Cover-Up: The 9-11 Commission
by Christopher Bollyn
July 10, 2003
The controlled media and the seriously compromised 9-11 commission are seemingly
complicit in concealing the truth - while writing the history - for the worst
terrorist attack in American history. The truth about the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001 is unlikely to emerge from the politically appointed National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The integrity of the
so-called “independent” 9-11 commission is compromised by, among other things,
the connections of its staff and key members to the globalist Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR), the White House, and domestic and foreign intelligence
agencies.
The
mainstream media has reported that the commission’s investigation has been
hampered by the failure of the executive branch agencies, especially the
Pentagon and the Justice Department, to provide requested documents and
testimony. The heads of the commission recently reported that federal agencies
under the president’s control were not cooperating quickly or fully. The
commission also complained about the fact that, like
The
fact that key members and staff of the commission belong to globalist groups and
secret societies that have un-American agendas has not been reported in the
controlled press. Kean and vice-chairman Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic
congressman from
For
example, Peter G. Peterson, chairman of the CFR and the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York announced that his Blackstone Group had purchased, in October 2000, the
mortgage on 7 World Trade Center, the 47-story building built by Larry
Silverstein in 1987. Silverstein is the person who obtained 99-year leases on
the twin towers shortly before 9-11 and who insured the property and its future
income against terrorism. He is seeking some $7.2 billion claiming the attacks
were two separate events.
WTC 7
mysteriously collapsed at 5:25 p.m. on 9-11, in what appears to have been a
controlled demolition. John Wholihan, a firefighter with Rescue 5 from
Peterson co-founded the Blackstone Group with Stephen A. Schwarzman, a member of
the CFR and Skull and Bones. Both George W. Bush and his father are also Skull
and Bones, as is John F. Kerry, the Democrat presidential candidate. Commission
spokesman Alvin Felzenberg and commission member Fred Fielding served on the
Bush transition team in 2001. Felzenberg was executive director of the
President's Commission on the Federal Appointments Process.
Most
of the commission’s work is done behind closed doors; it has only held three
open sessions. The third session, “Terrorism, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim World” on
July 9, concluded with Steven Emerson, the self-styled terrorism “expert” whose
anti-Muslim rants appear often in the controlled press, particularly on Fox News
and NBC News, where he is a consultant. The controlled media generally accepts
the government’s version of 9-11 events as doctrine ignoring the numerous
contradictions and unanswered questions.
CHENEY IN CHARGE
Intriguing testimony was heard during the commission’s second open session on
May 23 when officials from the Department of Transportation and the Air Force
appeared.
While
two planes had already smashed into the
The
testimony of Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta on May 23 about Cheney’s
actions is revealing. Mineta said he arrived at the Presidential Emergency
Operating Center (PEOC) at 9:20 a.m. where he observed the Vice President taking
charge:
Mineta: There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president,
“The plane is 50 miles out…The plane is 30 miles out.” And when it got down to,
“The plane is 10 miles out,” the young man also said to the vice president, “Do
the orders still stand?” And the vice president turned and whipped his neck
around and said, “Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to
the contrary?” Well, at the time I didn’t know what all that meant. And…
Mineta: The flight that came into the Pentagon.
After
some discussion of whether Cheney’s orders meant to shoot down the hijacked
aircraft, it was clearly stated on the record that there were no such orders to
do so, which raises the obvious question of what “the orders” were:
Mineta: No, sir.
Mineta: That’s right. The planes had been scrambled, I believe, from Otis at
that point.
Mineta is referring to two F-15 fighter jets from the 102 Fighter Wing at Otis
Air National Guard Base, near
HOW
FAST IS FAST?
The
two F-15s were scrambled at Otis ANGB at 8:46 a.m. as the first tower at the
The
F-15s from Otis were “cocked and loaded, and even had extra gas on board,”
according to Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) commander Col. Robert K. Marr.
I spoke to Air Force Capt. Wes Ticer, spokesman for Air Combat Command, who said
an F-15 at “full power” reaches 1,875 mph, although its velocity varies
depending on the plane’s weight and altitude.
Col.
Alan Scott (Ret.) presented NORAD’s timeline to the commission on May 23. In
this timeline the F-15 fighter jets are said to be 71 miles, “about eight
minutes out,” from the
VIGILANT GUARDIAN
Maj.
Gen. Larry Arnold, commander of the Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONAR) at
Tyndall AFB, Fla., was informed by Marr about the suspected hijacked aircraft
shortly after 8:40 a.m. Arnold, who then headed the 1st Air Force for Air Combat
Command, was in Air Operations Center preparing for another day of a major NORAD
counter-terrorism exercise that morning called “Vigilant Guardian.”
The
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in
“I
told him to scramble; we'll get clearances later,”
CANADIAN COMMANDERS?
However, rather than getting approval from Rumsfeld, two Canadian officers,
serving as NORAD directors on the morning of 9-11, approved the fighters’ launch
according to the Aviation Week article. Capt. Michael H. Jellinek, a
British-born Canadian officer was serving as NORAD command director and another
Canadian, Maj. Gen. Eric A. Findley was NORAD’s director of operations. Findley,
positioned at NORAD headquarters in
I
filed a written request with NORAD asking for clarification of who was in the
chain-of-command and who actually approved the launching of the fighter jets on
9-11 and why foreign officers were making decisions during a national crisis in
the
A
year after 9-11,
TAIBBI: And they know where they're going at that point? The first...
Because of the different reports concerning the speed of the Otis F-15s bound
for
The
Secretary of Defense was supposed to approve the launching of interceptor jets.
However, while the vice president was in the PEOC monitoring the approach of the
aircraft that struck the Pentagon, Rumsfeld told ABC News’ Sam Donaldson shortly
after 9-11 that he had been completely unaware of the approaching plane:
Donaldson: On Tuesday I am told the FAA notified someone in the Pentagon that
there was a rogue plane apparently headed toward
Rumsfeld: I was in the Pentagon and felt the shock of the attack, and…
Donaldson: What did you think it was?
Rumsfeld: A bomb? I had no idea. I looked out the window and raced down the
corridors till the smoke was too bad and then went outside, and saw the
devastation and talked to an eyewitness who told me that he had seen an aircraft
plow into the Pentagon between the first and second floor.
Donaldson: Could you believe it?
Rumsfeld: No. It's just -- it was a sight -- just amazing.
Richard Ben Veniste of the commission asked NORAD’s Major General Craig McKinley
if the “concept of terrorists using airplanes as weapons was not something which
was unknown to the
Indeed, in early 2000 a writer working for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox TV wrote a
screenplay that was an uncanny premonition of what occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.
In the Murdoch film, a passenger airliner was hijacked remotely by a computer
hacker and flown into the
In
the Murdoch-financed film, the ground-based staff of a small Washington-based
independent newspaper is able to prevent the plane from hitting the tower at the
last second by restoring manual control to the pilots, who are then able to
avoid hitting the building by mere feet. The “hijackers” in the film were
corrupt elements in the U.S. Air Force and Defense Department who “hacked” into
the plane’s navigation system in order to commit a horrible “terrorist” act in
order to promote weapons sales and wars against “crack-pot dictators around the
world begging to be smart bombed.”
I
spoke with Andrew Butcher, a spokesman for Fox TV, who said that The Lone
Gunmen was produced and financed by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The
commission’s spokesman Felzenberg has also written articles for Rupert Murdoch’s
magazine, the Weekly Standard. Murdoch, the media magnate, openly used
his 175 newspapers and Fox television network to promote the war policy of
President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The left-leaning
Guardian (
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