown in the mental prison called, "St. Elizabeths Hospital." Ironically, this same insane asylum now houses the Department of Homeland Security.

CPT12 | Saturday, August 18 at 7:00 pm on Channel 12.1 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION. In this new film, over 40 experts in the fields of structural engineering, high-rise architecture, controlled demolition, physics, chemistry and metallurgy lay out the case for a controlled demolition of the World Trade Center on 9/11. The experts cite evidence showing that high-temperature incendiaries and explosives were planted throughout the twin towers and the lesser-known Building 7 which collapsed later the same day. The film also addresses the seeming implausibility of the implications of a controlled demolition. Eight experts in psychology (including four from Colorado) discuss the difficulties many people have in confronting this possible reality and how necessary the truth is for healing – both at the individual and collective levels.