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Twist_U_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 12:42 PM
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High-Ranking Intelligence Officer Updates His Conclusions About 9/11
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/

You may have already heard that 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer (Robert Steele) stated that "9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a pretext for war", and it was probably an inside job (see Amazon Customer Review dated October 7, 2006).

However, no one has noticed that Mr. Steele posted the following additional comment on February 3, 2007:

1) 9-11 was planned and executed by Bin Laden with direct assistance from elements of the Pakistani government.

2) No fewer than 9, some say 11, governments warned the US at the highest levels. I believe that Dick Cheney saw this as a gift of heaven, and organized the 9-11 exercises so as to have complete operational control of the U.S. government, and he "let it happen."

3) I believe that Larry Silverstein, new owner of the World Trade Center, NOT the U.S. Government, was briefed on this by the Mossad, and saw an opportunity to solve his asbestos problem at taxpayer expense. I believe that Larry Silverstein, in partnership with the security firm managed by a Bush family member, installed the controlled demolitions and "pulled" all three buildings, murdering the people in them, in order to clear the area for rebuilding and get the $7 billion in insurance money. I believe that ... the insurance company executives are in cahoots with Silversten and got major kick-backs, because there is no way a serious insurance company investigation could have ignored the evidence of thermite being briefed to the Senate this very week.

4) Finally, I do think there is evidence of CIA and FBI blundering about and aiding "assets" who participated in the first World Trade Center car bombing, but it is very important to distinguish between bureaucratic incompetence; Dick Cheney's deliberate decision to let it happen; and Larry Silverstein's alleged dmurder of all those people including firefighters.

This has NOT been properly investigated, and it needs to be.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 01:23 PM
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1. ..... a gift of heaven,
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 01:24 PM by seemslikeadream
:thumbsup:
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 01:29 PM
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2. Warning Shots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVHMMnL5GnI

Warning Shots

They try their best just to mash up the resistance
Warning shots and sirens from a distance
Riot gear and barricade for an instance
And the words from mi mouth, mi nuh response
Hollywood sending signals of destruction
Stereotype the ghetto youths as the bad man
Overcome the rough times and we grow strong
Step up in a life, now them want to shake we hand

We are eternal, made of the creator
Won’t fall to the soul-less devastators
Divide and conquer, and try to separate us
Up to this day, them still try fi rape us


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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 01:58 PM
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3. Thanks Twist!
:hi:
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 02:07 PM
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4. I have often been puzzled by the claim
that Cheney organized the 911 exercises to have complete operational control of the government. That makes no sense - what is this "fact" based on?
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 02:10 PM
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6. War Games??
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 02:11 PM by seemslikeadream
ever here about them?
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 02:19 PM
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7. Of course ...
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 02:24 PM by hack89
the military has hundreds of them a year - every day of the year there is a "war game" going on somewhere in the world.

My question is where is the evidence that the 911 exercises were fundamentally different that all the other exercises? And where is the evidence that Cheney was involved with these exercises in any way what so ever?

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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 02:37 PM
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8. And of course the question remains as to how
a war games or games provides anyone complete operational control of the government.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 02:39 PM
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9. Cynthia McKinney "Mr. Chairman, I have a question"
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 02:44 PM by seemslikeadream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFaWwMH_0uM





Cynthia McKinney "Mr. Chairman, I have a question"



Representative Cynthia McKinney Rocks Rumsfeld on War Games

"Mr. Chairman, I have a question"

On-the-Record:
Representative Cynthia McKinney Rocks
Rumsfeld on War Games

By
Michael Kane

Hurriedly I made contact with her staff and forwarded a number of PDF files so that when her time came and on national television, McKinney could finally, in a public forum, hold those responsible for 9/11 accountable with the proof in her hands and demand an answer. These were the same files I had acquired during my research for Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. McKinney was to be well-armed with assistance from other tenacious 9/11 researchers and there would be no escape.

Unless it came time for lunch.

Having lost her seniority after a successful 2002 Israeli-funded and Republican Party-managed campaign to unseat her, McKinney's chance to question Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Richard Myers was pushed aside until the hearings were about to be closed. It appears the bears knew what was coming and had neatly dodged a bullet.

Not quite.

