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| September
11, 2001 |
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| Culpability
or Incompetence? |
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| 9/11
INTELLIGENCE-Cartoon by Ann Telnaes |
| Apparently
the only way we could have avoided 9-11 |
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| Pre-9-11
Warning-Cartoon by Benson |
| In
One Ear & Out The Other |
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| September
11: Who Knew What When |
| Time
line slide show |
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| Sept.
11 widow says "I'm 100% sure that they knew" |
| She
believes President George W. Bush "intentionally allowed
9/11 to happen to gather public support for a war on terrorism," |
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| "They
wanted it to happen."-By John Buchanan |
| They
being the neocon members and associates of PNAC, the Project
for a New American Century, an ultra-rightwing think tank and
mouthpiece for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and most Bush's
handlers these days. Cheney, Wolfowitz and their PNAC fellows
had been campaigning publicly for Mideast oil wars since 2000,
but also said publicly that the American people were not likely
to buy these plans without a "catastrophic and catalyzing
event like a new Pearl Harbor." |
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| "Oh
Lucy! - You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin To Do" |
| A
TIMELINE SURROUNDING SEPTEMBER 11TH - IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT
WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY
DOING? |
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| Bipartisan
Committee's recommendations on terror were disregarded by Bush
Administration |
| White
House officials failed to embrace any of the recommendations
to prevent acts of domestic terrorism delivered earlier this
year. Bush administration officials told former Sens. Gary Hart,
D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., that they preferred instead
to put aside the recommendations issued in the January report
by the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. |
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| Time
Magazine-Before Sept..11--The Secret History-By Michael
Elliott |
| Long
before 9/11, the White House debated taking the fight to al-Qaeda.
By the time they decided, it was too late. The saga of a lost
chance. |
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| After
2 ½ years asleep, Wall Street Journal notices a few oddities
about Sept. 11 |
| Many
discrepencies concerning the actions of Bush |
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| Was
9/11 Allowed to Happen? |
| America’s
top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and
commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public into
supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s. Approved in
writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even
proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a false
pretext for war. [ABC, 5/1/01] |
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| Having
It Their Way-How the Bush Gang Exploited 9/11 |
| In
the days that followed September 11, 2001, the US rulers immediately
recognised that those awful acts of mass murder had provided
them with a golden opportunity to achieve the US capitalist
ruling class' long-held objective of unchallenged world domination
-- the ``American century'' it predicted was at hand at the
end of World War II. |
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| 9-11
Profiteering: A Framework for Building the "Cui Bono?"
UnAnswered Questions |
| Much
has transpired since September 11, 2001. We have learned that
numerous heads of state and foreign intelligence agencies tried
to warn us before 9-11 (2); We have watched many deeply disturbing
unanswered questions of 9-11 emerge through global Internet
media (3); |
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| Bush |
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| The
Out-of-Towner-While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard. |
| Roemer
then asked Tenet if he mentioned Moussaoui to President Bush
at one of their frequent morning briefings. Tenet replied, "I
was not in briefings at this time." Bush, he noted, "was
on vacation." He added that he didn't see the president
at all in August 2001. During the entire month, Bush was at
his ranch in Texas. "You never talked with him?" Roemer
asked. "No," Tenet replied. By the way, for much of
August, Tenet too was, as he put it, "on leave." |
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| A
passive president |
| THE
PRESIDENT'S Daily Brief for Aug. 6, 2001 declassified only under
pressure shows that President Bush had an accurate warning from
intelligence analysts of Osama bin Laden's intention to kill
Americans in New York and Washington. Had Bush responded by
calling a meeting of department heads concerned with the national
security, crucial items in FBI and CIA files could have been
perceived as what they were: part of a pattern foreshadowing
an attack by terrorists using hijacked airplanes. |
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| NOW,
THEREFORE, I, JEB BUSH |
| EXECUTIVE
ORDER NUMBER 01-261-An odd Sept. 7, 2001, order giving Jeb Bush
Broad powers over the Florida National Guard against a terror
attack. |
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| AN
INTERESTING DAY: GEORGE BUSH JR. ON 9/11 |
| They
knew that one plane had been flown deliberately into the World
Trade Center's North Tower; a second plane was wildly off course
and also heading toward Manhattan; and a third plane had abruptly
turned around over Ohio and was flying back toward Washington,
DC. So why, at 9:03 a.m. - fifteen minutes after it was clear
the United States was under terrorist attack - did President
Bush sit down with a classroom of second-graders and begin a
20-minute pre-planned photo op? |
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| Text
of Bush's Aug. 6, 2001, Intel Brief |
| The
text of a declassified presidential daily intelligence briefing
from Aug. 6, 2001 made public on Saturday by the White House.
