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The Reasons Why Thousands Of Victims' Family Members Want a New 9/11 Investigation

Before any family members voiced their opinion that they wanted a new investigation, it must be noted that if it were not for them there wouldn't have been an investigation at all. It's also important to demonstrate that the facts were the deciding factor in their determination that the investigation they did get was totally inept. That said...

Obstructed Investigations:

For 14 months the Bush administration was able to hinder and obstruct any public investigation of the attack. According to Senator Tom Daschle, both the President and the Vice President lobby him for no 9/11 investigation. Dick Cheney even threatens Congressional Democrats with “interfering with the war on terror” if they press for a 9/11 investigation.

When the Commission was formed, the families were none too pleased that its executive Director, Philip Zelikow, had "deep, lasting ties to several members of both the Bush I and Bush II administrations," co-authored a book with Condoleeza Rice, was a part of the Bush II transition team, participated in White House briefings on al-Qaeda in 2000 and 2001, and sat on Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

According to an unnamed source on the Commission Zelikow was "calling the shots" and "skewing the investigation and running it his own way."

Commissioner Max Cleland didn't resign specifically due to objections over Zelikow, although from looking at press reports, he wasn't happy about it. When asked about Zelikow by Amy Goodman, Cleland stated it was "not the staff director’s fault, it is the White House’s fault, it’s president Bush’s fault." So in his view Zelicow was doing the bidding of administration officials, but that doesn't absolve his actions. 

In an 2003 PBS interview Cleland levied serious criticism at the Commission, the transcript reads:

Senator Max Cleland, who resigned from the 9/11 Commission after calling it a “national scandal”, stated in a 2003 PBS interview,

“I’m saying that’s deliberate. I am saying that the delay in relating this information to the American public out of a hearing… series of hearings, that several members of Congress knew eight or ten months ago, including Bob Graham and others, that was deliberately slow walked… the 9/11 Commission was deliberately slow walked, because the Administration’s policy was, and its priority was, we’re gonna take Saddam Hussein out.”

Cleland, speaking with Democracy Now, said,

“One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up”.

The article reported that:

Meanwhile, a pair of public interest groups, The 9-11 Family Steering Committee and 9-11 Citizens Watch, have called for the resignation of the director of the independent 9-11 commission, Philip Zelikow.

The calls for resignation come after former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke revealed that Zelikow participated in Bush administration briefings on al Qaeda prior to Sept. 11.

To talk about the commission, we are joined by one of its former members, former Georgia senator Max Cleland. After his appointment to the commission in 2002, Cleland became the chief critic of the White House stonewalling over releasing documents and lack of cooperation.

In October last year, Cleland said the Bush administration was purposely stalling the investigation because of the 2004 election. Cleland said, "As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted."

In November, after the White House set conditions for the examination of documents Cleland said, "If this decision stands, I, as a member of the commission, cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the commission had full access. This investigation is now compromised."

911truth.org summed it up like so:

The first two years after September 11th saw the rise of the Families’ Movement, which kept the issue of the “unanswered questions” alive, and which forced the creation of the official 9/11 Commission. The Bush administration acted to delay, stonewall and starve all official investigations – with the complicity of the mainstream media, who ignored the festering questions or at best ridiculed those who asked them.

Many signs confirmed that there was indeed a 9/11 Cover-up: outrageous conflicts of interest within official investigating bodies, such as the appointment of Henry Kissinger and then Philip Zelikow to the 9/11 Commission; destruction of evidence; the silencing of whistleblowers; and the promotion of the very officials who were responsible for the supposed failures of September 11th. For many, the 9/11 cover-up itself became the smoking gun pointing to wrongdoing: the untenable excuses of massive serial incompetence; the endless coincidences; the insulting fairy tale that “no one could have imagined planes as weapons”; the omission and suppression of any evidence contradicting the official story.

Media participation in the cover-up was exposed in a 2007 piece at JonesReport.com. The article summed up the instructions given by Fox Headquarters to reporters on how to cover the 9/11 Commission. Basically, conduct cover-up coverage. The article reads in part:

It is clear (especially within the context of the other memos presented in the video) that Fox headquarters was essentially instructing its reporters to stay away from reporting anything controversial about 9/11. The memo constitutes evidence that Fox reporters were ordered not to mention that:

(1) It was obvious that the administration knew more than enough to stop the 9/11 attacks (that is -- in the words of the Watergate prosecutors -- Bush and Cheney knew a lot, and they knew it before the attacks started)

(2) The Commission wanted to interview Bush and Cheney, but they would only testify if they could be interviewed jointly, and if they were not under oath

(3) The investigation of 9/11 was important, because the government's story made no sense

While you might think that Fox News is an especially-biased news source, this is really just business as usual in terms of media coverage of 9/11.

