The most haunting image I remember from September 11, 2001, is watching people prefer to jump to their deaths out the holes in the building made by the airplanes rather than be burned alive.
Then I remember that Congress was quick to grant the President authorization to use military force against “those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”
But Congress didn’t want to know who they were. For the longest time it resisted opening any sort of inquiry into what happened that fateful day.
Former federal air marshal Bogdan Dzakovic has firsthand knowledge of how the airplanes were hijacked.
Prior to 9/11, his job as leader of the Federal Aviation Adminstration’s “Red Team” was to penetrate airport security in simulated hijackings. His team succeeded 90% of the time in finding weaknesses in airport and airline security which would allow hijackers to smuggle weapons aboard aircraft and seize control of airplanes, he says. But his team’s reports were ignored and suppressed. Just after 9/11, the Red Team was shut down.
“FAA had the moniker of ‘Tombstone Agency,’ and the reason they had that moniker is they never did anything until people got killed,” Dzakovic said.
“We went through official channels through FAA, but because we were rocking the boat, because we didn’t support the tombstone mentality, we were ostracized, and they didn’t do anything,” Dzakovic said. “We went to the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Transportation; they didn’t do anything. We then went to the General Accounting Office, to the aviation section; they didn’t do anything. We started going to individual members of Congress that are on the various committees that oversaw FAA and the aviation industry; they didn’t do anything.
“Two weeks after 9/11, I decided to file a whistleblower case with the Office of Special Counsel because some Congressional staff members that I had been dealing with said that Congress will do everything they can to make sure that there is not an investigation into the September 11 attacks.
“In February 2003, the Office of Special Counsel sent a letter to the President regarding my case saying, among other things, that FAA executed its aviation security mission in a manner that was ‘a substantial and specific danger to public safety.’”
For blowing the whistle on poor aviation security, Dzakovic was reassigned to an entry-level desk job in the newly formed Transportation Security Administration.
The Bush administration also resisted the creation of an independent commission to investigate the terrorist attacks. But after months of public outcry, the 9/11 Commission, chock full of apparent conflicts of interest, was created.
Dzakovic got to testify at the 9/11 Commission, once it was finally established, but all of his testimony was omitted from the Commission’s report, and only a single footnote mentions that he had even been there.
“The Red Team was extraordinarily successful in killing large numbers of innocent people in these simulated attacks,” he told the commissioners. “We breached security up to 90 percent of the time. The FAA suppressed these warnings. Instead, we were ordered not to write up our reports and not to retest airports where we found particularly egregious vulnerabilities, to see if the problems had been fixed. Finally, the agency started providing advance notification of when we would be conducting our ‘undercover’ tests and what we would be ‘checking.’
“What happened on 9/11 was not a failure in the system. Our airports are not safer now than before 9/11. The main difference between then and now is that life is now more miserable for passengers. . . .
“Since 9/11, I learned to have less contempt for the terrorists than I do for the bureaucrats and politicians who could have prevented 9/11 but didn’t,” he told me. “They served in very pivotal positions of influence but due to gross incompetence or the fear of actually fulfilling their oaths of office to defend this country or possibly even something a bit more sinister, they failed to take any action. After 9/11, they all scurried into their little rat holes and waited for the firestorm to burn itself out. Then they crawled out and suddenly they are experts in aviation security.
“Many of the FAA bureaucrats that actively thwarted improvements in security prior to 9/11 have been promoted by FAA or the Transportation Security Administration. I have never in my life been around more gutless, inept and outright ignorant people than I have at TSA headquarters, most of whom are in management. You combine this atmosphere with absolutely no accountability and it is a very dangerous formula for a repeat of 9/11.
“There are so many obvious holes in the system that are not being closed, it is very scary. And what’s worse is that they are not being closed for the exact same reasons that they weren’t closed leading up to 9/11. It’s the perpetuation of the good old boys’ club. Rarely do you see a bureaucrat or politician that actively encourages subordinates to give them bad news. Instead, they prefer to be surrounded by people who constantly present a rosy picture. So the only people that get promoted up the chain are the ones who play the game and don’t ruffle any feathers.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“The Commission was created and put in place due to the relentless pressure and outcry by the 9/11 family members and their public supporters who had three objectives in mind: getting all the facts; establishing accountability for those who failed us due to their intentional or unintentional acts; and providing recommendation for real fixes and meaningful remedies,” said Sibel Edmonds, founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.
“The Commission fulfilled none of those three objectives. In their responsibility to report all the facts, they either refused to interview all relevant experts and witnesses, or they censored the reports provided to them by those with direct and firsthand information. Both these acts were selective and intentional,” Edmonds said in a news release.
