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CIA and FBI Counter-Terrorism Officials: Cheney Lied About 9/11 Hijacker

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Preface: Obama is worse.

 

Everyone knew that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction (update here).

Dick Cheney admits that he lied about 9/11.

MSNBC recently noted that these two facts are intertwined:

Mark Rossini, was then an FBI counter-terrorism agent detailed to the CIA. He was assigned the task of evaluating a Czech intelligence report that Mohammed Atta, the lead 9/11 hijacker, had met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague before the attack on the World Trade Towers.

 

Cheney repeatedly invoked the report as evidence of Iraqi involvement in 9/11. “It’s been pretty well confirmed that he [Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with  a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia  last April,” Cheney said on Meet the Press on Dec. 9, 2001.

 

But the evidence used to support the claim–a supposed photograph of Atta in Prague the day of the alleged meeting—had already been debunked by Rossini. He analyzed the photo and immediately saw it was bogus: the picture of the Czech “Atta” looked nothing like the real terrorist. It was a conclusion he relayed up the chain, assuming he had put the matter to rest.

 

Then he heard Cheney endorsing the discredited report on national television. “I remember looking at the TV screen and saying, ‘What did I just hear?’ And I–first time in my life, I actually threw something at the television because I couldn’t believe what I just heard,” Rossini says.

Rossini gave MSNBC an example in an interview for the documentary Hubris:

Mohammed Atta was a sleight guy … barely 5’5 or 5’6, and skinny.  The guy in the photograph was muscular, thick, and had a neck like the size of two of my necks.  And I thought, “that’s not Mohammed Atta in the photograph!”  But I sent it to the lab anyway, knowing that would put it to rest.

McClatchy confirmed in 2009:

Former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the interrogation issue said that Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld demanded that the interrogators find evidence of al Qaida-Iraq collaboration…

 

For most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there.”

 

It was during this period that CIA interrogators waterboarded two alleged top al Qaida detainees repeatedly — Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times in August 2002 and Khalid Sheik Muhammed 183 times in March 2003 — according to a newly released Justice Department document…

 

When people kept coming up empty, they were told by Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s people to push harder,” he continued.”Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s people were told repeatedly, by CIA . . . and by others, that there wasn’t any reliable intelligence that pointed to operational ties between bin Laden and Saddam . . .

 

A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were under “pressure” to produce evidence of ties between al Qaida and Iraq.

 

“While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq,” Burney told staff of the Army Inspector General. “The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link . . . there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results.”

 

“I think it’s obvious that the administration was scrambling then to try to find a connection, a link (between al Qaida and Iraq),” [Senator] Levin said in a conference call with reporters. “They made out links where they didn’t exist.”

 

Levin recalled Cheney’s assertions that a senior Iraqi intelligence officer had met Mohammad Atta, the leader of the 9/11 hijackers, in the Czech Republic capital of Prague just months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

 

The FBI and CIA found that no such meeting occurred.

Postscript:  Indeed the entire torture program was implemented in an attempt to justify the Iraq war.  And the 9/11 Commission was set up with false torture testimony.  More background on the Iraq war.

 

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Mon, 03/25/2013 - 00:40 | 3371178 kchrisc
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A "truther" is an independent thinker. Not always fully or partially correct but always pursuing an answer, even if that does not agree with the consensus. A "truther" never bows to propaganda fueled peer-pressure.

Above all a "truther" makes one think and see other sides of a situation so that the truth may ultimately be revealed, even if that is different than all believed.

The "truther's" and "birther's" information on Obama's coverup of his birth-cert and interesting and criminal SSN use helped reveal to me that his fathers is really Frank Marshall Davis and he is a CIA stooge. That is not where they were going with it, but that seems to be where it went. Because of this info and opinion, I better understand why he talks socialist and does fascist and some of his other behavior.                 hujel

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 21:58 | 3355202 bigkahuna
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"truther" is the opposite of "liar"

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:35 | 3354462 WTFx10
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Whats the opposite of a Truther? 

A Believer

Who's the bigger fool the fool or the believer who follows the fool?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:02 | 3354317 kchrisc
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The guillotines are on order. hujel

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:46 | 3354231 TNTARG
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We're all waiting, all around the World, for the Americans to prosecute these genocides. They didn't only kill their own people in NY but they massacred innocent civilians, children, woman, man, distroyed countries on the basis of 9/11 "terrorists attacks".

