Coincidence or coverup?

Another mere coincidence: A well-known short seller, on Sept. 10, 2001, told his broker at Salomon Smith Barney to dump shares in his children's trust funds. He said that he expected the Dow Jones Industrial Average to collapse by two-thirds. The trader was being fed secret information by an FBI agent who was scanning FBI data bases for leads that could be useful for short-selling maneuvers.

When Anthony Elgindy was indicted a West Coast prosecutor suggested Elgindy had prior knowledge of the attacks, but the government later dropped that assertion.

http://www.asensioexposed.com/elgindytrial.htm

Elgindy had had a long relationship with the FBI, having previously worked as an FBI informant during a prison stay for corrupt trading practices.

To be fair, the government has conceded that some security forces were aware in the summer of 2001 that a terrorist attack on American soil was impending, but that no one knew how or where.

Yet, it is quite interesting that Elgindy became aware that something was afoot on Sept. 10. It seems apparent that he probably didn't know exactly where or when the catastrophe was coming. But it seems quite reasonable to suppose that his FBI source had just learned of an imminent catastrophe, either by scanning of data bases or from the agent grapevine.

So one might think that some in the FBI were suddenly aware that something was to happen on Sept. 11, and that they tipped others without giving the precise time or place.

CSNBC's American Greed show highlighted the Elgindy affair. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons permitted journalists to talk to the "rogue agent," Jeffrey A. Royer, by phone but refused to permit them to talk to Elgindy.

Documents related to 9/11 should be leaked, in my opinion, to sites such as Wikileaks.

I'd also like to see secret documents from the Justice Dept. and the White House on Wikileaks and other such sites.  Reason: to counteract the crackdown on whistleblowers. Remember, a great deal of classified information is simply Washington bureaucratic concealment and a rejection of the notion that the people have a right to such information.

However, we must acknowledge that every intelligence agency worth its salt is trying to get control of Wikileaks. Hence, a way to counter that tendency is for others to set up other, weakly affiliated, "clones."

We're from the government and we're just trying to help.

A disturbing Federal Trade Commission draft report discusses a number of proposals to increase federal subsidies of the troubled news industry. www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/news/jun15/docs/new-staff-discussion.pdf 

We're from the government and we're just trying to help.

Fox News reports that a Michigan lawmaker proposes setting up a government registry of journalists who have "good moral character." See http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/28/michigan-considers-law-license-journalists/