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4 September 2006
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Not Until After 9/11 Attacks Were
Over
Was The US Air Force Instructed To Provide A Full Emergency Response
Pentagon Caught Lying
To Kean Commission And Congress
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Why Did The Telecoms Link Between
The Pentagon And Air Force One Fail On 9/11?
And Also The Link Between The Pentagon And FAA HQ?
"Tonight we're one month away
from the fifth anniversary of September 11th. A shocking new
book by the 9/11 Commission co- chairmen, Thomas Kean
[Republican] and Lee Hamilton [Democrat], says Americans still don't know the whole truth
about their government's initial response to those terrorist attacks that day....
They write ... 'all of the after-action reports, accident investigations and public
testimony by FAA and NORAD officials advanced an account of 9/11 that was untrue.'.... If all of the after-action
reports are untrue, for whatever reason, that's a lie - because they were asserted as the
truth by people who knew better or should have..... the fact that they would continue and
perpetuate the lie, suggests that we need a full investigation of what is going on and
what is demonstrably an incompetent and at worst deceitful federal government ..... "
Lou Dobbs Tonight - 9/11 Lies?
CNN, 9 August 2006
"The [9/11 US Air Force] recordings
tell a different story [to that given by the Bush Administration], and not only because United 93 had crashed before anyone in the military chain of command even
knew it had been hijacked .... the answer to
Nasypany's question about rules of engagement comes back in no uncertain terms, as you
hear him relay to the ops floor."
'9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes'
Vanity Fair Special,
August 2006
10:10:31
NASYPANY (to floor): Negative. Negative clearance
to shoot.… Goddammit!…
FOX: I'm not really worried about code words at this point.
NASYPANY: Fuck the code words. That's perishable information. Negative
clearance to fire. |
Major Kevin Nasypany, commander
Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS), expressing his frustration on 9/11 that he doesn't
have Presidential clearance to authorise a shoot down of hijacked airliners - even though
it is over an hour since the President had been informed that
the World Trade Center had been hit for a second time
(From NORAD audio logs subpoenaed by the 9/11 Commission and
published by Vanity Fair August 2006) |
"The reality is... there was no
real play on any of the hijacked planes [by the US military on 911]."
Michael Bronner of Vanity Fair
ABC News, 2 August 2006
President Bush With Telephone On Air
Force One
The 9/11 Kean Commission Found That The
Telecommunication Link
Between The Pentagon And The President Failed On 9/11
So Also Did The Crucial Telecoms Link Between The Pentagon And The FAA
So What Happened To The Pentagon's Telecommunications Systems That Day?
Now Audio Tapes Obtained By Vanity
Fair Provide A Detailed Record Of How US Air Force Personnel
Prepared For A Shoot Down Of Hijacked Aircraft But Never Received The Order Until After
The Hijackings Had Finished
Evidence Has Now Also Surfaced That The
Pentagon Lied To The Kean Commission And Congress
About What Happened With US Air Defences On 9/11 |
"Given that the NMCC
[National Military Command Center at the Pentagon] did not connect to Air force One, was
the problem really with the FAA or was it with the Pentagon? The Pentagon was the common
denominator with both the failed telecom links on 9/11. It did, however, connect to the
Vice President. Why Was The NMCC connected to Cheney in the White House but not Bush on
Air Force One? Meanwhile what were these military operatives doing
at the FAA Command Center on 9/11? Evidence from the official 9/11 and Vanity Fair reports
indicates that NEADS received no information via the designated FAA HQ-NMCC communication
route for the duration of the attacks. Why has there been no further investigation into
that? NEADS itself did not receive shoot down instructions until 10:31 hrs. During the attacks of 9/11 the NMCC was in contact with neither
the FAA, the Defense Secretary, nor the President. Yet only the President could authorise
the use of force in response to acts of domestic terrorism and all requests for assistance
had to be approved by the Secretary of Defense."
Pentagon Caught Lying To Kean Commission And Congress
'Fight Smart', 4 September 2006
"I was extremely troubled, and so were
the other members of the commission. This was one of the most troubling facts in the whole
9/11 investigation - how our military failed to get the information and then, in
testifying before us, didn't really give the truth."
Thomas Kean, chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
ABC News, 2 August 2006
"The commission had to subpoena the
F.A.A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full
story. That is one of the tragedies. One of these days we will have to get the full story
because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But
this White House wants to cover it up."
Former Senator Max Cleland
who stepped down from the 9/11 Commission December 2003
Interview
with 'Democracy Now', 23 March 2004 |
"Subpoenaed by the commission during
its investigation, the recordings have never been played publicly beyond a handful of
sound bites presented during the commission's hearings."
'9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes'
Vanity Fair Special,
August 2006
"The tapes record that NEADS had
intended to issue orders to F-15 fighter pilots to attack hijacked planes with AIM-9
missiles fired into the nose of the seized aircraft and had begun discussing the matter
after the second plane hit the World Trade Center. But the order never came until the
attacks were over."
Pentagon Caught Lying To Kean Commission And Congress
'Fight Smart', 4 September 2006
"'What's strange to me about these
statements to the press on the ABC News special [which aired on September 11, 2002] and
many other places is, you know, a year later and beyond, you have Cheney, Rove, Andrew Card,
and you have military people continuing to talk about the fact that they were watching
United 93 - they were deliberating,' [Michael] Bronner [of Vanity Fair] said. 'The reality is........there was no real play on any of the hijacked planes."
New 9/11 Audiotapes Reveal U.S. Military's Information Breakdown
ABC News, 2 August 2006
"More
than one-third of Americans suspect federal officials
assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States
could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new poll.... Thirty-six percent of respondents overall
said it is 'very likely' or 'somewhat likely' that federal officials either participated
in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them
'because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.'"
One in 3 Americans say US aided 9/11
New York Post, 3 August 2006
"As I went back through the Pentagon
in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat.
Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This
was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of
seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan ... I left the Pentagon that afternoon deeply concerned."
General Wesley Clark
'Winning Modern Wars', p 130
This Week
Professor David Ray Griffin Will Present His Case In The UK
For The Urgent Need To Re-Open The Investigation Into The Events Of 11th September 2001
"... there are two possibilities.
Either they leave me alone, or they take me out.... If they take me out, my
9-11 books go right to the top of the New York Times bestseller list."
Professor David Ray Griffin, America's Most Prominent '9/11 Truth' Researcher
To Speak In London 9
September 2006 On His
New Book
Click Here
 |
Professor David Ray Griffin Speaking At
The University
Of Wisconsin Madison On The Deficiencies Of The Official 9/11 Report
This Presentation Was Broadcast On C-Span,
America's Specialist Political TV Network
To View Broadcast Click Here |
"Griffin points to historical evidence
that the U.S. government would be capable of such a thing. Operation
Northwoods, a plan concocted by the Pentagon in the '60s as a way of taking Castro
from power, included ideas about how a terrorist attack on U.S. soil could provide a
pretext for military action .... Griffin comes to his controversial conclusions with
lucidity and calm."
