- The following is an open letter to Eliot Spitzer,
Attorney
General for the State of New York and William Casey, Chief Investigator
for the Attorney General?s Office. In fact, this was hand delivered to
Mr. Spitzer's office before it was published as was a three-part expose
I have written titled Pop Goes the Bush Mythology Bubble. That three-part
article will break soon and is in the hands of investigators at this
time.
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- Sibel D. Edmonds was one of the many multilingual
translators
hired by our FBI to help track down terrorists and anticipate their next
moves. At least, that was the plan and the purported "job
description."
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- Once Sibel was working inside the FBI she uncovered
something,
tried to go public with it when Attorney General John Ashcroft and her
FBI superiors would not, and the Bush-Cheney-Ashcroft team slapped a gag
order on her so you could not hear what this lady has to say. What she
has to say directly relates to 9-11 and it totally disputes the Bush
Mythology
they want Americans to believe.
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- So listen up, America. Here is what Sibel uncovered -
she found "drug trafficking, money laundering, foreign names and
American
names directly involved in the financing of the 9-11 attacks on WTC (World
Trade Center) and the Pentagon." It was not the Saudis, folks.
Americans
were involved and Bush does not want you to know that. That exposes the
Bush Mythology as the lie that it is.
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- Some of the names on our list are also on the list that
Sibel Edmonds knows and found inside the FBI. We came at the problem
through
telecom fraud, international securities fraud and kept finding trails that
led to the Caspian Basin, Pakistan, and former BCCI (Bank of Credit and
Commerce) scam artists. Some of you might remember BCCI and that many
called
it Bank of Crooks and Criminals International and did so for good
cause.
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- There was something else "odd" about what Sibel
Edmonds found. The facts did not surface out of counter-terrorism (Richard
Clarke's group); they surfaced out of ongoing investigations by the FBI,
some of which date back to 1998.
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- The following was sent to me and is appearing here with
Sibel's permission. As an American citizen, you need to read it carefully,
think, and understand that for the past 38 months you have been lied to
by the Bush administration, the world has been lied to by the Bush
administration,
and that 9-11 happened for a reason that will soon be made known.
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- You also need to understand that the last thing the 9-11
Commission was looking for was The Truth. Eight of the ten 9-11
Commissioners
have so many conflicts of interests, are directly or indirectly benefiting
from Bush defense, homeland security and energy policies, they should have
never been named to the 9-11 Commission. Their specialties on the 9-11
Commission were not the truth; they were "omission by intent"
and "whitewashing."
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- You also need to come to grips with the fact that it
is both sides of the aisle in Washington that are perpetuating this myth
that they want all Americans and the rest of the world to believe. My next
article will expose the conflicts of the eight 9-11 commissioners that
should have barred them from even being considered for the job, much less
accepting the appointments to be involved in a cover-up.
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- Here is the letter that Sibel D. Edmonds and 24 other
former federal employees signed and are prepared to tell all to a grand
jury. I have over 200 former federal employees, with some overlap on the
signatories below, also willing to tell all to a grand jury.
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- Date: September 13, 2004
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- To The Congress of The United States:
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- The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the
United States ended its report stating that "We look forward to a
national debate on the merits of what we have recommended, and we will
participate vigorously in that debate." In this spirit, we the
undersigned
wish to bring to the attention of the Congress and the people of the United
States what we believe are serious shortcomings in the report and its
recommendations.
We thus call upon Congress to refrain from narrow political considerations
and to apply brakes to the race to implement the commission
recommendations.
It is not too late for Congress to break with the practice of limiting
testimony to that from politicians and top-layer career bureaucrats-many
with personal reputations to defend and institutional equities to protect.
Instead, use this unique opportunity to introduce salutary reform, an
opportunity
that must not be squandered by politically driven haste.
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- Omission is one of the major flaws in the Commission's
report. We are aware of significant issues and cases that were duly
reported
to the Commission by those of us with direct knowledge, but somehow escaped
attention. Serious problems and shortcomings within government agencies
likewise were reported to the Commission but were not included in the
report.
The report simply does not get at key problems within the intelligence,
aviation security, and law enforcement communities. The omission of such
serious and applicable issues and information by itself renders the report
flawed, and casts doubt on the validity of many of its
recommendations.
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- We believe that one of the primary purposes of the
Commission
was to establish accountability; that to do so is essential to
understanding
the failures that led to 9/11, and to prescribe needed changes. However,
the Commission in its report holds no one accountable, stating instead
"our aim has not been to assign individual blame." That is to
play the political game, and it shows that the goal of achieving unanimity
overrode one of the primary purposes of this Commission's establishment.
