Entries Tagged as '9-11'

World Trade Center Collapse Finally Explained

I’m not a conspiracy guy and I don’t see negativity everywhere, but the video of the World Trade Center’s Building 7 collapse is odd. It looks like an implosion. I’m very interested to hear the explanation. It may go something like this: Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?

From Raw Story:

A new report by BBC 2’s “Conspiracy Files” claims that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology is preparing to release a long awaited report on the collapse of World Trade Center 7, which fell on Sept. 11, 2001, about seven hours after WTC 1 and 2 were downed.

The NIST investigators are widely expected to stake the claim that fires were responsible for causing the structure’s simultaneous column failure, bringing building 7 down at near free fall speed onto its footprint. Should the claims hold true, WTC 7 would be the first steel frame skyscraper to ever collapse due to fire damage. (more… )

Government will pay Hatfill in $5.8 mil

Remember those Anthrax cases? Stephen Hatfill was labeled as a person of interest. Our government will be paying Stephen Hatfill $5.8 million for something since our government stated in the agreement that they do not admit to any wrong doing.

Emptywheel thoughtfully mentions that Hatfill takes home a bunch of loot but Valerie Wilson takes home nada.

September 10th mind-set

The week John McCain’s campaign seems to be looking for their own voice that will bring in donations. It is well known that money has been tight around the McCain campaign headquarters ever since… he began his campaign. So, he has beaten around the edges and that hasn’t worked. So, it is time for him to pull out his big guns. It is time to start with old tried and true - Democrats can’t keep America safe. McCain’s henchmen (James Woolsey and Randy Scheunemann) attacked Barack Obama stating that they had a September 10th mindset when it came to fighting terror. There are so many ways to go with this. It is hard to know where to start.

Let’s start with James Woolsey former CIA director and cheerleader for the Iraq war. He was such a cheerleader that he was a lobbyist for the Iraqi National Congress and their leader the fraud Ahmed Chalabi. He has the judgment to question anything that anyone says? Let alone Barack Obama? Woolsey also saw Saddam behind the Oklahoma City bombing.

So, who would raise his 9/11 head during this dust up, Rudy Giuliani?!!! (Rudy, Rudy, Rudy) Now, that brings a smile to my face. No one has been better at flaming out this campaign season than Rudy Giuliani. He had the nerve to say that Obama would make America take a defensive posture when we need to stay on the offense. Really?!?! He hasn’t used that line before has he? Only 1000 times per day on the campaign trail.

Obama has stood up and firmly smacked down McCain and his boys. Stating that he will not be lectured to by a group who lost Bin Laden and invaded the wrong country. Now, this is what I have been waiting for since 2003. I have been waiting for a democrat to stand up and be strong. I have been waiting for a democrat to say that we can keep our constitution and defeat the terrorists. Man, it is sooo good to hear what I have been saying for 5 years.

The face of American Torture

Murat Kurnaz is a German citizen who was vaccuumed off a bus in Pakistan. Why he was chosen isn’t clear. It was December 2001. He was tortured in Afghanistan and then in Gitmo. Five years of his life was lost. For what? For our security? Really?

 
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Truth or Consequences - Mukasey style

When you look back over the last 7 or so years, it is amazing the amount of lying and deceit that has shoveled out for the American people to digest. The latest comes from Michael Mukasey, who while trying to defend amnesty for the telecoms, tells a tale that sounds like we learned about a pre-9/11 conversation that should have been tapped but was not. This conversation was from a terrorist haven to a 9/11 hijacker. Here’s what Michael Mukasey said, “We knew that there has been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn’t know precisely where it went.” What does this mean? It was no where in the 9/11 commission report.

I know that Glenn Greenwald will have more on this as soon as it is available. He has been on FISA matters for over 2 years.

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Frontline on PBS

I’m watching Bush’s War on Frontline.

The benefits of Dan Rather’s Lawsuit

Dan RatherIf we put aside the $70 million price tag for a second and look at this suit, I think that we will find a gold nugget at the end of the rainbow. Remember that Dan Rather was fired or put out to pasture because of a story on 60 Minutes II that Rather did on Bush’s National Guard Service. The old question on whether or not George Bush completed his Texas Air National Guard service has never been completely answered. Rather produced documents that seemed to show that Bush wasn’t performing well. Immediately, I mean, during the broadcast, there was an instant cry of foul. Soon, the documents authenticity was questioned. CBS originally backed the story then started to waffle then caved. Dan Rather was taken off the Evening News and placed on 60 minutes II. He really wasn’t used much and he quit. This brings us to the present.