“Contrary to their pledge to establish accountability, they refused to hold anyone accountable and lamely justified it by saying, ‘We don’t want to point a finger at anyone.’ All those responsible individuals remained in their positions or were even promoted. And as far as meaningful remedies and reforms are concerned, the commission threw in senseless, and in some cases, detrimental cosmetic and bureaucratic ’solutions’ that ended up making our government even more cumbersome and unable to respond to threats to national security. In the name of solutions and reforms, they forced down our throats exactly what led to the failure to protect our nation on 9/11: A highly bureaucratic, complicated, inefficient mammoth of a malfunctioning machine.”
Before the 9/11 Commission, however, there was a 9/11 investigation conducted. An unprecedented joint inquiry of the House and Senate intelligence committees, completed in December 2002, long before the 9/11 Commission convened, is much more forthcoming about the failure of the government bureaucracy, and makes an interesting counterpoint to the 9/11 Commission report. Available only in heavily redacted form, not many people are even aware of its existence.
But the Joint Inquiry report is much more forthcoming about the failure of the complicated, inefficient, mammoth, malfunctioning bureaucracy. For example: “From at least 1994, and continuing into the summer of 2001, the Intelligence Community received information indicating that terrorists were contemplating, among other means of attack, the use of aircraft as weapons. This information did not stimulate any specific Intelligence Community assessment of, or collective U.S. Government reaction to, this form of threat.”
No idea terrorists would fly planes into buildings, my ass. I suggest everyone spend today reading the Joint Inquiry report to get another perspective on the story the 9/11 Commission didn’t really want to tell.
NSWBC provided a list of 13 whistleblowers who were prepared to testify before the 9/11 Commission because they had relevant knowledge, but were “turned away, ignored or censored.” Reading through the list gives some idea of what we didn’t find out from the 9/11 Commission and how much of a disservice it did to us.
John M. Cole, Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist; FBI — Mr. Cole worked for 18 years in the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division as an Intelligence Operations specialist, and was in charge of FBI’s foreign intelligence investigations covering India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mr. Cole had knowledge of certain activities that directly related to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. He notified the 9/11 Commission during its investigation, but never received a response. His name and contact information was provided to the Commission as a key witness by other witnesses, but he was never contacted or interviewed.
John Vincent, Retired Special Agent, Counterterrorism; FBI — Mr. Vincent worked for the FBI for 27½ years before retiring in 2002. He worked his last 8 years in counterterrorism in the FBI’s Chicago Field Office. Mr. Vincent, along with Robert Wright, exposed inefficiencies within the FBI in working counterterrorism cases, and certain warnings they had tried to pursue prior to the 9/11 attack that were directly related to Al-Qaeda’s financial network and money laundering activities. Although he was granted an interview, the commissioners’ investigators refused to let him provide them with information related to his case and the 9/11 terrorists’ network; they insisted on limiting the interview to only administrative and irrelevant questions and issues.
Robert Wright, Veteran Special Agent, Counterterrorism; FBI — Mr. Wright is a veteran special agent in the FBI Chicago Field Office Counterterrorism Unit. He had been investigating a suspected terrorist cell for three years, when he was informed in January 2001 that the case was being closed. Agent Wright, along with Mr. Vincent, exposed inefficiencies within the FBI in working counterterrorism cases and certain warnings they’d tried to pursue prior to the 9/11 attack that were directly related to Al-Qaeda’s financial network and money laundering activities. Three months before September 11, Wright wrote a stinging internal memo charging that the FBI was not interested in thwarting a terrorist attack, but rather “was merely gathering intelligence so they would know who to arrest when a terrorist attack occurred.” The FBI refused to allow Wright to testify before the 9/11 Commission, however, the Commission did not insist or attempt to subpoena Wright, despite the fact that it had subpoena power.
Sibel Edmonds, Former Language Specialist; FBI — Ms. Edmonds worked for the FBI’s Washington Field Office as a language specialist with Top Secret Clearance performing translations for counterterrorism and counterintelligence operations dealing with Turkey, Iran, and Turkic speaking Central Asian countries. She contacted the 9/11 Commission in May 2003 and requested a meeting to provide them with information directly related to the terrorist attack. The Commission investigators refused to meet with Edmonds and informed her that due to their limited resources and time they were not going to interview all witnesses. She was able to provide the commission with information and documents only after certain 9/11 family members intervened directly. Ms. Edmonds’ testimony was completely censored by the Commission.
