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9/11: Criminal Incompetence and Ass-Covering by the Bush Administration
14 Facts Which Show Criminal Negligence and Ass-Covering
On this eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, we would like to take a look back at what went wrong.
While the Bush administration tried to make its response to 9/11 its crowning achievement, the truth is that they acted with criminal incompetence and ass-covering.
(1) The U.S. is at least partly responsible for creating Al Qaeda. For example, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser admitted on CNN that we organized and supported Bin Laden and the other originators of “Al Qaeda” in the 1970s to fight the Soviets.
Professor of strategy at the Naval War College and former National Security Agency intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer John R. Schindler documents, the U.S. supported Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda terrorists in Bosnia.
(2) The chair of the 9/11 Commission said that the attack was preventable. It is thoroughly-documented that an attack such as 9/11 was entirely foreseeable. Specifically, Al Qaeda flying planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon was something which American military and intelligence services - and our allies - knew could happen.
(3) U.S. intelligence services have repeatedly infiltrated Al Qaeda and related groups, but then idiotically failed to stop them. For example - as the New York Times, CBS News and others reported - the FBI informant involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center begged the FBI to substitute fake bomb power for real explosives, but his FBI handler moronically let real explosives be used.
Similarly - as reported by Newsweek, the New York Times and others - an FBI informant hosted and rented a room to 2 of the 9/11 hijackers while they were in the U.S., but then stupidly failed to stop them.
Indeed, former counter-terrorism boss Richard Clarke theorizes that top CIA brass tried to recruit the hijackers and turn them to our side, but were unsuccessful. And – when they realized had failed – they covered up their tracks so that the FBI would not investigate their illegal CIA activities , “malfeasance and misfeasance”, on U.S. soil.
In other words, our intelligence services' attempts to infiltrate and work with people inside of terrorist cells was horribly botched; and they did a horrible job of stopping terrorist attacks once they were set in motion.
(4) Dick Cheney was in charge of all of America's counter-terrorism exercises, activities and responses on 9/11. See this Department of State announcement and this CNN article. As such, at least part of the blame for failing to stop the attacks is on his shoulders.
(5) The Energy Task Force chaired by Dick Cheney prior to 9/11 collected maps of Iraqi oil, Saudi and United Arab Emerates fields and potential suitors for that oil. And you might have heard that the oil bigs attended the Task Force meetings.
According to the New Yorker – a secret document written by the National Security Council (NSC) on February 3, 2001 directed NSC staff to cooperate fully with the Energy Task Force as it considered the “melding” of two seemingly unrelated areas of policy:
“The review of operational policies towards rogue states,” such as Iraq, and “actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields”.
It is difficult to brush off Cheney’s Energy Task Force’s examination of arab oil maps as a harmless comparison of American energy policy with known oil reserves because the NSC explicitly linked the Task Force, oil, and regime change.
The above-linked New Yorker article quotes a former senior director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs at the NSC said:
If this little group was discussing geostrategic plans for oil, it puts the issue of war in the context of the captains of the oil industry sitting down with Cheney and laying grand, global plans.
See also this essay.
Is that why idiot Cheney - the guy in charge of all terror protection efforts before and on 9/11 - failed to effectively respond to 9/11 with normal air defense? Was he too busy pining over Iraqi oil maps to pay any attention?
(6) The military – under the idiot Vice President’s command that day – didn’t scramble enough fighter jets, and then scrambled jets far over the Atlantic Ocean, in what Senator Mark Dayton called:
The most gross incompetence and dereliction of responsibility and negligence that I’ve ever, under those extreme circumstances, witnessed in the public sector.
Cheney - and the other people in charge of anti-terror response that day - screwed up big time.
But just like the bank CEOs who are rewarded for causing the financial crisis by being given bailouts and subsidies and breaks, the military and intelligence officials who dropped the ball that day have been promoted. As Time reported:
They have basically promoted the exact same people who have presided over the ... failure," says a former Justice Department official, "and those individuals took the same thinking with them.
As the Washington Post reported, no one from the CIA, FBI or NSA has been reprimanded, punished, or fired for the events of 9/11.
The same is true for the military personnel on watch that day. For example, General Myers, who was Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on September 11th, was quickly confirmed as Chairman two weeks later. General Ralph Eberhart, Commander in Chief of NORAD at the time of the attack, was promoted to head the new "Northern Command" a year after the attack.
Just as with the financial crisis, no one has been punished, and the people who screwed up have been allowed to fail upwards.
(7) On the day of 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney initiated Continuity of Government Plans that ended America’s constitutional form of government (at least for some undetermined period of time.)
