[Peace] [Sdas] Fwd: What Bush Knew When the Terrorists Flew (fwd)

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> Subject: What Bush Knew When the Terrorists Flew
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:15:51 -0700 (PDT)
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> Statement by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
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> May 16, 2002
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> Several weeks ago, I called for a congressional
> investigation into what warnings the Bush
> Administration received before the terrorist attacks of
> September 11, 2001. I was derided by the White House,
> right wing talk radio, and spokespersons for the
> military-industrial complex as a conspiracy theorist.
> Even my patriotism was questioned because I dared to
> suggest that Congress should conduct a full and
> complete investigation into the most disastrous
> intelligence failure in American history. Georgia
> Senator Zell Miller even went so far as to characterize
> my call for hearings as "dangerous, loony and
> irresponsible."
>
> Today's revelations that the administration, and
> President Bush, were given months of notice that a
> terrorist attack was a distinct possibility points out
> the critical need for a full and complete congressional
> investigation. It now becomes clear why the Bush
> Administration has been vigorously opposing
> congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has
> been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. If committed
> and patriotic people had not been pushing for
> disclosure today's revelations would have been hidden
> by the White House.
>
> Because I love my country, because I am a patriot, and
> because the American people deserve the truth, I
> believe it would be dangerous, loony and irresponsible
> not to hold full congressional hearings on any warnings
> the Bush Administration had before the terrorist
> attacks of September 11, 2001. Ever since I came to
> Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying
> to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and
> shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down
> and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished
> truth is placed before the American people.
>
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> The Terrorists Flew and Bush Knew
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> By William Rivers Pitt
>
> t r u t h o u t | 16 May, 2002
>
> When Andrew Card interrupted the 298th reading of 'The
> Very Hungry Caterpillar' by whispering words of fire
> and death into the ear of George W. Bush as he sat with
> schoolchildren on September 11th, 2001, Mr. Bush's face
> betrayed not a hint of surprise and shock. Now, we know
> why.
>
> Governor Jeb Bush of Florida signed Executive Order No.
> 01-261 on September 7th, 2001, renewing an order signed
> six months earlier that allowed the National Guard to
> be called out in case of emergency. On September 11th,
> he used this order to command members of the National
> Guard into active service and essentially declared
> martial law in Florida. When informed of the attacks in
> New York and Washington, Governor Bush responded, "Was
> it the terrorists?" Now, we know why.
>
> On the eve of his first State of the Union speech,
> George W. Bush along with Vice President Cheney
> contacted Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and asked
> him to soft-pedal any Congressional investigations into
> the September 11th attacks. The requests were little
> more than thinly veiled threats. Now, we know why.
>
> Virtually every news outlet is buzzing today with the
> newest revelation: Bush had been warned in the months
> before 9/11 of Al Qaida terrorist plans to hijack
> airplanes. The White House response to this thunderclap
> has been predictably muted: "The administration, based
> on hijackings, notified the appropriate agencies," said
> Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. He did not deign to
> reveal which agencies were alerted, nor did he specify
> the content of the warning. Jose Juves, spokesman for
> the Massachusetts Port Authority, the state agency
> responsible for security at Boston's Logan Airport,
> stated in today's Boston Globe, "The Federal government
> never handed down any intelligence regarding
> hijackings." The two airplanes that destroyed the World
> Trade Center towers came from Logan. Someone is lying.
>
> Fleischer has described the warnings as having been
> regarding "hijackings in the traditional sense," and
> that no one in the administration could have conceived
> of a plot to turn commercial airlines into suicide
> bombs. This does not defray the substance of the
> central question: If Bush heard the words 'Al Qaida'
> and 'hijackings in America' in the same sentence, why
> did he fail to substantially augment airline security
> across the nation? He and his people did not need to
> conjure images of 9/11 before the actual event to
> understand that avoiding terrorist hijackings within
> the continental United States was of paramount
> importance under any circumstances. Besides, one
> protects an airplane from getting hijacked in the same
> way one protects an airplane from becoming a fuel-air
> bomb.
>
> The warnings delivered to Mr. Bush regarding Al Qaida
> plans to hijack American airplanes did not occur in a
> vacuum. FBI agents in Phoenix issued warnings in the
> summer of 2001 about suspicious Arab men receiving
> aviation training in American flight schools. The
> warning was never followed up. An agent in the Arizona
> field office commented in his case notes that Zacarias
> Moussaoui, arrested in August after suspicious activity
> at one of these flight schools, seemed like a man
> capable of flying airplanes into the World Trade
> Center.
