“Important new evidence corroborates Gaffney's conclusion, and raises further questions about the role played by the E-4B planes on 9/11. This evidence appears in the 2003 book
Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism, written by Dan Verton, a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and former senior writer for Computerworld magazine, who has written extensively on national security, the intelligence community, and national defense topics. Verton reported that, the morning of September 11, an E-4B was launched from "an airfield outside of the nation's capital." (He did not, however, state which specific base.) This plane was carrying "civilian and military officials," and was going "to conduct a previously scheduled Defense Department exercise." This exercise would involve "the use and testing of the aircraft's various advanced technology and communications equipment."
http://www.911blogger.com/node/10441 Mon, 08/06/2007
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Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-TerrorismChapter Seven:
9/11: The Cyber-terrorist Attackhttp://books.mcgraw-hill.com/downloads/pro...227877_ch07.pdf"One of the first things that all U.S. military officers are taught is to accept the inevitability of the “fog of war,” a phrase that refers to the uncertainty and confusion that often arises in the heat of battle as a result of a commander lacking adequate information about the enemy and terrain, or receiving faulty intelligence. More importantly, however, is the emphasis that U.S. military officer training courses place on being able to operate effectively and decisively under such circumstances. And on September 11, 2001, that training would be put to the test in America’s own backyard.
On the fifth floor Strategic Information and Operations Center at the FBI’s headquarters facility in Washington, D.C., Ron Dick, former director of the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center and a 24-year veteran of the FBI, began the process of setting up a 24-hour Cyber-Crisis Action Team (C-CAT) that would be responsible for not only helping Brenton Greene’s physical recovery effort in New York but also monitoring the Internet infrastructure for signs of a follow-on cyber-attack that might target additional sectors of the economy. “There were a lot of unknowns,” recalled Dick.
snipWhile Greene was rushing back to the NCS operations center to get a better understanding of what had happened in New York, civilian and military officials were boarding a militarized version of a Boeing 747, known as the E-4B National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC), at an airfield outside of the nation’s capital. They were preparing to conduct a previously scheduled Defense Department exercise.
There are four E-4Bs, code-named “Night Watch,” in the U.S. military arsenal. They exist to provide the president, vice president, and Joint Chiefs of Staff with an airborne command center that can be used to execute war plans and coordinate other emergency government operations in the event of a national emergency or destruction of ground command and control centers. As a result, they are often referred to unofficially as “the doomsday planes.” One E-4B remains on alert at all times.
As the crew of the E-4B was preparing to begin the regularly scheduled training exercise, including the use and testing of the aircraft’s various advanced technology and communications equipment, the FAA was ordering all New York City area airports to cease flight operations. Minutes later, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ordered all bridges and tunnels in the new York area closed. The fog of war was thick and officials were left wondering if other airplanes were about to come careening out of the haze like jet-powered artillery shells.
President George W. Bush, who had been speaking to second graders at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, was notified immediately of the unfolding crisis. At 9:30, Bush informed his audience and the nation that America had become a victim of “an apparent terrorist attack.” Ten minutes later, the FAA ordered a historic nationwide grounding of all air traffic. It was clear to many officials, however, that the crisis was far from over. And that fact was driven home at 9:43, when American Airlines Flight 77 plowed through the thick concrete walls of the Pentagon. There were thousands of airplanes still in the air and heading toward airports all over the country. And one of them, a 747 code-named “Night Watch,” had only just taken off and was immediately ordered to cease the military exercise it was conducting and prepare to become the actual national airborne operations center. America was under attack.
snip"As the president was being whisked off to a secure command and control facility at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, the White House began an evacuation of all nonessential personnel. Specific concerns had been relayed by the intelligence community about the potential targeting of the White House and the Capitol building. It was an apparent effort to decapitate the government and sow mass confusion.
