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Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

Highly recommended!

Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
(Olive Branch
Press, September 2010), by David Ray Griffin

Griffin's meritorious effort to raise public awareness and understanding



Former Chicago and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who in 2009
was appointed by President Barack Obama to direct an important executive
branch office, had in 2008 co-authored an article containing a plan for
the government to prevent the spread of anti-government "conspiracy
theories." Arguing that such theories are believed only by groups
suffering from "informational isolation," he advocated the use of
anonymous government agents to engage in "cognitive infiltration" of
these groups in order to introduce "cognitive diversity," with the aim
of breaking them up.


Noting that Sunstein's proposal has evoked condemnations from across
the political spectrum--not least because it, being similar to the
FBI's COINTELPRO of the 1960s, would be illegal--David Ray Griffin
focuses on the fact that Sunstein's primary target is the conspiracy
theory advocated by the 9/11 Truth Movement. Examining Sunstein's charge
that this theory is both "harmful" and "demonstrably false," Griffin
uses both satire and overwhelming evidence to show that this twofold
charge applies instead to what Sunstein calls "the true conspiracy
theory" about 9/11-namely, the "theory that Al-Qaeda was responsible for
9/11."


Cover Reviews:


“David Ray Griffin has written a
devastating critique of Cass
Sunstein’s major effort to situate all
critics of the official 9/11
story in the garbage pail of ‘conspiracy
theory.’ Bringing to bear

his formidable philosophical and theological skills, Griffin
brilliantly
illuminates this cognitive/ political concern,
demonstrating that
the American people will never find out what
really happened on that
fateful day until we as citizens insist on

considering all available evidence with a fresh and open mind.”
Richard
Falk
, professor emeritus, Princeton University

“There should
be a book entitled the ‘Courage of David Ray Griffin.’
His
continuing efforts to speak truth to power regarding issues of

9/11/2001 are most admirable. Griffin’s Cognitive Infiltration
addresses
the central denial of key government officials in both
parties who,
when faced with overwhelming factual evidence of serious
problems
with the 9/11 Commission’s report, lash out at the very

people seeking truth and justice. Cass Sunstein is one of those
Harvard
‘insiders’ who not only denies open democratic questioning of
9/11,
but overtly advocates the disruption and cognitive infiltration
of
such groups.”

Peter Phillips, Professor of Sociology, Sonoma State University,
and
President of Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored

“Unrestrained
and unchallenged combination of top level political
power and
academic intellectual arrogance can be a dangerous prelude

to governmental censorship and potential criminalization of
individuals
who dare to challenge ‘official’ versions of various
catastrophes
and major events of a highly controversial nature. Dr.
David Ray
Griffin exposes and analyses this grave concern in an

objective, scholarly dissection of a sociopolitical proposal set
forth
by Cass Sunstein in 2008. Readers of Cognitive Infiltration
will be
both shocked and enlightened by this well documented and
brilliantly
written book.”

Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., past president, American Academy of
Forensic
Sciences, and past president, American College of Legal
Medicine

“In
2009, President Obama appointed a Harvard Law School professor,

Cass Sunstein, to be head of the White House’s Office of Information
and
Regulatory Affairs. This was after Sunstein had made a
controversial
proposal, which would later inflame the internet, for
‘cognitive
infiltration’ of the 9/11 Truth Movement, with the aim of

‘breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy
theories.’
Professor Griffin has responded to Sunstein’s dangerous
argument
with a patient, point-by-point and much needed refutation.
He
relentlessly shows how Sunstein himself is guilty of the very

mentality he warns against: closed-mindedness and refusal to debate.
Those
who seek to prevent 2010 from becoming 1984 will want to arm
themselves
with this valuable book.”
Peter Dale Scott, professor
emeritus of English, University of

California, Berkeley, and author of Drugs, Oil, and War

“David
Ray Griffin is the preeminent expert on the events of
September 11,
2001; his research is consistently careful, thorough,
and objective.
His previous books are necessary reading for all

Americans, and there is no doubt that thousands of Americans in
government
circles have read them, studied them, and, in some cases,
worried
about them. In Cognitive Infiltration, Griffin impartially
dissects
Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Cass Sunstein’s

controversial essay, co-written by conservative law professor Adrian
Vermeule,
entitled ‘Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures.’
Surprisingly,
given the sensitivity and potential divisiveness of the
topic,
Griffin has produced a fair, generously fact-filled, often

funny, assessment. Additional interest is provided by the suggestion
that
Sunstein—far from being an enemy of both the Constitution and
the
9/11 Truth Movement—may in fact be a secret supporter and a
potential
bridge- builder from the current government fictions

regarding 9/11 to an improved national consensus about what really
happened.”
Karen
Kwiatkowsk
i, Ph.D., USAF Lt Colonel (retired), member of
Veterans
for 9/11 Truth

About the Author:


David Ray Griffin is professor of philosophy of religion and theology,
emeritus, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate
University in Claremont, California, where he remains a co-director of
the Center for Process Studies. He is the author of over 30 books.


Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine
the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
is available at Interlink Books (http://www.interlinkbooks.com)
and at local bookstores for $18.

It is also available at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Infiltration-Appointees-Undermine-C...) for $12.15.

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