On July 24, Congress’ joint intelligence panel finally released a declassified version of its inquiry into the 9/11 attacks. Described variously in the next day’s press reports as “scathing,” “damning,” “harshly critical,” and an “indictment” of White House secrecy, the report detailed a stunning series of failures by the CIA and FBI that led to the attacks on the World Trade… return to article
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Reader Comments (37)Page 1 of 1 pagesNow if only someone would look into (and write an ariticle about) all those put options on American and United Airlines, reported here in the S.F. Chronicle back in late 2001. See http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/ archive/2001/09/29/MN186128.DTL and http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ chronicle/archive/2001/10/03/BU187948.DTL and http://ebcaw.org/ftw/free/ww3/10_09_01_krongard.html ....
Title that article “Who Knew and Made a Nice Profit”.
Posted by Stefan M. on Sep 3, 2003 at 8:33 PM I find it hard to believe that the very ‘liberal’ people on the payroll of the media owned by GE would vigorously investigate this administation. That is as likely as the other ‘liberal media’ running a pro union story on their TV network.
Posted by Pat on Sep 3, 2003 at 10:51 PM If 9/11 independent panel member Slade Gorton is one of Washington state’s official greeters of President Bush and then lunches with him at a $2000/plate fundraiser in Hunts Point, WA, can truth really be the objective of the investigation? What about the lack of a military response to those hijacked airliners?
Posted by m jochim on Sep 3, 2003 at 11:56 PM President Bush is greeted by and later lunches with 9/11 investigative panel member Slade Gorton at a Hunts Point $2000.00/plate fundraiser. Can truth be the objective of the panel?
Posted by m jochim on Sep 3, 2003 at 11:58 PM Hi Seth,
Great story. I believe you are on the right path and that this whole tragic mess was coordinated by the Bush Administration. I was in front of Emma Brooker elementary school on 9/11 protesting Bush and I remember everything that happened that day and days prior which will haunt me forever.
My comment is that this story is just TOO DIFFICULT for the American public to take. What do you think would happen to the minds of the masses if they believe all the proof that is put forward on this case? My roommate is very liberal minded and even he cannot bring himself to consider Bush was behind this event. It would mean a stripping of everything we were taught & re-evaluating what our lives are all about…..THIS IS JUST TOO MUCH. I know what I am saying. Before my vote was stolen in 2000 I was confused about what life was about. Then after 9/11 I knew I had to find the truth about my country’s history and what our country is all about. HORRIFYING DISCOVERIES ENSUED.
Since then I’ve thrown away the best paying job I ever had, declared bankruptcy (losing my car in the process), run off to Portland, OR to find how to create a better society and now I am ready to sell my little house and become a gypsy, traveling around working on political & social justice issues.
I wonder often if I were better off being “one of the heard” and not going down “history” lane. Like Jack Nicholson said in “A Few Good Men”...YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH. Kudos to your great journalism work!!
Posted by Mindy Stone on Sep 4, 2003 at 6:16 AM What doesn’t the main stream broadcast media report these facts? I realize they have no obligation to US citizens but these facts paint a picture of treason. The citizenry needs to be informed in order to make informed judgements to correct the situation.
Posted by citizen on Sep 4, 2003 at 8:47 AM With the overall incompetence demonstrated by the agencies mentioned above who handled this surveillance of suspected terrorists has anyone been held accountable, fired, or otherwise disciplined? What other responsibility could be greater than that of national security? With the exclusion of the 28 pages dealing with suspected Saudi ties I quess I’ve answered my own question. Passing bills like the Patriot Act do nothing to protect when those who are in the know fail to act.
Posted by e sorensen on Sep 4, 2003 at 2:43 PM If only there were more people like you! For me, it is very clear what happened and I am not surprised, but then, I am a European. We know (at least, some of us) that our governments preach democracy, but act despotism. Something drastic should be done about this shameful behaviour of the government.
Posted by Marlies van Dijen on Sep 4, 2003 at 3:26 PM Good insights. To get below the surface of this, read David Icke’s “Alice in Wonderland”. You’ll get an idea of the intimacy between the Bush family, the Saudis & the Bin Laden family in particular. While there are some tough things to digest, you’ll see the pattern & understand many of the inconsistencies w/the 9/11 story that has reached the public eye so far (& gain insights to other allegedly factual descriptions of events). You may have to suspend your conditioned reality to appreciate how far this extends. I think it was more than coincidence that John O’Neill was killed on 9/11-he was getting too close for comfort. That independent Blue Ribbon Commission will not reveal what Icke’s research & sources reveal. If you want to nail Bush & his gang, this will provide material to do that. As a thinking people we must not rely on “official sources” & wire reports for forming our opinions & shaping our perception of reality.