Questions remain because some documents about Bush’s past seem to have been misplaced. Many believe that Alberto Gonzales had something to do with those documents disappearing but this is just speculation. So, what happened and why do we care? I don’t think that most Americans do care. It is water under the bridge. On the other hand, clear answers may help round out a picture of George Bush that many liberals have of him. He is not and never was a good ole boy. He went to Andover (one of the most elite prep schools in the country), Yale and Harvard. Good Ole boys don’t usually go to those places. What the Dan Rather lawsuit may do is bring out many details of President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard. If it does that then it will be worth more than $70 million to many liberals.

As an added benefit we may be able to view how the Bush administration and the network executives worked hand and hand to control stories in the post 9-11 world. If it does that, I’ll bring the popcorn to enjoy the show.

Cheney got it right in 1992

I know what the neocons are going to say to this because they say it to every thoughtful question.  9/11 changed everything.  Horse Hockey.  Cheney and the Project for a New American Century were talking about over throwing Saddam BEFORE Bill Clinton left office.  9/11 gave the neocons an excuse but it changed nothing in their minds.

Don’t forget this video which surfaced a couple of months ago.

 
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9-11

9-11-photo-2-smaller 9-11

Very sad memories.

So, now, what?  What do we need to do to get our America back on track?

Why is there still a hole in the ground at Ground Zero?  Where is the leadership to get something built that will be a fitting memory of the victims?

 
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CIA’s own report on 9/11 failures

I have not had a chance to read the report.  I’ll have an analysis and video later on today.  It seems that Congress mandated that the CIA release this report.  I find it interesting that the CIA didn’t stonewall Congress like the White House is.  I wonder why?

Director Hayden released a statement here

The OIG Report on CIA accountability.  I have not read the report but I bet most of the blame will land on George Tenet. 

Building at Ground Zero burns and takes 2 firefighters

Leadership. By definition it is the capacity to lead. To take people places that they might want to go. Well, at ground zero in New York, there needed to be leadership. Something should have been done with that hole in the ground. Something should have been done with the Deutsche Bank Building. No one should have had to lose their lives in this building. Don’t tell me that a powerful city mayor couldn’t work with the State and get that building torn down years ago. Unfortunately, for Rudy Giuliani is not about leadership, it is about appearing to lead.

Oh, and I’m sorry, I don’t care about some standpipe. The problem was why wasn’t this building torn down 3 - 4 years ago then we don’t have to worry about a standpipe.

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From NYT:

The Fire Department is investigating whether a malfunctioning standpipe sent water cascading into the basement of the flaming Deutsche Bank tower at ground zero on Saturday, denying water to air-starved firefighters battling the seven-alarm blaze above, including the two men who were killed.

Members of Engine Company 7 said they connected their hose to the standpipe and pumped thousands of gallons into the building, but one investigator said yesterday that the water never made it beyond the fifth floor, leading to suspicions of a cracked or broken valve. The basement, officials said, was filled with water.

Firefighters were forced to spend crucial moments carrying and pulling hoses up the sides of the ghostly black-shrouded building — a scarred remnant of the 9/11 attacks that was being dismantled — as wind-driven flames caught on 13 different floors after snaking up and down through voids and holes. (more…)

 
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Obama speaks the truth

Some of the progressives calling in to the Ed Schultz Show flipped out over Obama’s statement today. He said something like if Musharraf will not take care of the terrorists in Pakistan and we had actionable intelligence then we would. Progressives on the Ed Schultz show went crazy. They accused Barack of throwing diplomacy down the toilet. Nothing could be further from the truth. This clip goes out of their way to say that this has been the White House’s position all along. If killing or capturing Osama Bin Laden has been a priority then why haven’t we done it yet?

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From WaPo:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama issued a pointed warning yesterday to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, saying that as president he would be prepared to order U.S. troops into that country unilaterally if it failed to act on its own against Islamic extremists.

In his most comprehensive statement on terrorism, the senator from Illinois said that the Iraq war has left the United States less safe than it was before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that if elected he would seek to withdraw U.S. troops and shift the country’s military focus to threats in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (more…)

 
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Dust of Twin Towers caused another death

I think that the fallout from September 11th is not even close to being over. There was so much dust and so many people in the middle of it. That can not be good for your lungs. It just can’t be.

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From NYT:

New York City’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, has for the first time directly linked a death to exposure to dust from the destruction of the World Trade Center.

In a letter made public yesterday, Dr. Hirsch said that he was certain ”beyond a reasonable doubt” that dust from the twin towers contributed to the death of Felicia Dunn-Jones, 42, a civil rights lawyer who was engulfed on Sept. 11 as she ran from her office a block away from the trade center.

She later developed a serious cough and had trouble breathing, and she died five months after the terrorist attack. [Read more →]

 
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More on Falwell

He has proved at least to me what happens when you don’t read the Bible correctly.  He repeats his outrageous claim that 9-11 was because we had lost our Christian beliefs.  To me Christianity is about forgiveness and not about vengeance. 