>
> Newspapers in Germany, France, Russia and London
> reported in the months before September 11th of a
> blizzard of warnings delivered to the Bush
> administration from all points on the compass. The
> German intelligence service BND warned American and
> Israeli agencies that terrorists were planning to
> hijack commercial aircraft and use them as weapons to
> attack important American targets. Egypt warned of a
> similar plane-based plot against Bush during the G-8
> summit in Genoa last June, a warning taken so seriously
> that anti-aircraft batteries were placed around
> Columbus Airport in Italy. Last August, Russian
> intelligence services notified the CIA that 25
> terrorist pilots had been trained for suicide missions,
> and Putin himself confirmed that this warning was
> delivered "in the strongest possible terms"
> specifically regarding threats to airports and
> government buildings. In that same month, the Israeli
> security agency Mossad issued a warning to both the FBI
> and CIA that up to 200 bin Laden followers were
> planning a major assault on America, aimed at
> vulnerable targets. The Los Angeles Times later
> confirmed via unnamed US officials that the Mossad
> warnings had been received.
>
> On September 16th, 2001, Vice President Cheney gave an
> interview to Tim Russert on the NBC news program 'Meet
> the Press.' In the course of the interview, the
> following exchange took place:
> "MR. RUSSERT: Were you surprised by the precision and
> sophistication of the operation?
> VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, certainly, we were surprised
> in the sense that, you know, there had been information
> coming in that a big operation was planned, but that's
> sort of a trend that you see all the time in these
> kinds of reports. But we didn't...
> MR. RUSSERT: No specific threat?
> VICE PRES. CHENEY: No specific threat involving really
> a domestic operation or involving what happened,
> obviously, the cities, airliner and so forth. We did go
> on alert with our overseas forces a number of times
> during the course of the summer when we thought the
> threat level had risen significantly. So clearly, we
> were surprised by what happened here."
>
> Cheney's claim that no threats had been leveled against
> domestic targets "involving what happened" stands in
> stark contrast to the warnings received from foreign
> intelligence services regarding suicide pilots,
> aircraft and important American buildings. Furthermore,
> Ari Fleischer's claim that no one in the administration
> could have conceived of any hijackings beyond the
> "traditional" kind stumbles across these same warnings.
>
> Conspiracy-minded Americans have taken as an article of
> faith the idea that the Bush administration and the CIA
> knew full well that the 9/11 attacks were coming, and
> allowed them to happen for personal and political gain.
> Though largely circumstantial in nature, these claims
> do have some definite substance. It cannot be denied
> that Bush has enjoyed phenomenal support from the
> American people since the attacks, and political
> opponents who were ready to take his policies apart
> last August have been cowed into silence for months
> now.
>
> Bush has personally used 9/11 to earn laughs at the
> expense of the dead, and to make some fast cash for the
> Republican Party. On no less than eight occasions, Bush
> has made his "trifecta" joke before fawning GOP
> audiences. Based on a reported campaign 2000 promise
> that he would not raid social security or enter deficit
> spending unless the rise of war, recession or national
> emergency, Bush has since 9/11 remarked that he "hit
> the trifecta" and was safe to crack open the taxpayer
> piggy bank. The joke never failed to earn laughs from
> the crowd. It was recently revealed that the GOP was
> selling photos of Bush's activities on September 11th
> as a fundraising gimmick, an act that Al Gore has
> labeled "disgraceful."
>
> The idea that Bush allowed 9/11 to happen for his own
> gain is difficult to swallow, and even more difficult
> to prove. As things stand today, however, the evidence
> and information in hand is damning enough. The Bush
> administration was repeatedly warned by foreign
> intelligence services of immediate threats via aircraft
> to American targets. FBI agents in Phoenix had more
> evidence in hand, which was ignored. Bush himself was
> warned of Al Qaida hijack threats, but failed to
> augment airline security. Vice President Cheney lied on
> national television about having received these
> warnings, and Ari Fleischer has been bolstering this
> lie with many of his own since the story broke. Add
> this to already-existing reports that the
> administration stood down its anti-terrorism forces
> many months ago out of concern that such investigative
> activities might offend a variety of oil-rich nations.
> This stand-down came on the eve of the conclusion of a
> major deal involving a natural gas pipeline through the
> Subcontinent that was sponsored by Unocal.
>
> This much is certain: The Bush administration, the FBI,
> and the CIA failed utterly to act upon readily
> available warnings regarding September 11th. Bush
> himself owns this failure. Not only must he answer for
> this, but he must also become the Number One Advocate
> for a far-reaching Congressional investigation into the
> attacks, and into the failure of his administration and
> its intelligence services to address the threat. He
> must stop making jokes about trifectas, and he must
> stop selling photographs of himself depicting the
> moment of his greatest shame. Thousands of Americans
> are dead, thousands of civilians in Afghanistan are
> dead, and thousands more may follow in Iraq. Now, we
> know why.
>
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> purposes.)
>
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