On that same day, a national state of emergency was declared … and that state of emergency has continuously been in effect up to today. ... even though U.S. military and intelligence officials say that the threat from Al Qaeda is now almost entirely non-existent.
(8) Many of the draconian "national security programs" - such as the Patriot Act, spying on Americans and indefinite detention - overtly approved after 9/11 had actually been implemented or planned before 9/11. September 11th was used as an excuse to ramp up these programs.
These programs were approved during the Bush administration ... but were never terminated by the Obama administration. In fact, while Obama is a nicer and smarter guy than Bush, top constitutional law professors say that Obama has actually expanded these programs. And top national security experts say that these programs actually harm our national security and increase the threat from terrorism. See this and this.
(9) The Bush administration immediately used the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to carry out decades-old neoconservative plans to implement regime change throughout the Middle East and North Africa. And see this,
(10) The Bush administration pretended that Saddam Hussein had a hand in 9/11 ... one of the two main justifications for that war.
(11) Allegedly, Saddam offered to leave Iraq - and the Taliban offered to turn over Bin Laden - in order to prevent U.S. invasion. But the U.S. turned down the offers and invaded anyway.
We can't get the bad guys using peaceful means, now can we? We have a war to fight!
(12) In contrast, other governments that might actually have sponsored the attacks have been let off scot-free ... and have even been given huge amounts of financial support.
(13) As the 9/11 Commission itself notes, as part of its ass-covering efforts, the Bush administration engaged in criminal obstruction of justice.
There are numerous examples of obstruction of justice into the 9/11 investigation, including:
- The chairs of both the 9/11 Commission and the Official Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 said that Soviet-style government “minders” obstructed the investigation into 9/11 by intimidating witnesses
- The 9/11 Commissioners concluded that officials from the Pentagon lied to the Commission, and considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements
- The tape of interviews of air traffic controllers on-duty on 9/11 was intentionally destroyed by crushing the cassette by hand, cutting the tape into little pieces, and then dropping the pieces in different trash cans around the building as shown by this NY Times article (summary version is free; full version is pay-per-view) and by this article from the Chicago Sun-Times
- As reported by ACLU, FireDogLake, RawStory and many others, declassified documents shows that Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
9/11 Commission co-chairs Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton wrote:
Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation.
This is particularly disturbing because the torture methods used were specially-targeted at producing false confessions. And according to NBC News:
- Much of the 9/11 Commission Report was based upon the testimony of people who were tortured
- At least four of the people whose interrogation figured in the 9/11 Commission Report have claimed that they told interrogators information as a way to stop being "tortured."
- One of the Commission's main sources of information was tortured until he agreed to sign a confession that he was NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO READ
- The 9/11 Commission itself doubted the accuracy of the torture confessions, and yet kept their doubts to themselves
The 9/11 Commissioners publicly expressed anger at certain cover ups and obstructions of justice:
- The Commission’s co-chairs said that the CIA (and likely the White House) “obstructed our investigation”
- 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that “There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn’t have access . . . .”
- 9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said “We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting”
- 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: “It is a national scandal”; “This investigation is now compromised”; and “One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up”
- The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) – who led the 9/11 staff’s inquiry – said “At some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened“. He also said “I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years…. This is not spin. This is not true.”
And the Co-Chair of the official Congressional Inquiry Into 9/11 – and former head of the Senate Intelligence Committee – has called for a new 9/11 investigation.
(14) The American government - like many other governments - has long spun accidents and intelligence failures as justifications for war propaganda. Unscrupulous Americans - just like dishonest people all over the world - have long used deception as a basis for war.
Whatever the details of the screw-ups on 9/11, the Bush administration used the attacks as a justification to promote their agenda. And - instead of changing the agenda - Obama has continued it.
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bullshit....
The Troll is strong in this one.
It's friggen hilarious how obvious it is too.
I guess the new strategy is to just try and derail any serious debate on any of Geo's threads. Hey George - is there a number for that yet? If not, I think we need one.
the ellipsis is eloquent; it indicates how much more you could say but choose not to say.
Silver bitchez!!!!!
Relax ... there are plenty of people who agree with you. Geo W one week says Bush planned the whole damn thing and the next week he says he was too stupid to see it coming and then covered it up.
The country is under attack. No one knows what will be the next target. Two sky scrapers, the Pentagon and a downed plane heading toward the White House have been confirmed however.
And George Bush sits in a school room, widely known to be there, and he sits through the reading of My Pet Goat so he doesn't upset the children.
COME ON YOU DUMB SON OF A BITCH WAKE THE FUCK UP
and the vice president is begged repeatedly "do the orders still stand?"
