Although the Bush
administration continues to exploit September 11 to justify domestic
spying, unprecedented spending and a permanent state of war, a new
Zogby poll reveals that less than half of the American public trusts
the official 9/11 story or believes the attacks were adequately
investigated.
911Truth.org Urges 2006 Reform Candidates to Recognize a Powerful New
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The poll is the first scientific survey of Americans' belief in a 9/11
cover up or the need to investigate possible US government complicity,
and was commissioned to inform deliberations at the June 2~4 "9/11:
Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future" conference in Chicago. Poll
results indicate 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up (with 10%
unsure) and 45% think "Congress or an International Tribunal should
re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government
officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success" (with
8% unsure). The poll of American residents was conducted from Friday,
May 12 through Tuesday, May 16, 2004. Overall results have a margin of
sampling error of +/- 2.9. All inquiries about questions, responses and
demographics should be directed to Zogby International.
According to Janice Matthews, executive director of 911truth.org, "To
those who have followed the mounting evidence for US government
involvement in 9/11, these results are both heartening and frankly
quite amazing, given the mainstream media's ongoing refusal to cover
the most critical questions of that day. Our August 2004 Zogby poll of
New Yorkers showed nearly half believe certain US officials
'consciously' allowed the attacks to happen and 66% want a fresh
investigation, but these were people closest to the tragedy and most
familiar with facts refuting the official account. This revelation that
so many millions nationwide now also recognize a 9/11 cover up and the
need for a new inquiry should be a wake up call for all 2006 political
candidates hoping to turn this country around. We think it also
indicates Americans are awakening to the larger pattern of deceit that
led us into Constitutional twilight and endless war, and that our
independent media may have finally come of age."
Poll co-author, W. David Kubiak concurs, saying: "Despite years of
relentless media promotion, whitewash and 9/11 Commission propaganda,
the official 9/11 story still can't even muster 50% popular support.
Since this myth has been the administration's primary source of
political and war-making power, this level of distrust has
revolutionary implications for everyone working for peace, justice and
civil liberties. If we ever hope to reclaim this country, end
aggression and restore international respect, we all must finally
scrutinize that day when things started to go so terribly wrong. The
media and movement leaders ignore this call at their peril, because
tens of millions are clearly telling us here they are ready for 9/11
truth."
SCOPE: The poll covered five related areas: 1) Iraq - do Americans
think the Bush administration exploited 9/11 to attack Iraq? (44% do,
44% don't); 2) Cover up - did the government and its 9/11 Commission
conceal or refuse to investigate evidence that contradicts their
official story? (only 48% said no); 3) the collapse of WTC 7, which was
not even mentioned by the 9/11 Commission and has seldom been reported
in the media---had respondents been aware of this collapse and, if so,
did they think it should be investigated (only 52% had known about it,
but over 70% of this group believe it should have been investigated);
4) new investigation of official complicity - do respondents think we
need one? (only 48% said no); and 5) mass media - how do people rate
its performance, including its coverage of alternative 9/11 theories,
unanswered questions and inquiry issues? (43% rate it positively, 55%
negatively).
(The poll sponsors see knowledge of the collapse of World Trade Center
Building 7 as a bellwether issue, because if people do not know this
elementary fact, they have probably not been exposed to any independent
9/11 research at all. Because the number of respondents who support a
new investigation of 9/11 (45%)) is roughly the same as the number who
knew about the collapse of Building 7 (52%), it can reasonably be
extrapolated that if the entire public were exposed to independent 9/11
research, about 90 percent would support a new investigation of the
events of that fateful day.)
SPONSOR: 911truth.org is a coalition of researchers, journalists and
victim family members working to expose and answer the hundreds of
still unresolved questions concerning 9/11, especially the nearly 400
questions that the Family Steering Committee filed with the 9/11
Commission. Initially welcomed by the commissioners as their "road
map," these queries cut to the heart of 9/11 crimes and accountability,
specifically raising the central issues of motive, means and cui bono
(who profited?). The Commission ultimately ignored 80% of these issues,
however, opting only to explore system failures, miscommunications and
incompetence. The victim families' most incisive questions remain
unaddressed to this day.
For more information on the Chicago "9/11: Revealing the Truth,
Reclaiming our Future" conference and other developments, see
http://www.911truth.org and http://911revealingthetruth.org or contact
our media coordinator, Michael Berger, at 314-308-4893.
* Numerical computations conservatively based on 2000 Census
data
citing 174 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 64.
Survey Methodology: Zogby America, 5/12/06 through 5/16/06
This is a telephone survey of adults nationwide conducted by Zogby
International. The target sample is 1,200 interviews with approximately
81 questions asked. Samples are randomly drawn from telephone
cd’s of national listed sample. Zogby International surveys
employ sampling strategies in which selection probabilities are
proportional to population size within area codes and exchanges. As
many as six calls are made to reach a sampled phone number. Cooperation
rates are calculated using one of AAPOR’s approved
methodologies1 and are comparable to other professional public-opinion
surveys conducted using similar sampling strategies.2 Weighting by
region, party, age, race, religion, and gender is used to adjust for
non-response. The margin of error is +/- 2.9 percentage points. Margins
of error are higher in sub-groups.
Zogby International’s sampling and weighting procedures also
have been validated through its political polling: more than 95% of the
firm’s polls have come within 1% of actual election-day
outcomes.
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