When calling for accountability, we are referring not to quasi-innocent
mistakes caused by "lack of imagination" or brought about by
ordinary "human error." Rather, we refer to intentional actions
or inaction by individuals responsible for our national security, actions
or inaction dictated by motives other than the security of the people of
the United States. The report deliberately ignores officials and civil
servants who were, and still are, clearly negligent and/or derelict in
their duties to the nation. If these individuals are protected rather than
held accountable, the mindset that enabled 9/11 will persist, no matter
how many layers of bureaucracy are added, and no matter how much money
is poured into the agencies. Character counts. Personal integrity, courage,
and professionalism make the difference. Only a commission bent on holding
no one responsible and reaching unanimity could have missed that.
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- We understand, as do most Americans, that one of our
greatest strengths in defending against terrorism is the dedication and
resourcefulness of those individuals who work on the frontlines. Even
before
the Commission began its work, many honest and patriotic individuals from
various agencies came forward with information and warnings regarding
terrorism-related
issues and serious problems within our intelligence and aviation security
agencies. If it were not for these individuals, much of what we know today
of significant issues and facts surrounding 9/11 would have remained in
the dark. These "whistleblowers" were able to put the safety
of the American people above their own careers and jobs, even though they
had reason to suspect that the deck was stacked against them. Sadly, it
was. Retaliation took many forms: some were ostracized; others were put
under formal or informal gag orders; some were fired. The commission has
neither acknowledged their contribution nor faced up to the urgent need
to protect such patriots against retaliation by the many bureaucrats who
tend to give absolute priority to saving face and protecting their own
careers.
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- The Commission did emphasize that barriers to the flow
of information were a primary cause for wasting opportunities to prevent
the tragedy. But it skipped a basic truth. Secrecy enforced by repression
threatens national security as much as bureaucratic turf fights. It
sustains
vulnerability to terrorism caused by government breakdowns. Reforms will
be paper tigers without a safe channel for whistleblowers to keep them
honest in practice. It is unrealistic to expect that government workers
will defend the public, if they can't defend themselves. Courage is the
exception, not the rule. Unfortunately, current whistleblower rights are
a cruel trap and magnet for cynicism. The Whistleblower Protection Act
has turned into an efficient way to finish whistleblowers off by endorsing
termination. No government workers have access to jury trials like Congress
enacted for corporate workers after the Enron/MCI debacles. Government
workers need genuine, enforceable rights just as much to protect America's
families, as corporate workers do to protect America's investments. It
will take congressional leadership to fill this hole in the 9/11
Commission's
recommendations.
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- The Commission, with its incomplete report of "facts
and circumstances," intentional avoidance of assigning accountability,
and disregard for the knowledge, expertise and experience of those who
actually do the job, has now set about pressuring our Congress and our
nation to hastily implement all its recommendations. While we do not intend
to imply that all recommendations of this report are flawed, we assert
that the Commission's list of recommendations does not include many
urgently
needed fixes, and further, we argue that some of their recommendations,
such as the creation of an "intelligence czar," and haphazard
increases in intelligence budgets, will lead to increases in the complexity
and confusion of an already complex and highly bureaucratic system.
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- Congress has been hearing not only from the commissioners
but from a bevy of other career politicians, very few of whom have worked
in the intelligence community, and from top-layer bureaucrats, many with
vested interests in saving face and avoiding accountability. Congress has
not included the voices of the people working within the intelligence and
broader national security communities who deal with the real issues and
problems day-after-day and who possess the needed expertise and
experience-in
short, those who not only do the job but are conscientious enough to stick
their necks out in pointing to the impediments they experience in trying
to do it effectively.
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- We the undersigned, who have worked within various
government
agencies (FBI, CIA, FAA, DIA, Customs) responsible for national security
and public safety, call upon you in Congress to include the voices of those
with first-hand knowledge and expertise in the important issues at hand.
We stand ready to do our part.
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- Respectfully,
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- Costello, Edward J. Jr., Former Special Agent,
Counterintelligence,
FBI
- Cole, John M., Former Veteran Intelligence Operations
Specialist, FBI
- Conrad, David "Mark," Retired Agent in Charge,
Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs
- Dew, Rosemary N., Former Supervisory Special
- Agent, Counterterrorism & Counterintelligence,
FBI
- Dzakovic, Bogdan, Former Red Team Leader, FAA
- Edmonds, Sibel D., Former Language Specialist, FBI
- Elson, Steve, Retired Navy Seal & Former Special
Agent, FAA & US Navy
- Forbes, David, Aviation, Logistics and Govt.
