As is my wont, over the years I have visited and
revisited various aspects of the subject of 9/11 (1 -- 4). At this time, about a month after the
official 2012 anniversary of the tragedy (in many senses), the subject appears
to be worth yet another visit. Last
month two very important articles were published on what the Cheney/Bush Administration
was told about the al Qaeda threat and what they chose to pay attention to
(nothing). One has received a great deal
of worthwhile attention (5), the other not so much (6).
Both writers have had access to much more
information on just what briefings the Cheney/Bush Administration received
before the tragic event. It has been
common knowledge that the Presidential Daily Briefing paper of August 6, 2011
warned that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States. To which Bush responded to its deliverer
words to the effect of "OK, you've covered your ass." But both Eichenwald and Parry (who relies on
the Eichenwald material a good deal but also supplies additional information)
tell us that repeated briefings on the danger were repeatedly ignored by
Cheney/Bush and their National Security Council. In the meantime, the CIA, which was gathering
this information (yes, the CIA can do other stuff besides organize coups
against unwanted governments and simulate "homegrown" protest movements against
same when it puts its mind to it), was going increasingly nuts over the
non-response.
Furthermore, Richard Clarke, the Clinton Administration's
point man on al-Qaeda had told Bush, Cheney and Rice on Jan. 21, 2009 that
al-Qaeda was becoming increasingly dangerous and very close attention needed to
be paid. But every time Clarke said
words to the effect of "al-Qaeda" on that first day, he tells us (7), Bush said
words to the effect of "Iraq." It
happens that the FBI's point man on al-Qaeda, John O'Neill, in August, 2009 quit
in disgust at the inaction of his agency and the Administration and took the
job as director of security for the World Trade Center. Tragically he was killed in the
disaster. What a tale he might have told
had he lived.
And so, the conclusion usually is, Cheney/Bush/Rice
were negligent, they were incompetent.
That's the conclusion Eichenwald and Parry come to. But there is another possible one. And of course the 9/11 truth movement (8) has
been all over this one for years. But
while the "birther" conspiracy theorists get all the access to the mainstream
media they want (I bet you didn't know that those Barack Obama birth
announcements that appeared in the Honolulu papers at the time were planted as
part of a truly long-range conspiracy to make him President of the United
States someday, did you?), not even the "left" mainstream media (Rachel, et al)
will touch this one. Let me just cherry-pick
some of my favorite pieces of evidence that some conspiracy involving at least
the Vice-President at some level, from knew-something-was-coming to actually
organizing it was indeed ongoing that summer.
All available evidence points to the famous
"Building 7," not hit by anything, being brought down by a controlled
explosion. And oh yes, it happened to
contain the City's emergency command center (which the so-called "America's
Mayor" [ha!] Rudy Giuliani had placed in it against the advice of all of this
security experts) as well as the local offices of the FBI and CIA. (Files, anyone?) Giuliani was also responsible for the failure
to fund a system that would have connected the radios of the New York City
police and fire departments. The command
of the former knew when the collapse of the Twin Towers was imminent and got
most of its men out. However, there was
no way to directly communicate the danger to the firefighters still working
inside. 343 of them perished. Interestingly enough there is a "Firefighters
for Truth" organization right there alongside the architects and engineers (9). Giuliani was also responsible for having the
wreckage moved as quickly as possible and buried in New Jersey swamps, before a
full forensic analysis of it could be performed. Coincidence here too, for the "Subject,
Predicate, 9/11" mayor, as Joe Biden dubbed him during the 2008 Presidential campaign? And oh yes, Giuliani was right there with
then-EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman (10) in saying "no worries" about
the inhaled smoke which, as it turns out, will be killing people for
years.
A large group of reputable architects and engineers
believe that the Twin Towers were actually brought down the same way (see the referenced
website) as Building 7 surely seems to have been.
There are the mysterious trades in stock of the affected airlines just before
the Day. The Attorney General John Ashcroft
had stopped flying commercial back in July.
