911 Cover-up, Able Danger and Peter Lance's New Book

by **isachar** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:02 am

Peter Lance once again blows the cover off the 911 cover-up. Lance is the same guy who uncovered the links between Flight 800 and 911 in his earlier book. ---------------------------------------------------------- Another 9/11 Coverup in the Making? By Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. Posted August 23, 2006. The author of a new book about the mistakes that led to 9/11 accuses the National Geographic Channel of diluting a documentary about the book in order to protect the government. Tools Despite the best efforts of the Pentagon to keep the lid on, the story of Able Danger -- the controversial secret military intelligence program that purportedly identified five active al-Qaeda cells and four of the 9/11 hijackers more than a year before the worst terror attacks ever on American soil -- continues to make news. The latest wrinkle is a nasty public spat between the National Geographic Channel, which plans to broadcast "Triple Cross: Bin Laden's Spy in America" on Aug. 28, and author Peter Lance, whose new book forms the basis of the documentary. Lance is an Emmy-winning former reporter-producer for ABC News. His book, "Triple Cross," which will be released in September, accuses law enforcement officials of negligence in tracking down Ali Mohamed, an alleged al-Qaeda agent in the United States for years before Sept. 11. The book says Mohamed was hired by the CIA and worked for the FBI, all the while providing information to the terrorists. The book also contains, according to Lance, "a major new insight" into why the Pentagon killed the Able Danger operation in April 2000. It involves the discovery by Able Danger operatives that Ali Mohamed was a member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle. Mohamed turned up in FBI surveillance photos as early as 1989, training radical Muslims who would go on to assassinate Jewish militant Meir Kahane and detonate a truck bomb at the World Trade Center. He not only avoided arrest, but managed to become an FBI informant while smuggling bin Laden in and out of Afghanistan, writing most of the al-Qaeda terrorist manual and helping plan attacks on American troops in Somalia and U.S. embassies in Africa. Finally arrested in 1998, Mohamed cut a deal with the Justice Department, and his whereabouts remain shrouded, unknown. ''The FBI allowed the chief spy for al-Qaeda to operate right under their noses,'' Lance said. ''They let him plan the bombings of the embassies in Africa right under their noses. Two hundred twenty-four people were killed and more than 4,000 wounded because of their negligence." Lance contends that when Pentagon officials realized how embarrassing it would be if it were revealed that bin Laden's spy had stolen top-secret intelligence (including the positions of all Green Beret and SEAL units worldwide), they decided to bury the entire Able Danger program. Lance further states that his book also contains evidence that Patrick Fitzgerald (of later Scooter Libby/Valerie Plame fame) covered up key al-Qaeda intelligence in 1996, when he was then an assistant U.S. attorney in New York. To Lance, Fitzgerald was "one of the principal players in the government's negligence, who engaged in an affirmative coverup of key al-Qaeda-related intelligence in 1996." Lance believes "Fitzgerald was hopelessly outgunned by Mohamed, a hardened al-Qaeda spy, who was bin Laden's personal security advisor." Despite two face-to-face meetings with Mohamed, whom Fitzgerald called "the most dangerous man I've ever met," he left him on the street, which allowed Mohamed -- who actually planned the surveillance for the African Embassy bombings -- to help pull off that simultaneous act of terror in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, in which 224 died and more than 4,000 were injured. There is also a chilling tie-in in the book to the airliner-bombing plot revealed last week by the British intelligence. Much of the key intelligence that Fitzgerald helped to bury in 1996 was directly related to the Bojinka plot, a scheme by original WTC bomber and 9/11 architect Ramzi Yousef to smuggle small improvised explosive devices aboard up to a dozen U.S. bound jumbo jets exiting Asia. Fitzgerald went on become both U.S. attorney for the northern district of Illinois and special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe. After allowing Ali Mohamed to operate with virtual impunity for years, Fitzgerald finally arrested him post-bombing in 1998. But then he cut a deal with him that allowed Mohamed to enter witness protection and avoid the death penalty. Lance contends that this was to spare the government from embarrassment, since Ali Mohamed had been an FBI informant since 1992. Yet despite three years in federal custody, Fitzgerald and his elite FBI squad members were unable to extract the 9/11 plot from Mohamed, who was so close to bin Laden that he lived in the Saudi billionaire's house after moving him and his family from Afghanistan to Khartoum in 1992. The revelations, says Lance, proved "too hot to handle" for the National Geographic Channel, which is two-thirds owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp (which also owns Lance's publisher, HarperCollins). "The Feds have gotten to them, there is no doubt," Lance told me in an interview. "National Geographic has abandoned the truth and acquiesced to pressure from the government." Television critic Glenn Garvin first reported the flap in a Miami Herald piece that characterized Lance's reaction to the program as a "watered-down whitewash" that was "like doing 'Schindler's List' from Hitler's perspective.'' Able Danger insiders had figured the documentary to be controversial, but no one expected open warfare to break out between Lance and his broadcasters prior to its airing. Lance, who was originally slated to narrate the film, is so angry at what he sees as the program's shift in direction and emphasis that he now refuses to back it at all. At least one source interviewed for the documentary -- House Armed Services Committee vice chairman Curt Weldon, who has spearheaded congressional efforts to get to the bottom of the Able Danger affair -- has asked to be removed from the program. "We didn't think National Geographic was doing a 100 percent job," says Weldon's chief of staff, Russ Caso. "We felt we weren't looking at an unbiased piece.'' And National Geographic's producers now won't even let Lance see the final cut unless he signs what they call a "nondisparagement agreement.'' The public pissing match between Lance and his putative broadcaster is virtually without precedent. ''It's probably happened before,'' John Ford, executive vice president of programming at National Geographic Channel, told the Herald. "But I can't tell you when. I certainly don't know of a case." Ford strongly denies the documentary is a whitewash and says the network still stands behind it despite Lance's attack. But Lance is having none of it: "They hijacked my work," he says, "The documentary is now skewed so much in favor of the feds that it actually distorts the facts of the story." National Geographic's executive vice president of programming, John Ford, said the film's producers never intended to base the documentary solely on the book -- something Lance hotly disputes. "Let me set the record straight on the allegations made by John Ford," he says. "First, in the Miami Herald piece, Ford lied to Glenn Garvin when he said that 'Peter wanted us to include accusations and conclusions ... that we could not independently verify, and we weren't willing to do that.'" "The film is also based on our own independent research," says Ford. He also told United Press International that Lance "wants this show to reflect his own personal conclusions," and that he is "using this controversy to promote his book." "The second lie is that the documentary 'was never supposed to be based solely' on my book," says Lance. "The truth is that from the beginning Nat Geo hired me to do a documentary exclusively based on my work. This was my show from start to finish. But now we're at a point where a major cable network, reporting on an issue of national importance, is backtracking on proof of how the FBI folded on the road to 9/11. What's worse, in a few days this documentary will air with my name on it!" Lance concludes, "This is a ridiculous lie, since they've cut me out of the process and rolled over in favor of the feds." Despite Lance's vehement protestations, National Geographic executives like Ford are undeterred and say that the show must and will go on -- especially given the upcoming fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. ''It exposes how different parts of the U.S. national security apparatus failed to connect the dots on Ali Mohamed over a decade and a half,'' Ford said. "It's like a Tom Clancy thriller, but true.'' What's also true is that many questions still remain unanswered about the actual Able Danger program, what it found, and what reaction higher-ups everywhere from Pentagon brass to FBI officials to the 9/11 Commission had when Able Danger operatives attempted to inform them of its findings. Why, for example, were three planned meetings with the FBI canceled at the last minute, thus preventing the bureau from hearing evidence that may have helped them "connect the dots" before the terror attacks? Why was the guided missile destroyer USS Cole sent to refuel at the port of Aden, Yemen, in October 2000, despite the fact that Able Danger had identified Aden as the location of an active al-Qaeda cell? Why did Special Operation Command chief Peter Schoomaker (now Army chief of staff) apparently do nothing after Able Danger analysts personally briefed him about the danger in Yemen just two days before a suicide bomb attack blew a 40-by-40-foot hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 crew members and injuring 39 others? Further, why was veteran intelligence analyst-operative Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer's career derailed and reputation besmirched after he tried to alert an unwilling 9/11 Commission to Able Danger's findings? What has happened to the Department of Defense's own inspector general's investigation into the scapegoating of Shaffer -- originally slated to be completed and made public in May? Whatever happened to Arlen Specter's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Able Danger, originally scheduled for last September and then "postponed for the Jewish holidays?" And why were the entire 2.5 terabytes of Able Danger data destroyed, along with a pre-9/11 link chart that identified four eventual hijackers and even had a photograph of Mohammed Atta? And what about reports that the Able Danger program was reconstituted after the data purge by a classified Raytheon "skunk works" program in Garland, Texas? Or that the entire data-mining effort was then taken "black," hidden deep inside the intelligence bureaucracy and expanded into what later morphed into Total Information Awareness, NSA warrantless surveillance, and in fact the government's ongoing illegal and unconstitutional spying on huge quantities of domestic telephone calls and emails? Conspiracy ... or something more? The plot ever thickens … Filmmaker and journalist Rory O'Connor writes the Media Is A Plural blog. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/40693">www.alternet.org/story/40693</a>

