Elonka wrote:
] I'm interested in this story, not because I give any
] credibility whatsoever to the "Bush ordered 9/11 to happen"
] theory, but because I'm curious why an attorney with Hilton's
] background would be saying this kind of stuff.

Does Hilton actually have the background that he says he has? I haven't been able to locate any evidence of that.

] I haven't
] found any substantial debunking sites on the web, so I figured
] that either

Seems like the one you referenced was a debunking site, despite its conspiratorial bent.

Here is another conspiracy. Maybe Hilton is playing Emmanuel Goldstein. In any event, I don't see one single shred of evidence of anything here, and as such, it doesn't really matter. If YOU had evidence like this would you bottle it up for a court case or would you go public with it? If this guy is who is says he is and is doing what he says he is doing, the most probable explanation is that he has lost his mind.

Decius wrote:
] Does Hilton actually have the background that he says he has?
] I haven't been able to locate any evidence of that.

The editorial staff at amazon.com seems to confirm that he was an aide to Dole from 1979-80, and also "Senate Counsel". However, I've been unable to find any other confirmation of that so far, so it may just mean that they were quoting the author's own blurb on the bookjacket.

A check of bobdole.org shows a reference to a woman named Jo Anne Coe who was Dole's Chief of Staff, had worked for him for 35 years, and passed away in 2002. I've been as yet unable to find a list of any of Dole's other staffers.

Hilton's lawsuit was evidently filed in 2002, so the recent interview is a followup.

Hilton also appears to have been a guest on "Hannity & Colmes" back in 2002. I'd love to see a transcript of that, but haven't found one yet. And I'm nearly certain that I saw a recent interview with someone making Hilton-like claims on one of the news channels. I just saw it on a channel surf though, so I didn't have any details to go on (but it's why I was researching this stuff later)... Something about them claiming that it wasn't really a plane that hit the Pentagon, but was instead a missile. And the interviewer was asking, "What about the passengers who were killed?" and then I was on to the next channel since I wasn't in a "debunk the conspiracies" frame of mind for television that evening. ;)

Elonka wrote:
] Hilton also appears to have been a guest on "Hannity & Colmes"
] back in 2002.

Hilton *was* on Hannity & Colmes on June 12, 2002, after he filed his lawsuit. Hannity was quite mocking of him. It's an amusing but totally vacuous and content-free segment on the program. Hilton presented absolutely nothing, and didn't even do a passable job of defending himself against Hannity's most basic inquiries.

If you want to laugh, I suggest visiting The Onion.

Decius wrote:
] Does Hilton actually have the background that he says he has?
] I haven't been able to locate any evidence of that.

Stanley Hilton was counsel and an "aide" to Dole in 1981. I don't think he was "chief of staff", if such a position even officially existed for Dole at that time.

Hilton wrote a tell-all memoir about Dole, which the Tampa Tribune called "a vicious biography, a sloppy hatchet job." It said Hilton was "a former Dole aide who actually left on good terms, needed a good editor and didn't get one." It said the book was written in "a sloppy fingerpaint-by-numbers writing style that goes nowhere."

In general, Hilton appears to have spent the last ten-plus years in rant mode, and everyone else has spent those same years either mocking him or totally ignoring him.

On September 10, 2004, Hilton was interviewed on something called the Alex Jones Radio Show. A claimed transcript is online in two parts at

Part One
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=2262

and

Part Two
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=2261

(This is the same transcript that's available at rense.com.)

You can find a copy of his complaint at

http://911review.org/Wiki/StanleyHiltonLawsuit.shtml

It is claimed (by ariannaonline.com) that this complaint is online at

https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?14519

but this URL is a restricted access page.

After a cursory review of this document, I am appalled (though not shocked) to find that this man actually once passed a bar examination in the United States.

There was a University Wire story on Stanley Hilton on September 22, 2004. That article says his lawsuit was filed on June 3, 2002, which contradicts the citation above. They were actually served in June 2004. This latest serving may reflect the latest amendment to his complaint; there was a one-day flurry of cable news coverage in 2002 when Hilton filed his original suit. The U-Wire story reports that in his interview on the 10th, he "personally admitted that the possibility of the American government slowly becoming a military state through a phantom or intentional terrorist strike was the subject of his senior thesis at the University of Chicago."

In 1995, Hilton "was charged with felony elder abuse, later reduced to a misdemeanor" in regard to his (lack of) treatment for his Alzheimer-suffering mother. The police reports for the case against him are quite bizarre. I can't believe this guy still has a license to practice law in the state of California.