And as if all that wasn't enough, comparisons of 9/11 to other major catastrophes makes it perfectly clear that foot dragging and underfunding was at hand, despite claims to the contrary.

9-11 Commission Comparisons ... 411 days later ...

9 Days until an investigation was ordered into the Pearl Harbour attack:

7 Days until an investigation was ordered into the Kennedy assassination:

7 Days until an investigation was ordered into the Challenger disaster:

6 Number of days until an investigation was ordered into the sinking of the Titanic:

Number of days until an investigation was ordered into the 9/11 attacks: 411

Amount of money allocated for the 1986 Challenger disaster investigation: $75 million

Amount of money allocated for the 2004 Columbia disaster investigation: $50 million

Amount of money allocated for Clinton-Lewinsky investigation: $40 million

Amount of money allocated for the 9/11 Commission: $14 million

Amount of money authorized by General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan�s intelligence agency (ISI), to be sent to suicide hijacker Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11: $100,000 USD
Number of references in the Final Report to foreign governments providing funding for al-Qaeda operatives: 0 references

This is not presented as a conspiratorial fog, these are simple facts pertaining to activity by authorities and known details in the Commission report.

Try and stay on topic, none of the above hints at explosives in the towers, or any such hyperbole. It just seems strange to compare Clintons cock receiving $40 million and this a mere $14 million.

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=49d_1190054204#Cksez5z5kGyDAJhB.99

911myths.com nitpicks this info, pointing out why there are such gigantic gaps in funding in some cases, simply based on the differing logistics involved investigating different types of catatrophes. Be that as it may, again, we are talking about the whereabouts of Clinton's penis vs. the death of almost 3,000 innocent Americans and nearly 9,000 American troops. Not to mention some other group of folks that we Americans never seem to keep up with in the 9/11 death statistics. The organization FAIR reports:

But the major U.S. press rarely considers a most basic measure of that impact: how many Iraqis have been killed. When they do mention the toll, they consistently ignore or malign two major statistical studies, the first conducted by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and published in the prestigious British medical journal the Lancet (10/11/06), and the other released by the British polling firm Opinion Research Business (9/07). Both indicate that over a million Iraqis have now been killed. Yet an Associated Press poll in February (2/24/07) that asked Americans how many Iraqis have died received a median response of less than 10,000.

Thousands Of Victims' Family Members Believe 9/11 Was An Inside Job

9/11 Icon Bill Doyle Openly Condemns US Government Complicity and Cover-up

Alex Jones: With your 7,000 members, I'm sure you've talked to most if not all of them. Run the gamut, what percentage, a guesstimation, would you say believe 9/11 is an inside job, to some extent? 

Bill Doyle: Maybe half, maybe. It's probably 50-50.  

Source:

http://www.911truth.org/bill-doyle-condemns-us-government-complicity-cover-up/

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Families, First Responders, Survivors Speak Out

We, the undersigned Families, First Responders and Survivors of September 11 raise our voice with those from across our country and around the world in support of NYC CAN and the establishment of an independent, impartial subpoena powered investigation into the events surrounding the September 11 attacks on our nation.

We believe a new investigation is our only path forward to the answers and accountability every American deserves and our only path back to the moral high ground upon which our great nation was built.

We unite with NYC CAN and the citizens of the City of New York in support of an unbiased nonpolitical rendering of evidence and fact wherever they may lead and ask every American and every concerned citizen of the world, in defense of our nation and in defense of freedom, to join with us today!