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:09 am

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>"But now we're at a point where a major cable network, reporting on an issue of national importance, is backtracking on proof of how the FBI folded on the road to 9/11. What's worse, in a few days this documentary will air with my name on it!" Lance concludes, "This is a ridiculous lie, since they've cut me out of the process and rolled over in favor of the feds." Despite Lance's vehement protestations, National Geographic executives like Ford are undeterred and say that the show must and will go on -- especially given the upcoming fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.<hr></blockquote> National Geographic is another pipe in the CIA's Mighty Wurlitzer and Lance should've known better than to allow them to co-opt him. Too many people don't know what the 'mainstream media' really is and this is why I think educating more people on Operation Mockingbird is the single most important way to defeat fascism. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 8/24/06 10:59 am

by **Gouda** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:52 am

Maybe so, that is, if Lance himself is not part of the charade, knowingly or unwittingly. I am not saying he is, I know nothing about his background or body of work. But someone here is not addressing the question of why the FBI "folded on the road to 911." Is it Lance, is it the alternet writer? Is it all to hide embarrassing fuck-ups? <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Lance contends that when Pentagon officials realized how embarrassing it would be if it were revealed that bin Laden's spy had stolen top-secret intelligence (including the positions of all Green Beret and SEAL units worldwide), they decided to bury the entire Able Danger program. ... After allowing Ali Mohamed to operate with virtual impunity for years, Fitzgerald finally arrested him post-bombing in 1998. But then he cut a deal with him that allowed Mohamed to enter witness protection and avoid the death penalty. Lance contends that this was to spare the government from embarrassment, since Ali Mohamed had been an FBI informant since 1992. Yet despite three years in federal custody, Fitzgerald and his elite FBI squad members were unable to extract the 9/11 plot from Mohamed, who was so close to bin Laden that he lived in the Saudi billionaire's house after moving him and his family from Afghanistan to Khartoum in 1992.<hr></blockquote> Where does very real government fuck-up and embarrassment damage-control end, and the very real limited hang-out covering deeper complicity begin? What I am reading here suggests that Fitzie and the FBI were either overmatched and swindled time and time again by Ali Mohamed, thus proving their incompetence; or they were complicit in their understanding of the dangers of letting this guy operate, knowing full well the consequences, especially after repeated successful attacks; or there was another level above both Fitzie and Mohammed playing both of them. Anyway, if Nat Geo is heavily mockingbird, why would they not cooperate on a limitedly-hung, damage-control version of this story? One could hypothesize that they want to prevent any incrimination of Fitzmas while he is still working on his latest limited hang-out (Plame) job. Perhaps it is a question of timing rather than will. Where does overt "black is white" propaganda end and limited hang-out propaganda begin? Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=gouda@rigorousintuition>Gouda</A> at: 8/24/06 11:04 am

