“It is the function of the experts, and the mainstream media,
to normalize the unthinkable for the general public.”
-- from Edward S. Herman's landmark essay, "The Banality of Evil"
“Flying into Philadelphia recently, I spotted the Kean congressional report on Sept. 11 from the 9/11 Commission on sale at the bookstalls. "How many do you sell?" I asked. "One or two," was the reply. "It'll disappear soon." Yet, this modest, blue-covered book is a revelation. Like the Butler report in the UK, which detailed all the incriminating evidence of Blair's massaging of intelligence before the invasion of Iraq, then pulled its punches and concluded nobody was responsible, so
the Kean report makes excruciatingly clear what really happened, then fails to draw the conclusions that stare it in the face. It is
a supreme act of normalizing the unthinkable. This is not surprising, as the conclusions are volcanic.
The most important evidence to the 9/11 Commission came from General Ralph Eberhart, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad). "Air Force jet fighters could have intercepted hijacked airliners roaring towards the World Trade Center and Pentagon," he said, "if only air traffic controllers had asked for help 13 minutes sooner. ... We would have been able to shoot down all three ... all four of them."
Why did this not happen?
The Kean report makes clear that "the defense of U.S. aerospace on 9/11 was not conducted in accord with preexisting training and protocols. ... If a hijack was confirmed, procedures called for the hijack coordinator on duty to contact the Pentagon's National Military Command Center (NMCC). ... The NMCC would then seek approval from the office of the Secretary of Defense to provide military assistance... "Uniquely, this did not happen. The commission was told by the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Authority that there was no reason the procedure was not operating that morning. "For my 30 years of experience ..." said Monte Belger, "the NMCC was on the net and hearing everything real-time. ... I can tell you I've lived through dozens of hijackings ... and they were always listening in with everybody else."
But on this occasion, they were not. The Kean report says the NMCC was never informed. Why? Again, uniquely, all lines of communication failed, the commission was told, to America's top military brass. Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, could not be found; and when he finally spoke to Bush an hour and a half later, it was, says the Kean report, "a brief call in which the subject of shoot-down authority was not discussed." As a result, Norad's commanders were "left in the dark about what their mission was."
The report reveals that the only part of a previously fail-safe command system that worked was in the White House where Vice President Cheney was in effective control that day, and in close touch with the NMCC. Why did he do nothing about the first two hijacked planes?
Why was the NMCC, the vital link, silent for the first time in its existence? Kean ostentatiously refuses to address this. Of course, it could be due to the most extraordinary combination of coincidences. Or it could not.
In July 2001, a top secret briefing paper prepared for Bush read: "We [the CIA and FBI] believe that OBL [Osama bin Laden] will launch a significant terrorist attack against U.S. and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks. The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning."
On the afternoon of Sept. 11, Donald Rumsfeld, having failed to act against those who had just attacked the United States, told his aides to set in motion an attack on Iraq - when the evidence was nonexistent. Eighteen months later, the invasion of Iraq, unprovoked and based on lies now documented, took place. This epic crime is the greatest political scandal of our time, the latest chapter in the long 20th-century history of the West's conquests of other lands and their resources. If we allow it to be normalized, if we refuse to question and probe the hidden agendas and unaccountable secret power structures at the heart of "democratic" governments and if we allow the people of Fallujah to be crushed in our name, we surrender both democracy and humanity.”
Excerpted from
The Unthinkable Becomes Normal by John Pilger
http://www.watir.org/res/mil_indust_complex.htm -----------
Courtesy of George Washington at
http://www.911blogger.com/node/10171 :
“How could a government which was supposedly oblivious to the 9/11 plotters know by September 12 that a single coordinated spectacular was the only thing planned?”See
the 9/12/01 press conference with Ari Fleisher here:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/psychic.html “…we believe that the perpetrators have executed their plan and, therefore, the risks are significantly reduced.”---------
John McMurtry:
"The absolute falsity of the official story is undeniable. It's scientifically confirmable; we have evidence for it and we don't have good evidence against it...it's a scientific hypothesis...we can regard as valid."http://www.911blogger.com/node/10131 ----------
“Republican presidential candidate John McCain was literally overwhelmed by reporters from WeAreChange.org and Infowars.com seeking 9/11 truth during a campaign stop.