Out Loud An Inside Job?
San
Francisco Chronicle, 30 March 2006
Fight Smart' Update -
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'Smoking Gun'
9/11 Commission Report One Year On
Key Witnesses Blatantly 'Overlooked'
In Official Cover-Up Of 9/11 Money Trail
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John O'Neill, John Pistole, Robert Wright, Sibel
Edmonds,
Lt General Mahmoud Ahmed, Omar Sheikh, Daniel Pearl, Robert Baer
The Inner Secrets Of 9/11
Are Held By The FBI |
"It's been painfully
obvious the administration not only fought the creation of the [9/11] commission but that
their objective was the war in Iraq, and one of the notions that was built on was there
was a direct connection between al Qaida and 9/11 and Saddam Hussein. There was not. So
therefore they didn't want the 9/11 commission to get going.... I can't say, as a commissioner, to the Congress and the American
people, that I had full access to all the documents pertaining to 9/11 and here's the conclusion. I can't say that.... This is the most serious
independent investigation since the Warren Commission. And after watching History Channel
shows on the Warren Commission last night, the Warren Commission blew it. I'm not going to
be part of that. I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm
not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to be part of
political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that. This is
serious."
Former Senator Max
Cleland who stepped down from the 9/11 Commission December 2003
Interview
with Salon.com, 21 November 2003 |
Some Highlights
From This Extended Bulletin
 |
"If all
of the [NORAD/FAA] after-action reports are untrue, for whatever reason, that's a lie -
because they were asserted as the truth by people who knew better or should have..... The
fact that the government would permit deception after
a deception, whether honestly, if you can call it
that, honestly intended or not. But the fact that they would continue and perpetuate the lie, suggests that we need a full investigation of what
is going on and what is demonstrably an incompetent and at worst deceitful federal government.....
incredible."
Lou Dobbs, CNN Anchorman,
on false evidence given to the 9/11 Commission
CNN, 9 August
2006
(Click here to watch
video of CNN report - shorter version here) |
"A poll released this week by Scripps Howard
News Service found that 36 percent of Americans believe 'people in the federal government either assisted in the 9/11
attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted to United States to go
to war in the Middle East.'"
They remain convinced: U.S. behind 9/11
Lowell Sun
(Massachusetts), 12 August 2006
As I went back through the Pentagon in
November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat.
Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This
was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of
seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan ... I left the Pentagon that afternoon deeply concerned."
General Wesley Clark
'Winning Modern Wars', p 130
Abbreviated Hijacking Timeline Summary
From Chapter One Of Official 9/11 Report |
| Flight |
American Airlines
Flight 11 |
United Airlines
Flight 175 |
American Airlines
Flight 77 |
United Airlines
Flight 93 |
| First Reported Abnormal Behaviour |
8:14 (failure to respond to FAA radio call) |
8:42 (pilot reports suspicious on board behaviour to
FAA) |
8:54 (deviates from flight path) |
9:28 (on board screaming heard by FAA) |
| Transponder Function |
8:21 Transponder turned off |
8:47 Transponder code changes |
8:56 Transponder turned off |
9:41 Transponder turned off |
Notification To NEADS
Outside Protocol (No notification via designated FAA HQ/ NMCC/NORAD chain of command/) |
8:38 FAA Boston Center notifies NEADS of hijacking |
9:03 FAA New York Center advises NEADS of a second
hijacking |
9:34 FAA Washington Center by chance advises NEADS
that AA 77 is missing |
10:07 FAA Cleveland Center advises NEADS of UA 93
hijacking |
| Time/Site Of Final Crash |
8:46:40 World Trade Center North Tower |
9:03:11 World Trade Center South Tower |
9:37:46 Pentagon |
10:03:11 Shanksville, Pennsylvania |
Total
Notification Time
Provided To NEADS |
Plus
nine minutes |
Zero
minutes |
Plus
four minutes
(but by chance, so in reality zero notice) |
Minus
four minutes |
"The defense of U.S. airspace on 9/11 was not conducted in accord
with preexisting training and protocols.... As it turned out, the NEADS air defenders had
nine minutes’ notice [from a source outside protocol]
on the first hijacked plane, no advance notice on the second, no advance notice on the
third, and no advance notice on the fourth."
THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT, JULY 2004 (p31) |
"... dressed in business suits (with
the exception of Major General Craig McKinley, whose two stars twinkled on either
epaulet), were Major General Larry Arnold (retired)..... and Colonel Alan Scott (retired),
who had been with Arnold at NORAD's continental command in Florida on 9/11.... None of the
military men were placed under oath..... Major General Arnold explained to the commission
that the military had been tracking United 93 and the fighters were in position if United
93 had threatened Washington. 'It was our intent to intercept United Flight 93,' Arnold
testified. 'I was personally anxious to see what 93 was going to do, and our intent was to
intercept it.'.... In the chronology presented to the 9/11 commission, Colonel Scott put
the time NORAD was first notified about United 93 at 9:16 a.m., from which time, he said,
commanders tracked the flight closely. (It crashed at 10:03 a.m.).... As the tapes reveal
in stark detail, parts of Scott's and Arnold's testimony were misleading, and others
simply false. At 9:16 a.m., when Arnold and Marr had supposedly begun their tracking of
United 93, the plane had not yet been hijacked. In fact, NEADS wouldn't get word about
United 93 for another 51 minutes.... Yet it was with dark bravado that the vice president and others in
the Bush administration would later recount sober deliberations about the prospect of
shooting down United 93..... The recordings tell a different story, and not
only because United 93 had crashed before anyone in the military chain of command even
knew it had been hijacked.... Azzarello, Farmer, and several other commission members I
spoke to dismissed this fog-of-war excuse and pointed out that not only had the military
already reviewed the tapes but that the false story
it told at the first hearing had a clear purpose.
'How good would it have looked for the government in general if we still couldn't have
stopped the fourth plane an hour and 35 minutes [into the attack]?' Azzarello asked. 'How
good would it have looked if there was a total
breakdown in communication and nothing worked
right?'"
'9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes'
Vanity Fair Special,
August 2006
And Might People Then Have Begun To Wonder
Why Those Communication Systems Failed?
"Tonight, a new account of the
government's response to September 11th points to a picture of ineptitude, confusion, and
perhaps deception. A top Democrat, a Republican suggests Americans still don't know the
full truth about that day.... we're one month away from the fifth anniversary of September
11th. A
shocking new book by the 9/11 Commission co- chairmen, Thomas Kean [a Republican] and
Lee Hamilton [a Democrat], says Americans still don't know the whole truth about their
government's initial response to those terrorist attacks that day.... Two hours of chaos
and confusion on September 11th, and months of government ineptitude and incorrect testimony. A new
book by 9/11 commission co-chairmen Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton outlines repeated misstatements by the
Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration. They write, 'Fog of war could explain why
some people were confused on the day of 9/11. But it could not explain why all of the after-action reports, accident investigations and public
testimony by FAA and NORAD officials advanced an account of 9/11 that was untrue.'