Clarke, acting on direct orders from the president and vice president, then initiated the emergency continuity of the government plan, which called for all federal departments to relocate to alternate sites and for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to be moved to a secure location outside of Washington. Although the secretary of defense remained at the Pentagon,
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, was moved to an alternate military command and control center. Shortly thereafter, all ports and border crossings were ordered closed, and all available military fighter aircraft were launched.
For Clarke, most of the morning was spent ensuring that all of the various orders relating to the emergency action plan were being carried out. Members of Clarke’s staff would remain in close contact with the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center. Meanwhile, as the public watched the horrible human tragedy unfold live on television, Clarke, Dick, and their respective staffs were forced to deal with another possibility: that the morning’s attacks could be one phase of a multi-pronged assault that could include attacks against the digital infrastructure of the U.S. economy. If that was the case, then they were staring at the one scenario that had often kept them awake at night.
Across town at the NIPC, Dick summoned his key advisors into an emergency meeting to analyze all available cyber-intelligence. Among those Dick relied on for expert advice were Bob Gerber, a career CIA officer who had been detailed to the NIPC to serve as the agency’s chief of analysis and warning; Navy rear admiral James Plehal, who served as Dick’s deputy and was a key link to the Defense Department establishment; and Les Wiser, the FBI agent responsible for tracking down CIA spy Aldrich Ames. A major cyber-attack now would prove absolutely devastating to the rescue and recovery effort and would almost certainly amplify the sense of fear and uncertainty far away from the epicenter of the main attack in New York. Such an assault had to be stopped at all costs.
But with the crash of hijacked American Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, the fog of war had settled firmly over official Washington. Despite the billions of dollars invested every year in advanced information technology designed to provide key government and military decision-makers with what is known in military parlance as “situation awareness,” the fog of September 11 proved too thick to see through. America’s national security community was thrown off-balance and had lost (in fact, may never have had) the initiative. What should have been an offensive war of maneuver had quickly turned into a reactive war fought from trenches and hardened bunkers.
September 11 was far from over when a small cadre of highly respected national security experts began warning of the potential for the physical attacks to be followed by cyber-attacks.
Marv Langston, the former deputy CIO at the Defense Department, characterized the events during an interview with Computerworld magazine as an act of war and said the country needed to be on alert for what he described as an “electronic Pearl Harbor.” Likewise, retired Air Force Lt. General Al Edmonds, who at one time headed the Defense Information Systems Agency, said he feared a cyber-attack could be next and added that such an event would be “absolutely paralyzing.”
Meanwhile, Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS), which operates the IT industry’s Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), placed its operations center on what it called AlertCon 3 (the highest is AlertCon 4), “in order to focus IT security efforts on the potential for (and defense against) an Internet component to these attacks.” The IT-ISAC was one of several ISACs established in cooperation with the FBI and the NIPC to share information between the government and the private sector about cyber-threats.
In a threat assessment issued to the private sector members of the ISAC, ISS stated, “This is a time to partner all security assets on what is most important to your enterprise. While physical security concerns are paramount, it is essential to keep some eyes on the networks focused on malicious activity. We can expect a significant increase in disaster-recovery activity—plans being activated, dusted off, etc. No doubt the [disaster recovery] industry will be sorely stressed at this point, and it would behoove staffs to consider security as a move to alternate sites is contemplated or enacted.”
At FBI headquarters, the NIPC began what Dick characterized as “harvesting” physical threat information pertaining to critical infrastructures and pushing that data out to thousands of private-sector companies that owned and operated those facilities, such as power plants, telecommunications facilities, water companies, and financial institutions. Dick relied on the FBI’s InfraGard program and the various private-sector-run Information Sharing and Analysis Centers for much of that outreach effort. On September 11, ISACs had already been established in the Financial Services sector, the Electric Power sector, the Telecommunications sector, the Information Technology industry, and the computer software anti-virus industry. In addition, the NIPC would set in motion a daily threat briefing schedule for the Water sector, the Oil and Gas sector, and the Aviation and Railroad sectors.
Accurate and timely information was the only thing that could cut through the fog of war. And the government was doing everything it could to get that information flowing to the right people at the right time."
