Falk wrote the preface to David Ray Griffin 's book '' The New Pearl Harbor : Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 '' ( 2004 ) which maintains that the George W. Bush administration was complicit in the September 11 attacks . Griffin believes the twin-towers were brought down by a controlled explosion . In the preface to '' The New Pearl Harbor '' , Falk argued : " There have been questions raised here and there and allegations of official complicity made almost from the day of the attacks " . Until Griffin 's book , " no one had put the pieces together in a single coherent account " . David Aaronovitch , of '' The Times '' ( London ) , commented in April 2008 : " There is n't a single point of alleged fact upon which Griffin 's barking theory has n't itself been demolished . And there is n't a single volume of Griffin that does n't carry Falk 's endorsement . " In November 2008 , Falk wrote in '' The Journal '' , a student publication in Edinburgh , Scotland : " It is not paranoid under such circumstances to assume that the established elites of the American governmental structure have something to hide and much to explain ... The persisting inability to resolve this fundamental controversy about 9/11 subtly taints the legitimacy of the American government . It can only be removed by a willingness , however belated , to reconstruct the truth of that day , and to reveal the story behind its prolonged suppression . " In 2008 , Falk called for an official commission to further study these issues , including the role neoconservatives may have played in the attacks , saying : " It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people . Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not , I do n't think we can answer definitively at this point . " In January 2011 , Susan Rice , the United States Ambassador to the United Nations , suggested that Falk should be removed from his U.N. posts after he wrote on his blog about the " eerie silence of the mainstream media , unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events : an al Qaeda operation with no foreknowledge by government officials . " United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon , in a speech said : " I condemn this sort of inflammatory rhetoric . It is preposterous , an affront to the memory of the more than 3,000 people who died in that tragic terrorist attack . " Ban stated that only the U.N. Human Rights Council could remove its appointees from office
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Richard A. Falk