Untrue, the
military's original timeline of United
Flight 93. The military said FAA notified NORAD of a hijacked plane at 9:16 a.m., 47
minutes before the plane crashed in Pennsylvania. In fact, the military found out three
minutes after the plane crashed. And equally untrue, the government's timeline for American Flight 77 and details about
fighter jets scrambled to intercept it. The book also alleges government officials
weren't forthcoming with the investigation and it took interviews and subpoenas to shake loose
valuable information."
Lou Dobbs Tonight - 9/11 Lies?
CNN, 9 August 2006
".. As one of its last acts before
disbanding, in July 2004, the 9/11 commission made referrals to the inspector general's
offices of both the Department of Transportation (which includes the F.A.A.) and the
Defense Department to further investigate whether witnesses had lied. 'Commission staff
believes that there is significant evidence that the false statements made to the
commission were deliberately false,' Farmer wrote to me in an e-mail summarizing the commission's
referral.'"
'9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes'
Vanity Fair Special,
August 2006
"Generally it is impossible to carry out an act of
terror on the scenario which was used in the USA yesterday. We had such facts too. As
soon as something like that happens here, I am reported about that right away and in a
minute we are all up [in our fighter aircraft].”
Commander-in-Chief
of Russian Airforce, Anatoli Kornukov
Pravda online: 18:50 hrs 12 September 2001 |
"Flying into Philadelphia recently,
I spotted the Kean congressional report on 11 September from the 9/11 Commission on sale
at the bookstalls. 'How many do you sell?' I asked. 'One or two,' was the reply. 'It'll
disappear soon.' Yet, this modest, blue-covered book is a revelation. Like the Butler
report in the UK, which detailed all the incriminating evidence of Blair's massaging of
intelligence before the invasion of Iraq, then pulled its punches and concluded nobody was
responsible, so the Kean report makes
excruciatingly clear what really happened, then fails to draw the conclusions that stare
it in the face. It is a supreme act of
normalising the unthinkable. This is not
surprising, as the conclusions are volcanic. The most important evidence to the 9/11 Commission came from General Ralph
Eberhart, commander of the North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad). 'Air force
jet fighters could have intercepted hijacked airliners roaring towards the World Trade
Center and Pentagon,' he said, 'if only air traffic controllers had asked for help 13
minutes sooner . . . We would have been able to shoot down all three . . . all four of
them.' Why did this not happen? The Kean report makes clear that 'the defence of US
aerospace on 9/11 was not conducted in accord with pre-existing training and protocols . . . If a hijack was confirmed, procedures called for the
hijack coordinator on duty to contact the
Pentagon's National Military Command Center (NMCC) . . . The NMCC would then seek approval from the office of the Secretary of
Defence to provide military assistance . . . '
Uniquely, this did not happen. The
commission was told by the deputy
administrator of the Federal Aviation Authority that there was no reason the procedure was
not operating that morning. 'For my 30 years of
experience . . .' said Monte Belger, 'the NMCC was on the net and hearing everything
real-time . . . I can tell you I've lived through dozens of hijackings . . . and they were
always listening in with everybody else.' But on this occasion, they were not. The Kean report says the NMCC was never informed. Why? Again,
uniquely, all lines of communication failed, the commission was told, to America's top
military brass. Donald Rumsfeld,
secretary of defence, could not be found; and when he finally spoke to Bush an hour and a
half later, it was, says the Kean report, 'a brief call in which the subject of shoot-down
authority was not discussed'. As a result,
Norad's commanders were 'left in the dark about what their mission was'. The report reveals that the only part of a previously fail-safe command system that worked was in
the White House where Vice-President Cheney was in effective control that day, and in close touch with the
NMCC. Why did he do nothing about the first
two hijacked planes? Why was the NMCC, the
vital link, silent for the first time in its existence? Kean ostentatiously refuses to address this. Of course, it could
be due to the most extraordinary combination of coincidences. Or it could not."
Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal - John Pilger
New
Statesman, 15 November 2004
"Sometime between 1991 and 2001, a
regional sector of the North American Aerospace Defense Command simulated a foreign
hijacked airliner crashing into a building in the United States as part of training
exercise scenario, a NORAD spokesman said Monday..... Military
officials said the exercise involved simulating a crash into a building that would be recognizable if identified, but was not the World Trade
Center or the Pentagon. They emphasize it involved an airliner being hijacked as it flew
into U.S. airspace from abroad, a slightly different scenario from what happened on
September 11, 2001. The identity of the building named in the exercise is classified....
According to a statement from NORAD, 'Before
September 11th, 01, NORAD regularly conducted a variety of exercises that included hijack
scenarios. These exercises tested track detection and identification; scramble and
interception; hijack procedures; internal and external agency
coordination and operational security and communications security procedures.... At the NORAD headquarters' level we normally conducted four major
exercises a year, most of which included a hijack scenario.'"
NORAD exercise had jet crashing into building
CNN, 19 April 2004
After So Much Testing Why Did The Pentagon's National
Military Command Center (NMCC) Telecommunications Systems
To The FAA And Air Force One Both Uniquely Fail On 9/11?
"[Following
communication problems] On Air Force One, the president was unable to reach most
of the people or at least many of the people whom he tried to reach. He could not
functionally lead the government from Air Force One at a time of great national stress and
national emergency. He told us when we interviewed
him that this was a source of enormous frustration, as you can imagine it would be. He
gave instructions and orders for that to be fixed. We had some testimony about that today.
That's not a good situation."
Jamie Gorlick, 9/11 Commissioner
Day of Horror
PBS, 17 June
2004
"After the second aircraft impacted
the second tower, the [National Military] Command Center then became a focal point for
coordinating information flow. And at that point I convened - by the procedures that
existed on 9/11, I convened a conference called a Significant Event Conference.... FAA
tried to be included in that conference and we had difficulty throughout the morning
getting them in the conference.... Most of the time they were not in the conference.... I
can say that it did hamper information flow because we were getting information in a more
roundabout way from FAA... I understand on that day
that there were some compatibility issues between their secure phone and ours in the
Command Center that caused them to drop out of the conference. But I'm not aware of the technical aspects of it.... we were connected
to the White House and I was satisfied with the communications to the White House..... We were hampered that day by communications.... I can't speak to the
connectivity with Air Force One. I was connected to
the White House. And my understanding is Air Force One was in contact with the White House
Situation Room. I was not in contact with - [Leidig is interupted here but presumably he
was going to say Air Force One]....Yes, sir, there is a capability to do that [to connect
the NMCC directly with Air Force One]. On that day we were connected with the White
House....I don't recall, sir [why we weren't using the capability to connect to Air Force
One]....."