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Secretary of State Colin Powell was in Lima, Peru, attending a meeting of the Organization of American States when he received word of the attacks. He immediately cut his trip short and boarded
a government aircraft for the seven-hour flight back to Washington. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff understood and appreciated the advantage the U.S. enjoyed over most nations when it came to the advanced electronics and communications capabilities. The former Army General had put his name on various Pentagon war-fighting manuals that outlined the Department’s commitment to what the military called “
network-centric warfare” and “
information superiority.” He had even written an article in Byte Magazine in 1992 titled “Personal Computer Technology May Determine the Outcome of Future Conflicts.” But what really made Powell’s experience on September 11 unique was his understanding and continued devotion to the military’s decision cycle, known as
the OODA loop. OODA is an acronym for the cycle of Observation, Orientation, Decision, and Action. For Powell, it was absolutely critical that he be inside of his counterpart’s or enemy’s loop. But on September 11, Powell got a taste of what communications must have been like for his early nineteenth-century counterparts.
“I never felt more useless in my life than on the morning of the 11th of September,” Powell told members of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) during a meeting held at the State Department on March 13, 2002. For most of the seven-hour return flight,
Powell was unable to communicate with other senior government leaders in Washington. “Phones[were] gone because of what happened here and what happened to the [communications] system here in Washington,” he said. “They couldn’t get a phone line through. I was able to get some radio communications—two radio spots on the way back—but for most of that seven-hour period, I could not tell what was going on here in my capital, and I’m the Secretary of State.”
The implications of the communications failure on September 11 went beyond the seven-hour window during which Powell was unable to communicate with Washington. For Powell, this meant that there was the chance he and his department could be severed from the world again in the future, removing the initiative from America’s diplomatic and foreign policy efforts around the world. “
Power to me now, as Secretary of State, is to be inside of everybody else’s information loop or decision loop,” he told the group of telecommunications experts. “I had called the President of Pakistan last Friday [March 8] to talk some business and just as I was concluding I said ‘I’m sorry to hear about the deaths that occurred in Karachi today.’ And he said, ‘what deaths?’ I’m inside his information loop.”
Read this and more about
cyber-warfare and 9/11, the NIMDA virus and the E911 virus in
my blog entry dated Mar 25 2006 here:
http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/for...amp;&st=300 ***************
“From the day in April 2007 when I [Mark Gaffney] posted my initial research about this on the Internet, the “debunkers of conspiracy theories” have remained conspicuously silent on the matter. I suspect they have avoided the E-4B fly-over because they are nervous about what they might find if they opened Pandora's Box.”
“While my book was in press I received
an email from
a staff member of the 9/11 Commission. The staffer, whose name must remain confidential for the present, was involved in the radar analysis for the official 9/11 investigation. He had formerly worked at the Pentagon. The staffer acknowledged that he
knew about VENUS 77 (and also SWORD 31, a second E-4B that departed from Andrews AFB at 9:26 AM)
but did not investigate either of these command and control flights because he was told by his supervisor, Daniel Marcus, that the US Air Force had already briefed the commissioners about these departures. The staffer assumed the flights had been covered and focused on other issues. Marcus served as the general counsel for the 9/11 Commission and when I contacted him at American University, where he currently teaches law, he confirmed that “sensitive briefings” had indeed taken place. Marcus refused to elaborate, however.
