Monday, July 26, 2004

Let's be clear about the 9-11 (c)Omission:

As Bartcop sez, "George W Bush doesn't get involved in anything that's not fixed up-front."

That's right: Fixed. From the beginning. Bush, after forbidding investigation for nearly three years, acquiesced to the idea -but only if he could determine, in advance, the questions that were, and were not, to be addressed. The (c)Omission's mission was to find out what went wrong with U.S. intelligence and security, in regards to the events leading up to 9-11.

They were not allowed to investigate:

-the suspicious stock market activity regarding 'put' options on United and American airlines, made just days in advance of the event and cashed-in just days afterward, which made some as-yet unidentified person or party many millions of dollars.

-why the steel from the twin towers was rushed off site within days, before any forensic investigation of the greatest engineering failure in history could take place. Or, as a matter of fact, why that steel was shipped immediately -directly- to be melted down in foreign foundries.

-why WTC7 came down at all, when it was not struck by any plane or debris, and in fact was not even in the same block as the rest of the WTC plaza. (Well, truth be told, we know that owner Larry Silverstein ordered the building to come down, but that just opens new questions: why? and how did he manage a controlled demolition so quickly (that very afternoon!) in the midst of such a state of emergency. Passing strange!)

They were not allowed to investigate who really benefitted. The most fundamental question of all, blocked.


And still:

-no one has taken responsibility, on either side: no terrorist group stood up and said "Hey, how'dya like that? Do what we say or we'll do it again!" -as is characteristic of terrorism, as we're seeing with the bi-weekly kidnappings in Iraq ("get out or we'll kill this guy"), and no US Government official, air-traffic controller, airline security director or officer or grunt, has even been rebuked, not to mention fired or prosecuted or apparently even reprimanded for anything even as insignificant as neglect.

And still:

-the president would not testify under oath about what he knew in advance. To agree to testify but not under oath, is to say "I maintain the right to lie at will." Because of course, if you're not under oath, God ain't really watchin.'

Fixed. Rigged: the terms of the investigation were proscribed by the people who were being investigated.

Excellent resource for 9-11 research Well-organized, reasonably presented information, data, and some very interesting evidence. Take a sandwich: it's huge, but it's worth the trip.



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