Air Force Officer Delivers
Blistering Excoriation Of Bush
Says Bush is Responsible for September 11th Attacks
[ White House,4/01: Focus On Bin Ladin "A
Mistake"
&
State Department
official told CNN the U.S. government made a mistake
in focusing so much energy on bin Laden. ]
[ Rumsfeld's responsibility to act on 9/11
&
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction
CJCSI 3610.01A (dated 1 June 2001) ]
Odigo says workers were warned of attack
Message: 6
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 00:13:48 -0500
From: "Lori
Subject: Odigo says workers were warned of attack
News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government
April 4, 2004
http://www.legitgov.org/
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
Odigo says workers were warned of attack --Odigo, the
instant messaging
service, says that two of its workers received
messages two hours
before the Twin Towers attack on September 11
predicting the attack would
happen, and the company has been cooperating with
Israeli and American
law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find
the original sender
of the message predicting the attack. Micha Macover,
CEO of the
company, said the two workers received the messages
and immediately after the
terror attack informed the company's management, which
immediately
contacted the Israeli security services, which brought
in the FBI. [And, we
haven't heard a *single* word about this incident in
the U.S.
mainstream media in two and a half years. Why?]
______
Message: 18
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 02:42:22 -0600 (Central
Standard Time)
From: "Joanne
Subject: From the Smoke and Flames: The Truth is
Rising About 9/11
awesome post:
From The Smoke And Flames -
The Truth Is Rising
By Jim Kirwin
3-31-4
Finally the smoke is clearing from the skies over the
events of 9-11.
Several things are becoming clear. First the Bushites
did indeed make
plans
that altered the Clinton administrations approach to
terrorism. One of
them
was to strip commanders in the field, within the USA,
of any authority
to
act. All that authority was placed directly upon the
Secretary of
Defense.
The head of that department is Donald S. Rumsfeld.
It should be remembered here that Rummy spent the
duration of the
attacks on
9-11 in his office at the Pentagon: without even
trying to communicate
with
his department--never mind the fact, that all of this
blood that
spilled
after the first tower, was by law, his responsibility.
Is this one of
the
reasons that Rice is reluctant to testify under oath?
Because when this
gets
out that the Bushites violated their own twisted
revisions of national
defense procedures, and then dropped the ball
completely: then there
may
well be a demand for heads to roll! Below in the
following four
paragraphs,
is what the records show:
This document requires that the Secretary of Defense,
Donald Rumsfeld,
be
personally responsible for issuing intercept orders.
Commanders in the
field
are stripped of all authority to act. This amazing
order came from S.A.
Fry
(Vice Admiral, US Navy and Director, Joint Staff) so
it appears that
responsibility for the US armed forces "Failure to
Respond" rests
directly
with Fry for issuing this instruction, as well as with
Rumsfeld for
failing
to execute his responsibility to issue orders in a
timely fashion.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction
CJCSI 3610.01A (dated 1 June 2001) was issued to provide
"guidance to the Deputy Director for Operations (DDO),
National Military Command Center (NMCC), and
operational commanders in the event of an aircraft piracy
(hijacking) or request for destruction of derelict airborne objects."
This new instruction superseded CJCSI 3610.01 of 31 July 1997.
This CJCSI states, "In the event of a hijacking, the
NMCC will be notified by the most expeditious means by the FAA.
The NMCC will, with the exception of immediate responses as
authorized by referenced, forward requests for DOD assistance to
the Secretary of Defense for approval."
Reference D refers to Department of Defense Directive
3025.15 (Feb. 18, 1997) which allows for commanders in the field
to provide assistance to save lives in an emergency situation --
BUT any requests involving "potentially lethal support" (including
"combat and tactical vehicles, vessels or aircraft; or ammunition")
must still be approved by the Secretary of Defense
So again, the ability to respond to a hijacking in any meaningful
fashion is stripped from the commanders in the field and given
directly to Rummy!
