by Paul Craig Roberts –- antiwar.com — June 7, 2005
The U.S. has a vast and very expensive Homeland Security bureaucracy with nothing to do. There hasn’t been a terrorist attack in America since 2001. There has been a vast quantity of terror alerts, the purpose of which was to scare Americans into supporting an unnecessary and illegal aggressive attack on Iraq.
As very few, if any, real terrorists have turned up, the FBI has resorted to creating terrorists by soliciting Muslim-Americans and appealing to them with schemes to aid “jihadists.” Recently, two American citizens were caught in a FBI sting. One, an Ivy League-educated physician, is charged with agreeing to provide medical care to wounded holy warriors in Saudi Arabia. The other, a famous jazz musician, is charged with agreeing to train jihadists in martial arts.
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Greg Gordon, Star Tribune — Washington Bureau Correspondent
June 28, 2005
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Minneapolis FBI agent Coleen Rowley, whose public criticism of the bureau set off an uproar over the FBI’s pre-Sept. 11 counterterrorism lapses, said Monday that she will run as a Democrat for the U.S. House.
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With war worries growing, the president evokes the attacks of 2001 in a speech he hopes will rally support
By Craig Gordon –- Washington Bureau — June 29, 2005
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — In the past, when sagging polls have put President George W. Bush in trouble, he has invoked the event that shaped his presidency to confront critics and rally public support, the Sept. 11 attacks.
He did it again last night, wrapping the Iraq war in the mantle of 9/11 to reject calls for an exit timetable and appeal for patience from an increasingly skeptical public. Never forget “the lessons of September the 11th,” Bush warned, or risk handing victory in Iraq to the likes of Osama bin Laden.
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VERNE GAY — June 29, 2005
There will be no NBC 9/11 miniseries. The network yesterday officially pulled the plug on what promised to be entertainment TV’s most important – and ambitious – look at events leading up to the attacks.
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The “watchlisting issue” has been reported by the media and the 9/11 Commission as a series of benign oversights, a sort of institutional competitiveness gone awry, and/or a gross misunderstanding of evidentiary standards in criminal/intelligence investigations. We disagree. A careful review of the aforementioned footnotes reveals a pattern of behavior during the 18 months immediately preceding the 9/11 attacks that was arguably criminal-in-nature and contributory-in-part to the “catastrophic success” of the 9/11 plot.
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For Immediate Release — June 6, 2005
The 9/11 Commission summer hearing schedule begins today, Monday, June 6, 2005 with “Assessing Progress of CIA and FBI Reform.”
In July 2004, when the 9/11 Commission released its Final Report, we read with enormous interest, Chapter 6 – “From Threat to Threat”, including footnote #44. Footnote #44 details an instance where a CIA desk officer intentionally withheld vital information from the FBI about two of the 9/11 hijackers who were inside the United States. This footnote further states that the CIA desk officer covered-up the decision to withhold said vital information from the FBI. Finally, footnote #44 states that the CIA desk officer could not recall who told her to carry out such acts.
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06.23.2005 Kristen Breitweiser
Mr. Rove, the first thing that I would like to address is Afghanistan – the place that anyone with a true “understanding of 9/11” knows is a nation that actually has a connection to the 9/11 attacks. One month after 9/11, we invaded Afghanistan, took down the Taliban, and left without capturing Usama Bin Laden – the alleged perpetrator of the September 11th attacks. In the meantime, Afghanistan has carried out democratic elections, but continues to suffer from extreme violence and unrest. Poppy production (yes, Karl, the drug trade) is at an all time high, thus flooding the world market with heroin. And of course, the oil pipeline (a.k.a. the Caspian Sea pipeline) is better protected by U.S. troops who now have a “legitimate” excuse to be in that part of Afghanistan. Interesting isn’t it Karl that the drug “rat line” parallels the oil pipeline. (Yet, with all those troops guarding that same sliver of land, can you please explain how those drugs keep getting through?)
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Reuters – June 23, 2005
Relatives of Sept. 11 victims on Thursday called on the CIA to release an internal report that scrutinizes the U.S. spy agency’s counterterrorism efforts prior to the 2001 attacks.
The report by the Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general, which is said to be in its final stages, is expected to be sent in classified form to CIA Director Porter Goss and then to the intelligence oversight committees in Congress later this summer, officials said.
But victims’ relatives, whose lobbying overcame President Bush’s initial resistance to the creation of the Sept. 11 commission, say they intend to step up public pressure on the CIA to release the report publicly.
“There’s information in there that’s supposed to really name some names and finally go for some accountability,” said widow Lorie Van Auken of the group known as the Sept. 11 Advocates, a driving force behind creation of the bipartisan commission that investigated the attacks.
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FOS11 Statement on Comments Made By Karl Rove
Posted at: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Families_of_September_11_tells_Rove_Stop_trying_to_reap_political_gain_from_0623.html
As families whose relatives were victims of the 9/11 terror attacks, we believe it is an outrage that any Democrat, any Republican, any conservative or any liberal, stakes a “high ground” position based upon the September 11th death and destruction. Doing so assumes that all those who died and their loved ones would agree. In truth, some would and some would not. By definition the conduct is divisive and, because it is intended to be self-serving and politicizes 9/11, it is offensive.
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“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for human beings.”
[Our own view is that the Senator should not have apologized for telling the truth about what is happening at Guatanamo, as credibly reported by several eyewitnesses and the prisoners who have been released. 9/11 should not be used as a excuse to throw away rule of law and international agreements which protect prisoners during times of war. -Ed.]
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As important as the Downing Street Minutes and continued pressure on the mainstream media are to revealing the truth to the nation, there is another critically important story that requires our attention and our action — and the clock is ticking away on this one. We have only until the end of July to make a difference and perhaps turn the course of history. Of course, I’m referring to Sibel Edmonds and, after my conversations with her, I felt I should make an effort before time runs out and her witness to significant governmental chicanery is suppressed by the government forever.
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…we need to remember that more unreported information is out there concerning the alleged war on terror and revealing the subversive actions by members of our own government to undermine that conflict in order to protect business and diplomatic relations.
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Sibel Edmonds – An Appeal to the Internet Community
By W. David Jenkins III — June 23, 2005
From: http://www.oldamericancentury.org/dave3_033.htm
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