Ex-White House terrorism chief
sees CIA hand in events of 9/11
From Ian Henshall of Reinvestigate 911:
http://www.reinvestigate911.org/content/2012-breakthrough-year-911-truth-movement
2012: A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR FOR THE 911 TRUTH
MOVEMENT
RICHARD CLARKE'S BOMBSHELL
ED ASNER QUESTIONS 911 ON CBS, VENTURA ON CNN
MEDIA: THE DOG THAT FAILED TO BARK
CIA TENTACLES IN MEDIA
GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR INQUIRY
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
PILOTS' EVIDENCE
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
2012: A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR FOR THE 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT
2012 was the year that doubts over the official story of the 9/11 attacks
finally became firmly established in the corporate media in the US.
Sceptics in the Muslim world gained a new voice at governmental level
with the call by President Morsi of Egypt for a new independent 9/11
investigation. In Italy Supreme Court President Francesco Imposimato said
he would be petitioning the International Criminal Court to pursue an
investigation into the possible involvement of rogue elements in
Washington in the attacks.
RICHARD CLARKE'S BOMBSHELL
9/11 sceptics cite two smoking guns, one forensic the other based on the
paper trail. The belated 2008 admission from government experts that WTC
7 (the third building to collapse in the 9/11 attacks) fell not only
symmetrically but at free fall speed strongly suggests the use of
pre-planned demolition charges, they say.
In 2011 came the bombshell confirmation by Richard Clarke, White House
anti-terror co-ordinator at the time of the attacks, that, based on his
unrivalled vantage point at the top of the intelligence pyramid, the CIA
must have made what Clarke calls a "decision" to allow the
alleged 9/11 hijackers to operate freely in the US and hidden the
decision from him.
Clarke's assessment should have unleashed a tidal wave of horror
worldwide, but it didn't. Let's say it again: the man best placed to
judge is now clear that 9/11 took place as a result of a
"decision" at the CIA. Having told the public for ten years
that 9/11 was entirely explicable as the result of a conspiracy by
skilled and cunning Islamic fanatics, few in the media had the time or
the stomach to check these new fact, corroborated by FBI's Al Qaeda
expert Ali Soufan. This is the same media cartel that failed to challenge
the deceitful weapons of mass destruction story used by Bush and Blair to
justify the second post 9/11 war, the invasion of Iraq.
Still, Clarke's bombshell seems to have started journalists and editors
thinking and perhaps paying less attention to the shills that infest
mainstream media offices using the "conspiracy theory" slur to
block unwelcome lines of investigation.
ED ASNER QUESTIONS 911 ON CBS, VENTURA ON CNN
In March 2012 Hollywood legend Ed Asner appeared on the CBS Sunday
Morning programme questioning the official 9/11 story and persuading CBS
to screen the "smoking gun" video of the collapse of WTC7, an
extremely rare event in the corporate media. Viewers saw this massive
building collapse symmetrically and for a period at free fall speed. This
event, say Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth (AE911), could only
occur with the aid of carefully positioned explosives. What else, they
ask, could remove all support for the building, not just in one place but
evenly across it?
Over the 9/11 anniversary last September the film Experts Speak Out,
produced by AE911, was the most downloaded film on PBS, America's
publicly funded network. A week later leading US 9/11 sceptic Jesse
Ventura was on CNN with Piers Morgan. While Morgan presented the official
view, Ventura, maverick ex-Governor of Minnesota, put the alternative
view: "every war starts with a false flag operation". A straw
poll of the CNN studio audience yielded strong support for
Ventura.
Another initiative, the 9/11 Consensus panel has been looking at the
common ground of the 9/11 Truth Movement and supplying scientific
assessments to the mainstream media, disseminated by Reuters, The Wall
Street Journal and as a result by many other corporate outlets.
MEDIA: THE DOG THAT FAILED TO BARK
When they are not cosying up to their "sources" in government,
media people spend much of their time consuming other mainstream media,
so the significance of these three breakthroughs is not only that the
public is better informed, but the media are too.