Others should be prosecuted, as Aznar, Blair & Co. together with some folks at the UN.

Otherwise, this is just the old barbarian World Order same as at Attila's times and we're all part of it. In that case, let's just take it for what it is and seek justice on our own.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:41 | 3354485 WTFx10
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The "We the people" are waiting for the world to demand justice. Our leaders are criminal and would never hold themselves accountable.

When is the world going to grow a pair?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 20:17 | 3354802 CH1
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When is the world going to grow a pair?

When are you going to stop obeying your rulers? You said yourself that they are criminals.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:45 | 3354226 cognus
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Bill Kristolnacht does not approve of George Washington's tampering with evidence

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:42 | 3354207 A. Magnus
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Cheney is a rotten, thieving piece of shit whose old company Haliburton triple bills the Pentagon for driving empty fuel trucks across the Iraqi desert and they refuse to serve sanitary food to our troops. Fucking scumbag PLANNED 9/11 with his piece of shit traitor 'Project for a New American Century.' Fucking cocksucker WANTED a 'new Pearl Harbor' event so he could launch his fucking piece of shit wars for global commie empire.

Fuck pissing on Cheney's grave, I say piss on his Iron Lung and watch the treasonous fucker wriggle with electity as the fucker shorts out. I better not ever catch that fucking scumbag out without his Secret Service detail...

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:37 | 3354467 cynicalskeptic
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Might want to go out the back door -  A black SUV with gov plates just pulled up to your front door......

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:54 | 3354279 dick cheneys ghost
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+1000000...I could not have said it better myself!!

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 21:40 | 3355119 Seer
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Now, Dick, you're just NOT yourself these days.  You're just a shadow of what you used to be :-)

I'd up arrow you for the "+1000000," but I'd also down arrow you for that not being enough! :-) (no arrows were hurled from my person in this scene)

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 21:19 | 3355033 Gargoyle
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I'll bet you can't spell Halliburton correctly, as well.

 

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:19 | 3354082 Gringo Viejo
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Most "awake" Americans realize 911 was an inside job. It is they who are buying weapons and ammo hand over fist now. We know they're coming. The mistake the NWO elitists have made is in their timing. There are too many traditional patriots still breathing. Should be quite a show..................

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 09:33 | 3356619 akarc
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Where are they? Any idea when the show might start? 

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 23:03 | 3355404 Savyindallas
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Yes it most certainly was  -hang Cheney and the other traitors- treason or pre-meditated mass murder-take your pick.,

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 19:08 | 3354593 mendigo
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I find that very difficult to believe.
I think it is far more luckly that they simply used the event to launch a war on false pretenses. That's not sick enough for you?

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 21:37 | 3355102 Seer
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I can recommend two points of study for you:

1) PNAC document;

2) Physics.

You could also read up on Operation Northwoods.

But, yeah, I agree, launching a war under false pretenses IS sick, though that's pretty much how it's always been done.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:42 | 3354488 Gringo Viejo
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To the guys that gave my post above a down arrow, I want to say this. As I write, I'm looking at a picture taken December 5th, 1969. It's my boot camp platoon graduation picture (2058) from MCRD Parris Island. In that picture there are 68 men excluding 3 DIs. Of those 68, 14 never came home from Viet Nam. Another 17 came home with wounds. I guess what I would say to you would be what R Lee Ermey said in Full Metal Jacket. "I think the best part of you slid down your mamas ass and left a brown stain on the mattress. I think you got cheated".

Thu, 03/21/2013 - 07:55 | 3356218 dontgoforit
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Semper Fi, bro - but, not all is conspiracy; not all is in vain.  Most of this stuff is a reaction to real or perceived fears.  Fears of losing America, fears of losing 'the good life,' fears of somebody pushing you aside and taking your stuff.  But all fear(s) regardless.

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 19:51 | 3354712 JustObserving
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Nixon extended the Vietnam war so he could be elected president.  That was treason. This information came out this week:

 

  • Nixon’s treason

  • In a story that seems to be getting bigger play overseas than here in the U.S., the last set of Lyndon Johnson’s White House tapes, covering 1968, have just been released. The tapes include conversations LBJ had with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley during the chaotic Democratic convention, in which Johnson considered landing Marine One on the roof of the Hilton and making a surprise bid for the nomination for a second term.