Although the American people were deprived of an on-the-record answer about who was running the wargames which paralyzed official response on 9/11, Cynthia McKinney let it be known (on the record) that we knew and would not forget. As she found a way to get her question on the record, she gave us all a priceless Kodak moment: one that ranks right up there with the reaction I evoked in public from then CIA Director John Deutch in 1996.

The point here is not that 9/11 is suddenly back on the table, somehow available for resolution and justice. It's a long way from a question from a junior member of the minority party asking a question to an impeachment, conviction and imprisonment. The election is still over. The compromised Keane Commission has still closed its doors. No further investigations or legal proceedings are pending. The media has still moved on and the court system and congress are still willfully impotent.

But courage endures. And as long as there is someone like Cynthia McKinney on Capitol Hill there will be moments - wonderful moments like the one captured on the attached video - which prove that we have not gone away or forgotten and that we still have the will to speak.

For those of us who spent years investigating 9/11, the research and evidence we have compiled will always be within arm's reach, awaiting these golden moments. As new threats and challenges overtake us and demand our focus in "the now" we stand ready to jump on any miracle that presents us with an opportunity to remind the world that murderers still walk free, still in power. Like blades of grass growing steadfastly up through the sidewalk we will never surrender our ability to speak truth to power.

God bless Cynthia McKinney. - MCR]

March 1, 2005, PST 1200 (FTW): On February 16, 2005, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers the same question this reporter asked General Ralph "Ed" Eberhart at the final 9/11 commission hearing:

What about the war games?

The Full House Armed Services Committee met to receive testimony on the Fiscal Year 2006 National Defense Authorization budget request from the Department of Defense. As the meeting wound down to its expected end, Secretary Rumsfeld prepared to leave. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), who chaired the hearing, asked the Secretary to commit to a breakfast with Representatives who had not yet asked their questions. Secretary Rumsfeld happily agreed to do so.

At that moment Cynthia McKinney made sure to get the following vital question into the Congressional Record.

Transcript, February 16, Rumsfeld and Myers questioned by Cynthia McKinney:

Cynthia McKinney: Mr. Chairman, I have a question.

Duncan Hunter: The Gentle-lady is recognized.

McKinney: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Would that breakfast with the Secretary be open to the public?

Hunter: Well, if you want to bring all the omelets it might be, but ah -

McKinney: Well Mr. Chairman, the problem is - and I appreciate your adherence to the five-minute rule - however there are many of us who have important questions and my question in particular is about the four war games that were taking place on September 11th and how they may have impaired our ability to respond to those attacks.

Mr. Hunter: Well let me say the gentle lady...



McKinney: I would like that question to be answered in public Mr. Chairman.

Hunter: Let me say to the gentle lady we're going to have other opportunities to have the Secretary in front of us and what we will do beyond having questions, if you want a question for the record, be able to put that to the record and have the answer on the record, but additionally at the next event where the Secretary testifies - we'll try to make sure that happens - we will start with the folks who did not get their question answered so you will have an opportunity.

McKinney: Thank you so much Mr. Chairman, and I hope the record is still open so that even that portion of my comment will be on this record.

Hunter: It will be so ordered.

McKinney: Thank you Mr. Chairman.

-- end of transcript

At this point Representative Skelton (D-MO) asked a visibly flustered Donald Rumsfeld if in the future a classified briefing could occur on the recommendations given by General Luck and his team to the Secretary.

This helped to bury McKinney's question (and by necessity, the process continues: DoD has posted a peculiar "transcript" of the meeting's final moments, from which Representative McKinney's question has been thoroughly deleted), giving Rumsfeld a way to divert attention from the issue she had skillfully placed on the record. Rumsfeld responded to Skelton's question without addressing McKinney's at all. The only response to her question came in the form of both Rumsfeld and Myers' rapid hand movements and off-microphone murmurs. The issue seemed to knock Rumsfeld off-balance, affecting him as it had affected Ralph "Ed" Eberhart at the final 9/11 Commission hearing.

It's unlikely that "No comment" will be an acceptable reply to Representative McKinney's question. Eberhart got away with that when responding to this reporter, and has since retired from his post heading both NORTHERN COMMAND and NORAD. His retirement came immediately after the 2004 presidential election. It appears "no comment" will be his final word on the matter, but that will not be the case for Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers.