by **isachar** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:29 am

Hugh, Gouda, Peter Lance's latest book is a follow-up and extension of his devastating (to the official conspiracy theory) earlier work '911 Cover-up'. It is a must read as it contains the actual FBI reports of its under-cover operative (a mafioso) it had placed in the cell immediately next to Ramzi Yousef who had gained Yousef's confidence. He makes a pretty compelling case for high level FBI complicity in cover-up of Flight 800 explosion/attack and the 911 conpiracy. Absolutely essential reading. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060543558/102-8185378-6912953?v=glance&n=283155">www.amazon.com/gp/product...e&n=283155</a> Book Description Ever since 9/11, investigative reporter Peter Lance has been leading the fight to expose the intelligence gaps that led to 9/11. Now, in the follow-up to his bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge, he returns with devastating new evidence that the government has been covering up its own counterterror failures since the mid-1990s -- and continues today. In Cover Up, Lance shows how the government chose again and again to sacrifice America's national security for personal motives and political convenience. In its first half, he unveils shattering new evidence that terror mastermind Ramzi Yousef ordered the bombing of TWA 800 from his prison cell in order to effect a mistrial in his own terror bombing case. Astonishingly, the FBI was alerted to Yousef's plans in advance by a prison informant who even passed along his detailed sketch of a bomb-trigger device -- a document seen here for the first time. And Lance reveals the shocking reason the Justice Department suddenly ruled the crash an accident despite overwhelming evidence of the bombing -- throwing away its best chance to penetrate the cell that was already planning 9/11. And the outrage doesn't stop there. In Part II, Lance offers an unofficial "minority report" on the 9/11 Commission, critiquing it as the incomplete, highly politicized "Warren Commission of our time." He explores potential conflicts of interest among its members, from the staff director who wrote a book with Condoleezza Rice, to the former Clinton deputy attorney general who participated in a critical meeting that upended the TWA probe. He exposes the report's false contention that the 9/11 plan was conceived in 1996, when the FBI had knowledge that the plot was in motion as early as 1994. And, in a heart-stopping, minute-by-minute chronicle of the attacks, he asks dozens of unanswered questions about the defense failures of that day -- from why fighter jets weren't scrambled for almost an hour after the hijackings, to why the president and several of his top military advisers remained virtually incommunicado for more than half an hour after it was clear that America was under attack. At a time when America feels no safer than ever, Cover Up will lend new eyes to readers who want the full story behind the 9/11 attacks -- and inspire us all to keep demanding the truth. About the Author Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter and author of the bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI -- The Untold Story. A former correspondent for ABC News, he has covered hundreds of stories worldwide for 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight. Also a recipient of the Robert F. 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by **Gouda** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:54 am

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>...he returns with devastating new evidence that the government has been covering up its own counterterror failures since the mid-1990s<hr></blockquote> Failures a-plenty, to be sure. But at what point do these failures, as they mount and form a pattern, become success? Where "counterterror" becomes "contolledterror", to the wonderful benefit of a certain segment of global society?

by **AlanStrangis** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:09 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>But at what point do these failures, as they mount and form a pattern, become success? Where "counterterror" becomes "contolledterror", to the wonderful benefit of a certain segment of global society?<hr></blockquote> I gotta agree with you Gouda. There's something about Lance's work ( haven't read "Triple Cross" though) and Able Danger that smells like "limited hangout". The touting of Ali Mohamed as a double-agent, and feeding sensitive info to al-Q sounds like a setup, which can be used as a scapegoat for just about every aspect of foreknowledge, including sensitive info such as the war games ("Hey Atta, you know what day would be PERFECT to light the match...?"). However, if if Ali Mohamed is a double agent, why's the book called "Triple Cross"? As you point out, Lance is suggesting that this is all bungling on the part of the intel community's part, but then the title "Triple Cross" makes no sense. If Mohamed's actions as a double agent ARE known to his US handlers, then "Triple Cross" makes perfect sense. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"> Weaving spiders, get here quick!

by **isachar** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:15 pm

Alan, I haven't read Triple Cross yet, but it is not correct to suggest that Lance's earlier work '911 Cover-up' suggests 911 was the result of 'bungling'. He provides solid evidence of FBI collusion to cover up Flight 800 and 911 and links between these two events.

by **AlanStrangis** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:14 pm

Maybe I shouldn't use the term "limited hangout", as that sounds accusatory on my part. I definitely got a "something's missing" feel from it, though it does have a lot of good info in it. The whole Able Danger aspect has struck me as a fleshing out of the incompetence/bureaucratic power jockeying angle of the official story.

by **streeb** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:51 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>In its first half, he unveils shattering new evidence that terror mastermind Ramzi Yousef ordered the bombing of TWA 800 from his prison cell in order to effect a mistrial in his own terror bombing case. Astonishingly, the FBI was alerted to Yousef's plans in advance by a prison informant who even passed along his detailed sketch of a bomb-trigger device -- a document seen here for the first time. And Lance reveals the shocking reason the Justice Department suddenly ruled the crash an accident despite overwhelming evidence of the bombing<hr></blockquote> I guess I got hung up on the Navy missile theory of TWA 800, especially after reading Into the Buzzsaw. Any thoughts?

by **starroute** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:02 pm

Color me dubious on this one, but it doesn't pass the smell test. Partly, I've gotten to the point where *anything* connected with Crazy Curt Weldon rings false to me. I spent far too much time a while back trying to line up all the claims about Able Danger into a timeline that made some sort of sense, and I was never able to get them to line up cleanly. For example, there are wildly contradictory dates given for such basic facts as when Able Danger produced its chart of terrorists, or when and on whose orders its files were destroyed. Among other things, to accept the Able Danger story you have to believe the CIA is lying when it says it was tracking Atta in Germany throughout the period when Weldon claims he was a member of an al Qaeda cell in Brooklyn. Now, I would never question the CIA's willingness to lie whenever it seems useful -- but in this case, it would be strange for them to have fabricated an entire detailed narrative of Atta's movements that that would presumably be easy to disprove if it was false. (And the Able Danger people have never tried to disprove it -- they just say, "Atta was on our chart." And the Pentagon says, "No he wasn't, that was somebody else with a similar name.") There's also the fact that in May 2002, Weldon mentioned Able Danger (though not by name) in a speech to Congress and displayed its chart of "the entire al Qaeda network." (<a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/h052102.html)">www.fas.org/irp/congress/...2102.html)</a> And yet, Weldon has claimed more recently that he gave his chart to Stephen Hadley on September 25, 2001 and didn't keep a copy. My suspicions are that the entire Able Danger story was fabricated -- or, more precisely, elaborated on the very slim base of an experimental project in data mining -- with several objectives in mind. One (which appears clearly in that Weldon speech) was to exonerate George Bush from claims that he was asleep at the switch before 9/11 and lay the blame off onto the Clinton administration. Another was to tout the wonders of data mining, blame over-finnicky government lawyers for refusing to let anybody even look at the evidence, and thus condition us all to embrace such things as the illegal NSA wiretap program. The Able Danger claims also fit into a larger context of stories which on first glance seem to be critical of the administration -- but turn out to be pushing the notion that the terrorists are ever more dangerous than generally acknowledged, are better organized, and have possibly infiltrated into the U.S. government. The claims Weldon has more recently been making about Saddam smuggling his real WMD's out to Syria before the invasion are part of that larger pattern, which seems designed to lay the groundwork for a new McCarthyism -- witchhunts within the federal government itself.