This appears to contradict 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton’s statement to CNN in 2007. During a CNN interview which aired on national television on September 12, 2007, Hamilton stated that his staffers looked into the E-4B fly-over issue, but that it “didn’t rise to the level of a discussion.” Was Hamilton fibbing to CNN? The full story remains to be told.”
http://the911mysteryplane.com/ *********
Google search for “the white mystery plane”http://www.google.com/search?q=the+white+m...tart=0&sa=N *********
"The secretive think-tank MITRE corporation is just one of Lincoln Labs’ 80 spin-off companies. MITRE is a private corporation based in Bedford, MA (with both national and international research sites), and it is a major advanced weapons and intelligence think-tank primarily supported by the USAF. From its inception in 1958, MITRE has been pivotal in the development of
advanced tactical satellite systems in the 1960s and 1970s.252
Entrenched in UAV technologies, MITRE today plays a major role in classified R&D programs for C4IST/R, electronic warfare, intelligence, and tactical missiles and ballistic missile defense (Star Wars) technologies. As noted above, MITRE is frequently partnered -- on major aerospace and intelligence programs -- with some of the most secretive corporations: SAIC, Polexis, Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, General Atomics and Northrup Grumman."
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Dov ZakheimDov Zakheim, prior to his service within the DoD, was affiliated with
System Planning Corporation,
a company who "manufactures a highly sophisticated technology that enables an operator to fly by remote control as many as eight different airborne vehicles at the same time from one position either on the ground or airborne".
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations who joined the PNAC in calling for a restructuring of the Middle East, noting that a Pearl Harbor type of event would be needed to foster public support for their radical foreign policy ideas, he was the fellow who misplaced the trillion dollars from within the Pentagon:
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1047.shtml .
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Of course, there is widely-available information noted by Mike Ruppert and Indira Singh on the interconnection between MITRE, PTECH and PROmis software. See as well
the tale of how future Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff took over the PTECH investigation and buried it. ...
which might explain partially why Ruppert's theory has never been proven.
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005...e-of-ptech.html .
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http://www.senate.gov/~armed_services/stat...711eberhart.pdf.
UNCLASSIFIED
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
UNTIL RELEASED BY THE
SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE STRATEGIC SUBCOMMITTEE
STATEMENT OF
GENERAL RALPH E. EBERHART, USAFCOMMANDER IN CHIEF
NORTH AMERICAN AEROSPACE DEFENSE COMMAND
AND
UNITED STATES SPACE COMMAND
BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE
STRATEGIC SUBCOMMITTEE
11 JULY 2001
UNCLASSIFIED
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
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SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE STRATEGIC SUBCOMMITTEE
Page 2
Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee:
It is an honor to appear before you again representing the outstanding men and women of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Space Command (USSPACECOM).
<snip>
Air Sovereignty.
The traditional NORAD mission of aerospace control, or more specifically airspace sovereignty, remains a fundamental priority. The United States must maintain the radar systems, aircraft and command and control capabilities, which serve as pillars for homeland defense. In addition, we must continue to pursue improved space-based surveillance, intelligence and communications capabilities as essential contributions for NORAD mission success.
Force Enhancement. Our force enhancement efforts over the last decade have helped us "operationalize" space.
Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation satellites and our Satellite Communications (SATCOM) systems are fully integrated into the warfighting capabilities of all our Services and Unified Commands. The readiness of our military forces depends on the modernization of these systems.
GPS has become a way of life for both our military and commercial industry around the world. From precision farming to
financial transactions to surveying remote parts of the earth's surface, every sector of our society relies on the timing and navigation services provided by this system. As a result, we have initiated a modernization program that will provide a more robust anti-jam capability for our warfighters and additional civil signals for aviation, safety-of-life services and other commercial enterprises. We appreciate Congress' continued support in sustaining and modernizing this national resource.
Reliable and secure SATCOM systems are also key to our military's readiness. We continue to exploit our current SATCOM fleet while developing new, technologically advanced systems. Over the past year, we worked with the other Commanders in Chief to revalidate SATCOM requirements. We reaffirmed the need to modernize our capabilities with a blend of military, civil and commercial systems. As we update our satellites, we cannot forget the user terminals. All aspects of SATCOM must be synchronized for maximum utility. We need your continued support to make this critical modernization effort a reality.
