SFC Buswell, a decorated soldier, is by numerous measures a patriot who willingly and regularly risked his life in service to the United States. Unfortunately, the United States Army did not see it that way.

On that August day in 2006, Buswell received an e-mail which claimed to refute the "liberal" idea that a jet aircraft cannot vaporize. The e-mail’s author intended to support the 9/11 Commission’s claim that the plane which hit the Pentagon on 9/11/2001 literally atomized. It was sent to 34 people in the compartmentalized information facility at Ft. Sam Houston. Its allegation was not one Buswell could let pass unanswered.

His response, found in The Iconoclast’s first story about SFC Buswell – published Aug. 21, 2006 – refuted the allegation that airplanes can vaporize, and urged his fellow soldiers to support a new investigation into the attacks; to question the official story and "demand answers."

The next day, he was denied entry into his place of work. Soon thereafter, the Army informed him that he was under investigation. In the following days, he was fired from his job, demoted, ordered to undergo a mental health examination, and accused by Col. Luke S. Green, chief of staff at US Army North (Fifth Army), of "making statements disloyal to the United States."

Though under direct orders to avoid speaking to the media, Buswell’s story got out via his friends, family, and associates. The Iconoclast has since published three installations of his tale, and this reporter was contracted to retell the tale for Fort Worth Weekly, an alternative paper in North Texas, in May 2007. None of these articles quoted Buswell, as he was still in the military and still under orders of silence.

'The 9/11 NCO' Speaks Out

Did anyone see the O'Reily footage from 'Inside' where he yells and swears at his producer because of tella-prompter problems? I thought Bill's toupee was going to fly off. It's on Youtube.com if you want to check it out.
Good stuff, indeed.

Lionel, I listen to you everyday and I enjoy your show very much, but you have the same bug up your butt about Keith Olbermann that Olbermann has about O'Really?. Yes, Jon Stewart gives great news and interviews, but Olberman's show isn't NEWS, it clearly states that it is reflecting daily news stories. Reflecting. Olbermann comments, he gives opinion, that's his job. I love Countdown because it is the first show (aside from The Daily Show) in Bush's term that isn't overtly right wing propaganda.

I came to adulthood believing that American media told the truth, a conviction I never held about US government (10th grade civics question to my teacher: Why expect me to believe that the Soviets were the ONLY ones feeding propaganda to their citizenry?). The past 15 years have been pure torture for me because I saw lies and distortion grow and spread on the cable channels "news" shows. Five years ago I stopped watching FOX because I just couldn't take it anymore. Countdown's March 2003 inception brought a glimmer of hope that somebody (aside from Jon Stewart, who will NOT admit that he makes a difference in news coverage) would speak truth to power, and Olbermann does it splendidly.

Ragging on Hillary Clinton about her campaign is FINE with me. I want a woman president, but it isn't going to be Clinton. She feels no more like a Democrat than ex-Dem Liebermann did. She campaigns like a Republican, she is disconnected from reality like a Republican, and she seems to expect Democrats to follow her like unthinking sheep. I want her to stop, go home, lick her wounds and get on with her job as a US Senator. Keith Olbermann makes me feel better about this presidential race.