Family Members
Donna Marsh O’Connor  —  Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer Bob McIlvaine  —  Father of Bobby McIlvaine Helen McIlvaine  —  Mother of Bobby McIlvaine Jean Canavan  —  Sister in Law of Sean Canavan Manny Badillo  —  Nephew of Thomas Joseph Sgroi Chris Burke  —  Brother of Tom Burke Michele Little  —  Sister of David M. Weiss Lorie Van Auken  —  Wife of Kenneth Van Auken Monica Gabrielle  —  Wife of Richard S. Gabrielle Patricia Casazza  —  Wife of John Casazza Mindy Kleinberg  —  Wife of Alan Kleinberg Robin Della Rocca  —  Aunt of Vanessa Lang Langer Michelle Madden  —  Mother of Richard B. Madden Barry Zelman  —  Brother of Kenneth Zelman Margaret Canavan  —  Mother of Sean Canavan Ciaran Canavan  —  Brother of Sean Canavan Celine Traynor  —  Sister of Sean Canavan Kathleen McKeon  —  Sister of Sean Canavan Teresa McCaffery  —  Sister of Sean Canavan Mimi Kelly Donegan  —  Sister of Bill Kelly Jr. Gayle Baker  —  Sister of William A. Karnes Cynthia Droz  —  Wife of Charles A. Droz Cherie Faircloth  —  Sister in Law of John Resta Lorraine Moskal  —  Wife of William D. Moskal Paul E. Geidel  —  Father of Gary Geidel, FDNY Teresa Badillo  —  Sister of Thomas J. Sgroi John Sgroi  —  Brother of Thomas J. Sgroi Eileen Sgroi  —  Sister-in-law of Thomas J. Sgroi Anthony Badillo  —  Nephew of Thomas J. Sgroi Lauren Badillo  —  Niece of Thomas J. Sgroi Ann F. Rago  —  Aunt of Thomas J. Sgroi Susan McCormick  —  Sister of Lt. Paul T. Mitchell Thomas Resta  —  Brother of John Resta, Sylvia San Pio Resta, and their unborn baby Robert Carlo FDNY  —  Brother of Michael Carlo, FDNY Ivy Moreno  —  Mother of Yvette Nicole Moreno JoAnn Meehan  —  Mother of Collen Ann Barkow Maureen Santora  —  Mother of Christopher A. Santora Al Santora  —  Father of Christopher A. Santora Maureen Godshalk  —  Mother of Bill Godshalk Adele Welty  —  Timothy Matthew Welty, FDNY Gila Barzvi  —  Mother of Guy Barzvi Robert T. O’Connor  —  Stepfather of Vanessa Lang Langer Robert Andreacchio  —  John Andreacchio Dolores LaVerde  —  Mother of Jeannine LaVerde Madeleine Zuccala  —  Wife of Joseph J. Zuccala Madeline Bergin  —  Wife of John P. Bergin, FDNY Nancy Yambem  —  Wife of Jupiter Yambem Patricia J. Perry  —  Mother of John W. Perry James L. Perry  —  Father of John W. Perry Joel R. Perry  —  Brother of John W. Perry Janice Perry Montoya  —  Sister of John W. Perry Maureen Hunt   —  Sister of Kathleen Hunt Casey Patricia Reilly   —  Sister of Lorraine Mary Riley Jo Anne Bruehert  —   Wife of Richard G. Bruehert Cathy D'Alessandro  —  Sister of Rocco Nino Gargano Richard Pecorella  —  Fiancee of Karen S. Juday Renee Stahlman,  —  Mother of Eric Stahlman Sam Stahlman  —  Father of Eric Stahlman Gary Meo  —  Best Friend of Eric Stahlman Judith Hobson  —  Mother of Robert Wayne Hobson, III Michelle Spinelli  —  Frank Spinelli Christopher Spinelli  —  Frank Spinelli Manuela Nita-Vasquez  —  Wife of Cono Gallo Janine Winter  —  Cousin of Kathryn LaBorie Alissa Torres  —  Wife of Luis Eduardo Torres Robert Mercado  —  Brother in Law of Marc David Sullins John M. Ulhich  —  Cousin of Bradley Van Hoorn Madeline Smith  —  Mother of Jeffrey R. Smith Audrey Magnuson  —  Wife of Ronald Magnuson Christine O'Neill  —  Wife of John P. O'Neill, FBI Sally Asaro  —  Sister of Carl F. Asaro, FDNY Buzz Smith  —  Father of Jeffrey R. Smith Myrta Gschaar  —  Wife of Robert Gschaar Joanna Jakubiak  —  Daughter of Maria Jakubiak Carol Eckna  —  Mother of Paul Robert Eckna Stanley Eckna  —  Father of Paul Robert Eckna Richard Eckna  —  Brother of Paul Robert Eckna Maria R. Fisher  —  Sister of Andrew Fisher Margaret Mauro  —  Sister of Dorothy Mauro Eileen Woods  —  Sister of James Woods Joyce Woods  —  Mother of James Woods Robert Nelson  —  Nephew of Richard Fitzsimons William A. Brinnier  —  Best Friend of Frank DeMartini Catherine Statz  —  Sister of Patricia J. Statz Ira Lassman  —  Father of Nicholas C. Lassman Bill Kelly  —  Father of Billy Kelly JoAnne Kelly  —  Mother of Billy Kelly Kathleen Hamilton  —  Sister of Billy Kelly Colleen Kelly  —  Sister of Billy Kelly Meigan Keane  —  Sister of Billy Kelly Robert Madden  —  Brother of Richard B. Madden Susan Newton-Carter  —  Wife of Christopher Newton-Carter Laura Paterson  —  Steven B. Paterson Patric Tengelin  —  Brother of David Tengelin Geraldine Lewis  —  Mother of Adam Lewis Patricia Bingley  —  Mother of Kevin