Ex-CIA Chief: Bush and Cheney Knew 9/11 Was Imminent, Concealed Intelligence

[mick silver]

Ex-CIA Chief: Bush and Cheney Knew 9/11 Was Imminent, Concealed IntelligenceBy Jake Anderson at theantimedia.org (http://theantimedia.org/ex-cia-chief-bush-and-cheney-knew-911-was-imminent-concealed-intelligence/)A new report from POLITICO (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353) corroborates a suspicion long held by critics of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. It affirms the former president and vice president not only had intelligence warning the terror attacks of 9/11 were imminent, but that they repeatedly ignored the CIA’s warnings. The most shocking assertion is that Bush and Cheney actively attempted to hide the paper trail documenting the fact that the evidence was presented to them.
The claim comes from none other than ex-CIA Chief George Tenet, who recounted with palpable frustration how Bush, Cheney, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice ignored multiple warnings from both him and then-counterterrorism chief, Cofer Black, during the late spring and summer of 2001.
Previously, the most salient proof the Bush administration had advanced warning of 9/11 was the infamous August 6th edition of the CIA Presidential Daily Brief given to George W. Bush. Titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,” the document has often been cited by journalists and whistleblowers making a case of willful negligence against Bush and Cheney. The new information from Tenet and Black presents a considerably deeper timeline, showing there was a consistent stream of intelligence warnings starting at least four months prior to September 11th.
According to Black, by May of 2001 “it was very evident that we were going to be struck, we were gonna be struck hard and lots of Americans were going to die.”
Reacting to the threat, Tenet and Black formulated a plan called “the Blue Sky paper,” which called for a comprehensive but covert CIA and military campaign to wipe out Al Qaeda before it could launch attacks. Specifically, Tenet wanted a paramilitary team deployed to the Afghan sanctuary with the goal of “creating a bridge with Uzbekistan.”
Tenet says the response to the “the Blue Sky paper” was stunning. The administration did not want to address the issue, and notably, “didn’t want the clock to start ticking.” In its report, POLITICO translates this to Tenet claiming Bush and Cheney didn’t want a paper trail of the warnings. It’s unclear whether Tenet directly asserted this sentiment or if reporter Chris Whipple inferred it.
What is clear is that for the entire summer preceding the 9/11 attacks, the administration ignored warnings about the threat of Al Qaeda and outright rejected a CIA plan to destroy the terrorist group.
Tenet gets more specific with the nature of the intelligence:
“The world felt like it was on the edge of eruption. In this time period of June and July, the threat continues to rise. Terrorists were disappearing [as if in hiding, in preparation for an attack]. Camps were closing. Threat reportings on the rise.”
On July 10th, Tenet met directly with Condoleezza Rice at the White House, where Richard Blee, head of the agency’s Al Qaeda division, told the national security advisor, “There will be significant terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months. The attacks will be spectacular. They may be multiple. Al Qaeda’s intention is the destruction of the United States.”
Rice has consistently downplayed this meeting. In her memoir (http://www.salon.com/2015/11/13/bush_and_cheney_were_warned_bush_and_cheney_yawned _and_then_911_happened/), she said her recollection of the July 10th warning is not “crisp” because she and Tenet had been regularly discussing the terrorist threat.
How the president’s national security advisor—and the president and vice president themselves—did not prioritize the urgency of new intelligence regarding a terrorist attack against the United States is still a matter of confusion and deep disappointment for Tenet.
“To me it remains incomprehensible still. I mean, how is it that you could warn senior people so many times and nothing actually happened? It’s kind of like The Twilight Zone,” says Tenet. “I still look at the ceiling at night about a lot of things. And I’ll keep them to myself forever. But we’re all human beings.”

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[mick silver]

911 Commission Official Says Saudi Government Funded the AttackAndrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
May 15, 2016


This 911 thing is so old, there probably isn’t any individuals they could pin it on.
It’s clear that the US government covered up the Saudi involvement, which presumably is a cover for the Israeli involvement.
Even if the Jews didn’t orchestrate it, there is no way they didn’t give their approval.
RT (https://www.rt.com/usa/342998-saudi-arabia-911-role/):