Posted by otto on Sep 4, 2003 at 3:56 PM This is an interesting story, but it still is missing some important information, maybe you should check with Michael Rupport. I have no doubt that Bush new about 9/11 funny isn’t it that now that we’ve been somehow pulled into these two wars that we are pulling our military stations out of countries that we’ve been in for decades. Well, now we have two countries to occupy in the hub of the middle east, convient, I think a little more than that, planned.
Posted by Helping Friendly Book on Sep 4, 2003 at 7:51 PM I can tell you why the Media doesn’t report this information because the owners of the Media are in the CFR and the trilateral commission the CFR is the Council on Foreign Relations you can purchase a magazine from the Birch society called the New American and they had an article a few months back about the Media Cartel that has resorted to sensoring our Media and are hiding the truth from the American People JUst as Hitler had the Media sensored when he rose to power this is a must read article go to www.jbs.org purchase the New American Magazine called inside the Media Cartel11
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Posted by John Gilbert on Sep 4, 2003 at 8:19 PM Great reporting. Riveting, shocking and eye-opening. All Americans need to read this one !
Thankyou. Keep writing.
Posted by A.Kaminsky on Sep 5, 2003 at 1:30 AM A suggestion for those who can
stomach the truth about 9/11:
website, Centre for Research on
Globalization (from Canada).The
web address: http://globalresearch
/ca.
Posted by Doris on Sep 5, 2003 at 6:58 PM Has anyone heard about how Bush let 140 Saudis including members of Bin Laden’s family fly out right after 9/11 even when almost all flights were restricted? To me, it just shows that Bush and his thugs were behind the attacks or let the attacks happen knowing that they could benefit from them. It is very strange that the White House would allow a bunch of Saudis to leave right after the attacks.
Posted by WARREN COOKSEY on Sep 5, 2003 at 7:01 PM Electromagnetic pulse weaponry can be easily planted on an airliner surreptitiously. This new, (to the general public), technology would eliminate any need for actual hijackers to have unbelievably forced those aircraft to so precisely hit their targets on 9/11/01. (Read Jim Fetzer’s articles about the mysterious death of Senator Paul Wellstone in: www.weekly-reader.com) I believe the, “legend”, of Arabic hijackers served many purposes whose consequences have led to two wars and the erosion of civil liberties in this country. Who can prove they were actually on those planes? Where is the evidence? Has any of their DNA been found among the detritus of those cataclysms? Shades of Lee Harvey Oswald doubles and the, “sheep-dipping”, of that Kennedy assassination patsy. When information became so readily available, (pictures and stories of flight training), my thoughts intuitively flew back to the real history of 11/22/1963. To me there is no mystery as to the identities of the perpetrators of 9/11…they are the same Corporationists or their descendants, (not necessarily genetically), who needed the maintenance of the status quo which Kennedy threatened. This time they needed to expand their agenda because now the objective is Worldwide Domination. Hopefully, I am mistaken but I doubt it. If this government were innocent, not only would there be a thorough and unrestrained independent, citizen-monitored investigation…but none of the documentation or records pertaining to all of the pertinent issues and questions would be stashed away under the blanket of, national security.
Posted by Dom Mastroserio on Sep 6, 2003 at 4:47 AM Let me update the website by Jim Fetzer: www.northlandsreader.com/Read/ReaderWeekly/JimFetzer/index.htm
Another good site appertaining to this article is: www.infowars.com
Posted by Dom Mastroserio on Sep 6, 2003 at 4:57 AM Thanks,
It’s very difficult for people to believe that conspiracies go on in our government.
But I’d remind those people that conspiracies have happened before. Pearl Harbor (See the book “Day of Deciet” by pro-Rosevelt author) and The Lisiputania (Which had arms the US was smuggling to England in it) were both government plots to through us into war.If it does turn out to be nothing more then incompetence, it should tell us something. Government can’t protect us. We need to be free to protect ourselves. That means: Airports being allowed to privately use their own security methods, Pilots being alloud to have guns, passengers being allowed to have guns. If law abiding American’s had been allowed to defend themselves, those terrorists wouldn’t have stood a chance.
