4. President Bush initially refused to testify before the Commission, and subsequently refused to testify without Vice President Cheney.
5. The Administration and House Speaker Dennis Hastert mounted stiff resistance to the attempt to extend the life of the Commission to January 2005. The Family Steering Committee obtained the support of the Democratic caucus for this extension. However when Hastert and his Chief of Staff heard this, they went back on their word that they would support the January 2005 extension if the Democrats agreed. So only a two-month extension was obtained, not the requested 8-month extension.
6. The Department of Defense has prohibited the officers involved with the Able Danger project of the Special Operations Command to speak to members of Congress or to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their pre-9/11 identification of Mohammed Atta, among others, as a terrorist.
7. The Justice Department put a gag order on FBI whistle-blower Sybel Edmunds, preventing her from talking to members of Congress or the media about major pre 9/11 intelligence mishandling in the translation department of the FBI.
8. The Administration continues to refuse to release or show most of videotapes it has of the crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon.
9. In February 2002, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence agreed to conduct a joint inquiry into the activities of the U.S. intelligence community in connection with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Their report dated December 2002 is titled: Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, 28 pages of that report were redacted, and the Administration still refuses to make these pages public.
10. Overall there was a complete lack of transparency on the part of the federal government, in terms of both the executive branch and the legislative branch, when it came to putting on the table all the facts known regarding the 9/11 attacks.
Lies by Government Officials about 9/11
1. Condoleezza Rice claimed to Time Magazine that a statement in an article that appeared in the New York Times on December 30, 2001, was not true. The Times article said, "As he prepared to leave office last January, Mr. Berger met with his successor, Condoleezza Rice, and gave her a warning. According to both of them, he said that terrorism-and particularly Mr. bin Laden's brand of it-would consume far more of her time than she had ever imagined." Al Franken learned from a White House official that she had in fact met with Berger in a briefing and that he had told her about the seriousness of the al Qaeda threat. Rice lied.
2. On May 17, 2002, Condoleezza Rice said "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center...that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." But there had been seven specific instances when the government was aware of plots and attempts to utilize airplanes as weapons. One of the most dramatic was the 1995 plot (Project Bojinka), disrupted by the Philippine authorities, to blow up 11 commercial airliners over the Pacific, and an associated alternative plan to hijack US planes and crash them into CIA headquarters, the World Trade Center, the Sears Tower and the White House. In 1999, a report prepared for US intelligence said that suicide bombers linked to al Qaeda could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA or the White House. Also Rice had attended the G-8 summit meeting with the president only two months before 9/11, when the possibility of an assassination attempt on President Bush was mentioned to the group-an assassination, officials considered, that could be carried out by crashing planes into the summit meeting building. Rice lied.
3. In his recent book State of Denial, Bob Woodward described an encounter between Condoleezza Rice and George Tenet, then-director of the CIA. The latter was in a near panic about a rising flood of intelligence warnings just presented to him by top aide Cofer Black. Tenet reportedly forced an unscheduled meeting with Rice on July 10, 2001, because he wanted the Bush administration to take action immediately against al Qaeda to disrupt a possible domestic attack. On Monday October 2, 2006, a State Department spokesman conceded that then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had indeed been briefed in July 2001 by George Tenet about the alarming potential for an al Qaeda attack. "I don't remember a so-called emergency meeting," Rice had said only hours earlier, apparently still suffering from the same post-9/11 amnesia that seemed to afflict her during her forced testimony to the 9/11 Commission. Rice lied.
The omission of this meeting from the final commission report is another example of how the Bush administration undermined the bipartisan investigation that the president had tried to prevent. Rice is unusually sharp and has an awesome memory. Considering the trauma of 9/11 and its effects, it is inconceivable that Rice would not recall such an ominous and prescient briefing by Tenet and Black, especially after the 9/11 Commission forced her to document and review her actions in those crucial months.
