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Dawson's Grift - Twenty-one years of recycling cold leads

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The page where Ryan Dawson's January 9, 2020 denial of Iran shooting down a Ukrainian airliner was before their government admitted they had done it. By his standards, he has "memory holed" the truth. At least that's how it's supposed to work, right? The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 will forever remain a turning point for those of my generation that witnessed them in school. In one morning a nation that had seemed safe, modern, and optimistic was wounded and in mourning. And of course it didn't end there as a global War on Terror, Great Recession, and unparalleled political division have changed America irreversibly. The investigation of the attacks resulted in the 9-11 Commission Report released in 2004, but many open questions remained that went completely ignored. They included issues regarding the true nature of the collapse of WTC Building 7, whether the Bush Administration had been forewarned of the plot, and the issue of how passengers on United Flight 93