Posted by Tracy Saboe on Sep 6, 2003 at 9:21 AM The AP reported shortly after 911 that Hosni Mubarak stated that he advised” the Americans”,just 11 days before 911 of a terrorist attack on the US. (During BUSH 30 day vacation). The AP reported that US Intelligence agencies deny this claim. Which (“the Americans”) did Mubarak notify? This question needs to be asked?
Posted by Mike Scott on Sep 6, 2003 at 2:08 PM oil? no shit? that’s the simple and complicated foundation for it all. sure, it’s a whole lot more than that now, but no one should ever believe that the whole mess of the past couple of years is not about oil.
Posted by archie on Sep 8, 2003 at 8:17 PM Dom- You’re a moron. Electromagnetic pulse weaponry is not a guidance system. It’s a spike of electromagnetic energy that fries electric circuits. In other words, a weapon that does the exact opposite of what you say.
Stop making the left look stupid and give the right ammo against us.
Posted by Ty on Sep 9, 2003 at 6:01 PM About eight months ago, a couple of activists with whom I was working suggested that 9/11 was Rumsfield’s “Pearl Harbor”. The suggestion was too horrific for me to accept,...at that time. I simply was not ready to face that level of evil by our own government.
This article, for me, nearly caps the possibility of that such darkness has and does exist. Which is why I am a kindred spirit to “Mindy” from Portland,...as an activist for life no matter how small the material rewards.
Posted by Leslee Hamrick on Sep 10, 2003 at 1:36 AM Oh great, here I go with a conspiracy theory! I recently read an article that put forth the following analogy. The difference between flying a Cessna 172 and a 767 Comercial Airliner are (in a VERY basic way) as follows: The 767 is 400% faster, and 2000 (!) times larger than a C172. To go from a C172 to a 767 (even with hundreds of hours on sims) would be like going from an automatic subcompact car to an fully loaded 18 wheeler transport. Now imagine you then have to drive the transport, after killing the driver, at 100 mph through a strange town with no map to a factory you have never been to before. When you arrive at the factory you must then back up to the loading dock perfectly, the first time , with no mistakes. Hey , no problem right? Its like a guy who played a little high school football watching NFL pros and saying ” shit, I could do that!” Talk to a pilot about this as I have, and they agree. The men and women who pilot those aircraft are professional pilots, not hacks. The people who flew the hijacked aircraft were trained pilots in type, not hacks. Just a theory.
Posted by Chris on Sep 10, 2003 at 3:35 AM Ty, I may be a moron as far as technical knowledge but that has nothing to do with political ideology, the great diversional trick used by all sides when they wish to obfuscate and mislead, i.e. your statement about making the, “left”, look bad by furnishing the, “right”, with, “ammo”, to make it look ridiculous. There exists plenty of, “ammo”, sans my lack of techo-knowledge to make all sides look bad right now. And you probably know as well as I do that there does indeed exist a technology that is capable of neutralizing navigational systems and others which are capable of guiding even large aircraft by remote control. I do not know their exact nomenclature but you obviously don’t wish to go into the real issue I was trying to bring to the fore, like most ostrich-minded fools in constant denial about the darkness beneath the hype which is drummed into our collective consciousnesses continually. I really don’t personaly care whether or not I may sound like a techno-illiterate. Obviously, technology, advanced as it is has not altered the propensities of human nature. What it has done is render the ancient vice of war an ontological reality that must be taken seriously because the weaponry of all types that exist today can readily, if but by accident or ignorance, destroy life on this planet. And that, my insulter, is what concerns me.