1. Unnoticed declassified files detail US investigations on Saudi soil
Over the last 18 months, the National Archives has released a number of declassified files (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/13/september-11-saudi-arabia-congressional-report-terrorism), which until recently failed to attract much scrutiny. These overlooked files, however, contained some very interesting details, which can essentially serve as a timeline of the 9\11 commission investigation into allegations of the Saudi government’s links to the attacks. Among documents are reports about staff meeting face-to-face with some of the Saudi citizens who allegedly helped the hijackers to settle in the US prior to 9/11.
2. Southern California’s Saudi ‘terrorist support network’
The files show (https://www.archives.gov/declassification/iscap/pdf/2012-048-doc17.pdf) that the Saudi expatriate community living in Southern California may have helped finance and support 9/11 hijackers, including giving them food and shelter. Two of them, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, arrived in Los Angeles in January 2000. The next year, they were aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Neither of them arrived in the US speaking English or being able to fly a plane, but a network of Saudi expats lent a hand.
3. Saudi family’s help – flight school by two hijackers
Among those helping hijackers were Omar al-Bayoumi, who, the US government believes played a central role in aiding and abetting the two men. It was Bayoumi, who assisted in finding them an apartment in San Diego and enrolling them in a flight school. According to the report, he had links to and was paid by a Saudi aviation contractor. When questioned by US investigators, Bayoumi failed to say what his role in the company was. His acquaintance with the hijackers he later called a coincidence. This “network” of Saudi helpers involved other influential people, such as Osama Basnan, who was known as an “informal mayor” of San Diego’s Islamic community prior to 9/11. Caught by investigators in lies several times, he denied his role in a terrorist support network.
4. Saudi diplomat involved
Thirty-two-year-old Fahad al-Thumairy fell under scrutiny not only for his role as a Saudi diplomat and imam in a local Saudi government-built mosque, but for his known support for extremist groups outside of his home country. According to US investigators, Thumairy had allegedly been in direct contact with Bayoumi, but appeared to deny the allegation when asked. However, there is evidence that the two met on several occasions and spoke on the phone. Presented with the evidence, Thumairy became nervous, his interrogation report said. He suggested that he might have been mistaken with someone else or his rivals were spreading lies about him.
When asked of his support and discussions of jihad, Thumairy said that he only spoke about “good” jihad. He was detained in the US, but then deported to Saudi Arabia as a diplomat, where he was never charged.
5. Saudi embassy funded hijackers’ stay and training?
The commission’s report also reveals that before September 11, Osama Basnan’s wife received up to $70,000 from a charitable fund run by the wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Princess Haifa al-Faisal. Some of this money ended up in the hands of Omar al-Bayoumi. The issue of Saudi embassy money was taken seriously back in October 2003, when it was raised at a meeting between the commission’s investigators and then-deputy Saudi foreign minister Nizar Madani. From what Nizar said, it looked like Princess Haifa believed that money was intended to cover the medical costs of Basan’s wife, who had thyroid issues, and the family’s living expenses.
6. FBI’s 80,000 secret files
A Florida federal judge, meanwhile, is poring over some 80,000 documents pertaining to the Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks, deciding whether or not they should be released to the public. These papers are currently in the possession of the FBI. The pages were uncovered when journalists and former Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) requested to see FBI documents related to the alleged Saudi role in 9/11, leading them to find these thousands of files. Until then, only 35 pages’ worth of data on the subject were known to exist.
7. Florida Saudi family’s suspected role
These papers focused on a wealthy Saudi family living in an upscale, private community near Sarasota, Florida: Abdulazzi al-Hiijjii, his wife Anoud, and their three small children. Neighbors had mentioned to the FBI that the couple were “aloof,” according (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/12/the-fbi-is-keeping-80-000-secret-files-on-the-saudis-and-9-11.html) to the Daily Beast. They also told the Tampa Times that Anoud was “religious,” and that Abdulazzi was a student who “would come over for a cigarette and a drink and to get away from that praying every two hours.”
8. The Saudi family mysteriously disappears
Two weeks before the 9/11 Attacks, al-Hiijjii and his family abruptly left their Florida home. According to the FBI investigation, the home looked as if they’d left in a hurry. Toys were floating in the pool, food was left in the refrigerator and out in the kitchen, cars were parked in the garage, and an empty safe was left open.
9. The secret 28 pages
Out of the nearly 850-page 9/11 report, only the 28 pages dealing with Saudi Arabia remain classified. The government previously defended the decision by citing the need to protect the sensitive sources and methods of investigation.
In the past month, however, the argument has recently shifted toward disparaging the documents’ content. Despite that, advocates of declassifying the documents, such as Graham, say the government’s justification does not hold water.
10. Saudi Arabia blackmailing
Strained by the Iranian nuclear deal, relations between the Washington and Riyadh risk souring should the US go ahead and release the documents. In April, Saudi Arabia threatened to sell some $750 billion in US assets if the bill passes, fearing it could leave the country vulnerable in US courts.

[cheka.]

it was nice of them to tell the prez/vp what was coming

[Joshua01]

it was nice of them to tell the prez/vp what was coming

It was even nicer for the prez/vp to play right along killing over 3000 Americans right out of the gate with thousands more to come

[cheka.]

It was even nicer for the prez/vp to play right along killing over 3000 Americans right out of the gate with thousands more to come

without those 3k there would be no 1+ million dead in the ME. totally worth it. the US' bestie over there is quite nervous, so lots of people must die

[Nomoss]

The Israeli spy agency Mossad is trying to cover its tracks as the real perpetrator of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks by hyping a congressional report that may implicate Saudi Arabia,
Mark Dankof - Israeli involvement in the 9/11 attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtUqsfFtF_U#t=69 Victor Thorn is so sure 9-11 was a Jewish plot, he's challenging anyone to prove him wrong. Thorn's new book, Made in Israel: 9-11 and the Jewish Plot Against America, has been released for the false-flag terror attack's 10th anniversary, and Thorn is pulling no punches. Listen to the interview and then decide for yourself who did 9-11.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRMwJUI-PVk

[Norweger]

without those 3k there would be no 1+ million dead in the ME. totally worth it. the US' bestie over there is quite nervous, so lots of people must die

Also no flood of immigrants to western and northern europe.