4. CIA Director George Tenet said on March 11, 2002, "We knew in broad terms last summer that terrorists might be planning major operations in the United States. But we never had the texture, meaning enough information, to stop what happened." Yet Condoleezza Rice herself said on June 28, 2001, "It is highly likely that a significant al Qaeda attack is in the near future, within several weeks." And on July 5, 2001, Richard Clarke said, "Something really spectacular is going to happen here and it's going to happen soon." Tenet distorted the truth to shield himself from any responsibility for the attacks.
5. Pentagon officials associated with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confessed in the summer of 2006 that they had in essence lied to the 9/11 Commission about the time when NORAD was informed by the FAA about the hijacked planes. The strange part about that lie was that their first version implied the FAA had informed them in a timely manner, while their current story actually puts more blame on the FAA for that agency's slowness in reporting the hijacking. Why would the first official story from NORAD protect the FAA from blame? It's inexplicable. In any case, NORAD officials lied.
Motive
In searching for a possible motive as to why Administration officials might have been involved in the 9/11 attacks, it's helpful to ask cui bono? (or, who benefited?) The 9/11 attacks didn't benefit the Islamic world in any way at all, quite the opposite. They didn't benefit the al Qaeda members in Afghanistan, because they were completely routed and suffered huge casualties there. It was only America's subsequent invasion and occupation of Iraq that have apparently brought many new recruits into the al Qaeda fold.
The attacks of 9/11, on the other hand, have promoted substantially the goals of the hard-core neocons-both their dream of a world (or at least the Middle East) dominated by America and the desire of many of them for huge war-related profits that have in fact come to the defense industries and to the Halliburtons on the ground in Iraq.
Andrew Mills is a groundwater hydrologist employed in an engineering consulting company. He and his wife have six children and 18 grandchildren. He was active in the civil rights movement in the 1950's and 1960's, and spent 9 years in India as a missionary specializing in water supply. Funded by the Egyptian government and USAID, in the early 1980's he investigated and reported on the water resources of the Sinai peninsula. He formed the New Jersey Peace Mission in the 1980s which arranged for groups to lobby in D.C. to stop funding the Contras in Nicaragua.
How do we get rid of these bastards, Republicans and Democrats, neocons and neolibs alike .... all who follow the plutocratic global elite and in so doing, contribute, allow, look the other way with respect to attacks on their own people and genocide around the world. What is the appropriate penalty for such folks. We hung Saddam for much less.
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richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 894 comments)
on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 2:44:06 PM
Yea they knew, just shows you how good their intel is
Having looked at this question from many angles, I've concluded several things. I could be wrong my hypothesis is that;
the PNAC et.al. orchestrated the plot,
they handpicked the scapegoats and paid them off in advance and as they set up their arab stooges (those guys that were/are in various mitiary/U.S. intel branches, and who later turned up alive )
including ol' Osama and family ( the ones allowed to leave after the rest of the airports were shut down )
the word got out, and came back to them.
So, in brief; they had all these guys secretly planning to do this and the rest of the international intelligence community found out about this plot and informed the administration of it;
THAT is why they were being told, and why they ignored it.
Just goes to show you how (in) secure their secret plans are, and how good the rest of the spies are.
Investigate 911Truth.org, pass it on, and take action!
The 911Truth.org website has one of the most comprehensive list of reasons to doubt the official stories told to us by lying treasonous scoundrels with the help of unwitting accomplices.
Point friends and family to the 911Truth.org website and move from awareness to action against the real terrorists who perpetuate violence and fear of violence to manipulate us all.
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Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 132 comments)
on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 4:14:15 PM
While the tiny list you cite is worthy; it is not
" one of the most comprehensive list of reasons "
I have your mentioned 9/11 Truth posted as well as hundreds of other sites,
equalling 753 links by story title,
and even I don't dare call my page one of the MOST comprehensive.
I can tell you posted YOUR reference without checking mine first. That list you cite, incidentally is listed as #447
http://erroneousbusczh.homestead.com/9-11Plot.html
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Rev. Michael Valentine Goldsun (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 16 diaries, 37 comments)
on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 1:04:55 PM
this is gonna be like the JFK assasination, we'll never know for sure who really did it. osama bin laden worked for the CIA!..that's common knowledge, back in the 80's we helped him fight the russians in afghanistan. he's been with them ever since!...bin laden's bro. bailed "w" out of a failed business, the bush's and the bin laden family's relations go back 40 yrs....bush's grandfather was a convicted WAR PROFITEER ! C'MON PEOPLE, PUT IT TOGETHER!