I expected better myself. Doesn't point one make it Carter's fault? (not a bad idea) Anyway, foreseeability does not equal preventability. The RNC could have foreseen a hurricane but they can not prevent one. What are we supposed to do, not have any tall buildings? I knew of the possibility of a highjacked commercial airplane being used as a weapon when I was a high schooler in the 80's. Couldn't stop it then, can't stop it now, despite our TSA molestations.
Looks like yet another keynesian (d)ingbat who needs less fairy dust and more fiber in their diet.
That article is a nice, little summary of the various things that can be proven from publicly available material, which do not need any more investigations, or speculations about controlled demolitions, etc. ...
Of course, it is extremely relevant to the bigger financial picture whether one believes the official story about 9/11 ...
I believe that 9/11 was a false flag attack, that was intended to be symbolic. It deliberately destroyed symbols of the American economy, and then, all proper investigations were obstructed, evidence was summarily destroyed, belated official commissions and inquiries were bogus, and so forth. The overall relevance to that view is that it reflects upon the question of whether or not the various financial crises were deliberately caused. I believe that they were!
Since I believe that 9/11 was an inside job, and that the financial crises were also inside jobs, my conclusions are extremely dismal. In my opinion, there is a deliberate plan, whose implementation is well advanced, to destroy the American republic, which is being carried out by the people who control the people that control the government of the USA.
9/11 and the financial crises are being done to start world war. That may well seem utterly insane and irrational, however, it is a logical conclusion, AFTER one accepts the fundamental fact that civilization is being controlled by the people who were the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence. Our "leaders" ARE insane. The only thing that was necessary to make them "successful" was to be the best at being dishonest.
We are inside of a runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut, that is being astronomically amplified by science and technology, but which is still based on lies, backed by violence. Our combined money/murder systems are the result of the past triumphs of those things. Each short-term increment of the triumph of bigger lies, backed by more violence, drove those who did that to become more wealthy, and more powerful, and therefore, more able to do it again, and again. Thus, the real world system has become a RUNAWAY ...
One of the most important ideas to repemember as we pass through these infinite tunnels of deceits is that:
"The lies are different at every level."
The article above stays on one level of the lies, that which can be proven with publicly known, verifiable, documentation. However, I repeat, my studies have convinced me that this tunnel of deceits is practically infinite! The people controlling the world are as "evil" as they can possibly be, since they have been selected to become those who were the best at deceits and destruction in the past. Therefore, the most probable future is the one that their social habits are implementing, namely the deliberate collapse of the global economy, and global war. I believe that 9/11 was deliberately done to prepare the way to start World War.
Wowsers Radical Maryjane, your Engrish is pretty good for a Chinese Psyops trooper, well done
Brilliant comment Radical
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idiot, i am an engineer. taught demolitions, understand how this stuff works to implode a building. the terrorists knew what they were doing. they knew flying into the building at one third from the top, that the fire would weaken the steel on that level, and that the weight above would crash into the bottom two thirds causing systemic collapse (like what is going to happen to our financial system). you 9/11 conspiracy theorists are children.... grow up...
I guess they also knew that WTC7 would also collapse from a couple of small fires -probably set by the terrorists themselves. Are you presently unemployed and applying for a job with NIST? You'll probably get it.
Yes the terrorists were so brilliant they also got he building owner to say he "pulled it"
You are what, a sanitation engineer? Then you know trash fires in the basement of bldg seven cause systemic collapse throughout at a uniform rate.
"idiot, i am an engineer."
You're not an engineer. Your level of communication is beneath any engineer extant.
I'm not an engineer. But even a layman like myself knows that WTC Building 7 didn't collapse onto it's own footprint at freefall speed due to fire (which casts doubt on the rest of the story).
Show me the formula for WTC Building 7.
Yes, I would be interested to see that too. I'm not sure that there is a formula actually, haven't found one yet, but I'm still searching...
Hi SmallerGovNow2, as an engineer, you probably have heard about this group: http://www.ae911truth.org/
How could fire possibly pulverise the buildings into dust and cause steel girders to fly across the street and become embedded into the buildings opposite?
Do you think that nearly 90% of Germans are children?
http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/nearly-90-percent-of-ger...
I would quote you the equation for structural steel columns that shows how high temps will affect stability but it doesnt matter, your mind is made up and you have no training to understand it anyway....
"your mind is made up"
Your fucking right about that. A lot of us have made up our minds via due dilligence. You have nothing to say about Engineers and Architects for 9/11 Truth?
I use to get my news according to what the MSM pumped into my mind. So much so that the day of 9/11 the first thing I thought was "Osama Bin Laden". I had been thorougly propogandanized in the lead up to 9/11.