Posted by Dom on Sep 10, 2003 at 3:24 PM Chris from Toronto…if I may impose upon your apparent expertise concerning the intricacies of piloting lare modern aircraft, I have a theory, (nothing conspiritorial in nature as so many of us Americans seem to be in a state of continual denial about conspiracies…‘breathing together’), about what could have been done by those pilots if they indeed had any kind of equipment/pilot control on that fateful day, 9/11/01…If, knowing that everyone, (including the crew), were strapped down in their seat belts, whereas the alleged Islamic terrorists were not, then within that period of time betweeen being hijacked and impacting into their targets so precisely…would it not be feasable that the cockpit crew would have the wherewithal, realizing their craft was to be used as a weapon of catastrophic proportions…that the wise and most rational tactic would and should have been turning the plane upside down abruptly, therefore causing the unbelted terrorists to fall head-first onto the ceiling now turned floor of the plane, breaking their necks while inflicting only minor injuries and no catastrophe, no change in the entire world order, etc., etc.? This is a question that’s haunted me from day one, before I began to find out that technology exists which can neutralize pilot control and be then remotely controlled form some as yet unknown source, i.e. an AWAC shadow craft? You need not reply, of course, especially if my question is indecipherable to you. It’s just that I want to stress to so many who are such blindly government-trusting souls that possibilities exist that are more plausible than the scenario we’ve been hypnotized into swallowing uncritically. In the absence of an impartial, thorough, comprehensive, exhaustive investigation and given the lack of substantial and substantiating evidence, plus this administration’s refusal to positively declassify pertinent discovery evidence to the victims’ families and the country…we must understand that analytical criticism and deepening doubts about existing simplistic scenarios mandates such speculation for me. Hope you’ll not allow the gravity of these questions to cause hesitation on your part, even if you disagree with my theory. Thanks in advance.
Posted by Dom Mastroserio on Sep 11, 2003 at 12:17 AM Wowie. Great job. I just wish there were some way we could make all of this info actually count in some concrete way in this present political landscape. There’s a huge repressed fury building within the US landscape, and I hope it can be successfully channeled to creative ends. Thanx again, and keep up the fine work.
Posted by Mike broderick on Sep 11, 2003 at 9:01 AM So, the message we take away from this article is that we need to optimize communication between U.S. intelligence organizations - and to fortify our involvement abroad - correct?
Posted by Steve Klein on Sep 11, 2003 at 4:37 PM Thanks shining light in the dark corners. It’s our only hope..
Posted by Eva Knapp on Sep 11, 2003 at 9:40 PM More interesting clues to US prior knowledge and acquiescence to 9-11 are (shockingly) laid out in this Guardian article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.htmlThe plot thickens…..
Posted by Fooled Again on Sep 13, 2003 at 6:38 AM Your story brings to mind an ongoing plan by Bush Sr. & Bush Jr. The 24/7 investigations of the Clintons was part of that plan to regain the White House, take over the Middle East continuing from 1991 and then to dominate the world. BUSH ALLOWED 9/11 TO HAPPEN! BUSH WAS WARNED NUMEROUS TIMES. HE STOLE THE 2000 ELECTION AND HAS CARRIED ON HIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES EVER SINCE.
Posted by Elaine N. Ramey on Sep 15, 2003 at 10:49 AM Gore Vidal touches on some of this subject - see the section in his article from last year re the strange lack of response by the US military while 9-11 was happening. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html
Posted by Mark Freeman on Sep 16, 2003 at 9:24 PM Good story! I live in Washington, D.C. For more than a year before 9/11 I noticed several times a week the multiple contrails of airforce jets above the Washington skies. After a year or so passed by, I remember menioning to someone I was sitting next to on a hill at Fort Reno, which offers a great view of the Blue Ridge mountains in the far distance, that our boys in blue must be getting tired because they were constantly in the air (at that particular time jets were streaming overhead). Anyway, has anyone thought to query any of the airforce pilots stationed at Andrews Air Force Base about these pre-9/11 exercises? Might prove productive.
Posted by Dean M. Jackson on Sep 17, 2003 at 5:08 PM GO TO BEFREETECH.COM AND SUBCRIBE TO TAXCORE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PAGE AND ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SUBCRIBE TO THE FREE ELECTRICY SITE. WHEN YOU GET E-MAILS FROM THEM LOOK FOR THE FILM 9/11 THE ROAD TO TYRANNY. BY ALEX JONES OF THE ALEX JONES SHOW FROM AUTIN TEXAS.
Posted by ALLAN BEVERE on Sep 22, 2003 at 3:26 PM If you think the previous article is bad, you should read the comments posted to usenet before the buildings fell: www.ray-gordon.com/wtc.htm & www.ray-gordon.net
Posted by Editorial Staff on Nov 11, 2003 at 12:22 AM Did Bush really know? Do they have any conclusive evidence? Witnesses? I’m doing this for a school english final.
Posted by can't say on Apr 26, 2004 at 1:53 PM I highly disagree with you all, Bush wouldn’t do that. He’s the best president we’ve had in years
Posted by can't say on Apr 26, 2004 at 1:57 PM Does anyone know why Bush would do this besides world domination? Do people really think this started With Bush Sr.?
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