by Shaun Knapp
“We do know there is a cover up going on,” says University of
Illinois Law Professor Francis Boyle in an interview now archived on the University of Illinois “Media Matters” with
Bob McChesney site. The interview was given Sept. 29, 2002. Continuing his
statement Law Professor Boyle says:
“The Bush Jr. Administration is desperately trying to keep
whatever information from the public – whatever happened on Sept 11. Why? Who was
behind this? Why did US intelligence agencies that did have this information not
stop it. But it is clear that the United states government was already prepared
to attack Afghanistan prior to September 11th.”
Boyle is not alone in this accusation. Recently in the UK a great
storm of controversy erupted when a long time (until earlier this past summer)
minister of Tony Blair, Michael Meacher, stated that the US deliberately
permitted the attacks of September 11, 2001 to occur. According the the Telegraph.uk.co,
“Mr Meacher listed a number of reports detailing intelligence that
the US was said to have which warned of the September 11
attacks.”
The Telegraph continues:
He questioned why military jets were not sent to intercept the
hijacked passenger aircraft on the morning of the outrage two years ago. “Was
this inaction simply the result of key people disregarding, or being ignorant
of, the evidence? Or could US air security operations have been deliberately
stood down on September 11? If so, why and on whose authority?” Mr Meacher wrote
in The Guardian yesterday.
[Meacher] cited a document called Rebuilding America's Defenses, written in September 2000 by a
neo-conservative think tank, Project for the New American Century, which was set
up by a group that included Dick Cheney, the American vice president, Donald
Rumsfeld, the defense secretary, and Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense
secretary, which he called “a blueprint for US world domination”.
He said the document stated that making America “tomorrow's dominant force”
would be a long process without “some catalyzing event – like a new Pearl
Harbour”.
The former minister's suggestion that there might have been a deliberate
attempt to allow the September 11 attacks provoked a strong reaction from the US
embassy in London.
. . . .His sweeping condemnation of the war on terrorism and suggestions of
complicity in the September 11 attacks are likely to place him outside the
political mainstream.
One report written by the great researcher and Tony award winning documentary
film maker and author, G. Edward Griffin, gives us the following valuable
information from a BBC interview. From Griffins report (PDF) we read:
Michael Springman was the former head of the U.S. Visa Bureau in Jeddah,
Egypt. In June of 2001 (three months before the attack on the World Trade
Center) he was interviewed on BBC News. This is what he said:
“In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high-level State Dept officials
to issue visas to unqualified applicants. These were, essentially, people who
had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained
bitterly at the time there. I returned to the US, I complained to the State Dept
here, to the General Accounting Office, to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security,
and to the Inspector GeneralÂ’s office. I was met with silenceÂ…. What I was
protesting was, in reality, an effort to bring recruits, rounded up by Osama bin
Ladin, to the US for terrorist training by the CIA.” (Has someone been sitting
on the FBI?” an interview by Greg Palast, BBC News, June 11, 2001, (Article in
Internet archive).
So now we have a law professor, a former British Minister speaking of cover
up, The US visa Bureau head testifying that he was “ordered” to issue Visas to
recruits of Osama Bin Laden?
Important are the references to the document “Rebuilding America's Defenses,” something that should not be
discounted by the skeptics.
The greatest development perhaps now comes with the bold and brave Stanley
Hilton, political scientist, lawyer, Bob DoleÂ’s former chief of staff, who is
suing the government for 7 billion dollars for carrying out 9/11, as well as for
racketeering. He is now the recipient of strong intimidation tactics including
the trashing of his office as occurred on the same day he was to be interviewed
for the first time in the Salt Lake City radio market in September 2004.
Fortunately his life was not taken and he conducted that interview a week later
on KTKK AM
630 at noon. Mr. Hilton cannot be ignored, even though Federal judges have
ordered him to remain silent. Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered him to
cease his suit. From an interview with Alex Jones, Mr. Hilton tells of his very
powerful evidences he has moving forward with his lawsuit against the corrupt
traitors within the United States government who are responsible for the 911
attacks. From that interview he states:
“We are suing Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Mueller, etc. for
complicity in personally not only allowing 9/11 to happen but in ordering it.
The hijackers we retained and we had a witness who is married to one of them.
The hijackers were U.S. undercover agents. They were double agents, paid by the
FBI and the CIA to spy on Arab groups in this country. They were controlled.
Their landlord was an FBI informant in San Diego and other places. And this was
a direct, covert operation ordered,. . .”
