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The Supreme Court heard this week arguments regarding the secrecy of Cheeny's task force. Earlier in the lititgation, Judicial Watch managed to unearth documents showing how the task force had discussed parceling out the oil in Iraq. Judicial Watch has those documents up on its website.
A compilation pulled together by historian and author Barbara Honegger on 2004 April 16, available at c0balt.com
Context for the newly-released "Joint Chiefs Rejected 'Airplanes as Missiles' Game Scenario in April 2001" stories:
There are many mainstream media articles published over the last two years which, when taken together, give the context for understanding what the just-breaking "Joint Chiefs Rejected 'Airplanes as Missiles' scenario in April 2001" story means. With regard to the first article below, about NORAD's "Vigilant Guardian" emergency response exercise held on the morning of 9/11 in the northeast sector of the U.S. including New York, D.C. and Pennsylvania, we know that this "Vigilant Guardian" 'wargame' had to either be on, or involve, a multiple-hijack scenario because the person in charge of 'running' the game at NEADS (NORAD N.E. Sector) in Rome, New York as well as the very person who, finally, too late authorized the scrambling of real jets on 9/11, NORAD's No. 2 General Arnold, at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, were both (along with many other 'game players that morning) confused at the beginning as to whether incomings from Boston air traffic control, etc. were 'for real,' or were part of the wargame; and they would not, and could not, have been confused unless what actually began unfolding -- the attacks -- were the same as, or very similar to, the scenario/content of the pre-planned exercise(s).
Even Richard Clarke, in his book AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, gives part of the transcript of his phone conversation with Gen. Arnold that morning, in which Gen. Arnold refers to being, right then, as Clarke is calling, involved in (words to the effect, see page 5) 'just that' (i.e. game scenario).
Also, there is lots of evidence that the hijackers were leaked details of the U.S. government's hijack-and-plane-into-building emergency response exercise(s) scheduled for the morning of 9/11 (see below mainstream press articles) because we know for an absolute fact that they perpetrated the real thing 'on top of' NORAD's (and possibly also NRO's) wargame(s) that very morning.
Further extremely strong evidence that the hijackers used the date OF the Government's own wargame as the date for their own attacks, is the text of the famous Sept. 10 NSA intercept between Atta and KSM:
"The MATCH is about to begin. Zero hour is tomorrow" (i.e. Sept. 11).
'Match' can be a clear referent for a 'game'. Also, in the famous Der Spiegel article based on the transcripts of the interrogations of KSM and Bilalshibh obtained by the magazine, reprinted in full in the New York Times, it is revealed that, at the mid-July 'Final 9/11 Planning Meeting' in Tarragona, Spain, Atta takes the information to the so-called attack 'coordinator' (and some now say KSM was also there), that 'The date for the attack has been set', but that that date 'is not yet known.'
Take careful note of the passive tense here -- 'has been' set. Atta then, much later, communicates the actual date for the attack, in the famous 'two sticks and a cake with a handle' call with KSM -- i.e., the date of this key Atta-KSM call is clearly just after Atta has been informed, probably by Pakistani ISI Chief Gen. Ahmad, that the U.S. Government has just confirmed that "Vigilant Guardian" will indeed go forward and that Sept. 11 has been set as the day (Day 2 of the exercise) that a multiple-hijack-and-plane-into-building scenario will be 'run'.
And what does this line of evidence mean? : No 'real' hijacker or mastermind would not choose his own date for an attack. That is, this is 'the' line of evidence that nails the claim that, at the top. 9/11 had to be an Inside Job, or, at the very least, there had to be at least one Insider traitor who leaked the date, as well as all the major details, of the Pentagon/NORAD's own game plan for the morning of Sept. 11 to Atta, to KSM, and to Binalshibh.
Below are the mainstream articles from 2002 that provide the context for, and explode the meaning of, the above just-breaking "Joint Chiefs Rejected 'Airplanes as Missiles' Scenario in April 2001" articles published in the Wash. Post, Boston Globe, etc.:
Iincluded is an article about NORAD's Northeast Sector (NEADS) emergency response exercise on the morning of Sept. 11, called "Vigilant Guardian" (elsewhere, for example Clarke's book p. 5, the same wargame is referred to as "Vigilant Warrior")
(Sibel Edmonds, ex-FBI translator) "...is asking for a public showing of support at the hearing on Monday.