Dennis John Echavarria  —  Cousin of Matthew Pedicini Michael McNulty  —  Uncle of Sean Peter McNulty JoAnn Statz  —  Mother of Patricia Statz Cathie Ong  —  Sister of Betty Ann Ong Valerie Lucznikowska  —  Aunt of Adam Arias Bryan Jackson - Cousin of Commander William Donovan Jr. Jane Pollicino - Wife of Steve Pollicino Jacqueline Statz - Sister of Patricia Statz Firefighters for 9/11 Truth Tribute Page   300+ 9/11 Survivors and Family Members Respected Leaders and Families Launch 9/11 Truth Statement Demanding Deeper Investigation into the Events of 9/11: Family Members Joanne Barbara, wife of FDNY Asst. Chief of Dept. Gerard Barbara Gayle Barker, sister of William A. Karnes, WTC Michele Bergsohn, wife of Alvin Bergsohn, Cantor Fitzgerald Derrill Bodley, father of Deora Bodley, passenger on Flight 93 Kathryn C. Bowden, sister of Thomas H. Bowden, Jr. WTC1, 104th floor Janet Calia, wife of Dominick Calia, Cantor Fitzgerald, WTC1 Maggie Cashman, wife of William Joseph Cashman, United Flight 93 Lynne Castrianno Galante, sister of Leonard Castrianno, 1WTC, 105th floor Elza Chapa-McGowan, daughter of Rosemary Chapa, Pentagon Bruce De Cell, father-in-law of Mark Petrocelli North Tower, 92nd floor Ralph D’Esposito, father of Michael D’Esposito, WTC, 96th floor Loisanne Diehl, Surviving Spouse, Michael D. Diehl, WTC2, 90th floor Adina D. Eisenberg, sister of Eric Eisenberg, WTC Jonathan M. Fisher, son of Dr. Gerald Paul “Geep” Fisher, Pentagon Michael J. Fox, brother of Jeffrey L. Fox, Tower 2, 89th floor Laurel A. Gay, sister of Peter A. Gay, AA Flight 11 Irene Golinsky, wife of Col. Ronald F. Golinski USA RET, Pentagon Lori, Jerry, and Beatrice Guadagno, sister and parents of Richard Guadagno, Flight 93 Kristen Hall, daughter of fallen firefighter Thomas Kuveikis 9/11 Kurt D. Horning, father of Matthew D. Horning, WTC Tower One, 95th floor Jennifer W. Hunt, wife of William C. Hunt, Euro Brokers John Keating, son of Barbara Keating, passenger on AA Flight 11 L. Russell Keene II, father of Russ Keene III, WTC2, 89th floor, KBW Peter Kousoulis, sister died in WTC Paul & Barbara Kirwin, parents of Glenn Davis Kirwin, Cantor Fitzgerald 105th floor Barbara Krukowski-Rastelli, mother of William E. Krukowski, NYC firefighter Laura and Ira Lassman, parents of Nicholas C. Lassman, died in WTC, Tower One Johnny Lee, husband of Lorraine Greene Alicia LeGuillow, mother of Nestor A. Cintron III Francine Levine, sister of Adam K. Ruhalter, who died on 9/11 Bob McIlvaine, father of Robert McIlvaine, WTC, Merrill Lynch Mary McWilliams, mother of FF Martin E. McWilliams- Engine 22 Daryl J. Meehan, brother of Colleen Ann Barkow, WTC 1, 105th floor Elvira P. Murphy, wife of Patrick Murphy, WTC 1 Natalee Pecorelli, sister of Thomas Pecorelli of Flight 11 James L Perry, M.D and Patricia J. Perry, parents of John W. Perry, Esq., NYPD Officer 9/11 David Potorti, brother of James Potorti, North Tower, WTC, Marsh & McLennan Terry Kay Rockefeller, sister of Laura Rockefeller, North Tower, WTC Grissel Rodriguez-Valentin, wife of Benito Valentin, WTC1, 94th floor Alissa Rosenberg-Torres, widow of Luis Eduardo Torres, post-9/11 mother, writer Elaine Saber, mother of Scott Saber Julie Scarpitta, mother of Michelle Scarpitta, WTC Building 2, 84th floor Paula Shapiro, mother of Eric Eisenberg, WTC2 Elizabeth Turner, wife of Simon Turner, lost on 11th September 2001 Adele Welty, mother of Firefighter Timothy Welty, FDNY, Squad 288 Joan W. Winton, mother of David Winton, WTC, South Tower, 89th floor David Yancey, husband of Vicki Yancey, American Airlines Flight 77 Nissa Youngren, daughter of Robert G. LeBlanc, flight 175 PDF Click Here (232KB) Over the years, 9/11 Family Members Kristen Breitweiser, Lorie Van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg, Patty Casazza, and Monica Gabrielle, or the September Eleventh Advocates, have written open letters about different issues concerning the 9/11 attacks. I have compiled every letter that I have (not every letter is written by all of them), and put them into one file for you to download. I figured that along with the report written by Lorie Van Auken, and Mindy Kleinberg regarding how well the 9/11 Commission answered the 9/11 Family Steering Committee's questions, as well as the new report on the nano-thermite, this could be printed, and handed out to people. Please spread this around, and thank you. - Jon Gold, 911blogger.com