Testimony of Admiral Leidig
The officer in command of the NMCC
during most of the attacks
9/11 Commission, Twelfth Public Hearing
"Vanity Fair has
now reported (August 2006) that it recently obtained NORAD audio recordings of the
communications issued and received by NEADS operational staff at its control centre at
Rome, New York, on 9/11.... Although Vanity Fair doesn't consider this additional crucial
matter, the magazine's fresh look at the events of that day reopens the question - never
further investigated, but nonetheless reported by the original Kean Commission - as to why the telecommunication systems linking Air Force One and the
National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon failed on 9/11. A similarly
crucial communication link between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the NMCC
- central to any rapid airforce response to a hijacking - also failed on 9/11.... It remains unclear as to why there has never been a public
investigation into the simultaneous telecoms failures that occured on 9/11, and which resulted in the country's top military
leadership being cut off from both the President and the FAA during that crucial morning.
It is clear, however, as reported by the Washington Post on 1
August 2006, that some 9/11 staff members and commissioners
believe the Pentagon lied to the Kean Commission concerning the timeline of events on 9/11. In addition Vanity Fair comes to the conclusion that Vice
President Dick Cheney and White House members of
staff apparently knowingly made false public statements related to when the President
finally gave orders to shoot down hijacked aircraft (making an apparent pretence that this
was done before the hijackings were over). It is not clear why official protocols were not
followed on 9/11, and in particular why NEADS
received no instructions via the NMCC line of command.
The official 9/11 report states simply that 'The
defense of U.S. airspace on 9/11 was not conducted in accord with preexisting training and
protocols'. "
Pentagon Caught Lying To Kean Commission And Congress
'Fight Smart', 4 September 2006
Where Was The Military Leadership On 9/11?
"On Sept. 10.... a
group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning,
apparently because of security concerns."
Bush: ‘We’re At War’
Newsweek, 24 September 2001
"[On 911] The Secretary of Defense did
not enter the chain of command until the morning's key events were over."
THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT, JULY 2004,
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
"... And how, after [the President]
had been specifically told by his chief of staff that 'We are under attack,' could the
Commander in Chief continue sitting with second graders and make
a joke [during his visit to a school in Florida on 9/11]? Lorie ran the video over and over. 'I couldn’t stop
watching the President sitting there, listening to second graders, while my husband was
burning in a building,' she said. Mindy pieced together the actions of Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He had been in his Washington office engaged in his 'usual
intelligence briefing.' After being informed of the two attacks on the World Trade Center,
he proceeded with his briefing until the third hijacked plane struck the Pentagon. Mindy
relayed the information to Kristen: 'Can you believe this? Two planes hitting the
Twin Towers in New York City did not rise to the level of Rumsfeld’s leaving his
office and going to the war room to check out just what the hell went wrong.' Mindy
sounded scared. 'This is my President. This is my Secretary of Defense. You mean to tell
me Rumsfeld had to get up from his desk and look out his window at the burning Pentagon before he
knew anything was wrong? How can that be?' 'It can’t be,' said Kristen
ominously."
Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush
New York Observer, 21 August 2003
KEY MILITARY FIGURES
NOT AVAILABLE TO PENTAGON'S NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTRE
DURING HEIGHT OF 9/11 EMERGENCY
'The Incommunicado Response Team' |
| Name |
Position |
Availability
During Height Of Crisis |
| George W. Bush |
Commander In Chief |
Air Force One not connected to NMCC
conference call (The President has also since claimed that the communications systems
on Air Force One itself failed generally on 9/11. According to 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick: "On Air Force One, the president was unable to reach most of the
people or at least many of the people whom he tried to reach. He could not functionally
lead the government from Air Force One at a time of great national stress and national
emergency.") |
| Donald
Rumsfeld |
Secretary
of Defense |
Out of
communication at Pentagon. "The Secretary of Defense did
not enter the chain of command until the morning's key events were over." according to executive summary of 9/11
report |
| General
Henry Shelton |
Chairman
of Joint Chiefs |
Out of
country 'somewhere
over the Atlantic'. |
| General
Richard Myers |
Vice-Chairman
of Joint Chiefs of Staff (Acting Chairman on 9/11) |
Out of
communication on Capitol Hill |
| Brigadier General Montague Winfield |
Deputy
Director for Operations, J3, in the National Military Command Center ("He was present as the General Officer in Charge during the terrorist
attacks of 9/11" according
to the official Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command US military web site. Winfield was Commander
of JPAC). |
Handed
over NMCC command position at 8:30 am and
didn't return until end of hijackings |
Meanwhile
What Were These Military Operatives Doing At The FAA Command Center On 9/11? |
"In [FAA] Headquarters, Air Traffic Services
set up an additional
situation room in the front
office that was occupied by
DOD [Department of Defense] liaison officers who worked on the Air Traffic Services Headquarters staff.... At the FAA
Air Traffic Control System Command Center, the military officers assigned to the Air Traffic Services Cell became
immediately involved in coordinating FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center actions
with military elements."
Jeff Griffith, FAA Deputy Director of Air Traffic on 911
9/11
Commission, Twelfth Public Hearing, Written Statement
"...
at the Command Center of course is the military cell, which was our liaison with the military services. They were present at
all of the events that occurred on 9/11.... They have their own communication web that I think defeated
some of the notification processes, as I've been
listening to today. But in my mind everyone who needed to be notified about the events
transpiring was notified, including the military."
Ben Sliney, FAA Command
Center’s National Operations Manager
9/11 Commission, Twelfth Public Hearing, Oral Evidence
"Prior to 9/11, the
procedures for managing a traditional hijacked aircraft, as I said, were in place and pretty well tested.... The
most frustrating after-the-fact scenario for me to understand is to explain is the communication link on that morning between the FAA
operations center and the NMCC.... The
hijacking net is an open communication net run by the FAA hijack coordinator, who is a
senior person from the FAA security organization, for the purpose of getting the affected
federal agencies together to hear information at the same time.... It was my assumption
that morning, as it had been for my 30 years of experience with the FAA, that the NMCC was on that net and
hearing everything real-time..... I can tell you I've lived through dozens
of hijackings in my 30-year FAA career, as a very low entry-level inspector up through to
the headquarters, and they were always there. They were always on the net, and were always
listening in with everybody else..... from my
perspective there is no doubt in my mind that the FAA security organization knew what to
do. There is no doubt in my mind that the air traffic organization knew what to do. They
are the two key players in that type of scenario.... this is very, very important, in response to
your question.... the NMCC was called. They were added to this open communication
net. In my 30 years of history, there was always somebody listening to that net..... I
truly do not mean this to be defensive, but it is a fact -- there were military people on duty at the FAA
Command Center, as Mr. Sliney said. They were participating in what was going on. There
were military people in the FAA's Air Traffic Organization in a situation room. They were
participating in what was going on."
Monte Belger, FAA Acting Deputy
Administrator on 911
9/11
Commission, Twelfth Public Hearing, Oral Evidence |
Setting Up The FAA To Be The Fall Guy?
"....
As Mr. Belger stated, from my point of view I'm absolutely sure that our field managers
know -- knew on 9/11 what to do in the event of a hijacking. The procedures are very
cleared. The procedures are trained as a matter of
refresher training in our operational facilities every year..... There are protocols, there are check lists, there are folders that
are kept in operational positions where people have responsibility for reporting. And
through the years -- not only for hijackings, but aircraft accidents and other incidents
-- reporting is a very high priority. So it surprises me that people would think our
managers didn't know how to report."