Continuing we get this from Mr. Hilton:
“We have evidence both documentary as well as witness sworn statements from
undercover former FBI agents, FBI informants, etc., that other officials in the
Pentagon and the military and the Air Force that deal with the fact that there
were many drills, many rehearsals for 9/11 before it happened. Bush had seen
this simulated on TV many times. He blurted this out at a press conference in
California a few months after 9/11 where he said he had, quote, 'seen the first
plane hit the first building on the video.' And thatÂ’s not possible because
there was no official video of that. There was one of the second plane not the
first one. He had seen the first one.
We do have some incriminating documents that Bush personally ordered 9/11
events. It was well planned. A FEMA official has admitted on tape that he was
there the night before – September 10th, that is Â…”
On “Now” with Bill Moyers, aired on PBS September 12,
2003 we hear about 4 woman made widows on September 11th 2001 when their
husbands died in the World Trade Center. These woman have not been satisfied
with the little or “official” government explanations for many questions they
have. These courageous woman are asking tough questions, and in the vacuum of
government answers, have begun to do their own organizing, and research.
From the transcript of the Now program found on the PBS.org web site we read some
excerpts.
Narrator ZWERDLING: A lot of people think, we already know what happened on
9-11. It's been all over the news, and beside, Congress just released this
investigative report about it couple months ago.
But this country has barely begun to learn the truth about 9-11Â… that's what
the women say. And they want to make sure we eventually hear it.
Mrs BREITWEISER: “I've turned into a very disenchanted, fully awake, no
longer naïve person, who's extremely driven.”Narrator ZWERDLING: Leaders
in Congress said, “Don't worry, we're going to investigate 9-11.” So the women
were stunned when President Bush convinced Congress to back off. He reportedly
told congressional leaders that a sweeping investigation might distract from the
government's war on terrorism.
As a result, the congressional investigation focused mainly on the FBI and
CIA. They never examined what the airlines, or the immigration service, or the
White House did or didn't do. Then the women heard that some frustrated
legislators were trying to launch another, broader investigation. But the
President and his allies in Congress were trying to block that. That's when the
women got together and said, “Let's organize a protest in Washington.”
Mrs. BREITWEISER: We need a full independent investigation. We must ask the
tough questions and seek out the difficult answers. We must as a country grow
and be made stronger and safer by the bitter lessons learned on September
11.
Narrator ZWERDLING: But the New Jersey women figured they couldn't just trust
that the commission would dig up the truthÂ… so they started digging on their
own.
They gathered mountains of information from the Internet and old newspapers.
They took their binders to Washington. They met with members of Congress and
spent days in hearings. They compared what different officials said, and began
to find discrepancies and contradictions.
For instance: government officials say they can't establish an exact timeline
for the events on 9-11. They can't even confirm exactly what time each plane was
hijackedÂ… or exactly what time they learned that the planes were hijacked.
Mrs. KLEINBERG: I sat in that hearing, and a Lieutenant Colonel at NORAD is
saying that, “You know, the times in the log book that we have written down
might not be the exact time that the event happened. It could have just been
when the person went and logged it in.”
And I'm thinking, This is the military. Aren't these the guys that say
“0-eight-hundred,” and you know, have everything to the second? And you know, is
that not what we know about them?
And now you have this catastrophic event, and you got a call in about a
hijacking, and it didn't get logged at the exact time? I mean, it doesn't make
common sense.
Narrator ZWERDLING: The women found government documents that spell out
exactly what officials are supposed to do the moment that a plane goes off
course or cuts off its signals to ground controlÂ… or does anything unexpected.
And they read that NORAD sent up fighter jets dozens of times in the year before
the attack to check out erratic aircraft. So the women wondered, what happened
on 9-11?
Mrs BREITWEISER: On the morning of September 11th we had four planes
drastically off their flight path transponders disconnected and the FAA
procedure and protocol to notify NORAD and for NORAD to scramble fighter jets
were not followed. And it wasn't like they all happened in the course of an
hour. What I think is very frustrating is looking back when I speak to people
they say, “Well it happened in such a short span of time.”
It did not happen. It happened over the course of two hours. You're telling
me over the course of two hours Andrews Air Force Base in the Washington, DC
area which houses F-16s which fly cover for Air Force One could not get a plane
up in the air to cover the Pentagon?
Thank heavens there are some sources that are getting out. As these widows
have gained some prominence in their search they now have people beginning to
come forward to them with information. They state:
We met with an air traffic controller from Newark who flat out said to us,
“Look, you know. I don't know what happened. All he could tell us is that the
FBI showed up, took all of their files, all of their recordings, and walked
out.”