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| Panel
Says Bush Saw Repeated Warnings |
| By
the time a CIA briefer gave President Bush the Aug. 6, 2001,
President's Daily Brief headlined "Bin Ladin Determined
To Strike in US," the president had seen a stream of alarming
reports on al Qaeda's intentions. So had Vice President Cheney
and Bush's top national security team. |
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| Public
Record: Bush Ignored Terrorism Before 9/11 |
| According
to the Washington Post, President Bush and Vice President Cheney
never once convened the counterterrorism task force that was
established in May 20013 -- despite repeated warnings that Al
Qaida could be planning to hijack airplanes and use them as
missiles. This negligence came at roughly the same time that
the Vice President held at least 10 meetings of his Energy Task
Force4 and attended at least six meetings with Enron executives. |
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| Bush's
9-11 Secrets |
| Even
though Bush has refused to make parts of the 9-11 report public,
one thing is startlingly clear: The U.S. government had received
repeated warnings of impending attacks—and attacks using
planes directed at New York and Washington—for several
years. The government never told us about what it knew was coming.
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| CIA
director briefed Bush in August '01 |
| CIA
Director George Tenet met with President George W. Bush at least
eight times in the 42 days before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror
attacks, a CIA spokesman said Thursday. |
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| Was
there enough intel to act? |
| Complicating
the context of the Aug. 6 PDB, President Bush was on vacation
in Crawford, Texas, during that month in 2001. The next day,
he teed off at a private club on Lake Waco, jogged at the ranch,
read a little, and went bass fishing. |
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| 9/11:
Bush Knew |
| A
collection of compelling articles, which refute, or, at the
very least, call into question, the assertions that Bush and
his administration had no prior knowledge of events that would
lead to the 9-11 tragedy. |
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Bush
at Booker Elementary
THE VIDEO THAT PROVES 9/11 WAS NOT A SURPRISE |
| What
damns the Bush administration is not what is in this video,
but what SHOULD be in the video and is not. Ostensibly, Bush
and Card are reacting to a surprise attack, but Bush does not
act surprised, and Andy Card does not act like a man delivering
an unexpected piece of news but instead is merely delivering
a progress report to which he already knows Bush will not have
an immediate response. |
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| Blood
on Bush's Hands |
| We
hear so much about foreign dictators. We know leaders cause
problems to keep themselves employed. Why is it some questions
about 9/11 are out-of-bounds? Americans ought to be asking all
questions, even the seemingly silly ones. Assessing our own
errors won't bring back the victims, but it won't trash their
memory, either. Mistakes were made. We know this. But was it
incompetence or corruption? Dean's comments were criticized,
but his logic was spot-on: The fact is we don't know what happened.
