Professor Michael Welch (professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University, and author of “Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex” and “Scapegoats of September 11th: Hate Crimes and State Crimes in the War on Terror”) (2019): “As Canadian journalist and media critic Barrie Zwicker explained in his 2006 book Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11, mainstream journalists throughout Canada and the Western world failed spectacularly in their role to critically examine the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 and its consequences… Pertinent questions as to ulterior motives for a deadly military invasion of Afghanistan, or about the failure to scramble military aircraft to intercept the hijacked airplanes when they veered off course were never asked in the prominent newspapers, television networks and other major media organs of the day. Any skeptical inquiry of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the months immediately following the attacks was confined to ‘limited hang-outs’ along the lines of the CIA ‘never getting its act together’ and controversies about the crime possibly being ‘blow-back’ from America’s oppressive policies in the Middle East and elsewhere” (Michael Welch and the late Michael Ruppert, “9/11, drug money, oil and the invasion of Afghanistan: Michael Ruppert refutes the official 9/11 story. The March 2002 Roundtable, Featuring Mike Ruppert. Conversation on Canadian TV”, Global Research, 5 September 2019: https://www.globalresearch.ca/911-and-drug-money/5688224 ).