[Norweger]

double

[cheka.]

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/9202.htm

Article In Saudi Daily: U.S. Planned, Carried Out 9/11 Attacks – But Blames Others For Them

On the eve of President Obama's April 2016 visit to Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Congress began debating the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), that would, inter alia, allow the families of victims of the September 11 attacks to sue the Saudi government for damages. Also in April 2016, the New York Times published that a 2002 congressional inquiry into the 9/11 attacks had found that Saudi officials living in the United States at the time had a hand in the plot. The commission's conclusions, said the paper, were specified in a report that has not been released publicly.[1]

The JASTA bill, which was passed by the Senate on May 17, 2016, triggered fury in Saudi Arabia, expressed both in statements by the Saudi foreign minister and in scathing attacks on the U.S. in the Saudi press.[2] On April 28, 2016, the London-based Saudi daily Al-Hayat published an exceptionally harsh article on this topic by Saudi legal expert Katib Al-Shammari, who argued that the U.S. itself had planned and carried out 9/11, while placing the blame on a shifting series of others – first Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, then Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, and now Saudi Arabia. He wrote that American threats to reveal documents that supposedly point to Saudi involvement in 9/11 are part of standard U.S. policy of exposing archival documents to use as leverage against various countries – which he calls "victory by means of archives."

Following are excerpts from Al-Shammari's article:[3]

"Those who follow American policy see that it is built upon the principle of advance planning and future probabilities. This is because it occasionally presents a certain topic to a country that it does not wish [to bring up] at that time but [that it is] reserving in its archives as an ace to play [at a later date] in order to pressure that country. Anyone revisiting... [statements by] George H.W. Bush regarding Operation Desert Storm might find that he acknowledged that the U.S. Army could have invaded Iraq in the 1990s, but that [the Americans] had preferred to keep Saddam Hussein around as a bargaining chip for [use against] other Gulf states. However, once the Shi'ite wave began to advance, the Americans wanted to get rid of Saddam Hussein, since they no longer saw him as an ace up their sleeve.

"September 11 is one of winning cards in the American archives, because all the wise people in the world who are experts on American policy and who analyze the images and the videos [of 9/11] agree unanimously that what happened in the [Twin] Towers was a purely American action, planned and carried out within the U.S. Proof of this is the sequence of continuous explosions that dramatically ripped through both buildings... Expert structural engineers demolished them with explosives, while the planes crashing [into them] only gave the green light for the detonation – they were not the reason for the collapse. But the U.S. still spreads blame in all directions. [This policy] can be dubbed 'victory by means of archives.'

"On September 11, the U.S. attained several victories at the same time, that [even] the hawks [who were at that time] in the White House could not have imagined. Some of them can be enumerated as follows:

"1. The U.S. created, in public opinion, an obscure enemy – terrorism – which became what American presidents blamed for all their mistakes, and also became the sole motivation for any dirty operation that American politicians and military figures desire to carry out in any country. [The] terrorism [label] was applied to Muslims, and specifically to Saudi Arabia.

"2. Utilizing this incident [9/11], the U.S. launched a new age of global armament. Everyone wanted to acquire all kinds of weapons to defend themselves and at the same time battle the obscure enemy, terrorism – [even though] up to this very moment we do not know the essence of this terrorism of which the U.S. speaks, except [to say that] that it is Islamic...

"3. The U.S. made the American people choose from two bad options: either live peacefully [but] remain exposed to the danger of death [by terrorism] at any moment, or starve in safety, because [the country's budget will be spent on sending] the Marines even as far as Mars to defend you.

"Lo and behold, today, we see these archives revealed before us: A New York court accuses the Iranian regime of responsibility for 9/11, and we [also] see a bill [in Congress] accusing Saudi Arabia of being behind it [sic]. This is after the previous Iraqi regime was accused of being behind it. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were also blamed for it, and we do not know who [will be blamed] tomorrow! But [whoever it is], we will not be surprised at all, since this is the essence of how the American archives, that are civilized and respect freedoms and democracy, operate.

"The nature of the U.S. is that it cannot exist without an enemy... [For example,] after a period during which it did not fight anyone [i.e. following World War II], the U.S. created a new kind of war – the Cold War... Then, when the Soviet era ended, after we Muslims helped the religions and fought Communism on their [the Americans'] behalf, they began to see Muslims as their new enemy! The U.S. saw a need for creating a new enemy – and planned, organized, and carried this out [i.e. blamed Muslims for terrorism]. This will never end until it [the U.S.] accomplishes the goals it has set for itself.

"So why not let these achievements be credited to the American administration, while insurance companies pay for the damages, whether domestic or foreign? This, my dear Arab and Muslim, is the policy of the American archives."