Behrooz Sarshar, Former Language Specialist; FBI — Mr. Sarshar worked for the FBI’s Washington Field Office as a language specialist with Top Secret Clearance performing Farsi translations for counterterrorism and counterintelligence operations dealing with Iran and Afghanistan. He had first-hand information of prior specific warning obtained from a reliable informant in April 2001 on the terrorist attacks of September 11. Mr. Sarshar contacted the Commission directly but was refused. He was given an interview with the Commission investigators only after 9/11 family members intervened directly. Mr. Sarshar’s documented testimony was completely omitted from the commission’s final report, despite his case being publicly confirmed by Director Mueller’s Office.
Mike German, Special Agent, Counterterrorism; FBI — Mr. German served sixteen years as an FBI Special Agent and is one of the rare agents credited with actually having prevented acts of terrorism before it became the FBI’s number one priority. He contacted the Commission in the spring of 2004, but did not receive a response. In 2002 he reported gross mismanagement in a post-9/11 counterterrorism investigation, which included serious violations of FBI policy and federal law. Mr. German contacted the 9/11 Commission during its investigation and requested that he be given an interview session in order to provide them with certain domestic counterterrorism investigations that he’d pursued. According to Mr. German there were links between certain domestic and international counterterrorism related to the September 11 attacks. The 9/11 Commissioners refused to acknowledge his request and never interviewed him.
Gilbert Graham, Retired Special Agent, Counterintelligence; FBI — Mr. Graham worked for the FBI’s Washington Field Office Counterintelligence Division until 2002. In February 2004 his name and contact information were provided to the Commission as a key witness with information pertinent to the Commission’s investigation. The 9/11 Commission refused to follow up and never contacted Mr. Graham.
Coleen Rowley, Retired Division Counsel; FBI — In May 2002, Coleen Rowley, as the Division Counsel at the FBI Minneapolis Office, blew the whistle on the FBI’s failure to pursue Zacarias Moussaoui’s case prior to 9/11, despite all attempts made by the Minneapolis division counterterrorism agents. She reported that FBI HQ personnel in Washington, D.C., had mishandled and neglected to take action on information provided by her division. Despite her high-profile case the commission chose not to interview Ms. Rowley. According to Ms. Rowley, no one from the FBI Minneapolis Office (several Agents had direct information) was ever asked to provide testimony [or] information to the 9/11 Commission.
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, DIA — Colonel Shaffer provided the Commission with detailed information on intelligence and pre warning information obtained by his unit’s data mining project, Able Danger. The 9/11 commission staff received not one but two briefings on Able Danger from Mr. Shaffer and his former team members, yet did not pursue the case, did not follow up on this documented report and refused to subpoena the relevant files. Mr. Shaffer’s testimony, together with other witnesses who corroborated his testimony and information, were censored by the 9/11 Commissioners and never made it to its final report.
Dick Stoltz, Retired Special Agent; ATF — Mr. Stoltz, a veteran undercover agent with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, had played an important role in Operation Diamondback between 1998 and 2001. The sting operation involved a group of Middle Eastern men living in New Jersey who were caught on tape in an ATF weapons sting conspiring to buy millions of dollars of weapons including components for nuclear bombs. The case came to a screeching halt with the arrest of only a handful of suspects in June of 2001 even though there was ample evidence that some of the people who were attempting to buy these weapons had connections with the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden himself. The 9/11 Commission refused to contact Agent Stoltz despite all attempts made by several witnesses from the intelligence and law enforcement communities, and the 9/11 Family group, Jersey Moms.
Bogdan Dzakovic, Former Red Team Leader; FAA — Mr. Dzakovic had worked for the Security Division of the Federal Aviation Administration since 1987 as a Special Agent, as a Team Leader in the Federal Air Marshals, and from 1995 until September 11, 2001 was a Team Leader of the Red Team (terrorist team). Mr. Dzakovic had tried for several years prior to the 9/11 attacks to improve aviation security in the face of the ever-increasing terrorist threat. He provided the 9/11 Commission with his testimony and documented reports. His testimony and report to the Commission was completely omitted from the final report.
Linda Lewis, Retired Emergency Programs Specialist; USDA — Ms. Lewis worked for 13 years evaluating and coordinating federal, state and local preparedness for nuclear, radiological and chemical weapons emergencies. Prior to September 11, 2001, she had reported numerous inadequacies and dysfunctions in emergency preparedness, including a culture of intimidation that discouraged federal evaluators from reporting inadequacies in state and local plans and preparedness. USDA officials had thwarted her efforts to bring in terrorism experts to help the agency prepare for attacks on federal buildings, including bio-weapons attacks such as the anthrax attacks of 2001. In vain, she had urged FEMA officials to develop a national emergency communications plan and require interoperability of federally funded emergency communications equipment. In the absence of these preparations, New York City firefighters and police officers were unable to communicate critical information on September 11 at the World Trade Center. Ms. Lewis contacted the Commission and offered to provide information regarding dysfunctional government preparedness, but the Commission never responded.
