For OpEdNews: Allen L Roland - Writer

We all know who authorized illegal torture in the Bush administration. It was Darth Vader himself, Dick Cheney ~ and his trusted accomplice Donald Rumsfeld ~ who were intent on masking their treasonous actions on 9/11 by the means of forced confessions of highly questionable, if not innocent,Muslim suspects: Allen L Roland
As we approach the eighth anniversary of 9/11 ~ we must remember that 9/11 became the justification for virtually every abuse of power in the Bush/Cheney administration as well as the resultant breakdown in America's moral authority ~which still continues today.
All the more reason to continue to examine the events of 9/11 and especially the role of Dick Cheney ~ who used 9/11 to literally set up his own shadow presidency, his own intelligence agency and his own covert assassination ring which reported directly to himself and instantly responded to his paranoid delusions
regarding the War On Terror ~ which, in reality, became the War Of Terror.
But Cheney's illegally sanctioned renditions and torture had one main focus ~ justify through forced confessions his owndisguised version of the so called 9/11 terrorist attack.
But the Internet still has the freedom to dig for the truth and the more we dig ~ the more obvious it becomes that 9/11 was not only condoned, and quite possibly conceived,by the Cheney/Bush administrationbut that our resultantbreakdown in moral authority stems from that original treasonous moral breakdown on 9/11.
The last refuge of a scoundrel is Patriotism and Dick Cheney can no longer hide beneath that tattered cloak as America slowly begins to comprehend the Bush administrations legacy of shame. Let's start with the so-called Pentagon attack ~ which will prove to be the Achilles heel of the 9/11 cover-up .
30 Aug 2009 A three year independent investigation into the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon has yielded new eyewitness evidence [an 81-minute video presentation entitled National Security Alert] which, according to the Southern California-based researchers who conducted the investigation, "conclusively (and unfortunately) establishes as a historical fact that the violence which took place in Arlington that day was not the result of a surprise attack by suicide hijackers, but rather a military black operation involving a carefully planned and skillfully executed deception."
Be aware as you watch this well documented and riveting video thatto date there has been no physical, photographic or video evidence of a commercial airliner striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
As Cicero said (106-43 BC ), "A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within."
This will be the beginning of a series of 9/11 articles with the purpose of reminding Americans that the Bush Administration legacy of shame
began with 9/11.
Allen L Roland
Cartoon courtesy of Pat Oliphant / Washington Post