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Sen. Graham: President Must Side with Openness About CIA and 9/11 (Original Post) BelgianMadCow Mar 2014 OP
This is a must-watch! Iwillnevergiveup Mar 2014 #1
Sen. Graham has also written a fiction book BelgianMadCow Mar 2014 #3
If the CIA makes up briefing dates, what else would they do ? /nt jakeXT Mar 2014 #2
Its very difficult to admit wrong doing polynomial Mar 2014 #4

Iwillnevergiveup

(9,298 posts)
1. This is a must-watch!
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:14 AM
Mar 2014

Very thoughtful, provocative interview, and Sen. Graham is very straight forward. Here's an exchange:



GRAHAM: Well, I think there was some of that. We had a situation during our investigation, which was also conducted during the year 2002, in which we became aware (not because the FBI had told us; in fact, they had specifically withheld this information) that there were two of the earliest hijackers to enter the United States who were living in San Diego, and in their files in San Diego they had information about these people, but the FBI claimed they didn't have the information at the central office in Washington. Over the objection of the FBI, we sent staff to San Diego, and they came up with a trove of information about these people and the close ties between individuals, in some cases, who were employees of the government of Saudi Arabia; in other cases, they were nationals of Saudi Arabia and had suspicious affiliations.

One of those in particular was a retired university professor. He happened not to be a Saudi. He actually was an Indian of Muslim profession who operated a boarding house, and two of his residents were these two future hijackers. At the same time, he was on the payroll of the FBI as an asset to collect information about what were these students that he had formally had in his classroom and that were living in San Diego, attending various universities there, what were they up to.

JAY: Right.

GRAHAM: You have this anomaly that two of the people who are going to be involved in killing more than 3,000 people on September 11 were living in the home of a person who was also being paid by the FBI.

JAY: Right. Senator, we're going to link—when we show this story, we are going to link to our interview series we did with you where we go into quite a bit of detail about all of that.

BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)
3. Sen. Graham has also written a fiction book
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 04:39 AM
Mar 2014

called Keys to the Kingdom in which he says what he isn't allowed to say, he has said.

polynomial

(750 posts)
4. Its very difficult to admit wrong doing
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 07:07 AM
Mar 2014

Especially, when political persons, or government agents are working secretly find themselves on the side of treason buffered by that security belief to hide actions to preserve freedom and prevent terrorism.

This is where American Journalism is so connected to the one percent to be able to bury criminal political activity. America is struggling with the wild west dark side behind closed doors, pay-rolled seven figure Journalist now aspired to sign on to the Paladin contract saying what is necessary for the needs of the one percent.

When former President Lyndon Johnson is reveled in a taped telephone conversation making allegations Nixon committed treason was a very striking moment for me. Now knowing how sneaky and deceptive our government officials are, it begged the question, was the conversation staged for political points or was it real?

Now the great debate for treason concerning Snowden is very important after I viewed that thirty minute video here on DU were Snowden addressed an audience by robot.

To my surprise Snowden is a very intelligent and reasonable man. Far better than most that say, Snowden is a crackpot or loose cannon. Snowden with intelligent conversation made the argument that illustrated to me as a citizen who has no connection with him now respects his effort to sound an alarm in government crime.

From my view post 911 is surfacing and the treason committed during this period will likely condemn very important politicians and their business agents which will with every effort have no recourse but to lie, deceive, bribe, and worse murder to avoid capture and conviction in the public court.

From my view Bush and Cheney committed at least profiteering through shield of national security. Since we know the supreme court is loaded in favor of the Republicans exampled by corporations are people and money is free speech is evidence of treason against the constitution.

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