It seems from all reports that indeed, the White House is not wanting the
truth to get out. Frequently we heard grumblings and complaints from the
congressional investigators that the White House was working against them, not
providing requested information. There are many other sources of information on
these vital issues, none of which will appear on the nightly news anytime soon
it seems. Investigative Journalists have complained that they are stopped dead
in their tracks at all inquiries to the airlines who tell them it's in the hands
of the FBI. It's obvious they don't get answers from government. Now, we have
had our sham of a 911 commission.
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently and boldly published 20
unanswered questions by journalist William Bunch about 9-11. I list only the
questions, his article however tries to give some answers to each question and
gives good information on just why the question should be asked. I invite all
skeptics to do some reading of their own and look up the web version of this
article containing links. About half of his questions I list here, minus the
valuable follow up information which can be found in full context here:
1. What did National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice tell President Bush
about al Qaeda threats against the United States in a still-secret briefing on
Aug. 6, 2001?
2. Why did Attorney General John Ashcroft and some Pentagon officials cancel
commercial-airline trips before Sept. 11?
3. Who made a small fortune “shorting” airline and insurance stocks before
Sept. 11?
4. Are all 19 people identified by the government as participants in the
Sept. 11 attacks really the hijackers?
6. Why did the NORAD air defense network fail to intercept the four hijacked
jets?
7. Why did President Bush continue reading a story to Florida grade-schoolers
for nearly a half-hour during the worst attack on America in its history?
11. Why were Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials so quick to link Saddam
Hussein to the attacks?
12.Why did 7 World Trade Center collapse?
19. What is in the 28 blacked-out pages of the congressional Sept. 11
report?
There was a joint effort by two journalists who analyzed all news stories and
searched long and hard, they have come to the same conclusion as the 4 New
Jersey Widows: Lots of contradictions from government, timelines don't add up.
I've read their research and I find it comes nothing short of “Cover up” by the
Bush White House.
Professor Boyle continues in his words about cover up:
“The Governments account of what happened does not add up. . . . Now,
finally, Bush Jr. – kicking and screaming — has agreed to an independent
investigation. He is trying to exclude access to intelligence sources – with good
reason – he doesn't want us to really know really what was going on behind the
scenes. We also have to pay attention to the stacking this independent
commission with people who will go along with a cover up. I think the American
people must demand from their members in Congress that we have an open, public
investigation here by a joint committee of congress – like Watergate – with
subpoena powers to be able to demand anyone from the FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA and
military to come in and explain 'what about these war preparations against
Afghanistan?' What did US Intelligence Agencies know? Why did they not act on on
the information that they had?”
There is indeed a cover up going on and numerous unanswered questions to
boot. Unfortunately too many American's blindly believe that their leaders in
Washington (especially those “professing” religiosity as a ravening wolf
professes his cloak of wool is truly his own) can't be guilty of misdeeds. As
long as the dominant political opinion take offence at the notion that there may
be grave scandal behind 9-11 we may have to wait another 50 years before serious
truth of the real facts come forth, just as we are finding with Pearl Harbor
today.
Some of this “unofficial” analysis surely will be looked upon with skepticism
and disdain by those who think G. Bush walks on water, and perhaps rightly so.
Who can argue, however, that there are many unanswered questions that must be
addressed by an investigation having full subpoena power as Professor Boyle says
we should demand of Congress to make. The investigation we've had is admittedly
shallow and incomplete by those who were on the committee. It's a sham of
unparalleled proportions. Fortunately there is one man in the Congress who
adheres to the US Constitution, see what he says
about the phony 911 commission. Perhaps the American People might awaken and
demand answers before the next tragedy strike us, but given the way the majority
suck up the “official” propaganda line, the real truth of what happened on 9-11
may only be marginalized as “conspiracy
theory.” Fortunately however, New Yorkers believe there has been government
knowledge or complicity to the tune of 49% as indicated by the Zogby
poll in the fall of 2004. This gives hope that the percentage of critical
thinkers of today's America are greater in number than those of Germany in the
1930's. These would be people not easily seduced by the powerful propaganda.
Most Germans upheld the rise of a dictatorship and the dismantling of their
republic following the Nazi planned, and secretly orchestrated, terrorist act:
The Burning of the Reichstag. May we Americans “awake to a sense of our awful
situation” because of this “secret combination” which has now been built up
above us, which seeks to “destroy the freedom of all nations, lands, and
countries.”