    It also confirms something long rumored: that Richard Nixon interfered in the Paris peace talks, getting the South Vietnamese to sabotage an October agreement that was about to be sealed with the North Vietnamese. Here’s how the BBC describes it:

    “In the summer of 1968. Nixon feared a breakthrough at the Paris Peace talks designed to find a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam war, and he knew this would derail his campaign.

    “He therefore set up a clandestine back-channel involving Anna Chennault, a senior campaign adviser.

    “At a July meeting in Nixon’s New York apartment, the South Vietnamese ambassador was told Chennault represented Nixon and spoke for the campaign. If any message needed to be passed to the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, it would come via Chennault.

    “In late October 1968 there were major concessions from Hanoi which promised to allow meaningful talks to get underway in Paris – concessions that would justify Johnson calling for a complete bombing halt of North Vietnam. This was exactly what Nixon feared.

    Johnson told Clark Clifford, Everett Dirkson and Richard Russell Nixon’s actions were illegal and amounted to treason. But after fuming in private, LBJ chose not to go public, because he would have had to reveal that the U.S. had bugged the South Vietnamese.

    http://www.mortontimesnews.com/article/20130319/BLOGS/303199991

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    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 03:07 | 3355956 RafterManFMJ
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    All these illegal wars, all these lies, all the killings which are essentially murder...I really don't get how the rest of the world can still love and admire us like they do? Amerika, that shining city on the hill.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 21:00 | 3354958 Lost Word
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    The War profiteers also probably wanted the war to continue.

    One book I read recently blamed the Joint Chiefs of the military for the JFK assassination.

    Lyndon Johnson was also a part of the JFK assassination conspiracy coup d'tat and coverup.

    At least two or three books published about Johnson's role in the conspiracy.

    Who benefits? Lyndon Johnson was the most obvious, even if far from the only one.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 23:59 | 3355666 palmereldritch
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    All politics is local.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 19:19 | 3354626 Westcoastliberal
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    Thanks for your service to country, Viejo in that example of another damn useless, pointless war.  I would have been there with you in 'Nam had my number come up.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 21:33 | 3355086 Seer
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    If you're a MIC supporter then you pledge allegiance to those who kill for empire.

    I just say "sorry" to those that the empire drug into their dirty little war.

    Those who volunteer service the empire.  I, sadly, was one (and I'm trying to make amends).

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 22:15 | 3355228 Gringo Viejo
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    I think blowing your brains out would be a nice way to make amends Mary. Give it some thought. Lots. Don't sell weak-kneed, breast-beater here. America is full up of pussified males.

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:24 | 3355718 mumcard
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    Being misled when you're young and stupid is something anyone can forgive.  Being old enough to know better while still being stubbornly arrogant about serving on the walls of the empire is another thing.

    USMC PI 2062 in '87

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 00:56 | 3355763 Gringo Viejo
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    '87? Yet another "special" child. Bet your selfesteem was constantly assuaged. Well,I got a wake up call for you princess. You're not special and you're about to find that out. You'd have to sit on your mamas shoulders just to kiss the ass of the men I served with. Now go be sensitive somewhere else. Because FREE America has no use for it @hole.

    Additionaly, I just checked out that Platoon 2062 graduated PI in October of 1981. So you're a "stolen valor" lying little cocksucker and of no use to ANYONE other than the sexual gratification you can afford them.

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 01:10 | 3355813 mumcard
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    I bet you are one of those worthless turds that still wears camo all the time right?  Because you're still so goddamned brainwashed you can't think hard enough to figure out what to wear.

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 01:24 | 3355806 mumcard
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    Fuck you dickhead, you better check again.  I served from '87 to '92 so suck my balls.  Semper Fi cockbite. 

     

    *here's the link, so are you just a lying piece of shit or totally incompetent?

     

    http://www.yellowfootprints.com/yearbook/showgallery.php?cat=12471

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 02:01 | 3355866 Gringo Viejo
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    I frequent YFP and checked you out. You're right and I stand corrected as to Platoon 2062. My info came from another USMC site which was INCORRECT. That being said, I retract my statement as to you being a  "stolen valor" little cocksucker, and ammended it to you being a "special, self-esteem assuaged little cocksucker".

    I look forward to meeting you on the field of "empire-deconstructing" princess.

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 02:14 | 3355907 mumcard
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    Apology accepted.  I'm sure by now you're used to having to apologize for the stupid shit you say in public. 