McCain, who wrote the forward to Popular Mechanics' Debunking 9/11 Myths, repeatedly told reporters, "I do not support a new investigation" and stated that he believes the "9/11 Commission did a good job."
But other reporters continued to hammer the complicit senator with further questions and demands for a new 9/11 investigation. Seemingly frustrated that he could not simply brush off 9/11 truthers, McCain retreated to his SUV where he entertained questions from the mainstream media only.”
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/180707_mccain_911.html video available at the link
So why can't these people stand up to some simple questions?---------
Two tidbits to add to the debate about
the official story:
http://www.911blogger.com/node/9847 President Bush at the Florida School: New Conflicting Testimoniesby Elizabeth Woodworth
July 6, 2007
www.911blogger.com
There is a completely overlooked report in the September 1, 2002 Tampa Tribune which strongly suggests an early coverup over how long President Bush remained in the Saratoga classroom after he received Andrew Card’s whispered message that the second tower had been hit.
Sitting at close range was Grade 2 school teacher Sandra Kay Daniels, whose virtually unknown account of events was published at the anniverary of 9/11, on Sept. 1, 2002, in the Tampa Tribune:
Don't ask what was in George W. Bush's letter to the teacher whose late father was the son of a former slave.
"Uh-uh-uh. No, no, no," Daniels says, her voice rippling with don't-go-there warnings about the personal note she received around Sept. 17, 2001. "That will remain sacred."
Daniels, you see, was standing near Bush last Sept. 11 when White House chief of staff Andrew Card whispered in the presidential ear of tragedies. Precisely what Card said is uncertain, but he reportedly told Bush - who already knew a commercial plane had struck the north tower of New York's World Trade Center - that the south tower also had been hit.
In that instant, Daniels says, she knew "this wasn't the same person who had sat down in that chair." Bush grimaced and, obviously lost in thought, forgot about the book in his lap.... Bush picked up the book and read with the students for eight or nine minutes.
...While Bush was contemplating Card's remarks, Daniels' thoughts were a blur. She knew something was amiss; nonetheless, she had to carry on with the lesson. "I couldn't gently kick him. ... I couldn't say, "OK, Mr. President. Pick up your book, sir. The whole world is watching.' " I know he is the president, but that was my room he was in."
As he was leaving Daniels' room, he told her only, "There are matters I have to attend to." He didn't explain anything to her class. Instead, he went into the school's media center, where he made a televised statement to a room crammed with reporters, guests, parents and students who had hoped to chat with him. (1)
Apart from the fact that Ms. Daniels reported having later received a personal communication from the President, this report is not remarkable, until it is compared with two other accounts of Ms. Daniels’ experience that day, both published in large mainstream newspapers within 12 days of her first account.
First, Ms. Daniels’ account in the Los Angeles Times reported that Bush left in fairly short order:
“I knew something was up when President Bush didn't pick up the book and participate in the lesson. Mentally, he left me. I still didn't know what had happened. He said, 'Mrs. Daniels, I have to leave now. I am going to leave Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan here to do the speech for me.' Looking at his face, you knew something was wrong. I said a little prayer for him. He shook my hand and left.” (2)
And the next day, September 12th, the New York Post carried a much different account, in which Daniels claimed that the president “bolted” from the classroom:
“Sandra Daniels recalled yesterday how she and her class learned of the terror attacks - when a federal agent rushed into the room to inform the president of the United States.
