Post by jdv on Sept 11, 2021 12:45:45 GMT -5
20 years ago three passenger planes changed the course of this country forever when then slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon respectively.
That happened due to the greatest failure by intelligence agencies in this country's history, its President, and military.
The immediate results were 3,000 dead, thousands more maimed or doomed by cancer, and a country stopped dead in its tracks. As the USA's shameful exit from Afghanistan a mere 2 weeks ago proves, the long term results still being felt. Trillions in damage to economy, trillions more in a war that apparently produced no results, a gross reduction in domestic freedoms, and hundreds of thousands of dead civilians in Iraq (who bore no responsibilities for the attack) were just some of the awful by products of the security failures on 9/11.
Despite all this, to my knowledge not a single person in the government was fired, censored, or charged with dereliction of duty. Robert Mueller - the same Robert Mueller made infamous by his gross ineptitude during the Trump fiasco - was in charge of the FBI at the time and ignored a memo from FBI field agent/attorney Coleen Rowley who warned about the hi-jackers. Rowley was later named a TIME magazine person of the year for her efforts to stop the attacks.
She was not alone as the FBI's counter-terrorism chief, John O'Neill, also warned that an Islamic attack would happen (specifically by Bin Laden) - but was also ignored. Hollywood later made a movie starring Jeff Daniels as O'Neill.
Mueller was not fired, demoted, chastised, or charged with mal/misfeasance. He still receives retirement payments from the US taxpayers.
The FBI not alone in gross incompetence, as in early 2000 the CIA was aware that 2 of the hi-jackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, were threats. They did not share this information with the FBI (but given that agency's own failures from the top down, it might not have made any difference), nor did they arrest the suspects. They did however apparently inform President Bush... who did nothing.
Despite having the most expensive & extensive air force in the world, somehow not 1, not 2, but 3 jumbo jet planes were allowed to hit their targets. This despite there being 17 minutes between the two planes hitting the towers in NYC and a whopping 45 minutes had elapsed between the first tower being hit and the attack on the Pentagon.
And of course there was the warnings from the pilots themselves that they were being hi-jacked, warnings which obviously happened before the impacts, thus meaning even more time wasted in non-response measures.
NYC and Washington DC are the most heavily defended air spaces in the history of mankind, yet not a single member of the armed forces was ever fired or demoted, or indeed, publicly questioned about the failure to act.
Also never questioned or looked into after 9/11 was the claim by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on 9/10/2001 that, "2.3 trillion dollars" was "missing" from the Pentagon budget. Despite him calling this issue a "matter of life or death," not a single question regarding this massive amount of missing money was ever asked about again, either by congress or the mainstream press.
It should be noted that the missing $2.3 trillion was equal to nearly 1/2 of the entire US deficit at the time of the attacks, which stood at $5.6 trillion. So a massive amount of money.
That missing $2,300,000,000.00 remains unaccounted for.
7 of the 19 hi-jackers had over stayed their visas thanks to a loophole. That loophole remains unchanged on the books.
The government's ultimate response to the attacks - the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan - completely ignored the country who was actually behind the attacks, Saudi Arabia. 15 of the 19 were Saudi, Bin Laden was a Saudi, and of course the money paid for the training was Saudi. Records now indicate that Saudi Arabia's Washington based ambassador provided assistance to at least 2 of the hi-jackers. He remains a free man.
Infamously, then President George W Bush allowed 2 dozen members of Bin Laden's family to fly out of the US, even when all other civilian air traffic was grounded.
Subsequent acts by the Federal government equally curious. A veto from then President Barack Hussein Obama prevented a civil suit by victim's families against Saudi Arabia. In 2016, Congress overrode Obama's veto to clear the way for the lawsuit. That lawsuit is still in progress and may never actually see a dime for the victims.
Many of the documents regarding the government's role - and Saudi Arabia's - remain classified, much to the frustration of the families trying to sue.
As much as the government ignored or covered up Saudi Arabia's part in the attacks, they over-inflated Iraq's role, which we now know was zero. George W Bush later admitted as much saying, "No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th," when asked about it 2 years after 9/11.
As many as 200,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were ultimately killed as a result of this "mistake" and the middle east left un-stabilized and ruled by terror-states. And course, there were tens of thousands of American soldiers killed or maimed in the 20 years since.
Before or since, no hi-rise steel framed building has ever collapsed in its own footprint due to fire or bombing despite several such incidents, most notably massive fires in London and Dubai. Three buildings - including building 7 which was not hit by a plane - all collapsed within 2 hours of the first plane hitting the WTC.
Since the suicidal attack on 9/11 by adherents of Islam there has been the constant refrain by politicians - including by current President Biden this very day - that Islam is a religion of peace, despite thousands of subsequent other violent/murderous acts which seem to indicate otherwise. No other religion, political body, or organization remotely comes close to the sheer violence dispensed on 9/11 or since by members of Islam.
This is the historic, official, rendition of what happened. None of the above is conspiracy - every story above has been reported on by multiple outlets of the mainstream press .
Thus the record of what happened before and after 9/11 is one of gross incompetence, failure to act, cover-ups, lies, war crimes, delay/prevention of justice, unconstitutional censorship & illegal spying, secret courts, reductions of freedom, massive economic waste, an ignoring of reality, thousands dead and maimed, with more yet to come.
Indeed, it is hard to examine the record and come away with any positive in any form.
Given all that, I'm not sure what's more chilling, the official historic record of the attack detailed above, or the conspiracy theories which abound.
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