Evening Grab Bag
There are a few articles that definately demand checking out, so here is a grab bag to keep you busy.
20 Things We Now Know 4 Years After 9/11
We know that 9/11, regardless of the degree of complicity you believe the Bush Administration was guilty of, was seized on by Bush&Co. as the event that would be used to justify all that would follow domestically and in foreign/military affairs. The evidence indicates that, at the least, the highest circles in the White House knew a spectacular attack was in the works in the days and weeks preceeding 9/11 -- warnings were coming into the White House from a host of foreign leaders and intelligence agencies -- but chose to do nothing, presumably to make use of those events in the service of their hidden agenda.
Flyer for Upcoming 9/11 Events in Oakland and San Francisco
Lots of stuff going on out there on the west coast. They will be debuting 'Behind Every Terrorist there is a Bush' as well as showing a bunch of videos. I will still be in NY for 9/11, but I hope some of you out there will attend these events and report back.
Congressman Weldon Claims Able Danger Documents Ordered Destroyed
BREAKING!!! - Weldon Says Records Were Ordered Destroyed!! (Able Danger)
Congressman Curt Weldon (R - Pennsylvania) gave another exclusive interview to Dom Giordano this evening (Monday) and broke the news that he will be giving a speech on September 8th (next Monday) during which he will present yet another 'Able Danger' witness. This new witness will attest (and will swear under oath when called) that he was "ordered to destroy records" relating to the 'Able Danger' program.
CIA 9/11 Report Stirring the Pot?
Paper: Tenet won't become fall guy for 9/11 intelligence
George Tenet will not let himself become the "fall guy" for 9/11 intelligence failures, according to a former intelligence officer and a source friendly to Mr. Tenet, the conservative Washington Times asserted Thursday.
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"The report, delivered to Congress this week, recommends punitive sanctions for Mr. Tenet, former Deputy Director of Operations James L. Pavitt and former counter-terrorist center head J. Cofer Black," Roberts writes. "Mr. Tenet's response to the report is a 20-page, tightly knitted rebuttal of responsibility prepared with the aid of a lawyer, according to the friendly source."
New Orleans Disaster - Yet Another Failure
"No one can say they didn't see it coming"
A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut the Corps of Engineers' request for holding back the waters of New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans levees, but it was too late.
9/11 Congressional Hearing on CSPAN Tonight
Visit cspan.org for more info, or click the image above to get the live stream from CSPAN.
Don't foget to catch the second half on Friday as well.
Back Home Safe and Sound
What was meant to be a quick trip to Atlanta turned into a much longer absence. Basically I was leaving Baton Rouge to go to Atlanta on Friday, and was to return on Sunday. I finally made it back today (Wednesday).
For anyone interested, there was no damage to any of my personal property, and everything is in the same working order as it was when I left. On the other hand, the city of Baton Rouge (where I am) is in disarray from hour long lines for gas to large amounts of homeless being bused in from what used to be the largest city in Louisiana, New Orleans.
I am very thankful to be safe myself, but I am also very concerned as to the impact that will be felt throughout the state from this massive hurricane.
9/11 Accusations Fly Within CIA
9/11 Accusations Fly Within CIA - CBS News
CIA Director Porter Goss must decide whether to heed the recommendation of his top watchdog to hold disciplinary reviews for current and former officials who were involved in faulty intelligence efforts before the Sept. 11 attacks.
But CBS News has learned that all of the former top CIA officials singled out in the inspector general's report have already filed strong rebuttals to the agency.
The officials named in the report — including former CIA Director George Tenet — view the inspector general's report as "wrongheaded and wildly off the mark," a former intelligence official told CBS News correspondent Peter Maer.
Los Angeles Times Issues Major 9/11 Interview With David Ray Griffin
Getting Agnostic About 9/11 - A society of nonbelievers questions the official version
All I can say is wow, someone in the media finally has the balls to bring to light the flaws in the official story of 9/11. The article features a brief introduction followed by a great interview with David Ray Griffin, be sure to read the whole thing.
Anyone who types the words "9/11" and "conspiracy" into an online search engine soon learns that not everybody buys the official narrative of what took place on Sept. 11, 2001. As a professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, 66-year-old David Ray Griffin would seem to have more affinity for leather elbow patches than tin hats, yet after friends and colleagues prodded him into sifting through the evidence, he experienced a conversion. Now he's spreading the bad news. Griffin compiled a summary of material arguing against the accepted story that 19 hijackers sent by Osama bin Laden took the aviation system and the U.S. military by surprise that awful day in his 2004 book "The New Pearl Harbor" (published by Interlink, a Massachusetts-based independent publisher covering areas including travel, cooking, world fiction, current events, politics, children's literature and other subjects). He recently followed up with the book "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" (Interlink), a critique of the Kean commission document in which he suggests that a chunk of the blame for the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil lies closer to home than the caves of Afghanistan. We contacted him at his Santa Barbara-area home for a report on his journey from mild-mannered scholar to doubting Thomas.