Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
As an added bonus.... if someone can come up with 5 major points that are simple, direct, and easy to understand that point to
conspiratorial concerns leading up to 9/11, I'd be inclined to award two prizes of 250,000 points.
5 Major Points of Conspiratorial Concer Pre-9/11
1) Motive: PNAC and a "New Pearl Harbor"
Project for a New American Century (PNAC) states their goal is "Rebuilding American Defenses" and that to do so will take a long time, absent some
catastrophic "new Pearl Harbor." PNAC Members include Jeb Bush, Scooter Libby, Richard Perle, Dan Quayle, Richard Armitage, Dick Cheney, Donald
Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz.
9/11 Became this generation's "New Pearl Harbor" and many members of PNAC, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz were
hihig-powered, high-ranking members of the Bush administration that could were in the position to pull-off and cover-up a 9/11 conspiracy. But did
they have the means to do so?
Here's a link to the PNAC Report from 2000 called "Rebuilding America's Defenses"
See Page 63
www.newamericancentury.org...
2) Means: Project Northwoods
March 13, 1962, Joint Chiefs of Staff propose "Project Northwoods."
This project describes black operations to be carried out by Department of Defense and CIA to fake hijackings and destructings of commercial
airliners, complete with real or fake victims, in order to gain public support for going to war with Cuba.
Project Northwoods show that the U.S. government in 1963 believed it was possible to carry out a massive conspiracy involving commercial airline
companies, the CIA, and the military.
3. A New Enemy: al-Qaeda and bin Laden
The U.S. created al-Qaeda and financed bin Laden in the early 1980's to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Subsequent to the fall of the Soviet
Unioin, the U.S. began shifting country to focus on a new enemy -bin Laden and terrorism.
This CNN story summarizes U.S. official position regarding bin Laden:
archives.cnn.com...
4. Jamie Gorelick, the "wall," and 9/11 Commission
Jamie Gorelick, the #2 person in Clinton's Justice Department, was instrumental in writing into law what has been come to be known simply as "the
wall."
This is the legal policy that was intiated by Gorelick and the U.S. Justice Dept. in the mid-1990's that prevented intelligence organizations, e.g.,
the CIA, from sharing information with law enforcement agencies, e.g., the FBI. Gorelick ignored pleas from the U.S. Attorney in New York to allow
intelligence agencies to share information with the FBI.
Here's a news story that will give the backgroud from the Washington Times:
www.washtimes.com...
Then, after 9/11, incredibly Gorelick was appointed to be a member of the 9/11 Commission which was responsible for investigating the failures that
led to 9/11. It was reported that Gorelick herself wrote much of the 9/11 Commission Report. Incredibly, Gorelick did not mention "the wall" in
the 9/11 Commission Report.
5. Pre-Knowledge: Able Danger
Members of a military intelligence operation called "Able Danger" claim to have identified Mohammed Atta prior to 9/11, and tried to give the FBI
information about Atta and his al-Qaeda cell three times, but were prevented from turning over the information by Defense Dept. attorneys. Arlen
Specter called for Senate Hearings on the matter, but Donald Rumsfeld issued a directive forbidding any members of Able Danger to testify in front of
the Senate.
Members of Able Danger also claimed that they tried to inform the 9/11 Commission about their pre-9/11 findings, but that the 9/11 Commission both
rejected even listening to what they had to say, and then later lied about the fact that the members of Able Danger even approached the 9/11
Commission.
It's interesting that Jamie Gorelick was one of the members on the 9/11 Commission that didn't want to hear anything from Able Danger, since it was
her "wall" that was the pretext used by the Dept. of Defense for not giving the pre-9/11 intelligence to the FBI.
I.e., Able Danger may have uncovered the 9/11 plot well in advance, but the Dept. of Defense, run by former PNAC founing member Donald Rumsfeld,
prevented both action on their information, and investigation into why their information was not acted upon.
www.foxnews.com...