Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory...........
http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Inf...361&linkCode=wey&tag=red08-20&creative=380729
(Olive Branch Press, September 2010), by David Ray Griffin
Griffinâs 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 âconspiracy theories.â Arguing that such theories are believed only by groups suffering from âinformational isolation,â he advocated the use of anonymous government agents to engage in âcognitive infiltrationâ of these groups in order to introduce âcognitive diversity,â with the aim of breaking them up.
Noting that Sunsteinâs proposal has evoked condemnations from across the political spectrumânot least because it, being similar to the FBIâs COINTELPRO of the 1960s, would be illegalâDavid Ray Griffin focuses on the fact that Sunsteinâs primary target is the conspiracy theory advocated by the 9/11 Truth Movement. Examining Sunsteinâs charge that this theory is both âharmfulâ and âdemonstrably false,â Griffin uses both satire and overwhelming evidence to show that this twofold charge applies instead to what Sunstein calls âthe true conspiracy theoryâ about 9/11-namely, the âtheory that Al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11.â
Cover Reviews:
âDavid Ray Griffin has written a devastating critique of Cass
Sunsteinâs major effort to situate all critics of the official 9/11
story in the garbage pail of âconspiracy theory.â 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.â
âRichard Falk, professor emeritus, Princeton University