     

    I'm not your enemy.   Doesn't mean I'm changing your fucking depends.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:09 | 3354036 tony bonn
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    all i can say is read jim marrs terror conspiracy revisited.....it shows how dick cheney was the chief terrorist of 9/11....the bush crime syndicate is the biggest terrorist organization in the world, using the cia under orders from the rockefeller nazis....

    also, it shows that nuclear weapons, in addition to nano-thermite, were used to destroy the wtc...

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 02:16 | 3355911 mkkby
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    Not to worry, Tony Bonn.  Jeb will be elected in 2016 and he'll definitely make it all right again. 

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:16 | 3354063 mr1963
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    Meanwhile, the current wimp in the White House murders scores of innocent people using drones, and George here dredges up 10 years ago. What's happening now is a little more relevent.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 18:32 | 3354440 CustomersMan
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    Bullshit. It all hinged on 9/11 being pulled off. To say its not relevant is to deny the crux of the matter. Everything else that has taken away our freedoms began that day, Patriot Act 1 and 2, Military Commissions Act, Torture, denying Habeus Corpus, NDAA, and has now embolden them to continue.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 19:30 | 3354661 willwork4food
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    +10

    One could even go back to Waco, Ruby Ridge and OKC and form a valid argument that (those) were the trial balloons for the big one in '01.

    The morons that over-dosed on Hannity & Glen Beck forgot that Bush was stll in power during the '07 crisis calmly nodding his assertians that we need to do what 'must be done'.

    When Obama got in, under the auspices of routing out the banking system and installing a ligitimate economic cabnet he told his former close advisers to get lost and hired most of the same team Bush had with their new recommendations.

    Both are equally guilty, both should be tried for treason and both should hang on a post outside Wall Street for a week. In the sun.

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 07:52 | 3356205 dontgoforit
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    Fear drives a krazy kar.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 23:08 | 3355508 Savyindallas
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    Agreed, but Wall Street needs to be razed to the ground  - set up the new stock exchange in Kansas or somewhere  -call it "Main Street" or "Our street" or something like that.  

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:37 | 3354181 object_orient
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    We must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:28 | 3354138 a growing concern
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    More relevant than the false flag murder of thousands of US citizens by our own government? I think not. If we fully understand where we have come from in the past decade, we will fully understand the direction they intend to take us.

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 09:23 | 3356577 akarc
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    amen, because what happened 10 years ago is still happening. Thank God there are still some poeple that continue take us back to 9/11 else history students of the future will never know it happened.

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 07:55 | 3356215 shovelhead
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    They intend to take us to the shearing shed as long as there's wool and then to the lamb chop display case.

    Sorry.

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 07:51 | 3356196 dontgoforit
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    fagetaboutit.  we were attacked and we were gonna strike back at somebody.  True Afghanistan was the logical place; however, I seem to remember something about Saddam Hussein putting out an assassination squad on Bush Sr.  So there was definitely a motive beyone 9-11.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 17:43 | 3354218 Diogenes
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    They don't give a shit about 10 year old crimes. Those are old news, the fix is in and they got away scot free.

    Today's crimes are different.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 20:36 | 3354857 Quentin Daniels
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    'They' don't.  You should.  Us following their lead by not giving a shit is how they get away with their crimes.

    Give a shit, even if it's 10 years ago, or 50 years for that matter.  Why should 'it was 10 years ago' grant immunity to criminals in positions of power any more than it does to a common murderer?  No reason other than that the people take it lying down (or bending over).

    No.  We need to bring up cold cases, drag skeletons out of closets and keep reminding the world of what these scumbags have done in the past, if for no other reason than to warn people of what to expect in the future.

    Thu, 03/21/2013 - 03:09 | 3355959 The Navigator
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    1st on my list would be Woodrow Wilson - dig up his sorry bones so I can piss and shit on them for allowing the Federal Reserve and the Income Tax.

    Next, remove that fucker from all history records - we skip from 27th to 29th President with no mention of that fucker.

    Wed, 03/20/2013 - 19:10 | 3354598 willwork4food
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    You make it sound like we should not consider 10 year old crimes since according to you-they don't.

    That philosophy is highly apparent in our modern Dem vs Republican, left vs right atmosphere, which is dangerous thinking.

    If anyone thinks there is a twig of difference between the walking corpses that ruled the WH 10 years ago and the liers occupying it today, they're idiots and they need to go back and understand history.

    "Nothing in politics happens by accident." -FDR

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