Jeff Griffith, FAA Deputy Director of Air Traffic on 911
9/11
Commission, Twelfth Public Hearing, Oral Evidence
"No explanation is give as to
why the FAA headquarters was able to communicate with 'intelligence
agencies' on 9/11, but not with the NMCC with whom
it had communicated satisfactorily and 'frequently' in the past during hijack alerts. Mr Belger's statement confirming
satisfactory pre-911 communications with the NMCC is
not included in the 9/11 Commission's final report."
'Protocolgate' - Who Hijacked the Emergency Response Procedures on 911?
'Fight Smart', 19 September 2004 |
"It's been painfully obvious the
administration not only fought the creation of the [9/11] commission but that their objective was the war in Iraq, and one of the notions that
was built on was there was a direct connection between al Qaida and 9/11 and Saddam
Hussein. There was not.
So therefore they didn't want the 9/11 commission to get going.... I can't say, as a
commissioner, to the Congress and the American people, that I had full access to all the
documents pertaining to 9/11 and here's the conclusion. I can't say that.... This is the
most serious independent investigation since the Warren Commission. And after watching
History Channel shows on the Warren Commission last night, the Warren Commission blew it.
I'm not going to be part of that. I'm not going to be part of looking at information only
partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to
be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that.
This is serious."
Former Senator Max
Cleland who stepped down from the 9/11 Commission December 2003
Interview
with Salon.com, 21 November 2003
"CBS News has learned that barely
five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein
to the attacks.... Now, nearly one year later, there is still very little evidence Iraq
was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. But if these notes are accurate, that didn't matter
to Rumsfeld."
Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11
CBSNews, 4 Sept 2002
"On
the afternoon of 9/11, according to contemporaneous notes, Secretary Rumsfeld instructed
General Myers to obtain quickly as much information as possible..... He thought the U.S.
response should consider a wide range of options and possibilities. The secretary said his
instinct was to hit Saddam Hussein at the same time......"
THE
9/11 COMMISSION REPORT, JULY 2004 (p 334/335)
"Like the Butler report
in the UK, which detailed all the incriminating evidence of Blair's massaging of
intelligence before the invasion of Iraq, then pulled its punches and concluded nobody was
responsible, so the Kean report makes excruciatingly clear what really happened, then
fails to draw the conclusions that stare it in the face. It is a supreme act of
normalising the unthinkable. This is not surprising, as the conclusions are volcanic.
"
Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal
New
Statesman, 15 November 2004
Who Hijacked The Emergency Response Procedures On
9/11?
"Vice President Cheney was
the highest ranking official who was in Washington, who had his fingers on the mechanisms
of the United States government [on 9/11]."
Thomas Kean, Chairman 9/11 Commission
9/11
Commission Press Conference, 17 June 2004
"Most vice-presidents spend their days at state funerals; Mr
Cheney, more than anyone else, picked the members of the current administration.
Thereafter he helped to shape the administration's policies on everything from energy policy to the invasion of Iraq.... The Republicans have repeatedly
reminded Americans this week that September 11th 2001 defined this administration. But who was in charge on that
terrible day? It was
Mr Cheney who took most of the key decisions—from hiding the president to authorising
the shooting-down of suspicious aircraft — while Mr Bush was holed up in
Nebraska...... During the Ford administration, the Secret Service gave Mr Cheney the codename 'Backseat'."
The other president - Dick
Cheney, backseat driver par excellence
The
Economist, 2 September 2004
"The defense of U.S. airspace on 9/11 was not conducted
in accord with
preexisting training and protocols....."
THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT, JULY 2004 (p 31) |
SUMMARY
CORRECT CHAIN OF COMMAND FOR MILITARY AIRCRAFT ESCORT ASSISTANCE AS PART OF
EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO HIJACKINGS ON 9/11 ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL PROTOCOLS
FAA > NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTRE > PRESIDENT/ SECRETARY OF DEFENSE > NORAD > MILITARY UNITs
ACTUAL CHAIN OF COMMAND DURING COURSE OF 9/11 HIJACKINGS AS
DIFFUSELY DOCUMENTED BY THE OFFICIAL 9/11 REPORT
FAA > SECRET SERVICE/VICE PRESIDENT > MILITARY UNITs |
What
The 9/11 Commission Report Said
".... none of the information conveyed in
the White House video teleconference, at least in the first hour, was being passed to the
NMCC. As one witness recalled, '[It] was almost like there were parallel decisionmaking
processes going on; one was a voice conference orchestrated by the NMCC . . . and then
there was the [White House video teleconference]. . . . [I]n my mind they were competing venues for command and control
and decisionmaking.”
National Crisis Management
9/11 Commission Report, p36
"Shortly after the
second attack in New York, a senior Secret Service agent
charged with coordinating the President’s movements established an open line with his
counterpart at the FAA, who soon told him that there were more planes unaccounted
for—possibly hijacked—in addition to the two that had already crashed. Though
the senior agent told someone to convey this information to the Secret Service’s operations center, it either was not passed on or was passed on but
not disseminated..."
THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT, JULY 2004 (p 464)
"Air National Guard units with different rules of engagement were scrambled without the knowledge
of the President, NORAD, or the National Military Command Center."
THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT, JULY 2004,
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
"By 10:45 there was, however, another
set of fighters circling Washington that had entirely different rules of engagement. These
fighters, part of the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, launched
out of Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland in response to information passed to them by the
Secret Service.... A
Secret Service agent
had a phone in each ear, one connected to Wherley and the other to a fellow agent at the
White House, relaying instructions that the White House agent said he was getting from the
Vice President......"
THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT, JULY 2004 (p 44)
What Cheney Nearly
Said
"The Secret
Service has an arrangement with the F.A.A.
They had open lines after the World Trade Center was...[sentence unfinished by Cheney]
"
Vice President Cheney discussing Flight 77 with Tim
Russert
'Meet The Press', 16 September
2001 |
CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF INSTRUCTION 3610.01A AND DOD DIRECTIVE
3025.15 REFER TO THE FAA, THE NMCC, THE PRESIDENT, THE
SECRETARY OF DEFENCE, NORAD, AND MILITARY UNITS
NOWHERE DO THEY REFER TO THE VICE PRESIDENT
AND THE SECRET SERVICE |
"....it is apparent that the FAA's involvement with the Secret
Service on 911 was far greater than its involvement with the NMCC which appears to
have been minimal during the course of the hijackings."
'Protocolgate' - Who Hijacked the Emergency Response Procedures on 911?