 
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Bill Moyers - The Press

How the war was sold is the topic of Bill Moyer’s first Journal. It is also the subject of Frank Rich’s book, The Greatest Story Ever Sold (a wonderful book that hasn’t gotten its due in my opinion). We would have never gone to war if the president, the vice president and WHIG didn’t start a coordinated effort to confuse and fake out the public.

In this episode of the Bill Moyers Journal, the journalist looks at the press. He clearly points to some the great reporting that had been overlooked. He also points to some of the pressures that major networks were under. The pressure came from the right. It came from sponsors. It came from the public. The unwritten rule was not to really confront the president. Everyone was expected to be ultra-patriotic. The pressure that came from Fox News must of been unreal. Fox News more than any other network waved the red, white and blue then wrapped themselves in the flag. They were patriotic everyone else was not even close. (The Neocons made Fox their home but I digress.) If you were “unpatriotic” Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity would call you out and highlight you and your network. The Neocons would be calling you out soon after that. They would be followed by the radio noise machine. Soon you were out. Ask Donahue.

The relatively small Knight-Ridder outfit consistently got it right. While the Washington Post and the NY Times got it wrong. Moyers does a very good job at pointing this out.

This is a GREAT initial episode. I will be posting it in 5 parts. Here are the first 2 parts.

 
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Countdown - Tenet

My blog looks like it has turned into all Tenet, all the time.  As usual, Keith Olbermann makes some great points.

 
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Fact Checking

I don’t understand. I wrote a book. It was 1/5 as long as Tenet’s. I didn’t have a team of writers helping me. I didn’t get a $4 million deal. Yet, I believe that all of the facts in my book (A Letter to American: Is President Bush Leading Us in the Right Direction?) are correct.

How do you open your book with a story about Richard Perle and not check to make sure that you have the right date? You are the former Director of the CIA for Christ sake!! You are supposed to get your facts correct! The intellectual laziness is unforgivable. He knew that the neocons were going to attack this book. He had to get his facts right but in the very first chapter he fumbled the ball. It makes me want to scream!!!  (Think Progess has the evidence that Richard Perle was pushing a war with Iraq soon after 9/11. They checked the facts.)

 
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Oh, George - part 2

Where’s the whitewash? George Tenet, in my opinion, is trying to made himself look better and who wouldn’t? He was there for so many missteps. He allowed torture. I don’t care how many times that he says the CI A didn’t torture. They tortured. He allowed secret prisons. Why? Fear? Okay, but fear isn’t a good reason for us to lose who we are. George Tenet allowed Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Bush to say things that he knew were wrong. He says that he wanted to work from within. Okay, that’s fair because folks that were outside of the Bush inner circle had NO influence on policy (think of Congress). Is there any evidence that Tenet tried to stop the mis-information? Yep, there is a little but not near enough. There is clear documentation that the yellow cake tale was taken out of the Cincinnati speech because of Tenet’s personal intervention. Why was it stuck back in the State of the Union speech? That’s harder to figure out.

Here’s the problem - outside of WMD, the CIA disagreed with everything else the Bush administration said. Everything. If Tenet raised his hand every time the Bush administration said something that the CIA didn’t agree with, they would have thought that he needed to go to the bathroom. He also would have been let go. He would have been labeled as NOT a team player. So, George could shut up or quit. He decided to shut up. That is a personal choice. He has to live with that.

 
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New Pentagon Report: No Iraq - Al Qaeda links

It seems that everyone knows this now except for our president and vice president.  They continue to suggest and in Cheney’s case outright state that there were links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

 
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confesses

Torture

I love my country. There is no place that I would rather be than the US. This love causes me to be very critical of the country that I love. This brings me to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. We know that this guy has been tortured by the US and our allies. This we know. We also know that Bin Laden is probably the only target that is of higher value. We tortured this guy until he either became a babbling idiot or told us what we wanted to hear. The fact that he confessed means nothing. Secondly, Al Qaeda is proud of what they did. So, confessing is again no big deal. This is a sad day for America. A sad day for justice.

Now, for those of you who think that I love the terrorists, you’re wrong. Don’t even bother to post a comment with that noise. I’m all for chasing down terrorists. If they resist arrest then shoot them. One shot right between the eyes. Bang! If we do arrest them then they should be treated (as should anyone in US custody) with dignity and respect. This is the moral high ground and I refuse to give it up. These jihadists are not going to force me to act like them.

Video on waterboarding is here.

Update: Video added.

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From CNN.com:

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, admitted to those attacks and numerous others during a U.S. military hearing on Saturday, according to an edited transcript of the hearing released by the Pentagon Wednesday.

In a statement from him, read by a U.S. military representative, he said, “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z.”

The transcript continues with the list of operations he was responsible for, including the Richard Reid shoe bomber attempt to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic Ocean, the Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia, the 1993 World Trade Center attack and other attacks that were foiled. (more…)

 
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