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:15 pm

Oh brother. Another snake in the grass. Lance is a disinfo artist. His bogus claims that TWA800 was 'bombed' on the blind sheik's orders is BULLSHIT. This means Lance is bullshitting us on Able Danger, too. TWA800 was a massive cover-up that is a smaller version of the 9/11 cover-up so my apologies for the TWA800 data dump below but it is necessary to illustrate the fabrication during the 1990s of what is now being marketed as a permanent War on Terror. See Kristina Borjesson's 'Into the Buzzsaw' and retired Navy Commander Donaldson's exposes on that false-flag terrorist act which happened several days before the opening of the Olympics in Atlanta. To continue the cover-up, a bomb at the Olympics and the FBI harassment of security nebbish Richard Jewell sealed the public's view that 'mad bombers' were the new post-Cold War threat. The only thing similar to 9/11 is that military excercises off of NYC were happening that day and hundreds of ground witnesses and even ex-military pilots in the air watched a surface-to-air missile go up and blow TWA800 out of the air. Clinton had signed the Libya Sanctions Act in 1996 and that was another cover-up of CIA involvement with the PanAm 103 Lockerbie bombing. (Any wonder that the NTSB is run by spooks?) The evidence of a missile's rocket fuel on the seat cushions of TWA800was covered up and when journalists got the evidence from an inside leaker those journalists lost their jobs. <a href="http://www.twa800.com/news/nyo7-12.htm">www.twa800.com/news/nyo7-12.htm</a> <img src="http://twa800.com/images/cmdr2_thumb.jpg" style="border:0;"/> http://www.aci.net/kalliste/twa_clinton_coverup.htm<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Cmdr. William S. Donaldson, III - USN, Ret. Aviation Mishap Analyst P.O. Box 90, Clements, Maryland 20624 Web site: twa800.com April 5, 1999 Mr. Philip M. Condit The Boeing Company P.O. Box 3707, Mail Code 10-10 Seattle, WA 98124-2207 Mr. Gerald L. Gitner Trans World Airlines One City Center 515 North Sixth St. St. Louis, MO 63101 Re: The unexplained loss of TWA Flight 800 Gentlemen, Over the last four months our investigation into the loss of TWA Flight 800 has produced information far surpassing that contained in our July 20, 1998 Interim Report to Congress. We can now prove, before a jury or other independent fact-finding body, that the aircraft was shot down. We can also explain why the Administration covered it up and expose some of the methods they employed to do so. Your corporations are being scapegoated and defrauded by Administration officials because, had the truth about this incident been reported before November of 1996, it could have derailed the reelection of Clinton/Gore. Exposed now, it could send guilty parties to jail for Misprision of Felony Homicide.  We can provide your attorney's with witnesses, documents, or reference material that will support the following text: White House knowledge of a threat prior to the loss of TWA Flight 800 1. The Administration knew that in 1996, surrogates from rogue states had access to MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense Systems) or shoulder-fired missiles in mid-eastern weapons bazaars. $5,000 would acquire the least capable model, the Russian SA-7. $50,000 would buy the most capable, the Chinese Vanguard, a deadly new missile upgraded from US Stinger technology transferred to the Chinese in the early 90's. Superior to the Stinger, this missile has a much longer range. The Administration also knew Iran had a limited number of US Stinger missiles in inventory. 2. The Administration was aware that, worldwide, MANPADS missiles had already claimed 26 civil transport aircraft and was only a matter of time before a U.S. Flag carrier would be targeted and hit. They knew the Administration had dodged a bullet in 1994 when Maryland State Police found a fully armed French Mistral MANPADS missile ready to fire on its tripod directly under a busy northeastern air route. 3. In response to sanctions unilaterally levied against Iran by Mr. Clinton in 1995, Iranian surrogate's car bombed US troops in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and later smuggled MANPADS missiles into the US from across the Canadian border. Iranian officials warned the Administration that they considered enactment of the Iran/Libya Sanctions Act tantamount to an act of war! 4. When Mr. Clinton signed the Iran, Libya Sanctions Act of 1996, a decision was made by the Iranian Supreme Council to approve attacks on major American targets. Terrorist surrogate groups from nine countries were summoned to Tehran to meet with Iranian officials in June of 1996. Later that month, a huge truck bomb was deployed against the US Air Force barracks complex at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Three weeks later, TWA Flight 800 was shot down only hours after an explicit warning of an attack was received in London and Washington that taunted the President. 5. The White House, the CIA and the FBI were aware of the threat and they knew preventing that attack was their primary responsibility. 6. We can show the Administration anticipated incorrectly that, if the missiles were used, they would be targeted against Olympic air traffic landing or taking off in the Atlanta area. 7. We can provide testimony that immediately after Flight 800 was shot down, Mr. Clinton called an FBI command post supporting the Olympics and informed them Flight 800 was downed with shoulder-fired missiles. 8. The White House, the CIA and the FBI political leadership have waged an unrelenting disinformation campaign from the onset. This has ranged from the White House spokesman stating, "Anyone in government that says this was a missile only has half a brain", and to the CIA cartoon that libeled hundreds of eyewitnesses. Witnesses or "Untouchables"? 1. The day after Flight 800 was shot down, the Justice Department, helped by 1,000 FBI agents, began the process of converting hundreds of witnesses into the first American "untouchable cast". The political leadership of the NTSB aborted its mission in one surrender of its responsibilities after another. When the Justice Department illegally ordered the NTSB crash investigators to have no contact with witnesses or their statements, and the NTSB complied, the investigation was over, the cover-up and Misprision of Felony Homicide had begun. 2. At the NTSB Public Hearing in December of 1997, the word "witnesses" was not even mentioned. Before and since, they have been ridiculed, slandered and liabled in official videotapes and statements made by government spokesmen. 3. On March 15, 1999 the derailment of the Spirit of New Orleans after she hit a steel truck at a railroad crossing in Bourbonnaise IL, prompted a media wide call for witnesses by NTSB officials. It seems a witness was needed to prove the truck had driven around the safety gate. Apparently, investigations are much simpler and witnesses more creditable for the NTSB when there is no White House interest. 4. We have access to 107 witnesses on 4 aircraft, 19 boats, and 31 locations ashore. They were located in a 360° circle around the missile engagement. Their live testimony alone will prove the aircraft was shot down. This is why the Justice Department has kept air crash investigators away from witnesses for 2 1/2 years and also one reason they are conducting a malicious show-trial prosecution of author and outside investigator James Sanders and his wife. It's hard to interview witnesses from a Federal prison. The FBI failed to identify and interview 17 of these people. Among these 17 are witnesses on a boat who may have seen the escaping shooter. Justice Department suppression of Missile Evidence 1. It appears, aggressive FBI missile-team field agents eventually solved the problem as to the cause of the crash, but had no support in the FBI leadership. In fact, the FBI leadership seems to have deliberately withheld vital information from their own agents. 2. George Gabrial, the senior FBI Agent on Long Island and personal friend of Mr. Kalstrom, was a close witness on his boat. We can provide witnesses who overheard him say he believed what he observed was a missile. FBI missile-team members did not know he was a witness until we informed them. 3. The FBI has videotape that was shown to military experts of a missile shot from off the coast of Long Island that failed to engage a target. This first attempt was nearly coincidental to the Khobar Towers attack 3 weeks before Flight 800’s loss. 4. By late September, 1996, FBI missile-team members had established informal liaison with military missile guidance experts. By that time the FBI knew witnesses at sea on all sides were pointing to a missile launch a few miles southeast of Flight 800's explosion point. What they observed fit the profile of a MANPADS missile engagement. 