Libertarian commentators on Fox News and Jesse Ventura on his TV show had
already given sympathetic hearings to 9/11 sceptics, but both are easily
smeared in Washington's divide and rule political game. But with CBS and
CNN at last validating 9/11 doubters it's a lot harder for the
shills.
The official 9/11 conspiracy theory has bewitched much of the
"alternative" media too. When in 2006, the five year
anniversary, the Washington Post and other mainstream outlets aired 9/11
doubts in an even handed way it should have been an open goal for anyone
opposed to the wars and civil liberty outrages of the new era. This was
the opportunity for the alternative media to lead the way and turn the
spotlight on the key 9/11 questions. Even then it was already clear that
the collapse of the Twin Towers had not been satisfactorily explained and
multiple FBI officers had complained that their investigations into the
alleged hijackers had been intentionally stymied by superiors.
Instead there was a wave of attacks on the 9/11 truth movement. With
discreet support from superguru Noam Chomsky, who only in 2010 began to
change his attitude, a string of "alternative" media people led
by David Corn, of Mother Jones and The Nation, penned divisive and
ill-informed hit pieces attacking 9/11 truthers.
CIA TENTACLES IN MEDIA
How could the mainstream and "alternative" media have got it so
horribly wrong? One starting point might be a revealing CIA memo from the
late 60s. It bemoans the spread of "conspiracy theories"
surrounding the Kennedy assassination, admitting the allegations are
undermining US foreign policy. The memo then advocates the CIA's
preferred method of dealing with the problem: using its contacts in the
media to plant feature stories attacking sceptics. So it is disturbing to
find that David Corn, who penned his first attack on 9/11 sceptics within
weeks of the event, seems to have links with the CIA. It is also
disquieting that so many alternative media operations have financial
links with the mainstream Washington foundations.
Quite apart from 9/11 there are of course many other outrages which
demand draconian reforms to cut the power of media owners, dissolve
Washington and NATO's permanent shadow government and subject its
operatives to the rule of law. The bankster heist, the austerity con, the
continuing torture and rendition, the Iraq war lies, the all but declared
war on Iran and Syria, were all made politically possible by 9/11. Many
sceptics say that the "success" of 9/11 emboldened the shadow
government. Certainly the campaign to achieve radical long term reforms
can only be helped by the growing doubts over how 9/11 really happened,
why it was never properly investigated, and anger towards a media that
failed to do its job.
GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR INQUIRY
Internationally the 9/11 issue presents another sign of the long expected
shift of power away from the US and the NATO countries. With the rise of
the Muslim Brotherhood, the consensus in the Middle East (bar Israel of
course) is that the official 9/11 story, the crown jewels of Washington's
warmongering empire is, to say the least, unproven. Egypt's President
Morsi has pronounced that there should be a genuinely independent
inquiry, thus supporting the position of alleged pariah President
Ahmedinajad in his 2011 UN speech.
Rebellions like this used to be dealt with in a summary way: a stern
warning complete with explicit threats would be issued in the Washington
Post. It would be taken up slavishly by the local media and the offending
politician would be pressured by colleagues to retract. In this way
questions have been suppressed in the UK, Sweden, Japan, and probably
many other countries.
But this time, so far at least, Morsi has ignored the Washington Post's
recent threat to starve Egypt of finance if he fails to retract his
statements on 9/11. A majority vote in the UN General Assembly may now be
within reach, authorising a new investigation with or without
Washington's co-operation.
In Italy the eminent jurist Ferdinando Imposimato, President of the
Supreme Court and renowned for his courage in prosecuting Mafia figures,
has announced his intention to pursue the 9/11 issue through the
International Criminal Court in The Hague. Many people in Italy still
remember the "strategy of tension" bombings blamed on
communists and anarchists in the 1970's. Based on the findings of a
Parliamentary probe at the end of the Cold War many now believe the
bombings were linked to NATO's Operation Gladio, designed to distract
people from problems at home by creating an artificial terrorist threat
and exaggerating the threat from foreign enemies. The possible parallels
with 9/11 are of course glaring, with the terrifying enemy threat role
switched from communists to the implausible Al Qaeda.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
In Washington, Freedom of Information and other mechanisms have led to
the release of vast caches of US government documents that bear on the
9/11 issue, while unauthorised caches from Wikileaks present another
opportunity but also a massive task for researchers. The experts at AE911
have meticulously examined and discredited the various official reports
that claim to explain the bizarre and unprecedented collapse of three
steel framed buildings on the same day, each supposedly by a different
collapse mechanism.
