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CMK: The question was, we had four wargames going on on September 11th, and the question that I tried to pose before the Secretary had to go to lunch was whether or not the activities of the four wargames going on on September 11th actually impaired our ability to respond to the attacks.
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CMK: Let me ask you this, then: who was in charge of managing those wargames?
DH: General, why don’t you give the best answer that you can here in a short a period of time and we’ll – the gentlelady wants to get a written answer anyway, and then we can move on to other folks.
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Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld in House Hearing on FY06 Dept. of Defense Budget
Chairman Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and witnesses Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and JCS Chairman General Richard Myers hold a House Hearing on the FY 2006 Budget for the Department of Defense and Military Services. 3/11/2005: WASHINGTON, DC: 2 hr. 5 min.
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On Thursday, March 10, Rep. Cynthia McKinneym, recently returned to the House for a sixth term, posed several questions to General Myers (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the DoD Comptroller Tina Jones for which none had fully forthcoming answers. The Congresswoman asked about defense contractor Dyncorp involvement in the sex trade, the missing trillions from the DoD (“undocumented adjustments from the late 90′s) and who the contractors were who responsible for accounting at the Pentagon and finally one regarding the war games conducted by the Military coincident with the attacks of September 11th 2001.
These questions were raised during an Armed Services Committee hearing on the FY 2006 Budget for the Department of Defense (3/10/05) – Go to 25:15:00 in video archived at C-SPAN (see link below). Paraphrased Question 1: Why does Dyncorp continue to recieve contracts from the DoD while it engages in the sex trade? Question 2: Who has the contracts for the accounting at the Pentagon where trillions of dollars are missing? Questions 3, 4, 5: Did the four war games occuring on September 11th impair our ability to respond to the attacks? Who was responsible for managing those war games? and was a National Special Security Event declared for 9/11/01?
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True believers – The 9/11 Truth Movement questions our new day of infamy
http://greeleybordc.org/colorado911/boulderweekly.html
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The Colorado 9/11 Truth Activists strike again. Only 1 month, after their worldwide famous cover story on the Boulder Weekly, they made another cover, this time on the Rocky Mountain Bullhorn.
http://greeleybordc.org/colorado911/rockymtnbullhorn.html
By Peter Phillips
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A threshold concept facing Americans is the possibility that the 9/11 Commission Report was on many levels a cover-up for the failure of the US government to prevent the tragedy. Deeper past the threshold is the idea that the report failed to address sources of external assistance to the terrorists. Investigations into this area might have lead to a conclusion that elements of various governments – including our own – not only knew about the attacks in advance, but also may have helped facilitate their implementation. The idea that someone in the Government of the United States contributed support to such a horrific attack is inconceivable to many. It is a threshold concept that is so frightening that it brings up a state of mind akin to complete unbelievability.
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Afghanistan now nearly ‘a narcotics state’
White House report cites record opium cultivation
The Associated Press — Updated: 9:48 p.m. ET March 4, 2005
WASHINGTON – More than three years after a pro-U.S. government was installed, Afghanistan has been unable to contain opium poppy production and is “on the verge of becoming a narcotics state,” according to a presidential report.
The report said the area in Afghanistan devoted to poppy cultivation last year set a new record of 206,700 hectares, more than triple the figure for 2003.
The Afghan narcotics situation, “represents an enormous threat to world stability, said the report, issued Friday.
It listed opium production at 4,950 metric tons, 17 times more than second place Myanmar.
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[Zelikow, to some the most conflicted of the entire Commission staff, was asked to resign by the 9/11 Family Steering Committee. 9/11 CitizensWatch was the first to call for his resignation - KFH]
Rice Chooses Her ‘Counselor’
by John F. McManus — March 5, 2005
Philip Zelikow, a former close associate of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, has been reunited with her and will serve as her senior adviser at the State Department.
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Will a former FBI translator finally get to tell us what she knows about 9-11?
by James Ridgeway — March 4th, 2005 1:51 PM — Mondo Washington
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Against all odds, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds’s campaign to speak openly about what she knows regarding 9-11 and the FBI is moving forward—inch-by-inch.
Edmonds, who was born in Iran and grew up in Turkey, is fluent in several languages, among them, Turkish and Farsi. She was hired by the FBI in the hectic aftermath of 9-11 and given top secret security clearance. Almost immediately she was struck by the bizarre activities in the FBI’s translation department. Interpreters were dispatched to Guantanamo to translate interviews with prisoners, but the translators couldn’t speak the languages they were asked to translate. She learned of reports within the bureau relating the story of a long-trusted FBI asset in the Middle East, who first reported bin Laden’s plans for an attack in April 2001. She came across activities which she thought might involve active espionage within the bureau.
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Edmonds testified Wednesday before Congress, telling a House subcommittee that the government seems “to be far more concerned with avoiding accountability than protecting our national security.”
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By Andrew Zajac — The Chicago Tribune — Thursday 03 March 2005
National security cited against challenges to anti-terror tactics.
Washington – The Bush administration is aggressively wielding a rarely used executive power known as the state secrets privilege in an attempt to squash hard-hitting court challenges to its anti-terrorism campaign.
How the White House is using this privilege, not a law but a series of legal precedents built on national security, disturbs some civil libertarians and open-government advocates because of its sweeping power. Judges almost never challenge the government’s assertion of the privilege, and it can be fatal to a plaintiff’s case.
The government is invoking the privilege in an attempt to wipe out the heart of a lawsuit that seeks to examine rendition, the secretive and controversial practice of sending terror suspects to foreign countries where they might be tortured.
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By Chris Strohm — GovExec.com — DAILY BRIEFING March 4, 2005
cstrohm@govexec.com
A former member of the 9/11 commission this week called on the administration to revise a report on aviation security before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks so it does not contain redacted sections.
The third staff report from the 9/11 commission was released by the administration last month, even though it was completed in August. Parts of the report, however, were redacted, making it the only part of the commission’s work that was not released in its entirety.
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On-the-Record: Representative Cynthia McKinney Rocks Rumsfeld on War Games
By Michael Kane – March 1, 2005
[Phones started ringing early on the morning of February 16th. Representative Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, newly returned to Capitol Hill for her sixth term as a member of Congress was, within minutes, going into a House hearing on the Defense Appropriations bill and she was going in loaded for bear… or goose, depending on one’s viewpoint. She asked me how quickly I could email select documents establishing that as many as five wargames were simultaneously underway on the morning of Sept. 11th, 2001.
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