Who was in charge of coordinating the multiple war games running on 9/11? Crossing the Rubicon has already answered this question in spades. But maybe, just maybe, with her return to Capitol Hill Cynthia McKinney has kept alive a flicker of hope that the crimes of 9/11 may yet shake up the US government.

The courage and directness of this fearless woman never cease to amaze us. She has let it be known that she will be a perpetual thorn in the side of the administration for at least the next two years.




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In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

Open Letter to Richard A. Clarke regarding War Games, 9/11 Timeline and Myers/Rumsfeld Testimony

From: Kyle Hence
February 23, 2005
Open Letter to Richard A. Clarke, former counter-terrorism 'czar' for both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Author, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&...

Subject:
Pertaining to accounts in Clarke's book Against All Enemies, neither retracted or refuted, regarding 9/11 war games and the participation of General Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld in a video conference managed from the White House Situation Room by Richard Clarke with the assistance of his Deputy, Roger Cressey.

Note of Explanation:
This letter/email was presented (via email or in person) to Mr. Clarke on four occasions without a response of any kind to the specific questions raised regarding the actions (or lack of) from our military and top officials in positions of responsibility on 9/11. Given no response, and Rep. Cynthia McKinney's attempt to raise the issue at February 16th Armed Services Committee hearing, CitizensWatch is taking the step of making this letter public.

This letter (see below) with questions pertaining to 9/11 (wargames, sworn testimony by Rumsfeld & Myers) was first sent as an email in June of 2004 to Mr. Clarke via his consulting company, Good Harbor. This note and these questions were presented personally to Mr. Clarke a second time on October 6, 2004 - and via email (3rd attempt) directly to his personal email box on October 15. When presented with a second opportunity in person (4th attempt) to respond to these queries backstage at a December 7th function at the Institute for Ethical Culture in New York City, Mr. Clarke refused to acknowledge the author and instead quickly left the room.

Receiving no response despite repeated attempts I am now releasing this to the public as an 'open letter' in the hopes responsible members of the press, family members and/or dedicated investigators will follow up publicly and personally with Mr. Clarke and the Commissioners who failed to examine the glaring discrepancies between Clarke's accounts and those offered in public statements and in sworn testimony by Chairman Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld.

It should be noted that Richard Clarke is the only member of the Bush Administration to publicly apologize to the 9/11 families. While generating controversy at the time, his testimony before the 9/11 Commission regarding the warnings and plan for dealing with Al-Qaeda that he presented to Condi Rice and the Bush Administration in January of 2001 has been recently bolstered by the release of an unclassified version of his January memo to then National Security Advisor Rice.

This controversy could pale in comparison, however, to what could be revealed in sworn testimonies before the appropriate Committee regarding Sept. 11th war games (including "Vigilant Warrior" mentioned by Gen. Myers on the morning of Sept. 11th), changing NORAD timelines and the testimony already offered by Chairman Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld regarding their whereabouts and actions taken in the first and most critical minutes immediately following the attack on the World Trade Center. {see pages 1-7; Against All Enemies)

This is being made public now in an effort to force this issue into the public's eye and ultimately to see full accountability and disclosure. Another 9/11 commemoration must not pass without these issues being addressed forthrightly and honestly before the American people; either in Manhattan before an AG Spitzer or DA Morganthau-convened Grand Jury or public hearings, in Albany before the appropriate Committee or on Capitol Hill. We offer this in hope that those with integrity in a position of responsibility will rise to this challenge. In this case above all others we must not allow the truth to continue to be veiled or obfuscated.

Kyle F. Hence
Co-founder, 9/11 CitizensWatch
February 23, 2005

kfh@911citizenswatch.org


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Sent originally in June '04 via email to Good Harbor Consulting; Presented directly to Mr. Clarke on October 6th at a speaking engagement in New Jersey. A follow-up email was sent directly to his personal email box following the October meeting and his signing of my copy of his book, Against All Enemies. Another attempt to get answers to these questions was rejected on December 7th at the Institute for Ethical Culture in New York City.
Dear Mr. Clarke,

Yesterday I had the pleasure of a brief discussion regarding the events in the White House Situation Room on the morning of September 11th with your then Deputy and now partner, Roger Cressey. He was helpful in answering a few questions. Seeing as I didn't expect him to answer when I rang a number I wasn't sure about, I was not entirely prepared with my questions. Thankfully he offered to make himself available in the future and encouraged me to email you via your Assistant, Ms. Roundtree, for questions I wanted to address to you specifically.