Mark Burton, Senior Analyst; NSA — Mr. Burton served as an all-source threat analyst in NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) for most of his 16-year career. He was the editor of IAD’s premier threat document, the 300+ page ISSO Global Threat Summary, and was an adjunct faculty member at NSA’s National Cryptologic School. He provided dozens of pages of relevant information to the 9/11 Commission, but was completely ignored and never asked to testify.
The above list does not include many others from the intelligence and law enforcement communities who had similarly contacted or reported to the commission but had been either turned away or censored, and of course many others who are still working within these agencies and are fearful of making their identities known, due to the relentless pursuit of and retaliation against whistleblowers by government agencies. — National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (PDF)
It’s clear now to anyone paying the least bit of attention that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were completely preventable, but not by the U.S. government as it was then — and still is now. A government which took its whistleblowers seriously, investigated their complaints with alacrity, and acted with speed, could have foiled this particular plot.
I fear that this government, which has done nothing more than rearrange the bureaucratic deck chairs and needlessly inconvenience millions of people to give Americans a false sense of security, will likewise ignore the warning signs of the next terrorist plot.
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Bill Russell
Sep 11, 2006
America used to be called “Land of the Free”.
Now, America is called “Land of the Fee”, meaning the only way to get
positive action is to pay huge bribes to our CongressCritters and to our
president.
Mark Conrad
Sep 11, 2006
Until this nation realizes that we are in a war and fights it as we did
WWII we will never win another war because wars cannot be fought safely,
sensitively or compassionately. We need a Gen. George Patton whose
orders should simply be “find all those who attacked this country and
are a continuing threat to this country and our way of life
–and kill them. Call me when it is done.” You must crush them enemy
so that he sues for peace–or you should not put our troops in harms
way.
Joe Martin
Sep 11, 2006
The mainstream media has conveniently omitted telling the public that the Bush Crime Family, in league with J.P. Morgan and a few others were caught trying to overthrow America’s FDR government and install a Hitler type regime years ago. The Marine general who pretended to go along with the plot long enough to alert FBI & other officials saved the U.S., but you don’t see much anymore except gutless wonders who want to save themselves. This same crime family has royally kicked America and Americans in our butts by killing JFK, escalating the Viet Nam war, perpetrating the 911 disaster, then using it to send thousands more troops and others to their deaths. It seems no one in any position of power or wealth dare challenge them, and all the little people-regular joes must keep scrapping for a living, so as the next martial law event approaches I hold out little hope and no answers as long as the Bush Crime Family rages about like an unrestrained lion. Joe Martin
Sep 11, 2006
Planet Geek!
justin
Sep 11, 2006
“those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.â€
What do we do now that the president has finally admitted Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 (and claims he never sought to mislead anyone to the contrary)?.
dbs
Sep 11, 2006
Mark said: find all those who attacked this country and
are a continuing threat to this country and our way of life
–and kill them. Call me when it is done.
Okay. Define those terms please. We did find who attacked us. They’re dead, they were in the planes. Oh, who ordered them? That would be binladen, the most hunted man in the world. Er, was, we had to stop and attack another country. Oops, then we attacked another country. Now we’re threatening some more.
Your commentary shows the blindness common in US perception of conflict. If there’s a stand-up enemy that is willing to fight directly, then Patton-esque tactics work. This enemy is not such, and until Bush and Rumsfeld acknowledge that, then tanks and bombers will continue to be worthless.
The fight here is not on a battlefield. Everytime Bush kills another Iraqi citizen, or tortures another Islamicist, we gain 5 more enemies willing to kill themselves in their holy quest for martyrdom against the great satan. Us.
Sep 11, 2006
Goverup.com » Is It Safe? How We Can Know
Larry Fisher
Sep 11, 2006
This level of deceit (and corruption) runs the full gammut of the
government’s operation. Consider Mr. De Kort’s recent allegation
(on youtube.com) of incompetence between our government and Lockheed
Martin. Our government is not interested in addressing and resolving
its national security problems but in hiding all weaknesses, fixing the
government’s self-induced problems over and over again and profiting
by their own incompetence. The problem is that this level of deceit
only increases our costs and vulnerability to terrorists.