In the same way researcher Kevin Fenton in his book "Disconnecting
the Dots", uses a mass of evidence from the US government to come to
the same conclusion as Richard Clarke: some of the alleged 9/11 hijackers
had been identified as terrorists before 9/11 and were protected from
arrest by a decision implemented by a cabal at the CIA.
Two more paper trail researchers stand out. Kevin Ryan an editor at the
Journal of 9/11 Studies, has been digging into the neocon network that
seems to pop up in so many parts of the 9/11 story in his personal blog,
while the anonymous blogger at 911 Shoestring has been trawling through
media reports and most recently highlighted the extraordinary, possibly
systematic, failures of communication across multiple agencies and
facilities on the morning of the 9/11 attacks. (See endnotes)
PILOTS' EVIDENCE
Pilots for 9/11 Truth have analysed flight data recorders and text
messages between controllers and the 9/11 planes and have come up with
records that seem to contradict the official story. A text message
implies Flight 175 was over Pennsylvania after it had supposedly been
crashed by a hijacker in New York, while the flight recorder from Flight
77, reportedly hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, shows the cockpit
door was never opened, they say.
Pilots for 9/11 Truth, echoing the 911 Consensus Group, have also shone a
light on another issue at the heart of the official 9/11 story: how could
the alleged hijackers have carried out such feats of navigation and
control? Hani Hanjour, the man said to have carried out the extraordinary
ground level, top speed strike on an empty wing of the Pentagon, was
declared by at least two independent training schools to be dangerously
incompetent on small planes, simpler to fly than massive passenger jets
with their vast array of instruments.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
So what really happened? Few 9/11 researchers have any doubt that the use
of subpoena powers on certain individuals in the CIA, the FBI, the
Pentagon and air traffic control would get the answer pretty fast. One
possible 9/11 scenario arose from a minor scandal when Washington's 9/11
Commission discovered that the Pentagon had tried to erase vital tape
recordings from the day of the attacks. When the content was retrieved it
emerged that amongst a plethora of other exercises they were running a
live anti-hijack exercise at the time the apparent 9/11 hijacks took
place.
This is a classic indication of a CIA type black operation with a
possible "limited hangout" built in to it in case some of the
truth starts to come out. A parallel hijack going ahead legitimately as
an exercise can provide cover for a small group of plotters and serve to
muddy the waters when the investigations start. Studies of the unlikely
routes the planes took have led to speculation the apparently hijacked
planes could have had doubles or been flown into the buildings by a
remote control takeover scripted as part of the anti-hijack
exercise.
The final irony of 9/11 might be that the evidence needed to turn the
spotlight on Washington's black ops crowd at the heart of the permanent
secret state has already been published by the US itself. But with the
mountain of available data now in the terrabytes perhaps no-one has got
round to reading it yet.
Author's note: a simple google search (eg "Corn CIA") will
confirm most of the information in this article. Here are links which may
be harder to find.
http://911blogger.com/news/2012-10-03/more-mass-media-breakthroughs
http://911blogger.com/news/2012-09-24/controversial-911-film-soars-1-pbs-breaks-local-records
The 9/11 Hijackers: Fraud in Official Video Exhibits Uncovered by
Expert Panel
http://www.consensus911.org/news/
Why Were U.S. Intelligence Facilities in an 'Information Void' During
the 9/11 Attacks?
http://shoestring911.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/why-were-us-intelligence-facilities-in.html
Kevin Ryan: Why Louis Freeh should be investigated for 9/11
http://digwithin.net/2012/11/21/louis-freeh/
CIA Memo
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=3167&relPageId=2
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/MORE-ACARS-CONFIRMATION.html
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