Arnaud de Borchgrave – Newsmax.com — Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2004
The Sept. 11 Commission has found troubling new evidence that Iran was closer to al-Qaida than was Iraq. More importantly, and through no fault of its own, the commission missed the biggest prize of all: Former Pakistani intelligence officers knew beforehand all about the September 11 attacks.
They even advised Osama bin Laden and his cohorts how to attack key targets in the United States with hijacked civilian aircraft. And bin Laden has been undergoing periodic dialysis treatment in a military hospital in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province adjacent to the Afghan border.
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by James Ridgeway — Mondo Washington
Old info: It didn’t do any good before 9-11. It’s no good as an excuse for the new terror alert.
To read article go to:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0431/mondo4.php
The word from the whistleblower herself:
I am told that CBS-60 Minutes will be re-aired this Sunday, August 8.
Sibel
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This re-airing of an earlier segment was supposed to have aired earlier but Reagon’s death led to its being postponed. Let’s hope it will air this time. Tune in! And make some noise about it. The Commission ignored her serious charges. They make be held to account for their failure to address all of our questions!
‘Undefended’: A senator finally takes the government to task over the 9-11 findings
by James Ridgeway — Mondo Washington — August 2nd, 2004
At long last, one member of the U.S. Senate has spoken out about the 9-11 report. Last Friday, during a Governmental Affairs committee meeting, Mark Dayton, a Democrat from Minnesota, directly attacked the government for distorting facts and covering up what happened that day. Highlights of his narrative:
– Referring to the period between the first hijacking, at 8:14 a.m. and the crash of the fourth plane, at 10:03 a.m., Dayton said: “During those entire 109 minutes, to my reading of this report, this country and its citizens were completely undefended.”
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[ED. note: Please be sure to read the stories posted earlier today from Allan Duncan and James Ridgeway of the Village Voice. Could our own government have let terrorists walk free -- the very same who cased buildings now reportedly 'under threat'?]
Officials Not Sure Al Qaeda Continued To Spy on Buildings
By Dan Eggen and Dana Priest — Washington Post
Tuesday, August 3, 2004; Page A01
Most of the al Qaeda surveillance of five financial institutions that led to a new terrorism alert Sunday was conducted before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and authorities are not sure whether the casing of the buildings has continued, numerous intelligence and law enforcement officials said yesterday.
More than half a dozen government officials interviewed yesterday, who declined to be identified because classified information is involved, said that most, if not all, of the information about the buildings seized by authorities in a raid in Pakistan last week was about three years old, and possibly older.
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by James Ridgeway — Mondo Washington — April 21st, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the 9-11 Commission convenes its two-day public hearing at the New School in Manhattan on May 18, it will be under pressure from the survivor families to find out why the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force was napping when a so-called tourist from the Middle East with a phony passport, phony visa, and non-existent address was breezing around Lower Manhattan, taking pics of cop posts, security cameras, and federal buildings. A federal property police officer got suspicious and detained the man, but the FBI let him go after determining wrongly, as it turned out that he was on the up and up.
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[Please read cluster of articles posted today -- including the Ridgeway piece and the Washington Post expose on evidence yesterday's alert was based on old intelligence. Thanks to Allan Duncan for connecting the dots!]
By Allan P. Duncan — OpEdNews.Com — April 11, 2004
Last week during her testimony before the 9-11 Commission, Condoleeza Rice was asked about the President’s Daily Brief that was given to President Bush on August 6, 2001 . Rice indicated that the PDB was an “historical assessment,” and not a rundown of a current threat.
I disagree.
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August 1, 2004
Thomas Kean, Chairman
National Committee on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
301 7th Street, SW
Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407
Dear Chairman Kean:
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Unfortunately, I find your report seriously flawed in its failure to address serious intelligence issues that I am aware of, which have been confirmed, and which as a witness to the commission, I made you aware of. Thus, I must assume that other serious issues that I am not aware of were in the same manner omitted from your report.
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Considering what is at stake, our national security, we are entitled to demand answers to unanswered questions, and to ask for clarification of issues that were ignored and/or omitted from the report.
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Associated Press — Aug. 1, 2004, 1:47AM
WASHINGTON – The Sept. 11 commission, seeking to build momentum for its proposed intelligence reforms, is setting out on a nationwide campaign next week that members believe can be key to promoting change in a presidential election year.
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By Bev Conover
Online Journal Editor & Publisher
July 26, 2004—Everyone is to blame and no one is to blame, according to the twisted logic of the 9-11 Whitewash Commission.
So who is talking about logic in this Bushwellian land? Surely not the 9-11 victims’ families, who were bought off for an average of $2 million each, that are patting themselves on the back for forcing the Bushies to set up this travesty of a commission, comprised of handpicked cronies.
Having spent several hours—hours that could have been better used—going through the 567-page “report,” we agree with Kurt Nimmo that it is a “fantasy novel.”
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