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Originally posted by Cassius666
What position did those goverment officials hold ?
Graham is no flake. He was a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 10 years (including 18 months as chairman), member of the CIA External Advisory Board, chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, 18-year U.S. senator, two-term governor of Florida, co-chair of the national commission on the BP oil spill, and member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Lieberman also received the strong support of former Senator and Democratic stalwart Bob Kerrey, who offered to stump for him
The Saudis would benefit greatly not only from the targeting of their nemesis al-Qaeda, but from an American invasion of Iraq, one that they had promoted after the first Gulf War. Dick Cheney would guarantee Prince Bandar that America was going to invade Iraq months before anyone informed the U.S. Congress.
Blackwater Director Let 9/11 Hijackers into US, then Killed, Tortured the Remaining Witnesses
This is...a good time for the country to make some assessments of the 9/11 Commission. Recent revelations from the military intelligence operation code-named "Able Danger" have cast light on a missed opportunity that could have potentially prevented 9/11. Specifically, Able Danger concluded in February 2000 that military experts had identified Mohamed Atta by name...as an al Qaeda agent operating in the U.S. Subsequently, military officers assigned to Able Danger were prevented from sharing this critical information with FBI agents. Why? The Able Danger intelligence, if confirmed, is undoubtedly the most relevant fact of the entire post-9/11 inquiry. Even the most junior investigator would immediately know that the name and photo ID of Atta in 2000 is precisely the kind of tactical intelligence the FBI has many times employed to prevent attacks and arrest terrorists. Yet the 9/11 Commission inexplicably concluded that it "was not historically significant." This astounding conclusion--in combination with the failure to investigate Able Danger and incorporate it into its findings--raises serious challenges to the commission's credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the commission historically insignificant itself.
Note: This amazingly blunt article is written by former FBI Director Louis Freeh! It is a valuable, critical summary of the twists and turns of the Pentagon's Able Danger
Sibel Edmonds, a 32-year-old Turkish-American, was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired less than a year later in March 2002 for reporting shoddy work and security breaches to her supervisors that could have prevented those attacks.
At Least 7 of the 9/11
Hijackers are Still Alive/
Originally posted by The_Seeker
No longer believe anything they say anymore. US Gov is blaming everyone for the 9 /11 attacks. They are now using it as an excuse to create war with other countries. I mean really how many countries are they going to keep accusing the 9/11 attacks on. Next they will be telling us the Aussies were involved.... Just over it...
Originally posted by Cosmic911
reply to post by desert
desert,
All of 9/11 stinks. I hate to admit it, but a lot of people/nations benefited from those attacks. It's disgusting but its true. I'm not a hardcore conspiracy theorist but the evidence of a conspiracy is substantial and overwhelming. Bush needed his war; he needed a reason to invade Iraq. Unfortunately America was blinded with rage and vengeance that no of us saw the deception the American government pulled off. Not a single hijacker was Iraqi, nor were there any resources or monies traced back to Hussein. All the major intelligence agencies knew who the hijackers were, knew that they were living in this country. We knew they had a plan. And we sat by...because, Bush, like President Johnson before him, needed his war. How else could terrorists pull off an attack against a super-power nation that spends over $700 billion dollars on its defense budget. They lied to us about WMD's. Hell, "Scooter" Libby outed CIA agent Valerie Plame because the administration didn't appreciate her husband's (joe wilson) assessment or article, "What I Didn't Find in Africa."
Let's see who the scum bags were in this case....Attorney General Ashcroft, President Bush (who commuted his conviction/charges/jail time), Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Vice Pres Cheney, etc. Even the civil suit was dismissed.
Disgusting...pure and simple.
Originally posted by NorEaster
Originally posted by Cassius666
What position did those goverment officials hold ?
Senators. One from Kansas and one from Florida. Read the press release. Google their names.
Originally posted by Rafe_
reply to post by Immune
Yeah lets ignore the fact that there were mainly saudis identified as the highjackers, lets ignore the fact that there has been suspicions towards saudis from the start ,lets ignore the fact that the saudis killed all our friends ,family ,brothers and sisters...
..because you want to top of your car.
Well do not worry because if they did it then it has been ignored all along.
And B.laden has denied doing it since day 1.
Originally posted by Alfie1
I agree with much you say but does it not seem odd to you that if the US administration, or
parts thereof, were involved in implementing 9/11 or even letting it happen no Iraqi
connections were found despite trying ?
It seems to me likely that Bush junior wanted to tackle Iraq from day one in office but 9/11
didn't help him at all. The links to Afghan terror training camps and public anger required
action against Afghanistan which was really an unwanted diversion from dealing with Iraq.
As you know, the invasion of Iraq had to wait and was subsequently based on non-compliance
with UN resolutions and suspected wmd.
Originally posted by MaxBlack
Anytime two former Senators from previous administrations in Washington make such an allegation, well, it raises my eyebrows, because such an implication leaves out any information about why these two former Senators waited so long to say anything and if they were not allowed to say anything, how about some discussion about why after so many years in silence have they come forth to speak the so called truth?
Originally posted by NorEaster
I just watched a former CIA agent on MSNBCs Hardball claiming that the word has been that the Bush WH shut down the investigations to prevent a rift with the Saudi Royal Family as they were planning the invasion of Iraq.
WASHINGTON -- Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that relationship, Senator Bob Graham wrote in a book to be released Tuesday. The discovery of the financial backing of the two hijackers "would draw a direct line between the terrorists and the government of Saudi Arabia, and trigger an attempted coverup by the Bush administration," the Florida Democrat wrote.