Before I get to my specific queries I should say that I have been running a Citizens watchdog group since March of last year monitoring the course of the investigation of the September 11th attacks. I've attended all the hearings and been successful in putting key questions and areas of inquiry on the radar for the Commission though they have not been sufficiently addressed them in their report.

Currently we are preparing to publish a response to the 9/11 Commission Report and are in the midst of attempting to review their 'findings of fact and circumstances' and their timeline; and where appropriate challenge them with substantiated and credible conflicting accounts or evidence. I appreciate whatever details and corroboration you can offer us to help us in this effort.

Roger said that both you and he were questioned for many hours by the 9/11 Commission Report. I guess I'd like to start there if I may:

In your book, from my reading of your account, the Video Conference with links to the CCC at the OSD, the FAA, etc began sometime between 9:08AM approximately when you arrived at the White House but well before 9:27AM, the time you recounted in the book immediately following detailed exchanges you had with General Myers and prior to that with Jane Garvey at the FAA.

Is this accurate?

Since your book and the Report has been released have you had opportunity to confirm your version of the timeline of events with others who were present?

Given your account, is it accurate to say that both Gen. Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld were involved in discussions about how to respond to the attack? And again, before 9:27AM?

Roger said he remembered clearly seeing Rumsfeld sitting at the CCC on screen at the Video Center when he arrived before 9:30AM. In your account, while you mention the presence on Rumsfeld on the Conference from the outset when Lisa Gordon-Hagerty started taking the roll, was he involved in any substantive discussions regarding the need for issuing orders for military response, the scrambling of planes for intercept of any of the most threatening of the 11 targets that Jane Garvey had identified, or putting a CAP over D.C.?

Or was this issue handled entirely by Gen. Myers and his uniformed staff as recounted in your book?

In either your testimony before the Commission or in the private interview, did you convey the above timeline and details?

I imagine you are well aware of the Commission's account of the videoconference and that it conflicts with the account in your book.

Obviously the bottom line here to put it to you bluntly, did they get it right?

And are you standing by your account including the timeline and the participation in the conference by both Myers and Rumsfeld from Defense?

The report maintains that the videoconference did not begin until 9:40AM. (see page 36 of the Report). Roger says it was underway when he arrived in the Situation Room before 9:30AM and your account has it starting around a half hour earlier. What's the truth here? Can you help me resolve this discrepancy; it's seems a serious one?

Given this discrepancy are you concerned about the implications of such a possible distortion of the public record as it is reflected in the report?

Thank you for taking the time to consider these questions. I know your time is valuable. I have just a few more questions if I may.

1) From what location did Gen Myers join the videoconference? Was he too, along with Rumsfeld, at the CCC in the Office of the Secretary of Defense?

2) At any point during the first half hour of the conference did the conference include or communicate directly with the NMCC?

3) Is there a direct secure line between the CCC and the NMCC?

4) Are you aware of any communication regarding a CAP or scramble and intercept orders being conveyed by either General Myers or Sec. Rumsfeld to the NMCC?

5) Defending D.C.:
While I understand that military jets from two squadrons at the highest state of readiness at Andrews were not formally part of NORAD on the morning of September 11th, can you tell me if there were any jets there that morning in standard readiness at D.C. area bases to protect P-56 or the Pentagon airspace?

If yes, were these planes scrambled and if so, when and from where? In other words, was the non-NORAD defense option--involving normal P-56 defense--for the Capitol identified and employed that morning?

And if not, why not from your position in the circle of those responding that morning?

When did you first hear of a possible threat to D.C. either from the so-called phantom flight 11 or from flight 77?

Did the Andrews AFB based jets on practice bombing runs over North Carolina (confirmed by John Farmer of the Commission and reported in the press) factor into defense options? For example, speculating for a moment from my position of ignorance, did these exercises involving three planes from Andrews leave D.C. without strip alert fighters armed and ready that morning?

