'The Illegal CIA Operation That Brought Us 9/11'

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 6:35am

oh, I just wanted you to listen to this. Isn't that something you would be interested in?
The Illegal CIA Operation That Brought Us 9/11
I can't load and post the actual soundfile of the interview Robert Sheer conducted with John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski. But you also can read the transcript.(I love transcripts).

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The Illegal CIA Operation That Brought Us 9/11

Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va. (Carolyn Kaster / AP)

Was it conspiracy or idiocy that led to the failure of U.S. intelligence agencies to detect and prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon headquarters? That’s one of the questions at the heart of “The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror,” by John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski. In their careful and thorough investigation of the events leading up to the attacks, the authors uncover a story about the Central Intelligence Agency’s neglect, possible criminal activities and a cover-up that may have allowed al-Qaida to carry out its plans uninhibited by government officials.

In the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence,” the journalists tell Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer how an interview with Richard Clarke, the counterterror adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, led them to a jaw-dropping revelation regarding two hijackers involved in the infamous attacks. As it turns out, Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two men linked to al-Qaida, were staying at an FBI informant’s home in San Diego in 2000, and they were being tracked by the National Security Agency. Despite knowledge of the men’s ties to the terrorist organization responsible for 9/11, neither was investigated by the FBI. Clarke and others believe that this may have had to do with a CIA attempt to turn the two men into agency informants.
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I vaguely remember that Clarke said way back that the only option to come out with the truth would be to write a science fiction novel about it.

So, how is a blonde housewife going to know what the truth is? I hate science fiction novels and never read them, nor do I watch movies made out of them.

Make out of it what you want, just no science fiction commentary. I am too stoopido for those.

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Submitted by Tall Bald and Ugly on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 8:51am

You can

point out all the holes in the 'official story' all you want: no follow the money, building seven, explosive traces,molten steel pouring down the side of the building 10 Floors Below the Fire(?), most USians Still just believe the gov't narrative instead of their own lying eyes.
When I disregard reality that my eyes see, I usually break something-on Me.
tchuss.

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Now you know. . .
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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 8:56am

I'm afraid it may be worse....

http://911truth.org/

https://www.ae911truth.org/

The Lawyers’ Committee’s April 10th 52-page original Petition was accompanied by 57 exhibits and presented extensive evidence that explosives were used to destroy three WTC buildings. That evidence included independent scientific laboratory analysis of WTC dust samples showing the presence of high-tech explosives and/or incendiaries; numerous first-hand reports by First Responders of explosions at the WTC on 9/11; expert analysis of seismic evidence that explosions occurred at the WTC towers on 9/11 prior to the airplane impacts and prior to the building collapses; and expert analysis by architects, engineers, and scientists concluding that the rapid onset symmetrical near-free-fall acceleration collapse of three WTC high rise buildings on 9/11 exhibited the key characteristics of controlled demolition. The Lawyers’ Committee’s July 30th Amended Petition addresses several additional federal crimes beyond the federal bombing crime addressed in the original Petition. The Lawyers’ Committee concluded in the petitions that explosive and incendiary devices preplaced at the WTC were detonated causing the complete collapse of the WTC Twin Towers on 9/11 and increasing the tragic loss of life.

http://www.scientistsfor911truth.com/

What a way to start the war OF terror!

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Submitted by mimi on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 10:53am

thank you for these links,

@Lookout
it's tough reading and worse to understand the WHY.

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Submitted by Deja on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 11:04am

Thanks, mimi

I too like transcripts, especially when a speaker has a thick accent that I'm unaccustomed to hearing on a regular basis.

Completely off topic: I once translated English to English. One person had a very thick northern Wisconsin or maybe Michigan accent, and the other, a very thick Hispanic accent. Both spoke perfect English, but the northerner thought the Hispanic guy was speaking Spanish, so asked if I spoke Spanish. Being from Texas, I can get by, and most Hispanic people down here speak enough English to get by. We just use our hands and sometimes a drawing or letters/numbers on a napkin or piece of paper to help us out if necessary. None needed that time. Accents got in the way, instead of language.

Sorry to go off topic.