President Bush had been presiding over her reading class last 9/11, when a Secret Service agent interrupted the lesson and asked, "Where can we get to a television? "The president bolted right out of here and told me: ‘Take over,' " Daniels told The Post yesterday. "I knew something serious had happened, and then a short while later he came back and said, ‘What we thought was an airline accident turned out to be a terrorist hijack.'" (3)
There had been no general public knowledge of Bush staring into space for long minutes until “Fahrenheit 9/11” appeared in June 2004. In July 2004, Understanding the “War on Terrorism”: Engineering Public Opinion, appeared, along with a short appendix: “A Year Later -- Attempting to Rewrite History.” (4)
This appendix shows that the official story was revised on the first anniversary of 9/11 through various media accounts, under the direction of White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card (5), and that the Booker elementary school in Florida also participated in the revisions. The Tampa Tribune account, which is almost impossible to find on the Web, has not to date been compared with these revisionist accounts, and when seen together, the results are staggering. What happened to cause Ms. Daniels to change her story within 12 days?
In summary, the original question:
1. Why was Bush allowed to remain in the school for 30 minutes while the country was under attack?
has expanded into:
2. Why, in turn, was a media campaign undertaken by Andrew Card the following year to rewrite this strange occurrence?
and finally, a third as-yet-unexplored question arises from the second:
3. Why is the intriguing 2002 Tampa Tribune account of Ms. Daniels’ experience (which mirrors the 2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 documentary) virtually unavailable on the Internet? And why do the Daniels’ revisionist accounts, published in mainstream newspapers, appear to have been systematically concealed behind changing titles and broken links?
Even the Aldridge appendix is not currently quoted on the Web.
It is essential to keep the trail of such contradictions alive and free from possible hacking. These report links, now restored within this article, should be made openly available by the 9/11 truth community for consultation and analysis.
And the truth movement should be on the alert for possible interference with its knowledge base.
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FOOTNOTES
1. Jennifer Barrs. “From A Whisper To A Tear”, The Tampa Tribune, September 1, 2002.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/t...bune090102.html2. 9/11: A Year After / WHO WE ARE NOW Sandra Kay Daniels 'Looking at his face, you knew something was wrong. I said a little prayer for him.' Los Angeles Times, Sept. 11, 2002,
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access...ids=171354041...
3. Malcolm Balfour, Tragic Lesson, The New York Post, September 12, 2002
http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/nypost091202.html4. Bob Aldridge. “A Year Later – Attempting to Rewrite History.” In: Understanding the ‘War on Terrorism’: Engineering Public Opinion, p. 104. July 2004.
http://www.plrc.org/docs/040116.pdf5. Ibid. “In a 9 September 2002 interview on NBC’s “The News With Brian Williams,” Card said that after he told the President about the second plane, “not that many seconds later the president excused himself from the classroom and we gathered in the holding room and talked about the situation.
“Two days later, on the anniversary date itself, Card had an article published in the San Francisco Chronicle. He described Bush’s reactions after being told about the second plane: “He looked up – it was only a matter of seconds, but it seemed like minutes – and I thought that he was outstanding in his ability not to scare either the American people that were paying attention to the cameras or, more importantly, the students that were in the classrooms. And he just excused himself very politely to the teacher and to the students, and he left.” Ref: Andrew Card. “9.11 Voices. What if you had to tell the President?” San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 11, 2002.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...N911voice03.DTL---------------------------------------------------
http://www.911blogger.com/node/9844 In a speech titled "Paul Nitze's Legacy: For a New World", delivered on April 15, 2004 before the Aspen Institute,
Paul Wolfowitz revealed that he and Donald Rumsfeld had lunch with members of the 9/11 Commission before the report was complete:
"When Don Rumsfeld and I had lunch with members of the 9/11 commission recently, one member asked what could they do to ensure that their report would make a real difference, that it would be read five or 10 years from now, instead of just filed away on a dusty shelf. I realize now that I gave them a pretty tall order. What I told them, basically, was to write something similar to
George Kennan's long telegram or Paul Nitze's NSC-68. I told them that,
rarely to my knowledge, has anyone other than historians with a specific interest in the subject, gone back to read the report of the Pearl Harbor Commission. NSC-68, on the other hand, is still studied in colleges and universities, including colleges for strategists like the war colleges of our military services or our National Defense University."
See
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PA..._116668579/pg_3 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSC_68 -------------
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