Finally, did the NORAD war games (Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Vigilance) being run on 9/11 impact in any way, positively or negatively, the response by the military that morning?

Was there any involvement from the White House in the war games?

Who was ultimately responsible for monitoring and running these exercises? And for being sure there was a 'firewall' between the games and 'real life'?

Were any of the 11 potential hijacks on the FAA system radar 'injects' part of the war gaming?

Re. the Vice-President. When did he reach the PEOC? My reading of your account has him headed down there some minutes after your arrival at the WH but well before 9:27AM. Was the PEOC linked to either the Video Center, the NMCC or the CCC during the critical minutes before the Pentagon strike? When did you first have the VP on an open line at the PEOC?

On any of these questions if you cannot answer for whatever reason perhaps you could direct me to someone who could. The pieces are starting to fall into place and your support could be critical to our own, we believe ultimately, more accurate report.

If you would prefer to meet in person for an interview I would be happy to arrange to come to Washington. A half an hour is all I would need should you be interested in further helping us clarify the record here.

Alternatively, may I follow up with you by phone at some point before we conclude our report?

Your willingness to take the time to help us sort this out is much appreciated.

Sincerely,

Kyle F. Hence
9/11 CitizensWatch
kylehence@earthlink.net


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The following questions had been prepared in advance of Mr. Clarke's appearance at the Institute for Ethical Culture in New York City on December 7th, 2004:

Discrepancies in accounts regarding Rumsfeld and Myers

In addition to answers to the above questions can you explain why in your second edition of your book coming out AFTER the 9/11 Report (the first edition have come out before the final report) when you clearly had the opportunity you did not address the very serious discrepancies between your accounts of the whereabouts and involvement of General Richard Myers, then Acting Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld in the response to the terrorist attacks in the critical thirty minutes prior to the attack on the Pentagon?

Your account which I confirmed personally with your former deputy and now business partner Roger Cressey, places Myers at a location where he is seen by way of the video conference you were running from the White House situation room? Whereas, Myers' own account repeated in the 9/11 Report has him in a breakfast meeting and presumably incommunicado until he leaves the office of Max Cleland to head to the Pentagon where en route, he says, he saw smoke rising from the Pentagon. Similarly, Rumsfeld claims he is out of the loop (echoed again by the Commission) but your account places him on your videoconference not long after the second tower was struck around 9:10AM EST. Furthermore, Mr. Cressey informed me personally by phone from his home that when he arrived at the Situation Room at approximately 9:35 he recalled clearly seeing Rumsfeld on screen in direct contradiction to Rumsfeld's public statements and the 9/11 Commission Report.

9/11 War games/Terror exercises - Vice-presidents role…

At a recent speaking engagement in Northern Californian I understand that you were asked by a member of the audience if on the morning of 9/11 Cheney was coordinating war games including ones involving false radar injects and live mock hijacked aircraft. According to the conversation as it was related to me, you corrected her saying that Cheney was NOT responsible for coordinating the war games that just happened to coincide with the actual attacks but that we was in charge of overseeing these war games.

Would you please for the benefit of all Americans and in the interest of full disclosure confirm for us what VP Cheney's role was in these war games, particularly Vigilant Warrior?

Were you involved in any way of the field-training exercise you mentioned in your book, Vigilant Warrior? Can you confirm that it involved live-fly hijackings? That it involved multiple radar 'injects' on FAA radar?


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This article comes from 9/11 CitizensWatch
http://www.911citizenswatch.org





http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/11/war-games-of-september-11th.html

The War Games of September 11th
On the very morning of 9/11/01, five war games and terror drills were being conducted by several U.S. defense agencies, including one "live fly" exercise using REAL planes. Then-Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Richard B. Myers, admitted to 4 of the war games in congressional testimony -- see transcript here or video here (6 minutes and 12 seconds into the video).

Norad had run drills for several years of planes being used as weapons against the World Trade Center and other U.S. high-profile buildings, and "numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft". In other words, drills using REAL AIRCRAFT simulating terrorist attacks crashing jets into buildings, including the twin towers, were run. See also official military website showing 2000 military drill, using miniatures, involving a plane crashing into the Pentagon.