We are encountering the same problem in the government’s “public” effort
to better account for our tax dollars. Then, behind the scenes,
the government’s CPA’s and 4-year degreed accountants are systematically
eliminated and replaced with high school dropouts. Once again,
the government revolving door bureaucrats, corporations, and politicians
create the very conditions for which they all profit — the result
is the gross waste, fraud, and abuse of our tax dollars and an “ongoing”
effort to “fix” the government’s self-induced government accountabilty
weaknesses.
The same level of self-induced incompetence and corruption
occurs within the Homeland Security Office.
Cynthia
Sep 11, 2006
I just want to remind people that CNN’s Pipeline is re-
airing their 2001 coverage live online. It’s pretty amazing and
worth the time to take a look.
Jim
Sep 11, 2006
I agree somewhat with Mark Conrad, that we must stop playing games and take the War On Terrorism seriously. If we want to defeat terrorism we need to destroy those countries which support it…. Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq supported terror on a minor scale. If we had been truly serious about the war on terror we would have hit Iran and Syria, instead of Iraq, with everthing we had. Then Iraq and Lebanon would probably have seen the error of their ways and changed their policies. As long as our leaders consider terrorism a political war we will never win.
Kevin Fields
Sep 11, 2006
I’m just simply amazed. I have no words to describe my contempt right now.
Joe Martin
Sep 11, 2006
Destroying those countries which support terrorim will not confront the problem of the infiltration of U.S. intelligence and media by foreign sources and spies.
U.S. must clean our own house even if it means, as Tom Heneghan and Lenny Bloom say, get out the duct tape and handcuffs, etc..The criminal cabal which continues to literally suck the life out of the American people will lie, cheat, misrepresent, steal, invade, murder & murder either on an individual basis or wholesale slaughter. The most corrupt dispicable so called persons are in control of the United States of America and have thusfar remained too slick to grab hold of.They bribe and buy off enough influence and murder those who need “convincing” or murder their relatives and loved ones, so they continue perpetuating their “CON”. Read “Candidates For The Con” at www.informamerica.net and link past U.S. crime to the present debacle of the United States of America, the best thing ever invented by man.
Rob Miller
Sep 11, 2006
What’s the US media been like over the past few days apropos the anniversary of 9/11? I’ve been somewhat pleasantly surprised at the UK media, who’ve taken an almost universally critical look at the last 5 years–most TV news headlines have been along the lines of “are we really safer now, 5 years after 9/11?”, which is just the type of question I thought the mainstream media would never ask.
Perhaps too little, too late, though :(
Ian
Sep 12, 2006
I’d like to see a new reality TV show, perhaps called “Neocon Island.†Here all the neocons are gathered. The toture they employ on others is now employed on them. The object of the game is to see who can hold out the longest. I bet the “bubble-boy†is the first to crack.
Only then would get at the real truth.
Jimmy
Sep 12, 2006
Are you people serious? You will never “defeat terrorism” because it’s impossible to do. Blowing up random (or even semi-random) countries will only creat more terrorists. Anyone that is talking about finding and killing terrorists after reading this article evidently missed the whole point anyway. We should be asking questions of our own government about the investigation into the events around 911.
Scott
Sep 12, 2006
“If we want to defeat terrorism we need to destroy those countries which support it…. Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.” These countries do not “support terrorism-that is propaganda. The source of conflict in the middle east has always been Mossad and CIA since the 1950’s when the CIA overthrew the democratically elected president of Iran and replaced him with a US puppet called the Shah of Iran. Any terror coming from these countries is a direct response to our foreign policy-the policy of a bunch of gluttonous bullies and cowards. Don’t believe these people are terrorists just because the goddamn government tells you so! Did it ever occur to you that they are lying to us? Once again, virtually all the terror coming out of the middle east, and elsewhere in the world, originates from western intelligence-Mossad and CIA plus the Pakistani ISI. Most Americans are very ignorant when it comes to what their government does with our tax money.
dcgirl
Sep 12, 2006
Scott and Joe Martin are living in la-la land. What idiots! I can’t
believe that there are actually people out there that think this way.
And infoamerica.net is nothing but a conspiracy theorist’s wet-dream.
r717
Sep 12, 2006
dcg when will you learn that heroic humans, like john o’neal, made the choice to hardest decision that someone like you ,would never make…..
Alan Cabal
Sep 12, 2006
I agree that we must hunt down and slaughter each and every person responsible for the attacks of 911. Let’s start in Tel Aviv and work our way back to DC.
Joe Martin
Sep 12, 2006
dcgirl: since you’re so close to the Library of Congress, go over and look it up for yourself that a Bush Family member and J.P. Morgan and others tried to overthrow the U.S. government under FDR. You dizzy newcomers are so far out of touch with reality as in REAL HISTORY it’s you who live in a CONSTANT dreamworld.