'Fight Smart', 19 September 2004
"The
footnote says 'A senior Secret Service agent charged
with coordinating the President’s movements established an open line with his
counterpart at the FAA'. Although the location is
not stated it seems likely that this 'counterpart' was at FAA headquarters, the
organisation which failed to make any requests for military assistance on 911 as required
by established protocols. Was FAA HQ (if that's who was involved here) lead to
believe by the Secret Service that informing them of the situation was sufficient for
NORAD to be informed or was the Secret Service only communicating with the FAA concerning,
for example, the security of Air Force One? Who in the Secret Service's operation centre
was responsible for not passing on or disseminating the information about hijacked planes
provided in this way by the FAA? Who are Nelson Garabito and Terry Van Steenbergen?"
'Protocolgate' - Who Hijacked the Emergency Response Procedures on 911?
'Fight Smart', 19 September 2004
"FAA headquarters were in contact with
the Secret Service headquarters but not the NMCC. Is it possible that the Secret Service
took charge of the FAA HQ's response to the attacks on 911 thereby by-passing the
established chain of command to and through the military and ultimately causing a failed
response to the attacks? Who is the 'Chuck Green' mentioned here? He is not referred to in
the report other than in the footnotes. According to the New York Observer 21 August 2003 'The F.A.A. and the Secret Service, which had an open phone connection,
both knew at 8:20 a.m. that two planes had been hijacked in the New York area and had
their transponders turned off.' Although
this press report may or may not be accurate as to precise timing, if otherwise correct it
would appear that the Secret Service had a direct communication link with the FAA from the
early stages of the first hijacking."
'Protocolgate' - Who Hijacked the Emergency Response Procedures on 911?
'Fight Smart', 19 September 2004
It Appears The Secret Service Were Taking Orders From
Dick Cheney
"Why was the Secret Service issuing
commands to the air force from Cheney and why was Cheney by-passing the NMCC? After the
hijackings were over the fighters at Andrews were launched completely outside the military
chain of command. The Vice President's claim that he was unaware of this does not sit
easily with the statement that 'A Secret Service
agent had a phone in each ear, one connected to Wherley and the other to a fellow agent at
the White House, relaying instructions that the White House agent said he was getting from
the Vice President.' So it remains undetermined
whether the Secret Service were acting unilaterally or in conjunction with the Vice
President. In either case questions of legality are raised."
'Protocolgate' - Who Hijacked the Emergency Response Procedures on 911?
'Fight Smart', 19 September 2004
Did Cheney Lie To The 911 Commission?
"Dick Cheney, huddled in the
Presidential Emergency Operations Center under the White House, had just urged the
traveling George W. Bush not to return to Washington. The president had left Florida
aboard Air Force One at 9:55 a.m. on 9/11 'with no destination at take-off,' as last
week's 9-11 Commission report noted. Nor had Bush given any known instructions on how to
respond to the attacks.... Nor did the real-time notes taken by two others in the room...
reflect that such a phone call between Bush and Cheney occurred or that such a
major decision as shooting down a U.S. airliner was discussed.... by the time Cheney
issued his shoot-down order ...... the last plane-turned-missile on 9/11, had already
crashed in Pennsylvania...the question of Cheney's
behavior that day is one of many new issues raised
in the remarkably detailed, chilling account laid out in dramatic presentations by the
9-11 Commission. NEWSWEEK has learned that some on
the commission staff were, in fact, highly skeptical of the vice president's account and made their views clearer in an earlier draft of their staff report.
According to one knowledgeable source, some staffers 'flat out didn't believe the call
ever took place.'... the White House vigorously lobbied the commission to change the
language in its report.... The report 'was watered down,' groused one
staffer."
Who Was Really In Charge?
Newsweek, 28 June 2004 |
FAA PROTOCOLS FOR
HIJACKINGS APPLICABLE ON 911 - Click
Here |
AIRCRAFT PIRACY (HIJACKING) AND MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO CIVIL AUTHORITIES
US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE DIRECTIVE PROTOCOLS APPLICABLE ON 911 - Click Here |
"These footnotes identify the relevant FAA and Department of
Defense protocols for emergency response to hijackings as: i) FAA Order 7110.65M ii) FAA Order 7610.4J iii) DOD
memo, CJCS instruction, 'Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of Derelict Airborne
Objects,' June 1, 2001. The latter in fact has a reference number (CJCSI 3610.01A) although this is not quoted."
'Protocolgate' - Who Hijacked the Emergency Response Procedures on 911?
'Fight Smart', 19 September 2004 |
"More
than one-third of Americans suspect federal officials
assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States
could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new poll.... Thirty-six percent of respondents overall
said it is 'very likely' or 'somewhat likely' that federal officials either participated
in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them
'because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.'"
One in 3 Americans say US aided 9/11
New York Post, 3 August 2006
"A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC
that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even
before last week's attacks. Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July
[2001] that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. Mr Naik said US officials told him of the
plan at a UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan which took place in
Berlin."
US 'planned attack on Taleban'
BBC Online, 18 September 2001
"We now know that a blueprint for
the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now
vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy),
Jeb Bush (George Bush's younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The
document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences, was written in September 2000 by the
neoconservative think tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to
take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It
says 'while the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the
need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the
regime of Saddam Hussein.'..... The
evidence again is quite clear that plans for military action against Afghanistan and Iraq
were in hand well before 9/11....The 9/11 attacks allowed the US to press the 'go' button for a
strategy in accordance with the PNAC agenda which it would otherwise have been politically
impossible to implement. The overriding motivation for this political smokescreen is that the US and
the UK are beginning to run
out of secure hydrocarbon energy supplies...."
Michael Meacher, former Blair government
Minister - 'This war on terrorism is bogus'
The Guardian, 6 September 2003
"... we've
been in the Middle East more than 50 years. We've been in the Middle East ever since the
-- however you would like to call the dependency upon oil has developed. And our forces
have been there either as naval, air or land forces in one way or another for an awful
long time. And once the British pulled out the Arabian gulf, it became more and more
necessary for us to provide more and more force in the region..... And ultimately, it
comes down to the free flow of goods and resources on which the prosperity of our own
nation and everybody else's depends upon.... We need to maintain a presence that protects
the small nations and ensures the continued stability of the region and the flow of those
resources that are essential to our well-being."
General John Abizaid, Commander of the United States
Central Command overseeing US operations in Iraq, confirming to a US Congressional
Committee that the United States needs permanent military bases in Iraq in order to
maintain access to Gulf oil
Reuters, 15
March 2006 |
"According to [Bob Woodward's book]
Plan Of Attack, it was Cheney who was particularly focused on Iraq before the terrorist attacks. Before Bush's
inauguration, Cheney sent word to departing Defense Secretary William S. Cohen that he wanted
the traditional briefing given an incoming president to be a serious 'discussion about Iraq and different options.'"
Bush ordered secrecy on war plans, book claims
Guardian Weekly, 22-28 April 2004
"The story of Dick Cheney and Iraq is illuminating both as a study
of the most powerful Vice-President in US history, and of the inner workings of the Bush
White House.... Silence and secrecy are key elements in the Cheney act that have sustained
him at the top of Washington into a fourth decade.... no one has any idea what Mr Cheney
says to Mr Bush when they are alone.... The Bush-Cheney private moments go to the heart of
Mr Cheney’s extraordinary role..... Mr Bush has ceded vast areas of power to him.