Indeed, a former Los Angeles police department investigator, whose newsletter is read by 45 members of congress, both the house and senate intelligence committees, and professors at more than 40 universities around the world, claims that he obtained an on-the-record confirmation from NORAD that ON 9/11, NORAD and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were conducting a joint, live-fly, hijack exercise which involved government-operated aircraft POSING AS HIJACKED AIRLINERS.

On September 11th, the government also happened to be running a simulation of a plane crashing into a building.

In addition, a December 9, 2001 Toronto Star article (pay-per-view; reprinted here), stated that "Operation Northern Vigilance is called off. Any simulated information, what's known as an 'inject,' is purged from the screens". This indicates that there were false radar blips inserted onto air traffic controllers' screens as part of the war game exercises.

Moreover, there are indications that some of the major war games previously scheduled for October 2001 were MOVED UP to September 11th by persons unknown.

Interestingly, Vice President Cheney was apparently in charge of ALL of the war games and coordinated the government's "response" to the attacks. See this Department of State announcement; this CNN article; and this previously-cited essay.

And while the government has consistently stated that it did not know where the aircraft were before they struck, this short video clip of the Secretary of Transportation's testimony before the 9/11 Commission shows that Cheney monitored flight 77 for many miles as it approached the Pentagon. How could one of the most heavily-defended buildings in the world have been successfully attacked, when the Vice President of the United States, in charge of counter-terrorism on 9/11, watched it approach from many miles away?

Moreover, a former air traffic controller, who knows the flight corridor for the two planes which hit the Twin Towers "like the back of my hand" and who has handled two actual hijackings, says that planes can be tracked on radar even when their transponders are turned off, and further says that the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights continuously from the time they were hijacked to the time they hit their targets (part of statement is contained in this interview).

Additionally, this diagram shows that the hijacked planes flew over numerous military bases on 9/11 before crashing. See also this essay about the war games; this essay regarding the stand down of the military; and see this war game proposal created before 9/11 revolving around Bin Laden and including "live-fly exercises" involving real planes, later confirmed by this official Department of Defense website.

Which scenario is more likely from a strictly logistical perspective:

(1) An outsider sitting in a cave defeating the air defense system of the sole military superpower; or

(2) Someone like Cheney -- who on 9/11 apparently had full control over all defense, war game and counter-terrorism powers -- rigging and gaming the system?

Remember that for the attacks to have succeeded, it was necessary that actions be taken in the middle of the war games and the actual attacks which would thwart the normal military response. For example, Cheney watched flight 77 approach the Pentagon from many miles out, but instructed the military to do nothing (as shown in the testimony of the Secretary of Transportation, linked above). Could Bin Laden have done that?

Fighter jets were also sent far off-course over the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of the attacks (testimony of Senator Mark Dayton), so as to neutralize their ability to intercept the hijacked airliners. Could Osama Bin Laden and his sent-from-the-cave band of followers have exercised this degree of control over the military? Obviously not.

And air traffic controllers claim they were still tracking what they thought were hijacked planes long after all 4 of the real planes had crashed. This implies that false radar blips remained on their screens after all 4 planes went down, long after the military claims they purged the phantom war-game-related radar signals. Could Bin Laden have interfered with the full purging of false radar blips inserted as part of the war games? In other words, could Bin Laden have overridden the purging process so that some false blips remained and confused air traffic controllers? The answer is clear.

Therefore, it is statistically much more likely that Cheney and/or other high-level U.S. government and military officials pulled the 9/11 trigger than that Bin Laden did it. At the very least, they took affirmative steps to guarantee that the hijackers' attacks succeeded.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5357239305076016842&q=Captain+Sherlock%3F%3F&total=13&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 02:55 PM
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10. This is not proof of anything
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 03:04 PM by hack89
It is nothing more than the standard CT BS.

He baldly states that Cheney was coordinating the war games without any proof what so ever.

The false blip story is telling - the author has no idea of military C2 systems. The FAA ATC radars and the military C2 systems were not tied together prior to 911.


on edit: your source is a professional 911 CTr - do you have any other sources that don't require me to go to a 911 CT site? Just wondering.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 03:26 PM
Response to Reply #10
11. Did McKinney get her answers?
oh that's right she gone, no one could have ever imagined she would be around Washington much longer
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 03:36 PM
Response to Reply #11
13. Don't you understand what proof means?
she didn't get an answer therefore constitutes indisputable proof that Cheney was running the war games? OK - if that is the best you have.