Joe Martin
Sep 12, 2006
Scott: dcgirl is apparently either not into the alternative knowledge base on U.S. recent history, which is the only true source of information anymore, or else she is a plant, designed to disrupt this blog. You are right on in your comments. The trouble we get is being labeled anti-semitic when we bring out the facts. The Arabs are semites too, and I’m definitely not “anti-Arab”. The fact is it really is Israel which is a very large problem in U.S. foreign policy, and in recent decades, U.S. domestic policy as well. I can’t help it and it isn’t our fault at all.It simply IS ! Dov Zakheim recently abandoned a post at the Pentagon taking with him a staggering amount of U.S. taxpayer dollars!!
Jordan
Sep 12, 2006
Yes, the US Government is the entire problem with our country. Let’s
do away with it! Maybe that’ll fix the problem! *eyeroll* Give me a
break. If you think you can do something better, then by all means, do
something useful with your opinions, rather than ranting about them on
a messageboard that will never get read by any of the “important” people
and continue thinking that it’s all a giant conspiracy.
Rule Number One: If you don’t live in the United States, please, keep
your opinion about what we should do to yourself. Thanks.
Rule Number Two: If you DO live in the USA, do something useful with
your comments, such as writing several letters to your member of
Congress, as well as trying to get the people that matter, to notice
what you’re saying. Don’t sit around and preach about the evils of what
is wrong with our country on a random board, it’ll never get read and
that will accomplish NOTHING.
Nixer6
Sep 12, 2006
do something useful with
your comments, such as writing several letters to your member of
Congress
No that’s useful. Should I enclose a check?
Mr Bruce
Sep 12, 2006
Jordon, as an Australian I say, how dare you tell me not to express my
opinion. The whole world has been affected by 911. Our government sent
our soldiers to Iraq against the wishes of the majority of Australians.
The U.S.A. is the greediest country on earth regarding its aquisition
of the planets wealth. Isn’t the foreign policy of the U.S.A. controlled
by business. How many democratically elected governments around the
world did the U.S.A. depose for business reasons in the 20th century.
Can’t wait to see the U.S.A going head to head with China over the grab
for energy resources. THAT will be the ENDGAME…
Benjie
Sep 12, 2006
Many Americans now watch the BBC to get real unbiased news. The Right
wing conservative apparatus has been successful in creating their own
reality where fair is biased and balanced is always Bush.
The White House press corp, news media and other journalist have up
until recently given the Right and Bush a free pass. After 9/11 the
main stream press has been intimidated by the likes of Cheney and
his ilk.
It will take whistleblowers, bloggers and independant news organizations
to expose the lies and deception. =
Todd Goninon
Sep 12, 2006
Jim,
nearly all powerful countries support terrorism in one form or another if it serves national interests (or corporate interests) – not just Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.
To isolate these countries alone is the height of hypocrisy. Each country must first remove the log from their own eye before they attempt to remove the mote from their neighbours eye! Without first doing so, such countries have no moral authority.
s.w.p.
Sep 13, 2006
I’ve read alot of good post here but have to say they all seem to miss the mark.We are told by the Administration that we are hated because of Freedom and Democracy. Well thats just a bunch of BS and i would think most of you know that.Fact i have come to and can’t Ignore,we are hated because we continue to back Israel in all she does.I read more and more everyday and it’s all the same “no not the mainstream media” and it leads back to Israel. No i have nothing against the average joe blow Jew so to say and neither do the ones that hate Israel” Muslims”. What they are against is the continuing subjugating of the people and the land by the Zionist and that we”USA” back them up.Until we cut Israel lose to run there own so called state and quite giving them Billions every year there will be no end to middle east turmoil.Lets see if they can stop being the bullies that they seem to be. Maybe if they actually tried to get along and not conquer all then maybe there would be peace in the middle east. But as long as Israel has so much control over the media in the USA and Government policy decisions then nothing is going to change.
s.w.p.
Sep 13, 2006
Download and share the movie Loose Change with your local politicians, first responders, police and fire departments and the members of the military in your community.
Once these important community people realize the truth, the military industrial complex won’t dare to pull off another inside job.
s.w.p.
Sep 13, 2006
Oh one other thing “dcgirl” you need to turn the TV off and read more !!!
Me
Sep 13, 2006
Sigh! The USA has more enemies than ya can shake a stick at. Some here at home and at home and some acrossed the Sea. How will we ever win?
I hear Revolution calling…………….But maybe we need to take,
and start practicing law again like our founding fathers did.
The Law is the peoples. The People are the Grand Jury.