- Security Analysts, BoydForbes, Inc.,
- Goodman, Melvin A., Former Senior Analyst/
- Division Manager, CIA; Senior Fellow at the
- Center for International Policy
- Graf, Mark, Former Security Supervisor, Planner,
- & Derivative Classifier, Department of Energy
- Graham, Gilbert M., Retired Special Agent,
Counterintelligence,
FBI
- Kleiman, Diane, Former Special Agent, US Customs
- Kwiatkowski, Karen U., Lt. Col. USAF (ret.), Veteran
Policy Analyst-DoD
- Larkin, Lynne A., Former Operation Officer, CIA
- MacMichael, David, Former Senior Estimates Officer,
CIA
- McGovern, Raymond L., Former Analyst, CIA
- Pahle, Theodore J., Retired Senior Intelligence Officer,
DIA
- Sarshar, Behrooz, Retired Language Specialist, FBI
- Sullivan, Brian F., Retired Special Agent & Risk
Management Specialist, FAA
- Tortorich, Larry J., Retired US Naval Officer, US
- Navy & Dept. of Homeland Security/TSA
- Turner, Jane A., Retired Special Agent, FBI
- Vincent, John B., Retired Special Agent,
Counterterrorism,
FBI
- Whitehurst, Dr. Fred, Retired Supervisory Special
- Agent/Laboratory Forensic Examiner, FBI
- Wright, Ann, Col. US Army (ret.); and Former Foreign
Service officer
- Zipoli, Matthew J., Special Response Team (SRT) Officer,
DOE
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- CC:
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- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman
- Pat Roberts & Vice Chairman John D.
Rockefeller
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Chairman Orrin
- G. Hatch & Ranking Democratic Member Patrick
Leahy
- Senate Committee on Armed Services, Chairman John
- Warner & Ranking Member Carl Levin
- Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs,
- Chairman Susan Collins & Ranking Member Joseph
- Lieberman
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
- Chairman Porter J. Goss & Ranking Member Jane
- Harman
- House Committee on the Judiciary, Chairman F.
- James Sensenbrenner, Jr. & Ranking Member John
- Conyers
- House Armed Services Committee, Chairman Duncan
- Hunter & Ranking Member Ike Skelton
- House Committee on Government Reform, Chairman
- Tom Davis & Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman
- House Select Committee on Homeland Security,
- Chairman Christopher Cox & Ranking Member Jim
- Turner
- Senator Charles Grassley
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- For the record, Congress has not made a move to address
the foregoing.
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- As we are all witnessing right now, whistleblowers that
would make the system stay honest are being strongly discouraged and even
purged from federal employment. In a recent memo by new CIA Director Porter
Goss, one of those involved in the 9-11 cover-up and one of the three
persons
(Senators Graham and Kyl, Congressman Goss) that Pakistan ISI head Lt.Col.
Mahmood Ahmed was meeting with in Washington when 9-11 happened, issued
this warning to CIA employees. Remember that it was this Pakistani
lieutenant
colonel that wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta shortly before 9-11.
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- GOSS MEMO MANDATES CIA EMPLOYEES TO SUPPORT BUSH
POLICIES
- Tue Nov 16 2004
-
- Porter Goss, the new intelligence chief, has told Central
Intelligence Agency employees that their job is to "support the
administration
and its policies in our work," a copy of the internal memorandum
shows.
The NEW YORK TIMES is planning to lead Wednesday's paper with the memo,
newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.
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- MORE
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- "As agency employees we do not identify with,
support
or champion opposition to the administration or its policies," Goss
said in the memorandum, which was circulated late on Monday. He said in
the document that he was seeking "to clarify beyond doubt the rules
of the road."
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- That, ladies and gentlemen, is "Controlling the
Mythology" and silencing dissent so they can continue to operate our
government above the law and in secret.
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- I do not have subpoena powers, but Eliot Spitzer does
and some, if not all, of the above facts and sets of circumstances warrant
being looked into. He is welcome to everything we have on 9-11 matters
and the RICO investigations that led to the facts that are presented in
my book.
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- The US Government has put their mythology on the table
and apparently many (89 percent in the CNN poll) are not buying it. The
foregoing has yet to be investigated and how the trails all started
converging
on 9-11 and NYC without having to guide them that way might be very
telling.
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- Please sign the Justicefor9-11.org petition if you, too,
demand the truth and justice regarding September 11, 2001. There is much
truth to be found and we have a national capital that is full of people
that have an aversion to the truth. It is time that we as American Citizens
get to the bottom of what they fear so much and why they fear the
truth.
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- It is time for all Americans to wake up.
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- Karl W. B. Schwarz lives in Little Rock, AR and is the
author of "One-Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas, a Conservative
Republican
Speaks Out." He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Patmos
Nanotechnologies, LLC and I-nets Security Systems, a designer of
intelligence
and communications UAV systems. You can email him here.
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