From Dave Lindorff writing at Smirking Chimp:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11043

Two Brothers and Two Scandals
by Dave Lindorff | Nov 15 2007 - 1:43pm |

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The State Department's top internal investigator, Inspector General Howard Krongard, revealed in a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Tuesday, that his brother, Alvin B. Krongard, was a member of the advisory board of Blackwater, the very private mercenary company whose bloody, murderous behavior the IG office was supposed to be investigating.

Unmentioned in reports on this tainted relationship was the fact that Alvin Krongard, the former third-ranking leader of the CIA from 2001-2004, has also been the subject of some speculation regarding possible foreknowledge of the 9-11 attacks by some within the intelligence establishment.

Re: the Ed Martin OpEd News piece: Barbara Peterson's story which he builds his case on has been revised substantially, particularly the section that he quotes.

Martin's piece should be considered in light of this corrected article;

Homeland Security Links 9/11 Truthers to Taliban by Barbara Peterson
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_barbara__071114_homeland_security_li.htm

TPMtv: I'm Rudy Giuliani and I Approve This Message

You've probably heard the news that Rudy Giuliani is finally hitting the airwaves with his first TV ad. Well, we've got it. And we're actually premiering it here at TPM. Even we were a bit surprised, though, at just how 9/11-focused it is. But you take a look and make your own call ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ7-3M-YrdA

http://wearechange.org/

A friend forwarded the above article to me as a link, assuming I would find it interesting. I did, but not for the reasons he thought:

From the "Oh We Are So Stupid Department"

How Did We Miss It?
16-Nov-2007
Unknowncountry.com

Shortly before 911, suspects on watch lists moved money in curious ways. Internet and phone "chatter" had risen in recent months. A foreigner paid cash to learn how to fly—but not land—a jetliner. How did our governmen t ever miss these clues?

Researcher Joseph Kielman thinks the problem is that we don't look for patterns. Most nuggets of information about 911 were buried in a landslide of data arriving faster than analysts could make sense of it, and these nuggets sometimes contradicted each other.

Most nuggets of information come to us in unstructured, "fuzzy" data. The same face—or is it?—may appear in three surveillance videos. Someone in Florida is snapping up potential makeshift detonators on eBay. Such clues don’t come conveniently packaged in a tidy spreadsheet or searchable text; they must be inferred from photos, videos, voice recordings. So how can we prevent the NEXT 911?