While most Vice-Presidents are fobbed off with largely meaningless areas of policy and are
watched like hawks by the President’s aides, Mr Cheney has been entrusted with
pivotal polices like
energy...."
The White House Svengali
London
Times, 24 April 2004
"For
the world as a whole, oil companies are expected to keep finding and developing enough oil
to offset our seventy one million plus barrel a day of oil depletion, but also to meet new
demand. By some estimates there will be an average of two per cent annual growth in global
oil demand over the years ahead along with conservatively a three per cent natural decline
in production from existing reserves. That means by 2010 we will need on the order of an
additional fifty million barrels a day. So where is the oil going to come from?
Governments and the national oil companies are obviously in control of about ninety per
cent of the assets. Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of
the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world's
oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies
are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow."
Dick Cheney, Chief Executive of Halliburton,
now Vice President of the United States
Speech at London
Institute of Petroleum, Autumn Lunch 1999 |
"Within hours of 9/11 Dick Cheney
seizes the initiative.... and Donald Rumsfeld puts
Iraq on the table."
'The Dark Side'
PBS
Frontline, 20 June 2006
"Early in the Bush administration,
Cheney placed a group of allies throughout the
government who advocated a robust and pre-emptive foreign policy, especially regarding Iraq...
After the attacks on 9/11, Cheney seized the initiative and pushed for expanding
presidential power, transforming America's intelligence agencies and bringing the war on terror to Iraq.
Cheney's primary ally in this effort was Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. 'You have
this wiring diagram that we all know of about national security, but now there's a new
line on it. There's a line from the vice president
directly to the secretary of defense, and it's as though there's a private line, private
communication between those two,' former National
Security Council staffer Richard
Clarke tells FRONTLINE.'"
'The Dark Side'
PBS 'Frontline'
Documentary Report, 20 June 2006
"Not only was Mr Rumsfeld bypassed
in the normal chain of command for such a shoot-down order [on 9/11], but the command from
Vice President Dick Cheney that the airliners be 'taken out' did not reach the fighter planes until
after the last ill-fated airliner had crashed in Pennsylvania, the special commission
said."
Rumsfeld 'bypassed', says probe body
Dawn (Pakistan), 18 June 2004
"Every official we
questioned about the possibility of an invasion of Afghanistan said that it was almost
unthinkable, absent a provocation such as 9/11...."
THE 9/11COMMISSION REPORT, July 2004 (p 137)
If An Invasion Of Afghanistan Was
'Almost Unthinkable' Without 9/11
Then An Invasion Of Iraq Was Completely Out Of The Question
"The Bush Administration began
making plans for an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops, within days of President Bush's inauguration in January of 2001 -- not eight months later after the 9/11 attacks, as has been
previously reported. That's what former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says in his first
interview about his time as a White House insider.... In the book, O'Neill is quoted as
saying he was surprised that no one in a National Security Council meeting questioned why
Iraq should be invaded. 'It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it.
The president saying 'Go find me a way to do
this,' says O'Neill in the book.... "
Saddam Ouster Planned Early '01?
CBS News,
10 January 2004
"FBI and military intelligence
officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out
full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist
attacks of September 11.... the restrictions became worse after the Bush administration
took over this year".
FBI claims Bin Laden inquiry was frustrated
Guardian, 7 November 2001
"Tension Between FBI Chiefs Ex-FBI
director Louis Freeh's new book, 'My FBI,' has kicked up controversy over its stinging
attacks on Bill Clinton. But it has also frayed relations with current director Bob
Mueller. Freeh takes a little-noticed shot at his successor in the book, describing a
testy encounter in the early days of the Bush
administration with an 'acting deputy attorney
general' - a clear reference to Mueller who at the time held that post. In Freeh's
account, the acting deputy A.G. tells him the department now has new top priorities
- guns, drugs and juvenile crime. Freeh replies that terrorism and 'just about everything
else' are more important. 'Those are our marching
orders,' Mueller says, according to Freeh's account.
'Those aren't my marching orders,' Freeh shoots back. Freeh then writes that 'lockstep, blind obedience' by an FBI director to 'potentially
unlawful or even 'dumb orders' is a 'formula for disaster.' Mueller declined an invitation to attend Freeh's book party last
week after telling one bureau official that Freeh was 'too controversial,' according to a
Freeh associate who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the
matter.'"
Fabricated Links?
Newsweek, 26 October 2005
"Under the influence of U.S. oil
companies, the government of George W. Bush initially blocked U.S. secret service
investigations on terrorism .... In the book 'Bin Laden, la verite interdite ('Bin
Laden, the forbidden truth), that appeared in Paris on Wednesday, the authors,
Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, reveal that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's deputy director John O'Neill
resigned in July [2001] in protest over the obstruction.... "
U.S. Policy Towards Taliban Influenced by Oil - Say Authors
Inter Press Service, 15
November 2001
"On July 5 of last year, a month and a
day before President Bush first heard that al Qaeda might plan a hijacking, the White House
summoned officials of a dozen federal agencies to the Situation Room. 'Something really
spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon,' the government's top counterterrorism official, Richard Clarke, told
the assembled group, according to two of those
present. The group included the Federal Aviation Administration, along with the Coast Guard, FBI, Secret Service and Immigration and
Naturalization Service. Clarke directed every counterterrorist office to cancel vacations,
defer nonvital travel, put off scheduled exercises and place domestic rapid-response teams
on much shorter alert. For six weeks last summer, at home and overseas, the U.S.
government was at its highest possible state of readiness -- and anxiety -- against
imminent terrorist attack. That intensity -- defensive in nature -- did not last. By the
time Bush received his briefing at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, the government
had begun to stand down from the alert."
Before Sept. 11, Unshared Clues and Unshaped Policy
Washington Post, 17 May 2002
"On July 27, [Richard] Clarke informed
Rice and Hadley that the spike in intelligence about a near-term al Qaeda attack had
stopped. He urged keeping readiness high during the
August vacation period, warning that another report
suggested an attack had just been postponed for a few months 'but
will still happen.'.."
THE 9/11COMMISSION REPORT (p.260)
"....[there]
was an article in the August 6 Presidential Daily Brief titled 'Bin Ladin Determined to
Strike in US.' It was the 36th PDB item briefed so far that year that related to Bin Ladin
or al Qaeda, and the first devoted to the
possibility of an attack in the United States..... [the briefing stated] 'FBI information since [1998] indicates
patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of
attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in
New York.'....No CSG [Counterterrorism Security
Group] or other NSC [National Security Council] meeting was held to discuss the possible
threat of a strike in the United States as a result of this report.... We have found no indication
of any further discussion before September 11 among the President and his top advisers of
the possibility of a threat of an al Qaeda attack in the United States. DCI Tenet visited President Bush in Crawford
Texas, on August 17 and participated in PDB briefings of the President between August 31
(after the President had returned to Washington) and September 10. But Tenet does not
recall any discussions with the President of the domestic threat during this period. Most
of the intelligence community recognized in the summer of
2001 that the number and severity of threat reports were unprecedented. Many officials told us that they
knew something terrible was planned...."
