The Complete 9/11 Timeline ...

In mid-2002, Paul Thompson, a Northern California native and Stanford University alumnus with no previous interest in the subject of terrorism, became intrigued by several stories regarding 9/11 which suddenly appeared in the press—among them, CBS News’ revelation that President Bush was given a Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) on August 6th, 2001, warning of an impending attack by Osama bin Laden in the United States involving aircraft. Thompson found himself poring over news of the attacks on the internet and growing increasingly frustrated with how incomplete the story of September 11th was. He began gathering and condensing every credible fact on 9/11, setting a rule for himself that he would only include what he could find in mainstream news sources, and posted those facts online in chronological order.

Today, The Complete 9/11 Timeline consists of information from over 7,000 mainstream news stories on 9/11, each fact immediately followed by sourcing which links back to the original news article. New York newsweekly The Village Voice became the first to bring public attention to Paul’s work, but he was eventually featured everywhere from the Esquire ‘Genius’ Issue to Fox News. As Village Voice reporter James Ridgeway puts it, “Paul Thompson’s timeline is based on public documentation of what we know—what the world knows—about 9/11. It almost has be taken more seriously than the 9/11 Commission Report because it’s open. There’s nothing secret here.” In early 2004, Thompson finally quit his job at a San Francisco-based environmental protection group to focus on his timeline full time.

The 9/11 families discovered the timeline early on, and it became a highly-valued tool for research by the Family Steering Committee. When HarperCollins published ‘The Terror Timeline’ as a book in late 2004, all four of the “Jersey Girls” wrote an introduction praising it. “Paul Thompson’s exhaustive and richly detailed research has now provided the world with a veritable treasure trove of 9/11 information. If you want to know everything about 9/11, you must read [it],” wrote Kristen Breitweiser. ‘9/11 PRESS FOR TRUTH’ is based, with permission, on ‘The Terror Timeline’, and Thompson served as story adviser to the production.

- http://www.911pressfortruth.com/timeline