FBI inspector general's report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks
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FBI inspector general's report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks
By Patrick Martin
15 June 2005
A report released June 9 by the FBI's Office of the Inspector General raises new questions about the role of the US government in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The internal FBI study provides several important revelations about how US intelligence agencies ignored and even suppressed warnings in the period leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Press accounts published within hours of the report's release gave a very distorted picture of the document, which runs to more than 400 pages. No follow-up reports, based on a thorough study of the text, have yet appeared in the mass media.
The initial media commentary invariably voiced the now-standard claim that the FBI and CIA were guilty of a "failure to connect the dots," due to bureaucratic lethargy, individual incompetence, inter-agency rivalries, even poorly performing software systems. This presentation of events is utterly unserious.
The US intelligence apparatus is the most powerful instrument for spying in the world, not a group of Keystone Cops. If it ignored warnings and suppressed information, a legitimate presumption is that it did so willfully. The question must be posed: did one or more agencies or high-level officials provide protection for known Al Qaeda associates who ultimately participated in the hijack-bombings?
Comment: A better and more accurate question might be: Did one or more agencies or high-level officials invent or enable Al-Qaeda in order to assign blame for the hijack bombings for which they themselves were responsible?
Exactly who knew what, and at what level of the government, is not yet clear. But the political benefits of 9/11 for the Bush administration are undeniable. It used the terrorist attacks as a lever to swing American public opinion behind a major shift in policy, both foreign and domestic. Without 9/11, it would have been politically impossible for the government to embark on military interventions in Central Asia and the Middle East and launch an unprecedented attack on civil liberties at home.
Comment: The designs for invasion and occupation of the Middle East were drawn up years before 9/11 in the PNAC document, and all they needed was a "new Pearl Harbor" type event in order to implement their plans. Further proof that the September 11th attacks were not only "allowed" by elements within the Bush administration, but likely planned and carried out by the very same cabal...
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FBI inspector general's report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks
By Patrick Martin
15 June 2005
A report released June 9 by the FBI's Office of the Inspector General raises new questions about the role of the US government in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The internal FBI study provides several important revelations about how US intelligence agencies ignored and even suppressed warnings in the period leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Press accounts published within hours of the report's release gave a very distorted picture of the document, which runs to more than 400 pages. No follow-up reports, based on a thorough study of the text, have yet appeared in the mass media.
The initial media commentary invariably voiced the now-standard claim that the FBI and CIA were guilty of a "failure to connect the dots," due to bureaucratic lethargy, individual incompetence, inter-agency rivalries, even poorly performing software systems. This presentation of events is utterly unserious.
The US intelligence apparatus is the most powerful instrument for spying in the world, not a group of Keystone Cops. If it ignored warnings and suppressed information, a legitimate presumption is that it did so willfully. The question must be posed: did one or more agencies or high-level officials provide protection for known Al Qaeda associates who ultimately participated in the hijack-bombings?
Comment: A better and more accurate question might be: Did one or more agencies or high-level officials invent or enable Al-Qaeda in order to assign blame for the hijack bombings for which they themselves were responsible?
Exactly who knew what, and at what level of the government, is not yet clear. But the political benefits of 9/11 for the Bush administration are undeniable. It used the terrorist attacks as a lever to swing American public opinion behind a major shift in policy, both foreign and domestic. Without 9/11, it would have been politically impossible for the government to embark on military interventions in Central Asia and the Middle East and launch an unprecedented attack on civil liberties at home.
Comment: The designs for invasion and occupation of the Middle East were drawn up years before 9/11 in the PNAC document, and all they needed was a "new Pearl Harbor" type event in order to implement their plans. Further proof that the September 11th attacks were not only "allowed" by elements within the Bush administration, but likely planned and carried out by the very same cabal...
For the rest of the story click here
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