The Cheney/Bush White House fought very hard to
prevent the formation of the 9/11 Commission, wouldn't testify under oath
before it, did not testify in public, testified only together not
separately. There has never been an
investigation of the Pentagon bombing, much less any explanation of how a
hollow aluminum tube (that is an airliner) could penetrate two walls, leave a
symmetrical 16 ft.-in-diameter whole in the inner one that it reached, and left
no airline wreckage or debris or human remains.
On President Clinton's watch two massive al Qaeda conspiracies were
averted, the 1998 "25 airliners" plot and the 2000 "Millennium bomb" plot to
blow up LAX. During the three-day
banning of commercial flight sin the U.S., 18 members of the bin Laden family
living in the United States were flown out before the FBI could get to
interview them.
And as I have noted before (4), " as to
folks much more important than I who have raised their own serious questions,
the list includes (thanks to Allen Roland, Ph.D., (11) and an email of
9/12/10): 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commissioner
Timothy Roemer, 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland (who resigned from the
Commission), 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey, Senior Counsel to the 9/11
Commission (John Farmer), Daniel Ellsberg, 27-year CIA veteran, Raymond
McGovern (who handled National Intelligence Estimates), 29-year CIA
veteran, former National Intelligence Officer (NIO) and former Director of the
CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis William Bill Christison, CIA
Operations Officer Lynne Larkin, decorated 20-year CIA veteran Robert Baer,
Division Chief of the CIA's Office of Soviet Affairs Melvin Goodman, Co-Chair
of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, Senator Patrick Leahy, Republican
Congressman Ron Paul, Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Republican
Congressman Jason Chafetz, former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel, former
Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee, former U.S. Democratic Congressman Dan
Hamburg, and former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House
Armed Services Committee, Curt Weldon. All of the above people have
all raised serious questions about the official conspiracy theory, as have many
other current and former intelligence and law enforcement operatives."
It may well be that anyone who could and would possibly talk about
really happened on that day and the months leading up to it is dead, from
natural or other causes. But it appears so
obvious that the ignoring of all of those warnings from the CIA, for gosh sake was not because of negligence. In reference to the possibility of there
being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Cheney once talked about the "The
One Percent Doctrine" (12). He held that
if there was even a one percent chance that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction that the US invasion of Iraq was justified. Funny how he never applied that doctrine to
the overwhelming evidence that trouble right here in River City was well on its
way in the summer of 2001.
References:
1. Jonas,
S., "Ann Coulter: The New Face of the Republican Party," http://www.buzzflash.com/jonas/06/06/jon06008.htm .
2. Jonas,
S., "They Made Us Safe," http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/7176-dr-js-commentary-they-made-us-safe .
3. Jonas,
S., "Terror in the Skies: from 9/11 to the Underwear Bomber," http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/8587-dr-js-commentary-terror-in-the-skies-from-911-to-the-underwear-bomber .
4. Jonas,
S., "Reflections on 9/11 and What is Patriotism," The Greanville Press: July 3, 2012,
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5. Eichenwald,
K., "The Deafness Before the Storm," The New York Times, Sept. 11, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?_r=1 .
6. Parry,
R., "The Neocons and 9/11," http://consortiumnews.com/2012/09/11/the-neocons-and-911/ .
7. Clarke,
R., Against All Enemies:
Inside America's War on Terror, www.amazon.com/Against-All-Enemies-Inside-Americas/dp/0743260244 .
8. 9/11truth,
http://www.911truth.org/ ; Julie Levesque, "9/11: Facts, Fiction and Censorship," http://www.globalresearch.ca/911-facts-fiction-and-censorship/
9. http://firefightersfor911truth.org/
10. "White
House Ordered EPA to Lie About 9/11 Pollution danger, www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0823-03.htm
11. http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/ , Tuesday, Sept. 11,
2012.
12. Suskind,
Ron, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of its Enemies
Since 9/11, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.
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