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The Kean Commission and the September 11th Families

This Petition is Closed

• Who: President Barak Obama

• Sponsored by: 9/11 family members, Michele Little, Jane Pollicino, Bob McIlvaine, Josef PrinciottaMatt Campbell, UK 911 Family Member, refuses to pay the TV licence and appears at Hasting Magistrates Court, March 23rd 2015.
Expert witnesses, Adrian Mallet, Peter Drew and Chris Coverdale are interviwed along with solicitor Mahtab Aziz and Ken O’Keefe.

http://nz911truth.org/news/matt-campbell-vs-the-bbc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbqinvksUAA

9/11 Family Member "I Get Used As A Sacred Cow" 

9/11 Family Member Patty Casazza: Government Knew Exact Date and Exact Target

Dan Wallace of NY911Truth, Fallen Firefighter's Son, Found Dead

Video of this event co-sponsored by Architects &Engineers for 9/11 Truth

9/11 Families Ask: What Happened to the Third Building That Collapsed in the WTC Attacks?

Manny Badillo, Leslie Young, Tony Szamboti and Bob McIlvaine joined other family members and technical professionals in the latest ad from the Remember Building 7 Campaign

  Geraldo Rivera, Bob McIlvaine, and Tony Szamboti make November a month to remember. Geraldo publicly questions the destruction of WTC 7, citing the credibility of "those 1,300 architects and engineers".

Scholars and Family Members Submit Request for Correction to 9/11 NIST Report

"The Jersey Girls" support AE911Truth efforts

911 Families in the UK doubt official account.

Matt Cambell lost his bother in the 9/11 attacks and been speaking out publicly for three years in a so far futile attempt to get the UK and US authorities to release the evidence to support the official theory of how the attacks took place.

Matt informs us that he is now making progress in persuading other relatives to swallow their disgust at the possibility that the 9/11 attacks may have been some sort of an inside job and start asking questions too.

http://911truthactivism.blogspot.com/2015/06/update-news-on-911-campaign.html



https://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2017/12/sixteen-years-after-losing-his-mother.html

The conspiracies that won’t go away: Brother of 9/11 victim claim the US orchestrated the atrocity as new study shows it was impossible that the third tower collapsed from fire:

http://911truthactivism.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-conspiracies-that-wont-go-away.html

I just got back from Sarah Van Auken's play entitled, "THIS IS NOT ABOUT 9/11." It was a wonderful experience. She shared some of the most intimate aspects of her life as the child of a 9/11 victim. She reminded us about how important it is to never forget what happened that day, how hard it's been to channel the anger that she feels from the loss of her father, but also how important it was for her to do so. She reminded us about being blind to obvious problems that have come up in this country as a result of the attacks, and to question what we were told about that day. The end made me cry. Something I thought Sarah was going to do throughout the entire play, but did not. She is truly a professional, and so are Bob Stineman and Ellie Ruttenbergand. If you have the chance to see this play, you won't regret it. - Jon Gold, via Facebook

Our families support the 9/11 families. Truthers as charged!