Over the past decade, a significant amount of radio frequency spectrum has been reallocated from the DoD to the Federal Communications Commission for auction to the private sector. Our space and air systems depend upon the spectrum to perform our missions. In order to maintain our state of readiness, we need to carefully consider the national security implications of spectrum reallocations. The FY99 Defense Authorization Act restored some of the spectrum previously reallocated. We appreciate Congress' help; however, we face continued requests for expanded non-federal civil and commercial use of this limited spectrum. For instance, there is a proposal being considered to accelerate the reallocation of the Space Ground Link Subsystem frequency, which supports our on-orbit satellite systems. If this proposal is implemented without adequate alternative spectrum for critical military functions, it will limit our ability to effectively command and control our space assets.
<snip>
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Can we put to rest once and for all the debunking meme
“how on earth do you think it is possible to get all those people involved
in a conspiracy of this nature?
Clearly those people who say this have extremely limited (if any) experience working in an emergency operating center, incident command center, military command center or participating in inter-linked multi-center drills and exercises. The atmosphere is chaotic and noisy. Read the literature about tactical decision-making in a crisis (TADMUS) that grew out of the USS Vincennnes incident, or the work on situation awareness by Mica Endsley et al that grew out of the on-runway collision of two large commercial aircraft in the Azores.
One's attention must be narrowly riveted on critical elements, functions, read-outs, and it is very easy for someone else to effect something nefarious without anyone else being aware.
From
Americom:
QUOTE
About National Coordinating Center The National Coordinating Center (NCC) was established in 1984 as a result of a National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) recommendation to develop a joint government-industry national coordinating mechanism to respond to the Federal Government's National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) communications service requirements. Composed of up to
30 industry chief executives representing the major communications and network service providers and information technology, finance, and aerospace companies, the NSTAC provides industry-based advice and expertise to the President on issues and problems related to implementing the NS/EP communications policy. By virtue of its mandate to address NS/EP communications issues, the NSTAC's partnership with government through the National Communications System (NCS) is unique in two ways -
direct industry involvement with both the defense agencies and the civil agencies comprising the NCS; and regular, sustained interaction between industry and the NCS member departments and agencies.
Source:
http://www.americom-gs.com/media/2003/2003-07-17.htmlQUOTE
NCC's goal is to ensure that the government's communications infrastructure is available to make an
immediate and coordinated response to all emergencies, such as natural disasters, domestic terrorism, man-made disasters or cyber attacks. The NCC also functions as an
Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which gathers information about vulnerabilities, threats, intrusions and anomalies from various telecommunications and government sources and analyzes the data to mitigate the effects on the communications infrastructure. This information is ultimately provided to the President of the United States and his national security team.
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The Global Dominance Group9/11 Pre-Warnings & Election Irregularities in Context by Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Celeste Vogler
projectcensored.org (pdf)
QUOTE
This study examines how
interlocking public private partnerships, including the corporate media, public relations firms, military contractors, policy elites, and government officials, jointly support a US military global domination agenda...
(thoroughly referenced)
http://www.projectcensored.org/downloads/G...nance_Group.pdf archive
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOMKdILRM5I warning: this video may have been altered… see the pods under the podium? ****
“…All things considered, the strikes of September 11, 2001, from the perspective of the skyjackers, amount to
a miracle of timing. Let’s start with the timing of appointments of key U.S. personnel.
Part of this topic has been canvassed elsewhere, but a quick overview with the 20-20 of hindsight still comes as something of a shock. Everybody recalls that, among key personnel, Robert Mueller, new Director of the FBI, took his position
one week before 9/11. Former FBI man and the globe’s premier bin Laden nemesis John O’Neill had left the Bureau only
the month before 9/11, taking his final, fatal position as chief of security at the World Trade Center in August 2001. As everyone also knows by now, the first meeting of Principals regarding counterterrorism – that is, the first time Richard Clarke as counterterrorism chief expert for the executive branch was able to meet with heads of pertinent agencies – was also
one week before the attacks, on September 4.
There were other relatively new men in the biggest jobs. The president had announced the appointments of his new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard B. Myers, and of his Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Pete Pace,
on August 24, 2001. A brand new member and Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board was announced on
September 4, 2001, along with other appointments including the new Commissioner of Customs. The new Associate Attorney General of the United States was named on
September 10, 2001.