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mike wygant (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 287 comments)
on Friday, February 23, 2007 at 5:51:47 PM
Reasons to Doubt the Official Story about the 9/11 Attacks
you do not address the very obvious question of the three towers being brought down by controlled demolitions, probably to avoid your be classified as a conspiracy freak.
There is one aspect of this however which has never been addressed and that is the disposal of the rubble before it could be subjected to forensic analysis. It has been assumed that all of it has been recycled in China - maybe yes, maybe no, but now, with Bush threatening the Chinese oil supply, it might be possible to find out if some of it might still be lying aroung in some chinese scrap heap. Furthermore, explosions destroy nothing. they only redistribute things. The rubble which was shipped to China must have been almost exclusively ferrous scrap - easily extractable. The rest must be lying - most probably as a nugget of exclusively tower rubble in some land fill near NYC and as such could be subjected to forensic analysis. Thermate would have covered this concrete rubble with traces of barium. Unless vibrators were used to remove all of the reinforcements from the concrete, some reinforcement iron must still be available embedded in concrete blocks.
One needs congressional investigative power to locate and analyze the rubble, but until and unless clear cut forensics are applied to the remains of those towers, their fate will forever remain a subject for idle speculation.
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hoscot (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 32 comments)
on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 1:42:13 AM
Also view the videos of firemen among the rubble, with the steel columns behind them neatly cut by thermate to make the building 'walk' as in conventional demolition.
Added as supplements to the outrages of 9-11 are the subsequent release to Israel of 'the dancing Israelis' celebrating the event - released by Chertoff - himself an Israeli and then promoted to head of Homeland Security.
Following this, and in much the same vein, Wolfowitz, when deputy Defense Secretary and nominally subordinate to Rumsfelt, and allegedly as head of Mossad in America, intended to 'detonate a nuclear payload' on Houston to provoke an attack on Iran, and was prevented only by an ex-member of the German secret service revealing the fact. So did he go to jail? - No, as a gesture of supreme contempt for the rest of us, he was promoted to be president of the World Bank, where he is still to be seen in all his glory.
www.gnn.tv/threads/1075/GERMAN_GUY_S_VERY_LAST_POST
For chutzpah and sheer effrontery, the villains implicated in 9-11 and trying now to run off with the entire planet take some beating.
So let's beat them!
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amazin (34 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 400 comments)
on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 4:01:57 AM
Very good, evidential article--no emotional truth here. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this administration has been warned repeatedly, an investigation is in order.
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francine (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 370 comments)
on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:54:51 AM
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Thanks Mr. Mills for a well-written piece, once again laying out the obvious but terrifying truthful facts like 'a patient etherized upon a table'. But it is way past time for us good citizens to throw off the awful yoke of oppression - the 9/11 horror show and the Mideast sequel are symptoms of the awful malignancy gnawing at our world. It is difficult to name the perpetrators - but you can be certain the top echelon are 'aristocratic royals', the banking and government elite, wealthy beyond description and blood thirsty. They overplayed their hand with 9/11, thinking that their age old sleight-of-hand tricks and deceptions would work for them yet again ... but no, Mr. Rothschild ... you want war? You got war.
But they will not go easily ... they own everything as far as the eye can see. They have the weapons, the 'money', the bunkers, the governments ... we have the truth ... people are people, we are one ... the Satanic tyrants must go.
Two words: military, money. Our good citizens in the military worldwide must 'wake up' and join the movement - the tyrants cannot continue without them. Just as importantly, we good citizens must opt out of the money system in any way we can - we are the cash cow for the tyrants - we must stop the flow of their wealth. But, they will not go easily.
Adios for now,
JacksonHolly
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JacksonHolly (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 14 comments)
on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 10:20:24 AM
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