I know that “bart” is not into the topic of 9/11, but I continue to do research on the subject. I feel it is important because the attacks on 9/11 were the catalyst that enabled corporatist fascists in the U.S. to further their agenda. I may be naive, but I still think that if the lies their policies were based on are exposed, the American people may wake up and stand up against the corporations that own their government and are taking over the country. Exposing the lies about 9/11 may be the key to stopping the U.S. from becoming a corporate fascist state…Of course I could be wrong.
ACLU obtains document stating 9/11 commission told to “not cross the line”
Excerpt:
According to a document obtained by the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on Tuesday March 16, the 9/11 commission was warned on Jan. 6th, 2004 by high-level administration officials to “not cross the line” in the investigation of the events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.
The high-level administration officials included Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.
The warning in the memo released by the government to the ACLU is just one example of how the Bush administration fiercely struggled to prevent the 9/11 Commission from conducting a deeper probe into the attacks. It is common knowledge that Bush and Cheney refused to cooperate with the investigation and when forced to do so, only testified together, not under oath.
What may not be known to many Americans is that members of the 9/11 Commission have publicly stated that the investigation was a whitewash, and stymied from the beginning.
John Farmer, the senoir counsel to the 9/11 Comission, said that the government agreed not to tell the truth about 9/11, echoing the assertions of fellow 9/11 Commission members who concluded that the Pentagon was engaged in deliberate deception about their response to the attack.
Senator Max Cleland, who resigned from the 9/11 Commission after calling it a “national scandal”, stated in a 2003 PBS interview:
I’m saying that’s deliberate. I am saying that the delay in relating this information to the American public out of a hearing… series of hearings, that several members of Congress knew eight or ten months ago, including Bob Graham and others, that was deliberately slow walked… the 9/11 Commission was deliberately slow walked, because the Administration’s policy was, and its priority was, we’re gonna take Saddam Hussein out.
On Democracy Now, Cleland also said, “One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up”.
While most of the above statements are hearsay and impossible to verify factually, the document that the ACLU has obtained collaberates what officials involved in the 9/11 Commission have been saying for years. The entire “investigation” was nothing more than a whitewash designed to hide the facts about 9/11 from the American people.
Read more here: http://www.examiner.com/x-38220-Orlando-Independent-Examiner~y2010m3d17-ACLU-obtains-document-stating-911-commission-told-to-not-cross-the-line
Lot’s of links in the above article!
It’s like Bart is always saying: All we really know is that they lied to us. Whenever someone wants the facts hidden, you have to assume that there’s a reason for that.
Comment by Peregrin — March 18, 2010 @ 2:24 am
Obviously, there’s something sinister going on here. I have heard the argument that the Bush Administration and Pentagon were just trying to cover up their massive incompetence in failing to detect and prevent the 9/11 attacks and post-attack panic, but even if that’s all there is to it, we should know the truth.
Comment by RS Janes — March 18, 2010 @ 5:14 am