Fortunately when the time came I opted for the blue pill.
Well, this is the most up-to-date report I have found in just 5 minutes of looking ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/ahvarma/Varma-SSRC-2011-paper.pdf - haven't found an equation yet, just test results. Still doesn't explain the dust, or the molten steel at the base of the buildings though. Also, if the steel just bent as per this report, surely the people would have had time to get out of the building before it collapsed.
Maybe you could recommend a report to read?
I do try to question everything
True that I have no training to understand it, but I would still like to try. I can look up the equation myself if you can't be bothered to post it here.
Edit: BTW IDNJY
You're either a liar or a moron. You don't understand shit. Just another guy hired by the govt. to infiltrate websites and misdirect people. Go stick your head in an oven.
Playing with Legos does not qualify you as an engineer dipshit. Using Jenga as a model to teach demolitions does not merit any credentials either. Quit your bs and just tell us which branch of the government you work for. Or better yet "engineer", indulge us with the specific compositions of aluminum and steel. Then after you are done searching the internet, reveal to all us ZH conspiracy idiots that aluminum is much stronger than steel and concrete. After that, grace us with your knowledge on how building 7 "fell". Let me guess, carpet and chairs created such a intense fire that it brought down 47 story building. Now, fuck off.
You are pathetic... i have BS and MS in structural engineering... now you fuck off ass hole...
Kindly provide verifiable information, or stfu.
Great response you petulant child.... We all know you have BS...... What school of engineering did you attend?....Try engineering a word together. It's asshole. There, fixed it for ya! Now about that building 7......Ps I added dots for you too....
toe cutter...you do realize that johnny the boy and toe cutter were gay lovers...? right...?
hannah/smallergovnow2. You have nothing to bring to the table. Move on now, it's bed time. Please don't leave another lame response. It's embarrasing.
You also apparently have a doctorate in Moronosis, the school of though associated with being a moron.
Your suave persuasiveness, erudite articulation and wonderfully warm demeanor positively overwhelm me.
May I dare touch the hem of your robe?
And I am a structural engineer with 30 years experience.
You sir, are full of shit.4th of July is probably the closest you ever got to
explosives.
Whatever.... Let's start with an easy question, what is the equation to figure out the third leg of a 90 degree triangle when two of the lengths are already known?
WE HAVE FOUND SMALLERGOVNOW2'S PROBLEM....he has an inordinately small 'third leg' so to speak.....tiny dick, little dog syndrum....
expected that kind of answer...
So you're proficient at precognition too?
I bet you can add that to your resume.
akak said:
He doesn't have a resume. His precognition has accurately revealed to him that he is unemployable.
a2 + b2 = you're an asshole
akak said:
Very clever use of the Pissofforean formula. It is clear that SmallerGovNow2 is the positive square root of the hypocritenuse.
Finding the hypocritenuse is very important in Chinese Citizenism geometrication, as it allows those with straining bowels due to excessive consumptionationizing of dogmeat, General Tso's kitten and human fetus broth to find the shortest possible path to the nearest roadside.
Indeedness the much correctatings in wisdomful words of stated you thusly. Failure of Chinese citizenism citizens in shortest path to roadside determinings can bring much misfortune calamitously, often with result of scorched brown pantaloonacy. Very much unlucky.
"Scorched brown pantaloonacy"!
Make me laugh! ROR!
Indeedwise, you are much big master of the Chinese Citizenish laughter making and sticking fun at.
With AnAnnoyingMouse nowhere to be seen (somewhere in China, a roadside is occupied), laughing must be continuizing according to our eternal US citizen nature, so ....
Can we just have a dedicated compilatoin-thread of AnAnonomous and Akak exchanges? Fuck me that shit is funny! =]
Actually you need to find the square root of him being an asshole to solve the equation... but then again that probably isn't necessary...
The square root of zero is still zero.
the funny responses are quite funny but seriously is there an ("the", i.e. one) equation to get the third leg of a right triangle when two sides are known? doesn't one have to know whether it is the hypotenuse or either leg of the right angle being being calculated, i.e. square root of sum of squares vs. square root of difference of squares?
you forgot "I am a douchebag". and stuffing firecrackers in cats' asses does not a demo expert one make(disclaimer-I am a member of Seal Team 6)
would you like to exchange calculations and real information or you just want to call each other assholes? with your comment, "I am a member of seal team 6" I can tell that you don't know jack shit...
Childish and one of the oldest tricks in the books. Trust me I'm an expert and have the calculations. You then proceed to do anything but deliver the calculations. Go head to head with Richard Gage and get back to us