(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t just a skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Democratic presidential spoiler recently questioned the official narrative of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
On a podcast with CNN reporter Peter Bergen, Kennedy reportedly said he doesn’t know what exactly happened on 9/11.
“I mean, I understand what the official explanation is. I understand that there is dissent,” he said. “I have not looked into it. I haven’t examined it. I’m not a good person to talk to about it.”
Kennedy’s remarks prompted Bergen to ask whether he has any doubts al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks.
He said, “I know there’s strange things that happened” on 9/11. When pressed further about exactly what he meant, Kennedy then cited Building 7—one of the World Trade Center structures that collapsed along with the main two towers.
The U.S. government’s official narrative is that Building 7 was destroyed by fires caused by the main two towers collapsing, while dissident researchers have been arguing for years that Building 7 collapsed at free-fall speeds—which they say suggests a controlled demolition.
But Bergen responded to Kennedy by spewing misinformation that doesn’t even fit government’s narrative. According to Bergen, Building 7 fell “because two of the world’s biggest buildings collapsed on top of it.”
Kennedy tore into Bergen for his mischaracterization.
“There’s pictures of it collapsing. There’s nothing collapsing on top of it. I mean, listen, I don’t want to argue any theories about this because all I’ve heard is questions. I have no explanation. I have no knowledge of it,” he said.
“But what you’re repeating now, I know not to be true.”
To Kennedy’s point about Building 7, a new paper in the Journal of 9/11 Studies this year further made the case that it was destroyed via controlled demolition.
But while the mystery of Building 7 may never be solved, new information is still dripping out about how some of the 9/11 hijackers were intelligence assets.
In March, veteran national security reporter Seth Hettena published a government document citing two unnamed FBI agents who allegedly said that the CIA was monitoring and attempting to recruit two of the airplane hijackers in the lead-up to the attack.
The government document is a sworn statement from Office of Military Commissions investigator Don Canestraro, who summarized the inteviews he conducted with FBI agents about the 9/11 case.
According to Canestraro, at least two FBI agents told him that the CIA had attempted to recruit two of the hijackers—Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar.
Kennedy isn’t the only presidential candidate to question the 9/11 official narrative.
GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy recently came under fire for doubting the 9/11 Commission’s findings.
“What I’ve seen in the last several years is we have to be skeptical of what the government does tell us. I haven’t seen evidence to the contrary, but do I believe everything the government told us about it? Absolutely not,” Ramaswamy said in an interview last month. “Do I believe the 9/11 commission? Absolutely not.”
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
