SPYING INDIVIDUALS IS STATE TERRORISM BORN WITH 9/11
Brief introduction by
Hugo Adan
The main aim of espionage
is to facilitate the expansion of big corporations abroad via neoliberal
policies and wars, that is, to facilitate the plundering oil, gold and other resources
abroad. Spying individuals serve the
purpose of silencing and repressing all those who disagree with such policies.
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Posted on December 13, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog
All of the Chairs of the 9/11 Commission and the Congressional
Investigation Into 9/11 Say It’s “Implausible” that the 9/11 Hijackers Acted
Without Government Backing
The NSA’s main justification for Constitution-shredding mass
surveillance on all Americans is 9/11.
In reality:
- Top security experts say that mass spying interferes with U.S. counter-terror efforts (more here and here)
- American presidents agree
- The chairs of the 9/11 Commission say that the spying has gone way too far (and that the Director of National Intelligence should be prosecuted for lying about the spying program)
- Top officials say that the claim that the government could only have stopped the attacks if it had been able to spy on Americans is wholly false
But we want to focus on another
angle: the unspoken assumption by the NSA that we need mass surveillance
because “lone wolf” terrorists don’t leave as many red flags as governments, so
the NSA has to spy on everyone to find the needle in the haystack.
But this is nonsense. The 9/11
hijackers were not lone wolves.
The former Chair of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, outside adviser to the CIA, and Co-Chair of the
congressional investigation into 9/11 – Bob Graham – says:
I have personally talked to the other cochair of the
Congressional Joint Inquiry, a man who was a very distinguished congressman
and, later, director of the CIA [Porter Goss], I have talked to the two chairs
of the … 9/11 Commission, asking them, what do you think were the prospects of
these 19 people being able to plan, practice, and execute the complicated plot
that was 9/11 without any external support?
All three of them used almost the
same word: “Implausible”. That it is implausible that that could have been the
case.
Yet that has now become the
conventional wisdom to the aggressive exclusion of other alternatives. See video:
Indeed, it is pretty clear that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror …
although people argue about which state or states were responsible (we personally
believe that at least two allied governments were involved).
Indeed, Graham – unlike with 9/11
Commissioner and former Senator Bob Kerrey – said in sworn
declarations that the Saudi is linked to the 9/11 attacks.
They’re calling for either a “permanent 9/11 commission” or a new 9/11 investigation
to get to the bottom of it.
An FBI report implicates the
Saudi government.
And many other top U.S.
counter-terrorism officials say that the government’s explanation of the 9/11
hijackers being “lone wolves” connected only to Al Qaeda is ridiculous. See this and this.
If this sounds implausible,
remember that Saudi Prince Bandar – head of Saudi intelligence – helped to arm the
Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, and is now arming
Al Qaeda in Syria. (Background).
Respected financial writer Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that Prince Bandar
admitted that Saudi
Arabia carries out false flag terror.
Indeed, the Joint Congressional
Inquiry into 9/11 found that the Saudi government supported the 9/11
attacks, but the Bush administration classified the 28 pages of
the report which discussed the Saudis.
Bipartisan Bill to Publicly Release Report on Saudi Involvement
In 9/11
A bipartisan bill
– introduced by congressmen Walter B. Jones (Republican from North
Carolina) and Stephen Lynch (Democrat from Massachusetts) would
declassify the 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry which implicate the Saudi
government.
Some assume that passage of the bill
is assured …
But both the Bush and Obama
administrations have fought to keep Saudi involvement under wraps for more than
10 years.
Remember, the U.S. government
allowed members of Bin Laden’s family – and other suspicious Saudis – hop on
airplanes and leave the country right after 9/11 without
even interviewing them, even though air traffic was grounded
for everyone else.
Additionally, a Saudi FBI informant hosted and rented a room to Mihdhar and
another 9/11 hijacker in 2000.
Investigators for the Congressional
Joint Inquiry discovered that an FBI
informant had hosted and even rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that,
when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright,
and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official
stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White
House.