THE 9/11COMMISSION REPORT (p.260 - 262)
Some Serious
Lying From CIA Director George Tenet
People With Abysmal Memories Don't Get
To Become Head Of The CIA
Tenet Didn't Just Speak To Bush, He
Met With Him
"The head of the CIA
[George Tenet] has told the 9/11 commission that ..... he did not speak to George Bush in
the month before the attacks, when Mr Bush was on holiday in Texas. 'He's in Texas and I'm
either here [in Washington] or on leave for some of that time,' Mr Tenet said in response
to a question from commissioner Tim Roemer. 'In this time period, I'm not talking to him, no.' "
US was 'unprotected' on 9/11
BBC Online, 14 April 2004
"CIA
Director George Tenet met with President Bush at least eight times in the 42 days before
the catastrophic terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, a CIA spokesman said Thursday,
correcting Tenet's testimony that he hadn't talked with the president during the entire
month of August.... Tenet's contacts with Bush
during that period are significant because the CIA
director was the highest ranking U.S. official who was aware of both the FBI's arrest of
flight student Zacarias Moussaoui in Minnesota and the CIA warning to Bush that Osama bin
Laden was 'determined to strike' inside the United States. The CIA warning memo to Bush on Aug. 6, 2001, also noted that the
FBI had detected 'patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with
preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks.'.... Tenet learned of Moussaoui's arrest on
Aug. 23 or Aug. 24 in a CIA memo entitled 'Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly,' investigators
disclosed Wednesday.... Former Acting FBI Director Thomas Pickard, who served as acting
director for 10 of the 11 weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, told the inquiry Tuesday that
he had learned of Moussaoui's arrest in Minnesota on the afternoon of Sept. 11 -- after
the attacks. Word of Moussaoui's arrest never reached the White House National Security
Council's interagency Counterterrorism and Security Group, former counterterrorism czar
Richard Clarke testified on March 24. After the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI agents obtained the
legal go-ahead to examine the hard drive on his laptop. It contained information on using
crop-dusting airplanes."
CIA's Tenet did speak to Bush before 9-11, spokesman
says
Salt
Lake Tribune, 16 April 2004 |
"FBI information since that time [1998] indicates patterns of suspicious
activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.... "
'Bin Ladin Determined To Strike
in US'
Presidential Daily Brief received by President George W. Bush on August 6, 2001
THE 9/11COMMISSION REPORT (p.262) |
What Else Was The CIA Doing Before The 911 Attacks
That Tenet Can't Remember? - The Israeli-Russian Connection - Click Here |
What Did The Bush Administration
Know In August 2001?
"Eleanor Hill, staff director for
the joint House-Senate inquiry into alleged intelligence failures ahead of the Sept. 11
attacks, released a 30-page statement Wednesday that found information on possible
terrorist strikes continued to filter through the nation's intelligence system in the
months directly before the attacks... Hill's
report details a July 2001 briefing for senior
government officials that said a review of five
months of intelligence information indicated 'that [Bin Laden] will launch a significant
attack against U.S. and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks... The attack will be
spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests.
Attack preparations have been made.... Attack will occur with little or no warning.'... Such intelligence information dated back as far as 1998,
Hill's report said, citing intelligence information in the fall of 1998 saying bin Laden's
'next operation could possibly involve flying an aircraft loaded with explosives into a
U.S. airport and detonating it' and a separate dispatch warned of a bin Laden plot
involving aircraft in the New York City and Washington, D.C. areas."
U.S. HAD 'STEADY STREAM' OF PRE-9/11 WARNINGS
PBS News, 18
September 2002
"Israeli intelligence officials say
that they warned their counterparts in the United States last month that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the
American mainland were imminent. The Telegraph
has learnt that two senior experts with Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence service,
were sent to Washington in August to alert the CIA and FBI to the existence of a cell of as many
of 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big
operation...."
Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of
large-scale terror attacks
Daily
Telegraph, 19 September 2001
"FBI and CIA officials were advised in
August that as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into this country and planning 'a major assault on the United States' ..... The advisory was passed on by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence
agency. It cautioned that it had picked up indications of a 'large-scale target' in the
United States and that Americans would be 'very vulnerable,'....."
Officials Told of 'Major Assault' Plans
Los
Angeles Times, 20 September 2001
"Since Sept. 11, more than 60 Israelis
have been arrested or detained, either under the new patriot anti-terrorism law, or for
immigration violations. A handful of active Israeli military were among those detained,
according to investigators, who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph questions
when asked about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States. There
is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9/11 attacks, but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered
intelligence about the attacks in advance.....
"
Carl Cameron Investigates
Fox News, 17
December 2001
(Note, that controversially this
four part report was subsequently removed by Fox
from its web site)
"It is rather strange that the US
media, with one notable exception, seems to be ignoring what may well prove to be the most
explosive story since the 11 September attacks - the alleged break-up of a major Israeli
espionage operation in the United States.... US officials admitted to reporters that the
entire investigation had become 'too hot to handle', but declined to give further details."
Allies and Espionage
Jane's
Intelligence Digest, 15 March 2002
"Based on its own intelligence, the
Israeli government provided 'general' information to the United States in the second week of August [2001]
that an Al Qaeda attack was imminent."
Clues Alerted White House to Potential Attacks
Fox News, 17 May 2002
"The American intelligence agency, the
CIA, could have prevented the 11 September attacks if it were not for systematic failures,
according to the German newspaper Die Zeit. The paper has uncovered details of a
major Israeli spy ring involving some a 120 agents for the intelligence service Mossad
operating across America and some masquerading as arts students. The ring was reportedly
hard on the heels of at least four members of the
hijack gang, including its leader Mohammed Atta. But
the Israeli agents were detected by their American counterparts and thrown out of the
country, it says."
Report details US 'intelligence failures'
BBC, 2 October 2002
"New revelations are putting the CIA
in a tight spot. Apparently the Israeli intelligence
service Mossad gave early warnings to their American counterparts about the terrorist group around Mohamed Atta. Furthermore, German
investigators found out after the attacks that their U.S. colleagues had already known a
great deal about the Hamburg students two years in advance of Sept. 11, 2001. The latest
discoveries were made by the Hamburg weekly newspaper DIE
ZEIT, which on Thursday (Oct. 3) intends to publish
an extensive dossier on the failures of the Central Intelligence Agency. Freelance author
Oliver Schroem therein sums up the results of his research among various European and
American agencies..... Apparently the CIA acquired very specific information on several of
the later suicide pilots of Sept. 11. These clues were ignored, although the suspects were
already in the United States. Two of the later pilots were on an FBI wanted list starting
in August 2001. Nevertheless, they were able to move unrecognized around the country and
get on to the death jets using their own real names