 

70% of 9/11 family members questions to have never been answered by the 9/11 Commission. 

http://IAmTheFaceofTruth.com

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Kristen Breitweiser, 9/11 widow and activist, Responds To Ann Coulter

Dr. Harrit´s Aluminum Data

John-Michael Talboo and Ziggi Zugam cover the whole Harrit VS Millette debate in an essay written for Mark Basile´s fundraising effort: http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-you-should-make-donation-at.html

Part IV: The Elemental Aluminum. So, how does Dr. Millette justify the lack of replication? He essentially states that further testing is unnecessary because there is "no evidence of individual elemental aluminum particles of any size in the red/gray chips, therefore the red layer of the red/gray chips is not thermite or nano-thermite." Millette claims that the plates of silicon and aluminum inside the chips are kaolin, which is a clay material that happens to be a common ingredient in paints. But as we have previously noted, Millette is probably not studying the same material as Harrit et al. - and in this case Millette may have found kaolin because he is focusing on the paint chips also present in the dust, despite Kevin Ryan´s specific warning. Kaolin plates may look very similar to coated aluminum platelets, but Millette finds kaolin plates as thin as 6 nm while Harrit et al. report consistent platelets "approximately 40 nm thick." Millette and his sponsors should have known that they could expect to find the aluminum in the correct chips hidden inside a protective coating based on silicon. They have failed to read the excellent references that Harrit et al. cite, including this one which explains that the coating is "essential to protect aluminum nanopowder.." and that it "leads to better dispersion...and more uniform mixing." The protective layer not only promotes efficiency, it also prevents air-oxidation and humidity from deactivating the elemental aluminum, which explains how the chips could remain active for so many years.

Harrit et al. agree that their chips contain aluminum and silicon together in the same space, but how do they determine whether or not the two chemicals are separate or chemically bound together as kaolin? As we note in Part II, when you compare the signals for Al/Si before and after ignition, you see that the peaks no longer have the same ratio after ignition and that the aluminum is relatively depleted, which is not consistent with a compound. And the team discovered that MEK paint-solvent induces swelling in their chips that segregates the silicon from the aluminum, which proves that they are not chemically bound together, so the plates in their chips are not kaolin. This is confirmed with chemical analysis and clear visual representations, but the "debunkers" ignore this important result. They claim that the main chips studied (chips "a to d" depicted in fig.7) are LaClede primer-paint that contains kaolin, and that the MEK chip is another type of paint (Tnemec) that does not have kaolin. Adam Taylor notes in his March 2011 article that the source for this MEK hand-wave is Sunstealer´s March 2011 post where he announces that the XEDS spectrum for the MEK chip (fig.14) looks very similar to the spectrum for Tnemec primer-paint. But as Taylor explains, the XEDS spectrum for the MEK chip represents the unwashed and contaminated surface, while the spectra for the other chips represent clean surfaces. The contaminants happen to make the unwashed MEK chip look like Tnemec, but Sunstealer´s rationale is essentially pretending that there is no contamination. 

 

ScootleRoyale´s excellent March 2012 article also demolishes Sunstealer´s premise for this theory, because the unwashed surface of all the studied chips had a spectrum similar to the unwashed MEK chip according to one of the authors of the study, including the chips featured in the paper (in figure 7). ScootleRoyale also demonstrates to Oystein how untenable the MEK hand-wave is by noting the fact that the MEK solvent does not dissolve or soften the chip, unlike confirmed Tnemec chips: "The reason Harrit et al. soaked a chip in MEK was to compare the result to Tnemec primer!" 