As the New York Times notes:
Senator Bob Graham, the Florida
Democrat who is a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused
the White House on Tuesday of covering up evidence ….The accusation stems from
the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s refusal to allow investigators for a
Congressional inquiry and the independent Sept. 11 commission to interview an
informant, Abdussattar Shaikh, who had been the landlord in San Diego of two
Sept. 11 hijackers.
In his book “Intelligence Matters”
Mr. Graham, the co-chairman of the Congressional inquiry with Representative Porter
J. Goss, Republican of Florida, said an F.B.I. official wrote them in November
2002 and said “the administration would not sanction a staff interview with the
source.” On Tuesday, Mr. Graham called the letter “a smoking gun” and said,
“The reason for this cover-up goes right to the White House.”
The government obstructed the
9/11 Commission in every way possible. During both the Joint
Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and the 9/11 Commission investigation, government “minders” intimidated witnesses and obstructed
the investigation.
Obama has been no better.
Obama’s Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that the lawsuit brought by the families of victims
killed in the 9/11 attacks against Saudi Arabia should be thrown out
of court (it was).
And Graham said that he’s lobbied
Obama for years to release the 28 pages and to reopen the investigation, but Obama has
refused. The former Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
and 9/11 investigator has even resorted to filing Freedom of Information
requests to obtain information, but the Obama administration is still
stonewalling:
Graham said that like the 28 pages
in the 9/11 inquiry, the Sarasota case is being “covered up” by U.S.
intelligence. Graham has been fighting to get the FBI to release the details of
this investigation with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and
litigation. But so far the bureau has stalled and stonewalled, he said.
Still Urgent Today
Ancient history, you say?
Graham notes:
Although it’s been more than a
decade ago when this horrific event occurred, I think [the questions of who
supported the attacks] have real consequences to U.S. actions today.
For example, the U.S. might not want
to support – let alone launch joint military adventure alongside – a regime
which supported the 9/11 hijackers.
As Graham told told PBS
last year:
[Question]: Senator Graham, are there elements in this report, which
are classified that Americans should know about but can’t?
SEN. BOB GRAHAM:
Yes … I was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments
involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorists in
the United States.
I am stunned that we have not done a
better job of pursuing that to determine if other terrorists received similar
support and, even more important, if the infrastructure of a foreign
government assisting terrorists still exists for the current generation of
terrorists who are here planning the next plots.
To me that is an extremely
significant issue and most of that information is classified, I think
overly-classified. I believe the American people should know the extent of
the challenge that we face in terms of foreign government involvement. That
would motivate the government to take action.
[Question]: Are you suggesting that you are convinced that there was
a state sponsor behind 9/11?
SEN. BOB GRAHAM: I think there is
very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not
just in financing — although that was part of it — by a sovereign foreign
government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down,
make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is
not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function
so effectively in the United States.
[Question]: Do you think that will ever become public, which
countries you’re talking about?
SEN. BOB GRAHAM: It will become
public at some point when it’s turned over to the archives, but that’s 20 or 30
years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it’s relevant
to the threat that the people of
the United States are facing today.
And – most importantly – if the entire mass spying program
is based on the “lone wolf” theory of 9/11, it is unnecessary and
counterproductive.
Postscript:
Ironically, the U.S. government has in the past alleged
state sponsorship of 9/11 when it suited its purposes.
Specifically, people may not remember now, but – at the time – the supposed
Iraqi state sponsorship of 9/11 was at least as important a justification for the Iraq war
as the alleged weapons of mass destruction. This claim that
Iraq is linked to 9/11 has since been debunked by the 9/11
Commission, top government officials, and even – long after they
alleged such a link – Bush and Cheney themselves. But 70% of the
American public believed it at the time, and 85% of U.S.
troops believed the U.S. mission in Iraq was “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in
the 9-11 attacks.”
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RELATED REPORTS:
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Glenn Greenwald “The
Goal Of The U.S. Government Is To Eliminate ALL Privacy Globally!” http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/11/30/glenn-greenwald-the-goal-of-the-u-s-government-is-to-eliminate-all-privacy-globally/ VIDEO BBC
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8FkhQ1EN5Ec
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