In praising creation of the International Center for 9/11 Justice, Gage continues to shield the cabal that pushes almost every element of the Pentagon official story

July 4, 2023

By Craig McKee

Recently, AE911Truth founder Richard Gage posted an article on his website about the creation of the International Center for 9/11 Justice. In this article, Gage is effusive in his praise for the “new” organization, which he hails as a great advance for the 9/11 Truth Movement. In doing so, he compounds past harm he has done to the movement in the form of his support for a cabal that is determined to neutralize the fundamental evidence that proves U.S. government complicity in the 9/11 crimes.

As Gage and other 9/11 truth “leaders” confer false legitimacy on cabal members like David Chandler, Wayne Coste, and Ken Jenkins, they help those individuals to suppress the overwhelming evidence that a 757 crash was faked at the Pentagon. And this is very harmful to our cause because there is no other entity but the government that could have staged this event.

This cabal has done everything it can over the past 15 plus years to get this evidence taken off the table. They have used outright lies and a vast assortment of manipulative tactics to suppress it. They have convinced a significant number of well-meaning truthers that the Pentagon evidence should be put on the back burner because it’s too “controversial” and too “divisive.” This is very unfortunate. And false.

The only way this conclusion can be reached is if one looks at the Pentagon event in the most superficial way. I continue to be baffled that some people shrewd enough to see through the 9/11 lies can be so thoroughly hoodwinked by this infiltration and disinformation campaign.

I acknowledge the valuable contribution that Gage has made to our cause over the past 16 or so years, and I think he can continue to be an asset in our efforts. But it is precisely because of his stature within the movement that he must be very careful about who, and what, he endorses. He has real power among truthers, and in the past he has not always used that power wisely.

As I comment below, Gage put his name to a statement titled, “Complete Withdrawal of Support for CIT” (Citizen Investigation Team is the group that exposed the essential truth that the plane seen approaching the Pentagon did so on a path that is irreconcilable with the alleged “damage.” The meaning of this revelation is clear: if the plane didn’t create the “damage,” then the damage had to have been staged to fool the world.)

Gage gave in to pressure from the cabal (particularly former longtime AE911Truth volunteer Chris Sarns) to attack CIT, and this did damage that we are still dealing with today. In fact, one can attribute a portion of the rise to prominence of this cabal to Gage’s terrible judgment from 2011.  He knows very well what the case against the cabal is. I’ve spoken to him about this personally.

Further compounding the problem is something I discovered just yesterday. Gage’s disingenuous and harmful statement against CIT (which I plan to deconstruct in a future article) is actually posted on his recently created website (post AE911Truth). Stunning. Instead of being embarrassed to have put his name to this piece of propaganda, he is calling attention to it all over again.

I can’t help wondering if he did this on his own or whether he was pressured, yet again, by someone like Chandler to do so. The ethical, and truthful, thing for Gage to do would be to remove this page from his site and to renounce the statement. Doing so would truly help the movement to proceed in a more positive direction.

The text below is the comment I posted on Gage’s page a couple of days ago:

Richard, I don’t think you have yet figured out the harm you are doing by propping up people like David Chandler as they seek to gain total control of the movement. But the harm is considerable. It seems that no matter how dishonest and how outrageous the behavior of Chandler and this cabal, “leaders” like you will protect them. You help these people to maintain a veneer of “respectability,” which they use to do more and more damage.

You are now adding to the damage you did in 2011 when you put your name to a statement (written by someone else) that was labeled “Complete Withdrawal of Support for CIT.” If you want to be a truly unifying figure, you’ll withdraw that piece of propaganda that you were pressured into putting your name to. It remains a significant blemish on your record.

I would have thought that you had learned your lesson, but it seems you haven’t. Your reverence for the latest rewarmed 9/11 organization – the “new” International Center for 9/11 Justice – is misplaced to put it gently. In fact, your characterization of this organization as something new, fresh, and “ambitious” is disingenuous. This is more of a marketing effort and an effort to consolidate the cabal’s power than any genuine attempt to expose truth.

You refer to the people behind this organization as a “consortium of well-respected influential figures in the 9/11 Truth Movement.” Unfortunately, the worst of them HAVE been influential. But not in a good way. One has to be ignorant of the history of the movement to find Chandler “well-respected.” He is easily the most divisive and toxic figure in the movement (of course, I’ll be accused of fitting this description simply for daring to call him out for his unethical behavior, which I have plenty of evidence for).

You wrote that the creation of this “new” organization effectively resurrects “the best of three prominent technically-oriented organizations in the Movement that have received far less attention than they have deserved over the last decade or so.” At best, this is an exaggeration. At worst, it is a significant distortion.

I’m not sure whether the Toronto Hearings or the Journal of 9/11 Studies actually qualify as “organizations” at all. The former was a conference, and the latter is a website controlled by Kevin Ryan, who is part of the very cabal that Chandler has made his full-time preoccupation over the past 13 plus years. Ryan has all but called CIT agents and has posted a video that mocks them. How academic of him. He also wrote in his book Another Nineteen that the best way to challenge the official story of 9/11 is to “accept as much of the official account as possible.” (He writes that he favors this strategy for the sake of “simplicity” and to avoid “adding unnecessary complications.”)

Then we have the only thing one could actually call an organization, the now dormant 9/11 Consensus Panel. This effort has joined the other two in marginalizing, if not outright suppressing, the essential evidence that the U.S. government faked a plane crash at the Pentagon. Panel co-founder Elizabeth Woodworth (joining Chandler and Ryan as board members of the new group) admits that no points that address what caused the damage to the Pentagon were ever even considered by the panel. Even if they had been, Chandler and fellow cabal members Jon Cole, Fran Shure, and Dwain Deets would have had the votes to defeat such points. (Only four votes were needed to block them.)

Most concerning about your gushing and uncritical support for this “organization” is that it seems to coincide with your new meeting of the minds with one of your former harsh critics, Ted Walter. You have something very significant in common, you both feel you were wronged by AE911Truth, and the transfer of influence from AE to your efforts and to the IC911J seems awfully self-serving. But while it may be great for you and Ted, it is doing real damage to the organization that still represents more than 3,500 architects and engineers.

Your legacy in this movement will be significantly affected by how you deal with Chandler and company in the months and years ahead. You have failed this test in the past. But it’s not too late to do the right thing.