The September 11th attacks provide a blanket, perpetual cassus belli for Washington to target smaller nations around the globe on the pretext that those have some amorphous connection to "terror." That was the motive for the 9/11 attacks. It was premeditated and admitted to in the Project For a New American Century document "Rebuilding America's Defenses." Some key people wanted it, and they committed Treason to get it, and to keep it covered up.
One cannot "rebuild" America's defenses unless those defenses have somehow failed. That failure was engineered to be "a catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a New Pearl Harbor." Far from a "failure," however, the 9/11 attacks proved to be a rousing success for those invested in the Military-Industrial-Complex. US military spending more than doubled in the subsequent years, from $301.7B in 2000, when their manifesto was written, to more than $711B at its peak in 2011. The military budget dwarfs all other areas of US government spending, and it is where America's wealth is redirected.
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Joe Giambrone
Notes
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"Questions about Al Qaeda and State Sponsored Terrorism," Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission, website, July 2003, .911independentcommission.org/questions.html
Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11th, 2001, p.415, iticalfilm.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/declasspart4.pdf
Bob Graham & Sharon Pemoli, "Re-Open the 9/11 Investigation Now," Huffington Post, September 11, 2012, click here
Greg Palast, BBC Newsnight, November 6, 2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/newsnight/1645527.stm
" Casualties of the September 11 attacks," Wikipedia, click here
Richard Clarke, "Interview #07 (Washington, DC)," FF4Films, "Who is Rich Blee?" August 11, 2011, Youtube, https://youtu.be/bl6w1YaZdf8
CIA Office of Inspector General Report on CIA Accountability..., June 2005, page xiii/xiv, Central Intelligence Agency, https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0006184107.pdf
"The Agent: What did the C.I.A. know about the 9/11 hijackers--before 9/11?," The New Yorker, February 16, 2016, click here
Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers, "New 9/11 records offer tantalizing puzzle pieces" Miami Herald, July 1, 2014, http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/article1973642.html
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