Cover Up : What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror

[RamboLiberal]

You might want to check this one out next time you're in the bookstore. I was skimming the 9-11 part tonight. Author skewers * administration over all the same things we do concerning 9-11. Extensive info from the Jersey Girls. Author claims an unnamed member of commission was feeding him info. Numerous references to Paul Thompson's Timeslines.

Cover Up : What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror
by Peter Lance

About the Author
Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter and author of the bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI -- The Untold Story. A former correspondent for ABC News, he has covered hundreds of stories worldwide for 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight. Also a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Prize, Lance lives on the West Coast.

Book Description
Ever since 9/11, investigative reporter Peter Lance has been leading the fight to expose the intelligence gaps that led to 9/11. Now, in the follow-up to his bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge, he returns with devastating new evidence that the government has been covering up its own counterterror failures since the mid-1990s -- and continues today.
In Cover Up, Lance shows how the government chose again and again to sacrifice America's national security for personal motives and political convenience. In its first half, he unveils shattering new evidence that terror mastermind Ramzi Yousef ordered the bombing of TWA 800 from his prison cell in order to effect a mistrial in his own terror bombing case. Astonishingly, the FBI was alerted to Yousef's plans in advance by a prison informant who even passed along his detailed sketch of a bomb-trigger device -- a document seen here for the first time. And Lance reveals the shocking reason the Justice Department suddenly ruled the crash an accident despite overwhelming evidence of the bombing -- throwing away its best chance to penetrate the cell that was already planning 9/11.

And the outrage doesn't stop there. In Part II, Lance offers an unofficial "minority report" on the 9/11 Commission, critiquing it as the incomplete, highly politicized "Warren Commission of our time." He explores potential conflicts of interest among its members, from the staff director who wrote a book with Condoleezza Rice, to the former Clinton deputy attorney general who participated in a critical meeting that upended the TWA probe. He exposes the report's false contention that the 9/11 plan was conceived in 1996, when the FBI had knowledge that the plot was in motion as early as 1994. And, in a heart-stopping, minute-by-minute chronicle of the attacks, he asks dozens of unanswered questions about the defense failures of that day -- from why fighter jets weren't scrambled for almost an hour after the hijackings, to why the president and several of his top military advisers remained virtually incommunicado for more than half an hour after it was clear that America was under attack.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060543558/qid=1094355039/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-9969602-7004750?v=glance&s=books

[Indiana_Dem]

1. Watch c-span if you can--Thomas Barnett--The Pentagon's New Map

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30

This man gives an in depth view of how the military will be transformed for globalization. It enters population demographics, energy distribution, economics, etc., into the whole big picture. It was interesting that the military looks at its service from a business perspective. Very important to see! Not that I agree with it but it's interesting to see the military's perspective. I don't know if this guy is a neocon, he said he was in political science and the military. Please see if you can!

[Wwagsthedog]

2. Check out James Bovard's, "The Bush Betrayal"...

for another look at the outrageous performance of "our" government from a somewhat conservative/libertarian prospective. Those folks don't like big gumint at all and dimson's cronies have abused power in every way imaginable.

[stickdog]

3. Yep. He's got most of the argument right there. (nt)

[pretzel4gore]

4. what about the coup? the total corruption of media?

ramsi youseff! who gives a damn about that? bush is president, he is a liar and a goddam idiot. that's the BIG PROBLEM ....