Do we ever really know anything?

Here is a link to a site that bothers me a lot.

Why? Because I haven't got the slightest idea how to confirm or rebut any of what's in it. It lists 100 so called omissions and distortions in the 9/11 Commission's report.

*IF TRUE*, it might paint a pretty frightening picture of the actual events of 9/11. On the other hand, even if true, it might simply detail a batch of false evidence which was rightly omitted. And of course, if an intentional fabrication, it doesn't deserve any more publicity than it's already gotten.

So how do I (or any American) look at something like this and even start to determine it's veracity?

Among the points are disputes over whether the trauma to the towers should really have brought them down, the asserted "fact" that the buildings came down in much too controlled a fashion (like a controlled demolition), an assertion that there's no reason why WTC building 7 should have collapsed, assertions that the hole in and damage to the Pentagon was insufficient to have been caused by a 747, etc...

Some of the items are omissions of various different reports and claims by various people. Even if those people actually made those claims, we need to keep in mind that there are also a lot of people who claim to be psychic... but mysteriously lose the ability under controlled test situations. There are lots of reports of psychics helping the police with murder investigations... after the fact. And yet there are very few (if any) reports from police that a psychic has provided them with any information at all. So clearly, just because someone made a claim doesn't make it legitimate to include in the commission report.

Part of me wants to dismiss the whole thing as a big crackpot conspiracy theory. Another part of me says "Wait a sec, we've been lied to about enough things lately, can we afford to dimiss things like this out of hand, without some evidence of their fallacy?"

And all of me says "How the heck could I even begin to confirm or deny any of these things?"

Liam.