'Intelligence failures' prior to 9/11, Iraq war: Planned strategies?

Inquiries by the 9/11 Commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee into “intelligence failures” have blamed intelligence officers and intelligence agencies.

Some former CIA officers and others have expressed concerns that the commission’s and the committee’s investigations of so-called intelligence failures before 9/11 and before the Iraq invasion seemed to make scapegoats of dedicated intelligence professionals.
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The 9/11 Commission did not report on a wide range of suspicious circumstances that indicated the 9/11 hijackers may have been under surveillance by U.S. officials or intelligence operations of other countries, outside and inside the U.S.

It did not answer all questions about U.S. air defense exercises and drills prior to and during 9/11 that reportedly confused U.S. air defense forces and air traffic controllers.

The commission did not report on allegations that certain powerful people reportedly claimed “a new Pearl Harbor” was needed to persuade the American people to support aggressive military activities in the Middle East, including the invasion of Iraq.

As has been widely reported, immediately after the 9/11 attacks, some government officials were focused on Iraq, even though there was no evidence of Iraq’s involvement.

Some people seem to think the commission assisted in a cover-up.

'Strength – Honor – Compassion' are words to live by in these times

In recent months, the ideas behind these words have come to the forefront in the sometimes complex debates about the 9-11 attacks, the Iraq war, the behavior of those in government and in the military, our dead and wounded troops, actions by the CIA and our intelligence community, interrogation of prisoners and the many elements of how we behave as human beings.

The 9-11 commission that investigated the many questions about those attacks came and went. Then came the Senate Intelligence Committee inquiry into false intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq. Were the 9-11 attacks wanted as a “new Pearl Harbor” by some within our own country?

Steve Hammons Bio:

He graduated from Ohio University, Athens, in 1977 with dual majors in health education (psychology focus) and communications (journalism focus), as well as graduate-level studies in guidance counseling.

He has worked as a journalist, editor, counselor, juvenile probation peace officer, public safety urgent response specialist, teacher, instructor and U.S. Government researcher.

Hammons received training in Army Special Forces operations while an officer trainee in Army ROTC at Ohio University in 1970-71. His ROTC Counter-Insurgency Group instructor/advisor was from the 5th Special Forces Group and had returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam.

Hammons also attended two summer training activities of Special Forces reserve groups where he learned about SF concepts and operations, functioned as an indigenous asset for an SF B-Team S-1 and met other Special Forces personnel who had served in Vietnam.