David Ray Griffin

David Ray Griffin is a professor of philosophy, of religion and theology, at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California, since the mid-1970s, and is co-director of the Center for Process Studies there. Griffin is the author or editor of over 20 books, including the carefully researched and documented study The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9-11 (2004) and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, books in which he argues there is compelling evidence members of the United States government were complicit in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Griffin is a longtime resident of Santa Barbara, California.

In The New Pearl Harbor, Griffin summarizes the work of other researchers who assert the administration of US President George W. Bush was directly behind the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. He uses his training in logic to analyze the validity of their arguments. In the introduction, he makes it clear he has not verified the truth of all the premises of the researchers he cites and that he therefore cannot assess the soundness of their arguments. He also clearly states the overall thesis of his argument: there should be a well funded and thorough-going investigation of all the questions raised.

In an interview with Nick Welsh, Thinking Unthinkable Thoughts: Theologian Charges White House Complicity in 9/11 Attack [1], Griffin analyzes charges the US government sent airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and these airplanes were only a cover for the explosives the George W. Bush administration had planted within the World Trade Center towers.

Griffin, who has no advanced scientific training, cites and anylizes the claims of others who believe the collapse of the WTC towers was a controlled demolition, an assertation which many engineers deny. He cites researchers who claim Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon, outside Washington, D.C., and was blown up by members of the George W. Bush administration.

He cites researchers who imply the US government kidnapped and murdered the passengers on flight 77, considered by these researchers as missing and unaccounted for.

The second edition of The New Pearl Harbor contains additional material on the Saudi Arabian hijackers, Sibel Edmonds, his analysis of the official 9/11 Commission set up by the US government, and his belief that the US Government deliberately changed its standard rules for analyzing military intelligence in order to allow the nineteen hijackers to kill over three thousand Americans.

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See also: David Ray Griffin, 2004, 9/11 Commission, Claremont, California, Claremont School of Theology, Controlled demolition, David Kelly, Downing Street memo, Flight 77, George W. Bush