5. In December 1996, FBI missile team members told military experts that two separate commercial fishermen dredged up and threw back a MANPADS first stage, the missile ejector-motor can. The ejector motor, about the size of a Coke can, fires in the tube, ejecting the missile, then drops in the water when the missile 2nd stage booster ignites. 6. The fishing vessel Alpha Omega recovered one of these motor cans in early October, 1996, while trawling for scallops about 2 nautical miles from Flight 800's explosion point. The crewman, not realizing the importance of his find, noted the two distinctive ignition wires attached to the can before he threw it overboard. 7. Despite overwhelming forensic evidence of a weapon impact in the number 2 main tank of the left wing and witness testimony of a missile attack, the Administration would not fund military missile experts or allow the FBI to trawl for missile parts until after the November 1996 elections. 8. The Alpha Omega was one of five trawlers contracted by the Navy Supervisor of Salvage for trawler operations. When FBI agents finally came aboard in November 1996 to begin trawling and brought pictures of three objects they were looking for, it was that point the crewman told them they were too late, he had already found and discarded an ejector can! 9. Responding to the previous findings, Special Agents Bongardt and Otto took a live ejector motor can from a Stinger missile aboard all the trawlers under contract, showing it to captain and crew. 10. Interrogated for hours, the Alpha Omega crewman insisted the can he found had the same features, ignition wires, etc. but was somehow different. 11. That interrogation should have prompted the FBI leadership to suspect they may have been dealing with the longer-range Chinese Vanguard or Russian SA16/18 missiles. 12. It is clear from the Supervisor of Salvage's operational trawling maps depicting "missile firing zones" and the FBI Trawling Operations Manual in our possession, that the Justice Department's intent was to find and hide from "other Interested Parties", missile ejector cans, missile battery cooling units and the last Flight 800 Scavenge Pump the NTSB was trying to blame as a source of a spark. 13. The $ 5 million trawling operation was funded by NTSB, contracted to civilian scallop boats through the Navy Supervisor of Salvage from 4 November 1996 until it was suddenly terminated on 30 April 1997, yet the trawlers were manned 24 hours a day by teams of FBI agents. Up until 30 April 1997 the scallop boat captains had been told the operation would continue indefinitely for months or even years. FBI agents got the word via cell phone to shut down the operations. On two of the boats, when the captains refused to stop until the Navy contractor on board told them to, the agents threatened force to make the captains shut down. The first agent backed down when the captain told him he would go anywhere at gunpoint, but the agent could expect to be charged with piracy on the high seas when they got ashore. The second agent backed down when the captain informed him that he was armed also and he was the captain and they weren't going anywhere! 14. The FBI's trawling plan was flawed in the following ways. a. The missile firing zones depicted on the charts were 1.75 NM and 2.7 NM radius circles. These distances are accurate for two types of MANPADS but the Chinese Vanguard exceeds those ranges. b. They used the last transponder response from the aircraft as the aircraft explosion point. The aircraft was travelling east over 2,900 feet between each transponder response. A two-second error would move the trawling off by 1/4 mile. c. They failed to notice, until December 1996, a recorded surface radar contact only 2.9 NM from Flight 800 when it exploded! d. They failed to identify that boat! e. They failed to adjust the trawling lines to cover that boat's surface track while it was in range of TWA Flight 800. 15. The FBI told military experts they had a witness who perfectly described a MANPADS engagement terminating in an impact on Flight 800’s left wing root. It includes boost; sustainer-motor burn and total missile fly-out time typical of the US Stinger and its copies. 16. Military thermal imaging of B747-100’s provided to the FBI by China Lake Naval Air Weapons Facility, indicate a MANPADS missile fired from a low forward quarter would guide toward the three air pack exhaust ports, directly under the center wing tank and not, as publicly stated for the engine nacelles. See attached Thermal Imaging. 17. Military computer modeling of the TWA 800 engagement, using Stinger data, shows the missile’s velocity would degrade to 400 meters per second as it climbed through 13,700 ft. This would cause the circular error probability (CEP) to expand to 20 ft. or more, allowing an impact almost anywhere on the aircraft. 18. Stinger guidance technology provides a last instant steer-forward command to avoid a miss by flying through an engine exhaust plume. Such a command would explain a missile, fired from in front, steering for the air pack exhausts under the center wing, impacting forward on the left wing root leading edge. 19. The Stinger, for example, has a two-pound warhead with three fusing options, contact, penetration and time-out. 20. Using stinger missile fly-out data provided to the FBI by military experts, the combined velocity of missile body and aircraft at impact would be 1950 ft/sec. 21. If the cockpit voice recorder hasn't been tampered with, an audio laboratory should be able to discern this velocity through its analysis of recorded frequencies. This may be why the NTSB has refused to allow the Cockpit Voice Recorder group to convene and study the data generated from the Bruntingthorpe tests done in England. 22. E = ½ MV2 would predict kinetic energy available at impact of over 1.2 million foot pounds. 23. The kinetic energy from a missile body entering the number two main, ¾ full of fuel, at mach 1.8 would cause the tank to burst from hydraulic overpressurization. 24. Fused for penetration, the two-pound high explosive warhead, bursting in the fuel could impart an additional 200-PSI spike of hydraulic ram overpressure. 25. Jet fuel is over 700 times the density of air. A MANPADS missile warhead’s fragments would be stopped in a few feet of fuel, negating high velocity fragment damage to aircraft components. Mr. Kalstrom’s public statements repeatedly used the lack of high velocity fragment damage as an excuse to ignore witnesses and shutdown the investigation. 26. The Navy China Lake missile impact "Quick Look Engineering Study" identified 4 criteria for expected damage if a shoulder fired missile hit a 747-100 inboard main fuel tank. All four are caused by hydraulic over pressurization of fuel tanks. All four are in evidence on the left wing. None of these criteria have ever been seen in previous air crashes. 27. The China Lake report’s first two recommendations were to detonate shoulder-fired missile warheads in fuel tanks to determine if the fragments would be trapped and to do live firing of these missiles at inboard main tanks to compare to left wing damage on Flight 800. 28. Mr. Kalstrom ignored all seven recommendations; cherry picked statements out of the China Lake report and used them out of context in the media to argue the aircraft was not shot down. 29. When Mr. Kalstrom was faced with having to take action on the China Lake report he chose to shut down the investigation. 30. At the time the FBI investigation was prematurely shut down in November of 1997, the FBI had failed to identify a fast moving boat captured on radar only 2.9 nautical miles from Flight 800 when it exploded. Mr. Schirilo, who replaced Mr. Kalstrom, admitted that fact in a letter to Congressman Traficant. 31. After his retirement, Mr. Kalstrom was taped stating the boat captured on radar was really a helicopter. Considering the radar target was non-transponder and was tracked on the surface at speed below 36 knots for 35 minutes prior to disappearing over the horizon, even FBI agents have acknowledged Mr. Kalstrom’s excuse is nonsense. 32. Witnesses afloat and ashore observed a six second missile burn (Stinger rocket burn is 6 ½ seconds) coming from the near vicinity of the unidentified boat. 33. Senior Justice Department officials need to be compelled to answer under oath why testing essential to determine if Flight 800 was brought down by a shoulder fired missile was not funded and why they ignored the forensic evidence, military experts, witnesses and their own FBI field agents. The search for the Black Boxes 1. Discovery of the plight of the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder and their two Ducane pingers, after water entry, may be the key to unlocking the cover-up. We can show a Grand Jury how Mr. Clinton personally involved himself. 