Please come to the U.S. Dictrict Court in Washington, D.C. at 3rd St. and Constitution Avenue this coming MONDAY, April 26th Enter thru Constitution Avenue entrance and go to Judge Reggie Walton's courtroom. Proceedings BEGIN AT 11:30AM. Come earlier if you can.
The secrecy must end. What must rally and demand the truth see the light of day and keep asking "what is it they are so intent upon hiding that they would go to such lengths to silence Sibel Edmonds?"
From Sibel Edmonds:
The Bureau will argue in front of the judge, try to get him to order a gag on me. Motley-Rice will try to make their case re: importance to the family members & the country.
We need to gather a large group, and have them show up in the courtroom, have them rally/kick/scream. The press will cover it, and this is our chance to wake everybody up and let them see what's happening. What can you do? I am sending e-mails to everyone I know. . . .
It will be a hearing in front of Judge Walton, the Bureau is going to fight Motley-Rice in order to block my deposition as a witness for their case. It will be attended by the Bureau's attorneys, Motley-Rice attorneys, Mark Zaid (my attorney), myself, and the press.
The plaintiffs in Burnett v. Al Baraka are suing a number of Saudi-related finaciers of Al Qaeda. Sibel Edmonds is the FBI translator who has said FBI had detailed information prior to Sept. 11, 2001, that a terrorist attack involving airplanes was being plotted.
Did the World Trade Center towers undergo a deliberate “power-down” on the weekend prior to the 9-11 terrorist attacks? According to Scott Forbes, a senior database administrator for Fiduciary Trust, Inc. – a high-net investment bank which was later acquired by Franklin Templeton – this is precisely what took place. Forbes, who was hired by Fiduciary in 1999 and is now stationed at a U.K. branch office, was working on the weekend of September 8-9, 2001, and said that his company was given three weeks advance notice that New York’s Port Authority would take out power in the South Tower from the 48th floor up. The reason: the Port Authority was performing a cabling upgrade to increase the WTC’s computer bandwidth.
Forbes stated that Fiduciary Trust was one of the WTC’s first occupants after it was erected, and that a “power-down” had never been initiated prior to this occasion. He also stated that his company put forth a huge investment in time and resources to take down their computer systems due to the deliberate power outage. This process, Forbes recalled, began early Saturday morning (September 8th) and continued until mid-Sunday afternoon (September 9th) – approximately 30 hours. As a result of having its electricity cut, the WTC’s security cameras were rendered inoperative, as were its I.D. systems, and elevators to the upper floors.
Forbes did stress, though, that there was power to the WTC’s lower floors, and that there were plenty of engineers going in-and-out of the WTC who had free access throughout the building due to its security system being knocked out. . . . Forbes wrote: "Without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on doors, and many, many 'engineers' coming in and out of the tower." . . .
Forbes had Tuesday, September 11th off, and thus watched the World Trade Center towers collapse from his apartment. While doing so, he recalled, “I was convinced immediately that something was happening related to the weekend work.”
In addition, Forbes says there were other peculiarities revolving around this unreported event, including:1) Fiduciary employees trapped between the 90-97th floors of the South Tower told family members (via cell-phone calls) that they were hearing “bomb-like explosions” throughout the towers.
2) Video cameras positioned atop the World Trade Center which were used to feed daily images to local television stations were inexplicably inoperative that morning.
3) A Fiduciary employee who was on one of the lower floors and escaped immediately after the first (North) tower was struck, reported that he was amazed by the large number of FBI agents that were already on the streets surrounding the WTC complex only minutes after the initial strike.
4) Last but not least, Ann Tatlock, CEO of Fiduciary Trust and now a board member of Franklin Templeton, had just arrived at a conference hosted by Warren Buffet at the Offutt Air Force Base (home of the U.S. Strategic Command Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska) when the 9-11 attacks took place. Coincidentally, later that day President George W. Bush flew into this very same base on Air Force One for “security reasons.” Even more chilling are the Offutt AFB ties to the CIA’s MK ULTRA experiments, Project Monarch, the Franklin Cover-Up, and the diabolical practices of Michael Aquino. (Type any of these words into a search engine for more information.)
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