Talboo and Weathers also demonstrate in their May 2011 article that Sunstealer´s MEK Hand-wave is an obvious failure because there is no elemental aluminum in Tnemec, only aluminum bound to calcium. Tnemec also contains zinc, but the MEK chip only has Zn and Ca as surface contaminants which disappear after the wash in the MEK. Talboo and Weathers respond to Oystein´s objections to Taylor´s article, including his claim that Harrit et al. simply could not register Zn and Ca with their equipment settings for the recorded spectra after the MEK soak. Unfortunately for Oystein, his fellow JREF´er has debunked his claim and confirmed that Harrit´s equipment would have registered the Zn and the Ca. Talboo and Weathers also note that Dr. Farrer debunks Oystein´s claim that they mislabeled Zn as sodium(Na). According to Farrer, the sodium "peak that is found in fig 18 was confirmed by the absence of the Zn k-alpha peak at 8.637keV (and yes, the same exact spot was analyzed at a beam energy of 20kV and the Zn k-alpha peak is still not present)." Farrer goes on to say that "while it is true that the Na k-alpha peak (1.04keV) overlaps the Zn L-alpha (1.012keV), it is pretty simple to confirm which element is present."

After soaking the MEK chip, Harrit et al. focus on an area with a lot of aluminum to figure out if there is elemental aluminum present. They confirm the presence of elemental aluminum with the XEDS spectrum in figure 17, stating that "a conventional quantification routine" demonstrates "that the aluminum significantly exceeded the oxygen present (approximately a 3:1 ratio)." Figure 17 also demonstrates that the post-soaking MEK chip has a very strong aluminum signal without any Ca or Si present for bonding, so the MEK chip cannot be Tnemec or LaClede, and the conclusion of elemental aluminum is inescapable. See the articles Listening to Debunker Arguments is Like Watching Paint Dry..., Listening to Debunker Arguments is Like Watching Two Coats of Paint Dry..., Millette Versus Harrit et al: The MEK Test, and Oystein's Contamination Denial for more information, and keep in mind Dr. Jones´s message to Sunstealer et al.:

Look, Oystein, why don't you put a sample of Tnemec primer in MEK and soak it, and see whether it becomes limp (as I say) or remains very hard under forceps? Do debunkers ever do experiments? I say, do the experiment and let us know what you find! Experiments are much more convincing in science than hand-waving arguments.

 

Denis Rancourt has suggested that the XEDS sample-holder provides the aluminum signal, but Harrit notes that their control experiments prove that "the electron beam couldn’t even penetrate the carbon conductive tab used as substratum..." In other words, "the Al/Mg scaffold was never hit in any of the spectral recordings published in the article." Harrit also mentions that they have unpublished TEM analysis where "the samples were mounted on a copper holder and these measurements also confirm the presence of aluminum." According to Dr. Jones, their unpublished analysis via TEM and XRD is consistent with their previous (MEK test) conclusion of ruling out kaolin, but he notes that the new tests have not resulted in conclusive identification of pure aluminum - According to Jones, the aluminum might be in an amorphous form that is difficult to detect.

Basile plans to introduce one new test method (ESCA small spot technique with argon ion sputter) to directly establish the presence of unbound aluminum. Basile also plans to confirm aluminum by having an independent laboratory repeat the ignition tests, in air and inert atmosphere. He notes in a December 2012 interview (at 37m.55s.) that the chips will most likely also ignite in an inert atmosphere, and that even if they do not, that this test will still reveal any elemental aluminum since it will melt and leave a signature endothermic peak at a certain temperature. ScootleRoyale notes in his March 2012 article that that two of Harrit´s air-ignited samples have an endothermic peak around the 660 degree(C) melting point of aluminum, which is another strong indication of elemental aluminum:


 

"Notice how two of the traces go into the negative at around 620-670 degrees celsius. A small endothermic peak in this temperature range is characteristic of aluminium melting. This suggests that even after the reaction, there was still some elemental aluminium left over in those chips, which then melted." - Scootle
 

The fact that the chips actually work when ignited is also a very strong indication of elemental aluminum, according to one of Harrit´s co-authors, Dr. Frank Legge. Dr. Legge, who holds a PhD in chemistry, has stated that:

 

...The existence of elemental aluminium in the red chips is proven by the formation of the microspheres in the DSC, largely iron. What else can start to rip the oxygen out of iron oxide at below 400 deg C, then have a runaway temperature increase at least to the melting point of iron? Those who dispute this on the grounds that oxygen was present, and that the energy came from the combustion of organic material, must provide an explanation for why such special conditions are required in a blast furnace to produce iron. The idea that you could heat a little kaolin and coke and iron oxide to a mere 400 deg C and see it suddenly run away and produce molten iron is clearly a fantasy. http://www.thepotteries.org/shelton/blast_furnace.htm