2. The NTSB is extremely sensitive to the subject of Black Boxes. They opened the boxes without any investigators from the Interested Parties present. They refused to allow TWA's investigator to listen to the voice recorder more than once. 3. The Voice Recorder has a "sound like damaged tape" precisely seven seconds prior to its end. Seven seconds prior to missile impact would be coincidental to MANPADS booster ignition. A visually bright event that could be seen by the First Officer. 4. Dr. Loeb has refused to release Addendum number two to the Flight Data Recorder Analysis that was written to rebut our interpretation of the last data line. The NTSB even refuses to let the Voice Recorder Analysis group reconvene! 5. The Administration's explanation of the circumstances under which the USS Grasp" divers found the Digital Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder is highly questionable. 6. According to divers we interviewed and the Navy Supervisor of Salvage Report, Navy divers from the USS Grasp found the recorders during Dive #2 and Dive #3 on the evening of 23 July 1996. The Administration maintains these same divers found them more than 24 hours later at 2330 hours on 24 July 1996. East coast TV news coverage ends at 23:30. 7. The most probable motive for this deception was to ensure investigators, who are Parties to the Investigation, were not witnesses when NTSB/FBI officials were alleged to have first opened the boxes in Washington during the early morning hours of 25 July 1996. 8. The boxes should have been found in the aircraft tail cone section, or within its debris. Instead, divers from the Grasp found each box 30 feet apart on a hard sand bottom, devoid of any attached debris and neither Ducane Pinger was operating. They appeared just as they would if dropped overboard from a boat! 9. Somehow both Ducane Systems fixed themselves while in FBI custody. They were found to be fault-free in laboratory test days later. 10. The small cylindrical Ducane Pingers are mounted on the narrow front face of each oblong rectangular box. They are protected from damage because they are bolted firmly to the inside angle of a short piece of angle iron. Because of their shape, the probability of either free falling box landing on the bottom with the pinger stuck in the sand, would be akin to a free falling domino landing on it's end and remaining standing in that position. 11. The only way Ducane Pingers can be silenced under water without evidence of damage is by partly unscrewing the battery connection. 12. The probability of both undamaged Ducane Pingers failing simultaneously in a shallow open ocean environment, on top of a hard sand bottom, approaches that of a spontaneous aviation kerosene explosion in an ignition-free Boeing 747-100 fuel tank. 13. We consider the fact the NTSB has remained mute about these alleged Ducane failures is Prima Facie evidence of either abject incompetence on the part of the NTSB who should have opened an inquiry into the cause, or proof of a cover-up of NTSB misconduct. 14. Weeks Marine, Inc. was verbally contracted by both the Coast Guard and FAA officials the night of the crash to position for salvage operations. They were on site the next morning with the best salvage equipment available in the Atlantic. It was superior to Navy assets, but Weeks Marine was stood down by the NTSB. It would be five more days before Navy divers would be on scene to recover recorders, bodies, etc! Why the forced wait? 15. Holding Weeks Marine, Inc. to standby while ordering Navy assets to respond from far away points deliberately condemned victims trapped in bottom wreckage to five additional days of ravage by natural elements. This grossly compounded the grief of the families and put at risk the ability of medical examiners to identify all remains. The White House was responsible for this order. 16. Circumstantial evidence indicates the Administration, knowing the aircraft to be shot down, may have ordered a covert recovery, laboratory examination and reinsertion of the recorders to ensure the aircrew did not describe the attack on audio tape. Scuba divers could have recovered the recorders on the afternoon of 18 July and dropped them back overboard after 10 am 22 July, before the USS Grasp and Navy divers were on scene. During that period of time NOAA research vessel Rude and the motor vessel Pirouette were simultaneously sent 5 miles off the main debris field on a "wild goose chase" by the NTSB. Both ships had been mapping that field with side scan sonar! 17. Properly done, a scuba team equipped with a Ducane locator amplifier tube, held over the side, could position a small boat directly over active Pingers, dive and recover the boxes in a single effort. Active pingers can be detected by divers300 yards away. 18. We have a witness that has passed a polygraph test and has provided a sworn affidavit that a member of the NTSB leadership told him the recorders were found and examined by 20 July. The Coast Guard told both TWA maintenance and Congressman Forbes that the recorders were found on 18 July. The next day, 19 July, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was told the aircraft was shot down by terrorists. Senators Hatch and D'Amato made public statements to the same effect. 19. White House, NTSB and Justice Department officials need to be compelled to explain these events and their actions under oath. We also have other individuals who have asked to remain anonymous who should be questioned under oath. 20. Despite a steep learning curve and the best efforts of some if its most aggressive field agents, FBI leadership has demonstrated itself to be functionally illiterate in the critical areas of; military weapons and tactics, radar interpretation and air crash investigation. The fact the White House failed to immediately assign appropriate elements of the Department of Defense as lead investigators in the missile inquiry is inculpatory. 21. Gentlemen, we have the "FBI Trawler Operations Manual" and Operations Order as well as other documents left behind aboard a contract boat by FBI agents. If found, the Justice Department intended to hide from your companies; the last fuel scavenge pump, a missile ejector can and the missile battery cooling unit! TWA Flight 800 was the 27th civil aircraft shot down worldwide by shoulder fired missiles. The Administration’s actions have greatly increased the danger of a recurrence, not only because of the deception of this case but because administration policy deliberately fails to link any terrorist act to the government of the Sponsor State. This provides political cover for the Administration's lack of action and sanctuary to deadly enemies. I will point out the coincidence of the Clinton Administration's pro Arab, anti Israeli policy shift and the arrival on our shores of a creditable anti-aircraft threat under the control of rogue states. In 1994, the Maryland State Police found a fully armed French MANPADS missile, the Mistral, ready to fire on its tripod, directly under a heavily used air corridor near Westminster Maryland. Our research also found U.S. Stinger technology transferred to China in the early 90’s enabling them to produce the Vanguard, a quality shoulder fired Chinese missile. It was deployed first in 1996. If past history is an indicator, the China / Iran weapons transfer link bodes ill for future air commerce. In a worse case scenario, absent a respected American Commander-in-Chief, Iran’s Supreme Council, or other rogue state, could successfully shutdown or disrupt major traffic hubs worldwide by activating surrogate cells armed with Vanguard. If they can shoot down one, why not a half dozen on a single day? Gentlemen, the time to act is now, regardless of any arrangements you may or may not have had to accept. Once the American people understand the truth, your corporations will be indemnified against any further political extortion from this administration. We would ask, in the interest of long term air safety, that you take an aggressive and public pro-active stance. Challenge the Administration; educate the media and the electorate. Severance from a politicized and fraudulent Federal investigation is no penalty and maintenance of the status quo is certainly no prize. Sincerely, William S. Donaldson cc: The Honorable Slade Gordon Unites States Senate The Honorable Orin Hatch Unites States Senate The Honorable George Boinovitch Unites States Senate The Honorable John J. Duncan, Jr. U. S. House of Representatives The Honorable Henry Hyde U. S. House of Representatives The Honorable Porter Goss U. S. House of Representatives Judge Kenneth W. Starr Independent Counsel USDJ District Attorney James M. Catterson, Jr. Suffolk County Office of the District Attorney Col. Sommeres Air Attaché’, Embassy of France Gen. Bernardis Air Attaché’, Embassy of Italy Gen. Avi Barber Air Attaché, Embassy of Israel Adm. Jay Johnson Chief of Naval Operations Adm. G. W. Prueher Commander in Chief, Pacific Vadm. W. J. Fallon Commander, Second Fleet Vadm. H. E. Browne Commander, Third Fleet Directors The Families of TWA Flight 800 P.O. Box 1061, Clifton Park, NY 12065<hr></blockquote>