If the White House is on the up-and-up here -- if their want
for regime change was as well-intentioned as it now seems ill-advised
-- they should open up and show us, for their sake and ours. |
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| Condoleezza
Rice |
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| Condoleezza
Rice Testifies: LIES A SIXTH GRADER WOULD NOT ACCEPT |
| The
suspect lied. And if the suspect lied then the suspect's story
is not true. And if the suspect's story is not true then the
suspect is, in all probability, guilty as hell or withholding
material evidence of someone else's guilt. |
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| Questions
for Dr. Rice |
| The
director of the National Security Agency reportedly told a closed
session of that committee that on Sept. 10, 2001, his agency
intercepted messages by the 9/11 hijackers. The messages, which
went untranslated until Sept. 12, were reportedly not to Osama
bin Laden but to Saudi clerics. |
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| AN
OPEN LETTER TO CONDOLEEZZA RICE "You Are a Liar"
byCatherine
Austin Fitts Former Assistant
Secretary of Housing |
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| Rice
Never Spoke About Al-Qaeda, bin Laden Before 9/11 |
| Richard
Clarke was right. So was Paul O'Neill. During the six months
before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration paid
little attention to the threat from al-Qaeda and instead set
the stage for a war with Iraq. |
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| Rice
saw Russia, China as the major threats |
| In
the months and days leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks, senior White House officials were obsessed not with
Islamic terrorism, but with Russia and China, which they believed
posed the most serious threats in the world. |
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| Fact
Check: Condi Rice's '60 Minutes' Interview |
| National
Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice appeared on CBS's "60
Minutes" in an effort to quell growing questions surrounding
the administration's inconsistent claims about its pre-9/11
actions. Not only did Rice refuse to take Richard Clarke's lead
and admit responsibility for her role in the worst national
security failure in American history, but she continued to make
unsubstantiated and contradictory assertions: |
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| September
11 Should Have Been Stopped |
| Surely
we were victims of terrorism on September 11, but was this unavoidable?
Are the Washington Post, Condoleezza Rice and others correct
in stating that no one anticipated these kinds of attacks? The
facts say no. |
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| FBI
whistleblower says Rice is lying; Bush knew al-Qaida was planning
attack |
| A
former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance
says she has provided information to the panel investigating
the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew
of al-Qaida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before
the strikes happened. She said the claim by the National Security
Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information
was "an outrageous lie". |
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| Sibel
Edmonds-Translator's Story |
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| Lost
In Translation-60 Minutes |
| Sibel
Edmonds, a translator who worked at the FBI's language division,
says the documents weren't translated because the divison was
riddled with incompetence and corruption. |
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| SHOW:
60 Minutes DATE: October 27. 2002 LOST IN TRANSLATION-Transcript |
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| Public
Pressure Forces Judge to Open 9/11 Whistleblower Hearing |
| Whistleblower
Sibel Edmonds could soon become the thorniest of thorns in the
side of the most secretive administration in American history.
Whether she does or not depends on whether or not the American
public will stand up and challenge the Department of Justice’s
attempt to quash the truth, avoid accountability and bury the
facts behind lies, double speak and the National Security trump
card. |
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| State
Dept. Quashed 9/11 Links To Global Drug Trade -FBI Whistleblower |
| Even
as a judge prepares to permanently silence her, a former FBI
translator of intelligence has implicated the US State Department
in quashing investigations which had linked the 9/11 terrorist
network to a global drug trafficking ring. |
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PUBLIC
PRESSURE GAINS ANOTHER VICTORY IN THE FIGHT
FOR 9/11 FULL DISCLOSURE |
| FBI
translator Sibel Edmonds has spoken to the press (including
Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!) on several occasions, artfully
navigating around a topic-specific gag order from the Justice
Department. |
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| DOJ
MOVES TO INVOKE STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE TO PREVENT FBI WHISTELBLOWER
FROM GIVING A DEPOSITION IN 9/11 SUIT |
| FBI
whistleblower and former translator Sibel Edmonds, who has appeared
on 60 MINUTES and recently been interviewed in many of the largest
newspapers in the world has something to say. We know already
that Senator Charles Grassley has found her credible and that
she has charged the government with lying for stating that it
had no knowledge of the possibility that Al Qaeda might use
hijacked airliners as weapons against buildings. |
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| This
Made Ashcroft Gag |
| Details
of a Florida drug case may well shed light on the claims of
an FBI translator who says the agency covered up evidence warning
of the 9-11 attack. |
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| FBI
Whistle-Blowers Go Unheard |
| They
are also eager to find out more about the unconfirmed story
of a second FBI linguist, Behrooz Sarshar, who claims he translated
for an FBI informant with information on a supposed Al Qaeda
plot to attack the U.S. with planes back in April 2001. "Some
of the group have also met with Sarshar," said van Auken.
