February 24, 2005
From the Desk of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton:
Dear Friends and Supporters:
Recently, I’ve received feedback from some of you that the use of bullet points is causing formatting errors in the Weekly Update, making it difficult to read. Hopefully this new format will do the trick.
Here are this week’s headlines…
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JW Files Two New Lawsuits
As usual, our legal department has been very busy this week. Here is a brief summary of two lawsuits filed over the past few days:
Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense for withholding a video(s) that allegedly shows United Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The Pentagon claims it cannot release the video because it is “part of an ongoing investigation involving Zacarias Moussaoui,” but this is a specious argument. Moussaoui already pled guilty in April 2005 for conspiring with al Qaida to fly planes into U.S. buildings.
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With permission of Utah State Valley College, we are proud to offer Professor Jones’ lecture entitled, “9/11 Revisited: Ethical and Scientific Questions” on DVD! The lecture, presented at UVSC on February 1, 2006, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics, addresses Jones’ scientific research into the possibility that pre-planted explosives toppled the World Trade Center towers as opposed to the widely-held belief that airplane crashes and fire triggered the
collapses.
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BYU physics professor said a group he co-founded will ask for a Watergate-style special federal prosecutor to look into unanswered questions surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Steven E. Jones gave a presentation at Brigham Young University on Thursday about his theory that World Trade Center Building 7 was destroyed by controlled demolition rather than a terrorist attack. Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which Jones co-founded, is putting together a list of questions and will ask for a special prosecutor like the one used to probe the Watergate scandal, he said.
“Remember, I’m not alone anymore. I’ve got over 100 plus,” he said, referring to the jump in membership in the Scholars group from about 40 to more than 140 since he spoke at Utah Valley State College on Feb. 1.
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Alex Massiein, Washington, D.C.
NEOCONSERVATISM has failed the United States and needs to be replaced by a more realistic foreign policy agenda, according to one of its prime architects.
Francis Fukuyama, who wrote the best-selling book The End of History and was a member of the neoconservative project, now says that, both as a political symbol and a body of thought, it has “evolved into something I can no longer support”. He says it should be discarded on to history’s pile of discredited ideologies.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=266122006
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By WERTHER
http://www.counterpunch.org/werther02182006.html
The events of September 11, 2001 evoke painful memories, tinged with a powerful nostalgia for the way of life before it happened. The immediate tragedy caused a disorientation sufficient to distort the critical faculties in the direction of retrospectively predictable responses: bureaucratic adaptation, opportunism, profiteering, kitsch sentiment, and mindless sloganeering.
As 9/11, and the report of the commission charged to investigate it, fade into history like the Warren Commission that preceded it, the questions, gaps, and anomalies raised by the report have created an entire cottage industry of amateur speculation–as did the omissions and distortions of the Warren Report four decades ago. How could it not?
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http://www.communitycurrency.org/Feb23.html
Thursday, February 23rd
Grand Lake Theater in Oakland
Sponsored by the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance
Hosted by: Janette MacKinlay, 9/11 survivor, Speaking on “Art to Activism”
Door Open at 6:00 p.m.
Program begins at 7:00 p.m.
Reception & distribution of activist kits 9:00 p.m.
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/19/194633/395
This link-rich post focus on Lt. Col Shaffer’s testimony before two sub-committees of the House Armed Services, the corruption of the 9/11 Commission, and questions still unanswered concerning the attacks of 9/11.
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From Kevin Barrett khidria@merr.com:
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Pravda Prints 9/11 Truth–Will Americans Be the Last to Know?
During the Cold War, Pravda (“truth”) was an ironic name. Today, the US corporate media is as ruthlessly controlled as the Soviet media ever was–for a rare exception, see next item–and, irony of ironies, Pravda is telling US the truth about the 9/11 hoax that engineered American Stalinism:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/16-02-2006/76020-terorrism-0
Mainstream US Newspaper Publishes Call to 9/11 Truth Insurrection
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/guest/index.php?ntid=72574
If you like this column let them know at:
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letter/letter_form.php
Tomorrow 2/20/06: Presidents’ Day March For Truth in N.Y.C.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/332307.shtml
Things You Can Do NOW:
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An Open Letter to Eliot Spitzer from 9/11 CitizensWatch regarding the NY Attorney General’s Complicity in Cover-up of key Intelligence regarding the attacks of September 11th 2001.
February 17, 2006
Dear Mr. Spitzer,
I learned during a Congressional hearing before two sub-committees of the Armed Service Committee this past Wednesday (hear audio at http://www.abledangerblog.com) that you had acted in such a way as to allow the #2 at the your office, your Deputy Dietrich Snell, a former 9/11 Commission counsel, to avoid having to answer questions as to his role in the 9/11 Commission’s failure and/or refusal to disclose details about the Able Danger counter-terrorist program either to the 9/11 Commissioners or in the 9/11 Report itself.
According to Stephen Cambone, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, who gave testimony before the Armed Services sub-committeess, there were five witnesses who said the program had identified Mohamed Atta by name and/or photo over a year before the attacks. According to Rep. Weldon an Able Danger chart created over a year before 9/11 showing a photo of Atta was presented by Representatives Weldon, Burton and Shays to Stephen Hadley, then Deputy to National Security Advisor Condi Rice, on September 25, 2001. On July 12, 2004 Dieter Snell met one of the Able Danger team members and witnesses, the actual hands-on head of the operation, Capt. Scott Phillpott, who told him that Able Danger had identified and planned offensive operations against four of the eventual 19 hijackers as part of what they called the “Brooklyn Cell.” According to Lt. Col Shaffer Dietrich Snell said, “What do you want me to do with this information, we go to print in 10 days?”
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Judge rules in favor of civil liberties group in Freedom of Information case
Reuters — Updated: 2:53 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2006
WASHINGTON – A federal judge Thursday ordered the Justice Department to respond within 20 days to requests by a civil liberties group for documents about President Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program.
The ruling was a victory for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which sued the department under the Freedom of Information Act in seeking the release of the documents.
U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled that the department must finish processing the group’s requests and produce or identify all records within 20 days.
“Given the great public and media attention that the government’s warrantless surveillance program has garnered and the recent hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the public interest is particularly well served by the timely release of the requested documents,” he said.
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