by **seemslikeadream** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:49 pm

<img src="http://english.alarabonline.org/data/2006/08/08-22/zculturez/971p.jpg" style="border:0;"/> BUDDY BUDDY <img src="http://www.gsnmagazine.com.nyud.net:8090/images/aug_05/atta.jpg" style="border:0;"/> DO THE MATH 24 MINUTES THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MILITARY ORDER EzCode Parsing Error: color=red size=3]WATCH THIS[/font] http://www.bushflash.com/buddy.html http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/24/124834/678 DIA Agents were ordered to put yellow Post-its over Atta's face and the face's of 3 other 9/11 terrorists "We were directed to take those 3M yellow stickers and place them over the faces of Atta and the other terrorists and pretend they didn't exist," the intelligence officer told GSN." Intel agents Michael Shaffer and Scott Philpott have confirmed Rep. Weldon's claims that a chart with Atta's face, soon the photos of 3 other members of the 9-11 terror team, were known to DIA team Able Danger by early 2000. This diary will show that Pete Schoomaker and Philip Zelikow are two of the main Perpetraitors in this scandal, that they deliberately withheld information from the President of the United States that would have prevented 9/11, that they and their neo-con rulers Let It Happen On Purpose. Of this there can no longer be any doubt. MUST READ - RE: ABLE DANGER INFO http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4447706 Hopsicker: Able Danger Intel Exposed "Protected" Heroin Trafficking http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x149481 Able Danger: Short Time-line http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4441903 Was Able Danger Shut Down After It Detected Condi-PRC Spy Ring? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4494524 Senate May Hold Hearings on Able Danger, Info Sharing Thursday, August 25, 2005 Able Danger (search) is the code name for a military-intelligence unit that apparently learned a year before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that lead hijacker Mohamed Atta (search) and other terrorists were already in the United States. One of the central Able Danger claims — that military lawyers blocked the sharing of the Atta information from the FBI in the late summer and early fall of 2000 — will be a focus of the committee's if a hearing takes place, FOX News has confirmed. Some analysts involved with Able Danger have recently gone public with their findings, saying they were discouraged from looking further into Atta, and their attempts to share their information with the FBI were thwarted, because Atta was a legal foreign visitor at the time. "This story needs to be told. The American people need to be told what could have been done to prevent 3,000 people from losing their lives," said Rep. Curt Weldon (search), R-Pa. Weldon drew attention to Able Danger by speaking about it on the House floor and publicly calling for the Sept. 11 commission to explain why the intelligence information wasn't detailed in its final report. Some Able Danger analysts, including Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (search) and Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott (search), claim that in October 2003, they told commission staffers of the presence of Al Qaeda operatives in the United States in 2000. more http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166800,00.html Senate May Hold Hearings on Able Danger, Info Sharing http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1727804&mesg_id=1727804 Condi in Middle of Able Danger ‘Cover Up’" Weldon is now saying that the Pentagon cover up of able danger “will shake the country to its roots." ... If the claims made by the Able Danger participants and Rep. Weldon are confirmed, former National Security Adviser Rice and other Bush Administration officials will face a barrage of questions. First would likely be an inquiry into why the administration unceremoniously axed the Able Danger project in May of 2001. During an August 20th interview on C-Span’s Washington Journal, Able Danger member Lt. Col. Schaffer posed a question of his own: "The American public should ask themselves: Why would the leadership of DoD shut down, terminate, a project which was aimed at targeting al-Qaeda offensively? ... "Why would they shut that down, four months before 9/11? That’s the big question right now, we have to ask that. I don’t know the answer to that question because I know my side of the story, I know that when a 2 star general got in my face and said, “I’m a 2 star general and you are not. You are to stop your support of Able Danger.” That’s what I know personally. But the question has to be: Who told him to do that? ... "And why did the rest of the project, I’m talking about Special Operations Command and the Army portion of this, why was that terminated? "Those are the questions that need to be asked." more... http://www.theinternationalpost.com/z30082005.html Congressman Weldon -- Why now? Why ever? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4500623 Three more assert Pentagon knew of 9/11 ringleader By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three more people associated with a secret U.S. military intelligence team have asserted that the program identified September 11 ringleader Mohammed Atta as an Al Qaeda suspect inside the United States more than a year before the 2001 attacks, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The Pentagon said a three-week review had turned up no documents to back up the assertion, but did not rule out that such documents relating to the classified operation had been destroyed. Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott and Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer last month came forward with statements that a secret intelligence program code-named "Able Danger" had identified Atta, the lead hijacker in the attacks that killed 3,000 people, in early 2000. Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record), vice chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, also went public with the allegations. Pat Downs, a senior policy analyst in the office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, told reporters that as part of the review, the Pentagon interviewed 80 people. Downs said that three more people, as well as Phillpott and Shaffer, recalled the existence of an intelligence chart identifying Atta by name. Four of the five recalled a photo of Atta accompanying the chart, Downs said. Pentagon officials declined to identify the three by name, but said they were an analyst with the military's Special Operations Command, an analyst with the Land Information Warfare Assessment Center and a contractor who supported the center. Downs said all five were considered "credible people." But officials said an exhaustive search of tens of thousands of documents and electronic files related to Able Danger failed to find the chart or other documents corroborating the identification of Atta. Phillpott has said Atta was identified by Able Danger by January or February of 2000. "We have not discovered that chart," Downs said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050901/pl_nm/security_attacks_pentagon_dc Three more assert Pentagon knew of 9/11 ringleader http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1744982&mesg_id=1744982 Specter Wants Answers About 'Able Danger' http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1796658&mesg_id=1796658 NYT/Reuters: Pentagon Blocks Testimony at Senate Hearing on Terrorist http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1795221&mesg_id=1795221 NOW - ON CAPITOL HILL - Able Danger Inquiry CSPAN3 9:30am et http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4836496 Able Danger ties Condi Rice to Chinese espionage! (really!) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4846388&mesg_id=4846388 VIDEO-the Senate Judicial Committee ABLE DANGER saga http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php? Official: (Curt Weldon) Attack on Cole foreseen (ABLE DANGER) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1915365&mesg_id=1915365 New 9/11 Timeline update, with new Able Danger page http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php? Weldon seeks Defense testimony on al-Qaida http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1931300 Weldon rips 9/11 commission over intelligence failures http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1959226 General gave OK for Able Danger (confirms al-Qaida mission prior to 9/11) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1973724