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 11:34am

nothing in off topics to be sorry for, it makes me smile and

@Deja
reminds me of persons from Bavaria, Berlin, Austria, Switzerland and Northern Germany getting into a heated discussion. Sometimes it sounds like it is better that they don't understand each other. I love political satire of comedians, who can imitate a lot of different dialiects.

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Submitted by mhagle on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 11:09am

Thanks mimi

I read the transcript of the interview. Holy crap - but not surprising.

My thoughts when 9/11 occurred -

Isn't al-Qaida the group that Bill Clinton ordered a failed attack on in Africa and the republicans said, "oh . . . you just did that to distract us away from Monica Lewinsky."
Oh damn. Now these right wing crazies can do all the war stuff they want to do.

Key comments from the interview:

We make the case in the book that when George Tenet, in the week after 9/11, made the big play, the big power grab for the CIA, what we call the wish list of every CIA director accumulated over the whole history of the agency, and essentially puts it out there to Bush and says, these are the powers we need now to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen—he gets his green light.

And . . .

And I can certainly understand why a man like Robert Mueller in that position would say, would not want to be the guy that missed the next one. So from what we can tell, and from what our sources told us, it does seem that he sort of wrapped up the 9/11 investigation, or just ended it midway. But what was happening was, we talked with Pat DeMoro—he was one of our sources—and he took us inside, he ran the 9/11 criminal investigation; remember, this was a crime, right. At least 19 guys, probably a lot more, were involved in a plot that resulted in 3,000 murders. So he was investigating that, and he was finding over about a two-year period, there would be leads that would point towards Saudi facilitators to the hijackers, Saudi helpers, Saudi royal money coming over. And every time he found these, he had to report them up to Bob Mueller. Bob Mueller would theoretically report them to the Attorney General, who would theoretically report them to Bush. And yet the end result of this was that Bush invades Iraq, and the U.S. public never heard about these Saudi connections until, officially, until just a couple of years ago, really.

Also . . .

Two people in your book who take it further are Richard Clarke and Larry Wilkerson. Two of the most highly experienced, knowledgeable individuals to come out of our whole military intelligence complex. And they, put it in human terms, they say they don’t know how these people sleep at night. Wilkerson, even more than Clarke, suggests that these people could have prevented 9/11, and knew about it.

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Submitted by mimi on Sun, 01/27/2019 - 11:29am

yes, thank you, those paragraphs stuck with me too,

@mhagle
Thank You so much for excerpting those for us. I feel always not doing an adequate job here. And am grateful of all the good people here who help to get a better understanding.

I read the transcript of the interview. Holy crap - but not surprising. My thoughts when 9/11 occurred - Isn't al-Qaida the group that Bill Clinton ordered a failed attack on in Africa and the republicans said, "oh . . . you just did that to distract us away from Monica Lewinsky." Oh damn. Now these right wing crazies can do all the war stuff they want to do. Key comments from the interview: We make the case in the book that when George Tenet, in the week after 9/11, made the big play, the big power grab for the CIA, what we call the wish list of every CIA director accumulated over the whole history of the agency, and essentially puts it out there to Bush and says, these are the powers we need now to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen—he gets his green light. And . . . And I can certainly understand why a man like Robert Mueller in that position would say, would not want to be the guy that missed the next one. So from what we can tell, and from what our sources told us, it does seem that he sort of wrapped up the 9/11 investigation, or just ended it midway. But what was happening was, we talked with Pat DeMoro—he was one of our sources—and he took us inside, he ran the 9/11 criminal investigation; remember, this was a crime, right. At least 19 guys, probably a lot more, were involved in a plot that resulted in 3,000 murders. So he was investigating that, and he was finding over about a two-year period, there would be leads that would point towards Saudi facilitators to the hijackers, Saudi helpers, Saudi royal money coming over. And every time he found these, he had to report them up to Bob Mueller. Bob Mueller would theoretically report them to the Attorney General, who would theoretically report them to Bush. And yet the end result of this was that Bush invades Iraq, and the U.S. public never heard about these Saudi connections until, officially, until just a couple of years ago, really. Also . . . Two people in your book who take it further are Richard Clarke and Larry Wilkerson. Two of the most highly experienced, knowledgeable individuals to come out of our whole military intelligence complex. And they, put it in human terms, they say they don’t know how these people sleep at night. Wilkerson, even more than Clarke, suggests that these people could have prevented 9/11, and knew about it.