What an artform the high-level whitewash has become. Pretty words, carefully arranged into a beautiful story that reduces to footnotes or outright ignores crucial elements of the crime that no second rate insurance investigator would dare to tolerate. The "official story", a grand and miraculous sequence of stunning coincidences that boggles the critical mind, was strongly and adamantly supported from the start. Any evidence, whether witness testimony or contradictory documentation, not fitting into the pre-arranged conclusion was simply and blatantly ommitted from the report. Again and again and again. An infection from the start. Independent investigative commission? What a cruel joke. Effective, realistic examination of the failures on 911? Absurd. I try to imagine a more critical body of lies and altered accounts given the commission in it's "offical purpose" than that from the offials at the Pentagon and NORAD. I can't. And the tour de force in the investigation of any crime, especially - supposedly - regarding the largest mass murder in US history, is the "why", which goes to motive. And the commission officially concludes that the financing of the suicide hijacking on 911 was, ultimately of little consequence? I still, after 3 years, shake my head in disbelief. Regarding the opening statement to the American public: "... We're not out to blame anyone..." it is the one truthful, compelling conclusion as a result of this government financed farce known as the 9/11 Commission. Michael McCoy