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:08 pm

Hey, SLa D, I don't discount the importance of the Able Danger cover-up. But it is complicated and not what Lance is telling us. Lance has led us far astray on TWA800, a subject anyone with a search engine can know the truth of, and seems to be putting a spin ("incompetence" again?) on the "infiltration" of al-Queda into the alphabet agencies who actually nurture, sponsor, and enable operators like Ali Mohamed. That's what I think is going on with Lance. And this reinforces the cover story version of 9/11 as a bin Laden caper led by Atta. Keeping the focus on Atta and the other perhaps-genuinely murderous-yet-still-patsies serves to steer us away from the almost inevitable conclusion that even they were used as theatrical fronts by a technological elite who used remote-controlled planes with Flight Termination Systems from Dov Zakheim's Mitre connections or Boeing and thermate for controlled demoliton of the towers. The answer to Who Did 9/11 is in the technology used to GUARANTEE success, not the patsies who are getting the blame. Exactly like the programming of Sirhan Sirhan to cover for Thane Eugene Cesar's murder of RFK in 1968. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 8/24/06 1:09 pm

by **seemslikeadream** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:22 pm

jah bless HMW best to read everything isn't it? How else will i and i catch them vampire <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=743997" target="top">www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=743997</a> <img src="http://www.sysplan.com/Radar/FTS/Multi-CTS.gif" style="border:0;"/> Dr. Dov S. Zakheim CEO, Systems Planning Corporation International Dov S. Zakheim is Corporate Vice President of System Planning Corporation (SPC), a high technology, research, analysis, and manufacturing firm based in Arlington, Virginia. He is also Chief Executive Officer of SPC International Corporation, a subsidiary of SPC that specializes in political, military and economic consulting, and international sales and analysis. In addition, Dr. Zakheim serves as Consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He is an Adjunct Scholar of the Heritage Foundation, and a Senior Associate of the Center for International and Strategic Studies. From 1985 until March 1987, Dr. Zakheim was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Planning and Resources. In that capacity, he played an active role in the Department's system acquisition and strategic planning processes. Dr. Zakheim also guided Department of Defense policy in a number of international economic fora including the US-USSR Commercial Commission; the Caribbean Basin Initiative; and the Canadian-US Free Trade Agreement. He also successfully negotiated numerous arms cooperation agreements with various US allies. A graduate of Columbia University, New York, where he earned his B.A., Surnma Cum Laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Zakheim also studied at the London School of Economics. Dr. Zakheim earned his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, a Columbia College Kellett Fellow, and a post-doctoral Research Fellow. He has served as Adjunct Professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University and at Columbia University. He is currently Presidential Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Dr. Zakheim served for two terms as a Presidential appointee to the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. In 1997 he was appointed by Secretary of Defense Cohen to the Task Force on Defense Reform. In May 1999 Secretary Cohen named him to the first Board of Visitors of the Department of Defense Overseas Regional Schools. Dr. Zakheim writes, lectures, and provides radio and television commentary on national defense and foreign policy issues both domestically and internationally, including appearances on major US network news telecasts, McNeil-Lehrer Newshour, Larry King Live, BBC Arab and World Service. and Israeli, Swedish, and Japanese television. He is an editorial board member of Israel Affairs and of The Round Table (the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs), and serves on review panels for the Wilson Center for International Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, and the U.S. Naval Institute. He is the author of Flight of the Lavi: Inside a US.-Israeli Crisis (Brassey's, 1996), Congress and National Security in the Post Cold War Era (The Nixon Center, 199<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"> , and numerous articles and chapters in books. Dr. Zakheim is also a trustee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute; serves on the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground, and of Friends of the Jewish Chapel of the United States Naval Academy; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and other professional organizations. Dr. Zakheim is a member of the advisory boards of the Center for Security Policy, the Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East, and the American Jewish Committee more

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:36 pm

Word, bro.' Suspect #1 in my book. Atta's nothing compared to Zakheim. <blockquote>Quote:<hr>He is currently Presidential Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Trinity College, Hartford, CT.<hr></blockquote> Now that's an infiltration.

911 Cover-up, Able Danger and Peter Lance's New Book

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Re: Someone's sucker-punched someone else. Or something.

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Re: SLaD's Dov Zakheim info. Vampire!

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