The heads of the branches of the armed forces were also comparatively new, although they were at least in their respective positions by the date of the strikes; Thomas E. White at Army, Gordon England at Navy, and Thomas Roche at Air Force had been named in May 2001 and took their offices
that summer. A new Assistant Secretary of the Air Force was named on
July 31, among other appointments.
The National Operations Manager at the FAA, Ben Sliney, was in his first day on the job on September 11, 2001. Bush’s Director of Security for the FAA, Mike Canavan, was comparatively speaking an old hand, having taken his job at the end of 2000. (Unfortunately, Canavan was in Puerto Rico on 9/11.)”
www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/6/2088660.html
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Here’s an article on
the destruction of the FAA controller tapes:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?p...y6%C2Found=true “No coverup is complete without the destruction of evidence.”
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Agent Smart: Wait a minute, Chief. If KAOS goes out of business, what happens to us?
Chief: Well, I guess the Control organization would be out of business too. There wouldn't be any need for us.
Agent Smart: Well, maybe we could get together and give KAOS enough money to keep going for a few years.
Chief: Max, that's a ridiculous notion! That would be like the police cooperating with organized crime!
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In exchange for theater tickets and limousine-chauffeured dinner dates, employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey granted no-show jobs to contractors who were supposed to be clearing wreckage from the World Trade Center, according to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. "
We were providing checks for employees that did not exist," the Port Authority's inspector general, Robert Van Etten, said.
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The Total Information Awareness program was ready to roll out before Sept 11, and John Poindexter's office was established in the Pentagon no later than Sept 12.
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"Fifteen minutes after JFK is shot, Dallas Police dispatch an APB for a suspect fitting Lee Harvey Oswald's exact description, although Oswald has neither been implicated nor his weapon found. Moments after 9-11 attack, a scorched passport allegedly belonging to an Islamic hijacker is found near the WTC wreckage. Alleged JFK assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a former CIA operative. Alleged 9-11 mastermind, Osama Bin Ladin, was former CIA operative...”…
“U.S. Navy 'Top Gun' pilot, Commander Ralph Kolstad, started questioning the official account of 9/11 within days of the event... Commander Kolstad is especially critical of the account of American Airlines Flight 77 that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon. He says, "
At the Pentagon, the pilot of the Boeing 757 did quite a feat of flying. [
color="#FF8C00"]I have 6,000 hours of flight time in Boeing 757’s and 767’s and I could not have flown it the way the flight path was described[/color]..."
…
The National Institute for Standards and Technology has been forced to admit that the total free-fall collapse of the twin towers cannot be explained after an exhaustive scientific study, implicitly acknowledging that controlled demolition is the only means by which the buildings could have come down.…
“…the 9/11 Commission’s executive director, Philip Zelikow, engaged in "surreptitious" communications with presidential adviser Karl Rove and other Bush administration officials during the commission’s 20-month investigation into the 9/11 attacks, according to a book entitled The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, written by the individual who led The New York Times’ coverage of the 9/11 panel.” …
“Those who have fully studied the issues and facts concerning 9/11 and the Bush administration's inexplicable coverup and lies understand rationally that
this is not a topic of "conspiracy theory" but instead
a true scandal of serious proportions.
This can no longer be denied.”
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"It wasn't a bipartisan commission; it was more like a bipolar commission." Ray McGovern
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Among the words that do not appear in the 9/11 Commission Report:Building 7, Marvin Bush, Pakistani ISI, John O'Neil, power down, Securacom ****
“Only one force on Earth can directly confront and defeat the U.S. Corporate State and its criminal Government. That force is us, the overwhelming majority of the people in this country.”
-- Don Paul, author, "9/11: Facing Our Fascist State"
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“10-5 the message about the remote controlled plane".
http://killtown.911review.org/buffett.html