Why isn't there any other evidence that Cheney was running the war games? Are you saying that short of the perpetrators standing up and actually admitting they did it, the truth movement has no way of proving anything?
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:15 PM
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16. Why don't you spend your time getting some answers from this guy
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:47 PM
Response to Reply #16
27. No - I want you to convince me
It has been six years and the truth movement is still asking questions - are you basically admitting that the movement will never have real answers and the plotters will get away with it?
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:59 PM
Response to Reply #27
31. OMG still asking questions how evil~~~~
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 05:00 PM by seemslikeadream


MAYBE WHEN THEY START ANSWERING SOME OF THEM.........???
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 05:03 PM
Response to Reply #27
32. SIX YEARS GET OVER IT PEOPLE
The gagging of Sibel Edmonds
The outing of Valerie Plame
The war in Iraq
COLLUSION: INTERNATIONAL ESPIONAGE AND THE WAR ON TERROR.
Iran/Contra - George Bush Sr.
BCCI
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
IBM and the Holocaust
Operation Mockingbird
The Manhattan Project
The Catholic Church covering up the pedophila by priests
Enron
Watergate
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Vietnam and Other American Fantasies (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
Live American POWs in Vietnam
Internal Combustion
philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States
"Fixing" of intelligence around the desire to invade Iraq --- October Surprise
"Black Box Voting" and computer hacking of elections -- See: VOTESCAM
Operation Gladio
MK-ultra.
COINTELPRO: The FBI's War on Black America
Watergate -- including "black bag jobs" and "The Huston Plan"
Operation Paperclip
CIA coups on democratically elected leaders all around the world ---
CIA-backed death squads in El Salvado
Operation Northwoods
Savings & Loan Theft and Embezzlements
The Drug War is also an obvious conspiracy
CIA-Contra-Crack Cocaine connection
Operation Phoenix, torture program in Vietnam
GULF WAR ILLNESS
Control Room -- Propaganda of the Iraq War
Watergate
The Other Side: An Interview with William Blum
1990 Testimony of Nayirah:
The Mafia
The Dreyfus Affair
Echelon
Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial aircraft before 9/11
Corporatocracy
Hitler really was out to exterminate Jews.
Bernard Ebbers convicted of fraud and conspiracy 180 billion dollar loss to investors.
Secret CIA Prisons
Secret Bombing of Cambodia
Operation Midnight Climax
Operation PBSUCCESS
Operation Ajax
General Motors streetcar conspiracy
De Beers was charged by the United States Justice Department with Sherman Antitrust Act
Indonesian occupation of East Timor
USS LIBERTY
Suppressing Sarkhan
London Police Found Guilty of Health and Safety Failures in Brazilian's Shooting Death
Brzezinski What's most important to the history of the world the Taliban or collapse of SovietEmpire
Curveball REVEALED!!
Subpoenaed: Rice, Hadley et al. in espionage case
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:20 PM
Response to Reply #13
17. or maybe this guy could help you
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:34 PM
Response to Reply #13
20.  OR MAYBE THESE GUYS


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Sweet Pea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #11
18. She Sure Did
her constituents gave her the answers. And the boot.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:32 PM
Response to Reply #18
19. bullshit
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 04:34 PM by seemslikeadream
like Sieglman?

I'm sure you are very aware how she was defeated
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:36 PM
Response to Reply #18
21. What a fucking "coincidence"
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 04:37 PM by seemslikeadream
The only person in Congress to press for the truth is no longer there

How dare that uppity black woman ask questions........and expect answers
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:40 PM
Response to Reply #21
22. It's real weird how this voting thing works
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 04:40 PM by LARED
Someone vying for office starts spouting idiotic nonsense, and the voters found someone a tad more rational.

Weird.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:43 PM
Response to Reply #22
24. VOTING YOU SAY
Oh yes voting, how quaint you believe the are no problems with voting or dirty tricks, did ya ever here about the politcal prisoner Sieglman?
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:53 PM
Response to Reply #24
29. Sure there are problem with the voting system
What does that have to do with politicians losing elections because they say weird stuff?
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:57 PM
Response to Reply #29
30. Well if that were the case bush wouldn't be where he is
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 05:19 PM
Response to Reply #30
33. There is a difference between a Bushism
ie, saying dumb stuff, and someone saying weird and irrational stuff about 9/11
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 05:26 PM
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34. Weird irrational stuff about 9/11!! You're too much LARED
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 06:53 PM
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35. Much ado about absolutely nothing
You actually believe that video establishes Bush saw the plane hit WTC 1?