There is Constitutional power for Us. To stop these criminals.
In different parts of this country,people are forming their own
Grand Jurys’. Screw the prosecutors. We will MAKE the Judges hear us!
Or hang them for Treason? Just a thought.
Anonymous
Sep 13, 2006
just watch loose change….
Michael Hampton
Sep 13, 2006
By all means watch Loose Change. And don’t forget to read the Loose Change Viewer’s Guide too.
John
Sep 13, 2006
Jordon, when the foreign policies your government makes affects Aussies, I think we are entitled to give some feedback.
Most Australians did not want to be part of this war. We saw it for what it really was: a business venture.
Pretty sad really.
Alan Carter
Sep 13, 2006
Never before has a U.S. “president” been so under suspicion. And never before have we seen so many people side with an unelected “president” under false pretenses. Talking with Bush backers is usually pointless, and conversations with them can be downright insane! People with minds of their own would never ever support George W. Bush after what’s transpired within the USA government since the year 2000.
Bob
Sep 13, 2006
Maybe the best thing for all of us who believe in a ‘global liberal democracy’ (in the true sense, not the meaning which apparently has currency right now, which is neo-facism) to do, is to set up an alternative world government. A government for the people, by the people, with its own monetary system and (i suppose?) armed guards. I’m sure there are enough citizens of the world who would be willing to help out, one day a week, to build such an alternative government. This government would exist entirely apart from all current world governments, and would truly represent the real needs and aspirations of all those rightfully opposed to any kind of fascism, especially that which has been perpetuated through the banking/governmental/military cartels and/or puppetmasters long-entrenched in the USA, the UK and Europe (especially Germany), Pakistan, Canada, Russia, China, and several African nations. It may seem impossible to restructure the entire world; but the world consists of ordinary people and without us, no government or banking system (corrupt or otherwise, if there are any left) can exist, nor can they ever exist. It seems this is the best way forward but is it too late to start such a work, considering that the fingers of the wicked are now, without a doubt, just itching to pull the trigger to start WWIII?
Some Person
Sep 14, 2006
There’s a lot of details in the middle, and I’d suppose, the start, but all of it is moving in one particular direction, and it’s end is described in Bible prophecy.
Still, it’s rather hard to take all of this criminal politics business
“lying down” so to speak.
Feeling something of a pee-on, I am uncertain of what to say, except “vio con Dios>”
Joe Martin
Sep 16, 2006
Do you notice how the U.S. mainstream media focuses on the shock and trauma effect of the collapse of the WTC buildings, but still does not get at the truth? This is the form of Gestalt psychology which has been used against Americans for decades in order to whip us into the mode the controllers choose. A Freemason has suspended the U.S. Constitution through deception, chaos, and executive orders and emergency order. Freemasonry, Skull & Bones, etc. are outfits the so called President belongs to and their secret agenda must be the President’s first priority, the people be damned-come last. As Henry David Thoreau suggested it is not good to have respect for the law, you can certainly now see why he wrote that. Stop respecting these de facto leaders and begin to refer to them as thugs and tyrants, which is what they truly are. Joe Martin, editor@informamerica.net
Elizabeth Austin
Sep 17, 2006
Bush-backers = bushwhackers. The 911 “incident” was premeditated. (I was formerly a member of the U.S. Army.
Elizabeth Austin
Sep 17, 2006
Bush-backers = bushwhackers. The 911 “incident” was premeditated. (I was formerly a member of the U.S. Army.
Elizabeth Austin
Sep 17, 2006
Bush-backers = bushwhackers. The 911 “incident” was premeditated.
Elizabeth Austin
Sep 17, 2006
Too bad I cannot send or recieve e-mail tru embarq!
Sep 21, 2006
TSA still covering up airport security incompetence - Homeland Stupidity
Elizabeth
Sep 22, 2006
I am a United States veteran (disabled) My country has degraded and abandoned all of its fighting men and women, and denied them any right to treatment at V. A. facilities. I was a member of a “combat” unit (HHB 3/9 FA) at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, from 1981 to 1983. I have been denied access to any V.A. hospital or facility since my discharge in 1987. This comes as no surprise or shock to me since I was a “whistleblower” then, and remain one right on up to the present. I expect no less than retaliation from any agency involved with our present “form” of “government.” Sincerely, Elizabeth Ann Austin.
Joe Martin
Sep 22, 2006
To Elizabeth: I am revising my book and can probably include your personal story in a special chapter critical of military. If you can e-mail me your information and what happened to you, your condition basically, I can see if I could do an article on you and would include a photo of you if possible or preferred.
