- NH resident Ellen Mariani filed a racketeering suit in Pennsylvania District Court yesterday (11/26/03) against the Bush team in the biggest legal bombshell to fall thus far. If this historic case is accepted by the court and she wins subpeona power, a whole new world of secrets may suddenly heave into view.
Since the press still won’t touch it, we offer the basic facts in the case in Mariani’s open letter to the president below.
See also Press Release at http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0311/S00261.htm and a full copy of the complaint is available at http://nancho.net/911/mariani.html
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by John Judge
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
(This is part II, click here for part I) The Joint Inquiry by Congress was admittedly restricted in scope to questions of intelligence response and failures prior to the attack, with recommendations for the future. That study failed to address the events of 9/11 in any depth, the complete background of the suspects, and the advance warnings from foreign intelligence. Their investigation did unearth serious failures of communication and collaboration between different agencies tasked to counter terror, despite that fact that all put it at very high priority. They also revealed possible involvement or support by other countries in the attack, but the Administration blocked public release of that section of the report. They revealed instances in which direct warnings and recommendations by FBI agents to begin investigation and surveillance of terrorists and flight schools went unheeded at higher levels. Despite their recommendations for additional consolidation and funding for intelligence agencies, their premise defining 9/11 as an “intelligence failure” is still open to question. The Joint Inquiry also failed to fully explore the interconnection of US intelligence-led covert operations in Afghanistan and the creation of Al Qa’ida and support for bin Laden, or the international intelligence support for bin Laden by US allies up to the time of the attack. Ties between Bush family members, their investments and the bin Laden family, including those who financed Al Qa’ida were not explored, despite their implications regarding former CIA DCI and President George H.W. Bush and his son who is currently President.
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