Now that's weird.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 07:39 PM
Response to Reply #35
36. oh no not at all
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 07:47 PM by seemslikeadream
He didn't see the plane of course he didn't see the plane but he said he did


You know weird and irrational stuff about 9/11

Don't you pay attention to what you post?
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 09:13 PM
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37. So if I understand correctly
You believe that Bush, a guy that can barely put together three coherent sentences was absolutely positively stating he saw THE plane hit WTC 1. The possibility that he was saying he saw that a plane had hit WTC 1 is not to be considered.
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 08:35 PM
Response to Reply #22
40. well how in the hell did boosh get in???
"Someone vying for office starts spouting idiotic nonsense, and the voters found someone a tad more rational."
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AZCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 08:58 PM
Response to Reply #40
41. Never underestimate the power of stupidity...
especially when encountered in large groups.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 09:21 PM
Response to Reply #41
42. hummmmm
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Sweet Pea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:43 PM
Response to Reply #21
23. Press for the truth?
How about ask dumb-ass questions?
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:45 PM
Response to Reply #23
25. How about ask dumb-ass questions?
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 04:45 PM by seemslikeadream
What about the war games? I don't believe your friend would like you to call his question dumb-ass

You guys are so amusing
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:47 PM
Response to Reply #23
26. Go back to sleep SP
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 03:28 PM
Response to Reply #10
12. Hold your breath till the M$M answers your questions
Edited on Sat Mar-01-08 03:29 PM by seemslikeadream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSGpBW-Md6E

figuratively speaking, that is

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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 03:37 PM
Response to Reply #12
14. No - it is the truth movement that is making the accusations
I expect them to answer my questions (with evidence).
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:09 PM
Response to Reply #14
15. It would be so much easier if this fascists government we have
would answer some questions but........well one man's fascism is another man's party
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 09:27 PM
Response to Reply #14
43. self delete.
Edited on Mon Mar-10-08 09:28 PM by wildbilln864
:hi:
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 04:49 PM
Response to Reply #10
28. White House blocks inquiry into construction of $736m embassy in Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x342053




How long are you going to hang on to the idea that we are being told the truth about anything
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Grateful for Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-12-08 09:29 PM
Response to Reply #28
46. Very good question, SLaD. n/t
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 02:07 PM
Response to Original message
5. Plausible conclusions.
I always wonder...if I had been forewarned about an "unstoppable" attack and given information on how to profit massively...would I have kept my mouth shut and reaped the benefits?

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CGowen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-02-08 09:32 AM
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38. He praises the book, is interviewed by the author and then adds the Mossad claims n/t
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Make7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-04-08 06:21 AM
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39. "If you don't like the news, go out and make some news of your own."
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com /

"If you don't like the news, go out and make some news of your own." - Scoop Nisker

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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-12-08 08:42 PM
Response to Reply #39
45. That's how the Whitehouse does it anyway. nt
:hi:
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reykvikingur Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-12-08 08:26 PM
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44. Osama bin Laden definitely did not plan or execute 9/11
There are two reasons why we can safely exclude Osama bin Laden from all discussions about 9/11.

1. The first reason is rather simple. The FBI admitted in 2006 to possess no hard evidence to link OBL to the events of 9/11.

2. The second reason is even more potent. There is no evidence, whatsoever, that any Muslims boarded the four aircraft that allegedly crashed on 9/11. Those who believe that such evidence exists, are kindly referred to a paper demonstrating the absence of evidence. This paper is posted on:
http://www.aldeilis.net/english/images/stories/911/noevidence.pdf

If no Muslims, let alone friends of OBL, boarded the aircraft, then we may safely conclude that OBL was not responsible for this crime. This does not exclude the possibility that he served his Washington masters in other ways.
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Twist_U_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-13-08 05:34 AM
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47. 9/11. So easy...a caveman could do it.
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