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Was Robert Novak the Father of the 9-11 Truth Movement? |
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Novak was quick to state that the events smacked of a conspiracy of insiders.
"Security experts and airline officials agree privately that the simultaneous hijacking of four jetliners was an 'inside job,' probably indicating complicity beyond malfeasance," said Novak in the lead sentence of his weekly column only two days after 9-11.
Novak's column continued: "In the rage and mourning following Tuesday's disaster, few officials wanted to dwell on how a 10-year hiatus of airline hijackings in this country could be followed by four in one hour. At a minimum, the blame can be put on ill-trained, incompetent personnel performing the screening of passengers. At the worst, security experts fear collusion with terrorists, possibly even extending to the cockpit. This is a subject that the airlines are loathe to discuss."
Novak was not the only journalist to imply that insiders were active in implementing 9-11. New York Times columnist William Safire theorized that the terrorists had assistance from within the major U.S. intelligence agencies.
Safire, in his column of September 13, 2001, stated: "...knowledge of code words, presidential whereabouts and possession of secret procedures indicates that the [9-11] terrorists may have a mole in the White House""that, or informants in the Secret Service, F.B.I., F.A.A. or C.I.A."
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