"His claims seem to back up what Edmonds is saying." |
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| Man
who translated lead on al-Qaida plot confirms meeting with 3
investigators. |
| Sources
familiar with the briefing say the FBI informant told two FBI
agents from the Washington field office in April 2001 that his
sources in Afghanistan had heard of an al-Qaida plot to attack
America in a suicide mission involving planes. Sarshar, fluent
in Farsi, acted as an interpreter at the meeting, held at a
Washington-area residence. |
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| Bush
Administration |
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| Why
Nobody Saw 9/11 Coming |
Did
the Bush administration, before the 9/11 attacks, fail to take
terrorism seriously enough? At first the contention seems unlikely.
Isn't this the most hawkish administration in living memory?
Wasn't it President Bush who coined the phrase "war on
terror"?
Yet in the
current hearings on the attacks — and in the controversy
surrounding the new book by Richard A. Clarke, the administration's
first counterterrorism chief — the words "neglect"
and "failure" keep cropping up. |
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| Congressman:
FBI Ignored Repeated Warnings |
| The
FBI ignored several specific and sometimes frantic warnings
of a Minnesota flight instructor who told the bureau that an
Arab man could be planning to use a 747 jumbo jet as a flying
"bomb." |
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| What
We Learned and When We Learned It |
| In
the summer of 2001 the director of central intelligence, George
Tenet, was running around with his hair on fire. When told that
Mr. Tenet's hair was on fire, President Bush replied, "I'm
tired of swatting flies." The president added that the
only thing worse than swatting flies was shaking trees. "You
can swat all the flies and shake all the trees you want, but
it still won't be a silver bullet," the president said. |
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| Criminal
Mastermind: Donald Rumsfeld |
| These
are the standing orders to the military as to how to respond
to hijackings over United States territory. The June 1 '01 document
deliberately changed the existing policies. |
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| The
9/11 Commission: Justice's Blind Spot |
| Asleep
at the wheel? Attorney General John Ashcroft is fighting charges
he was uninterested in terrorism before 9/11 |
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| Bremer
criticized Bush on terrorism before attacks |
| L.
Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said in a speech
six months before the September 11, 2001 attacks that the Bush
administration was "paying no attention" to terrorism.
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| International
Citizens' Inquiry Into 9-11 |
| With
confidence sinking every day that the official U.S. government’s
Kean Commission will ask any genuine truth-revealing questions
about 9/11, the work of these independent citizen Inquiries
has become even more important. |
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| The
9/11 Investigation |
| In
the report's first finding, the committees note that the intelligence
community did not have information on the "time, place
and specific nature" of the 9/11 attacks, but that it had
"amassed a great deal of valuable intelligence regarding
Osama bin Laden and his terrorist activities," and that
this information could have been used to thwart the assault.
"Within the huge volume of intelligence reporting that
was available prior to September 11," the report says,
"there were various threads and pieces of information that,
at least in retrospect, are both relevant and significant. |
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| The
offense in Bush's 9/11 defense |
| When
terrorists plan to strike America, should they call in advance
and make reservations? If not - if they aren't specific about
time and place - should President Bush and the rest of the federal
government be held blameless for failing to stop them? |
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| Ashcroft's
Record of Lying to Congress About 9/11 |
| With
Attorney General John Ashcroft testifying before the 9/11 Commission
today, a quick analysis of his previous statements shows he
has repeatedly lied to Congress about the Bush Administration's
counterterrorism record. |
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| "Threat
assessment" keeps Ashcroft off commercial air flights |
| In
response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling
exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines,
the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment"
by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only
by private jet for the remainder of his term. |
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| Bush
Administration Resorts to Lies About 9/11 |
| With
President Bush's former top counterterrorism expert Richard
Clarke issuing well-documented criticisms of the White House's
failure to defend America, the Administration has resorted to
outright lies and distortions about its record. |
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| Unanswered
Questions: Thinking For Ourselves |
| Unanswered
Questions About 9-11 |
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| The
pre-9/11 blunder you’ve probably never heard of |
| The
real question for the 9/11 commission — and the American
public — is not whether George W. Bush considered al Qaeda
an urgent threat before 9/11, but this: How did the U.S. government
let Khalid al-Mihdar and Nawaf al-Hazmi get away with it? |
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