Plese drop me a line at editor@informamerica.net, or blndings@hotmail.com and chat with me. Thanks, Joe Martin
P.S. Yours is an all too familiar case which needs to be addressed in order to help all in your position who suffer.Chin up.
Dr. Jeffrey Fudin
Sep 24, 2006
Elizabeth: Please contact me at www.vawbc.com. I’m sorry to hear about
your dimlemma, but not surprised. Please visit the VA Whistleblowers
Coalition Site and contact me my direct e-mail. Perhaps you can be
involved in our efforts to help veterans such as yourself and also
those that have been abused from within the system!
Thank you for serving our country! Shame on the country for not
serving you!
Jeff
Sep 25, 2006
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily » Homeland Stupidity-TSA Still Covering Up Airport Security Incompetence
Susan Picard
Sep 27, 2006
Thank you for being brave Americans – God Bless You!
John
Sep 29, 2006
Oct 28, 2006
FBI raids creator of fake boarding pass generator - Homeland Stupidity
Oct 31, 2006
TSA screeners still fail to find guns, bombs - Homeland Stupidity
our enemys
Mar 15, 2007
Who knows what is real anymore, is our master race leader really negotiating to go the opposite direction America intended to go? A tougher war on drugs??? Look, theres a point at which every one has to stop and say enough. If we let these right wing lunatics prejudge, and execute an illegal, and immoral action like a drug war. WHich for 80+ years has proven to be useless, and a wesk band-aid filled with lies, and ruined lives. When a solution to the Drug War can be achieved using words, and reason, not warfare on harmless addicts. The only ones are dangerous are inner city thugs and there shoot first mentality, which the racists of the past, and a violent police force created with oppression. America is a scam, Americans are living a lie. ANd the happiness you want to retain is only a fleeting dream. YOu will destroy yourselves
Apr 04, 2007
TSA misses liquid explosives, weapons in tests - Homeland Stupidity
Laser Haas
Aug 24, 2007
We used to be America the home of the Free, the Brave and the Good.
We have discovered inexplicable endeavors by the Dept of Justice to cover up white collar felony in the hundreds of millions with treasonous acts to oath of office.
eToys after going public for $8 billion, filed bankruptcy in March 2001.
The firm of Morris Nichols is court approved counsel for the Debtor and the
firm of Traub Boncaquist and Fred Rosner are court approved counsel for the
Creditors. The counsel for Debtors and the Creditors spoke to the US Trustee
office about replacing key personnel of the debtor with someone they suggest
and the United States Asst Trustee Frank Perch told them it was forbidden by 327(a).
Despite the warning by the Asst US Trustee they replaced the CEO of the Debtor with
a paid associate of Traubs and the Hiring Letter for this paid associate was drafted by
both debtor and creditors counsel. The Hiring Letter contains a clause that bribe’s the
new party to circumvent the Code and the Court if he chooses not to apply.
This scheme to perpetrate Fraud upon the Court was discovered by a court approved
professional who turned down a gratuity to keep it silent. Whereupon the scheming parties
punished the whistle blower by having him defraud of compensation or reimbursement for
expenses. The whistle blower informed the Asst US Trustee, the Director of the EOUST
and the Director of Pres Bush Corp Fraud Task Force. Strangely all 3 authoritative parties
with the ability to correct the malfeasance have resigned.
Upon the Asst US Trustee testimony to the Court that Fraud upon the Court had occurred
and “admittances” by the perpetrators that the acts have occurred, speciously, the US Attorney
for the Region 3 Trustee has put in a Stipulation to Settle over 100 counts of Perjury and
Fraud upon the Court with a clause to give blanket immunity while this Region 3 attorney
is aggressively engaged in defending the perpetrators at the direct material harm of the
whistle blower and the estate. The Clause that the Region 3 attorney offers the statutory
violations states that WHEREAS the United States Trustee shall not seek to compel TBF
to make any additional disclosures.
Not only is the effort by the Region 3 counsel beyond the LAW it is a breach of Oath of
Office and endeavors to be a syndicated effort on behalf of felony perpetrators. The
whistle blower has since discovered that the additional items the illegitimate clause seeks
to “not compel to disclose” is the fact that Morris Nichols, Traub and the new CEO are
all connected to the party that acquired the bulk of the debtor’s estate. Which is collusion to
defraud an estate, the most heanious of crimes.
The final nail in this scheme to perpetrate elaborate, collaborative, premeditated Fraud upon
the Court is the Dept of Justice promoted the removed Region 3 Trustee to the position of
acting General Counsel of the EOUST. So that she is in charge of investigating her own case
that involves racketeering acts in public companies that is fraud in the hundreds of millions.
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