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:11:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Paula
Subject: White House,4/01: Focus On Bin Ladin "A
Mistake"
THE DAILY MIS-LEAD
< http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1983306&l=24792
>
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WHITE HOUSE, 4/01: FOCUS ON BIN LADEN "A MISTAKE"
A previously forgotten report from April 2001 (four
months before 9/11)
shows that the Bush Administration officially declared
it "a mistake"
to
focus "so much energy on Osama bin Laden." The report
directly
contradicts
the White House's continued assertion that fighting
terrorism was its
"top
priority" before the 9/11 attacks (1).
Specifically, on April 30, 2001, CNN reported that
the
Bush
Administration's
release of the government's annual terrorism report
contained a serious
change: "there was no extensive mention of alleged
terrorist mastermind
Osama bin Laden" as there had been in previous years.
When asked why
the
Administration had reduced the focus, "a senior Bush
State Department
official told CNN the U.S. government made a mistake
in focusing so
much
energy on bin Laden." (2).
The move to downgrade the fight against Al Qaeda
before 9/11 was not
the
only instance where the Administration ignored
repeated warnings that
an Al
Qaeda attack was imminent (3). Specifically, the
Associated Press
reported
in 2002 that "President Bush's national security
leadership met
formally
nearly 100 times in the months prior to the Sept. 11
attacks yet
terrorism
was the topic during only two of those sessions" (4).
Meanwhile,
Newsweek
has reported that internal government documents show
that the Bush
Administration moved to "de-emphasize"
counterterrorism prior to 9/11
(5).
When "FBI officials sought to add hundreds more
counterintelligence
agents"
to deal with the problem, "they got shot down" by the
White House.
Sources:
1. Press Briefing by Scott McClellan, 03/22/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1983306&l=24793.
2. CNN, 04/30/2001.
3. Bush Was Warned of Hijackings Before 9/11;
Lawmakers Want Public
Inquiry,
ABC News, 05/16/2002,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1983306&l=24794.
4. "Top security advisers met just twice on terrorism
before Sept. 11
attacks", Detroit News, 07/01/2002,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1983306&l=24795.
5. Freedom of Information Center, 05/27/2002,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1983306&l=24796.
Visit Misleader.org for more about Bush Administration
distortion. -->
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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:42:40 -0500
From: michael
Subject: Air Force Officer Says Bush is Responsible for September 11th
Attacks
Air Force Officer Delivers
Blistering Excoriation Of Bush
Says Bush is Responsible for September 11th Attacks
By Jerry Isaacs
8-11-3
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mcherald/3406502.htm
A US Air Force officer in California recently accused President Bush of
deliberately allowing the September 11 terror attacks to take place. The
officer has been relieved of his command and faces further discipline.
The controversy surrounding Lt. Col. Steve Butler's letter to the
editor, in which he affirmed that Bush did nothing to warn the American
people because he "needed this war on terrorism," received scant
coverage in the media.
Universally ignored by the press, however, was that the officer was not
merely expressing a personal opinion. He was in a position to have
direct knowledge of contacts between the US military and some of the
hijackers in the period before the terrorist attacks that destroyed the
World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon.
Lieutenant Colonel Butler, who wrote in a letter to the editor of the
Monterey County Herald charging that "Bush knew about the impending
attacks," was vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense
Language Institute in Monterey, California " a US military facility that
one or more of the hijackers reportedly attended during the 1990s. In
his May 26 letter to the newspaper, Butler responded to Bush supporters,
who had written the paper opposing the congressional investigation into
the September 11 events. He wrote:
"Of course President Bush knew about the impending attacks on America.
He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on
terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama. His presidency was
going nowhere. He wasn't elected by the American people, but placed in
the Oval Office by a conservative supreme court. The economy was sliding
into the usual Republican pits and he needed something on which to hang
his presidency.... This guy is a joke. What is sleazy and contemptible
is the President of the United States not telling the American people
what he knows for political gain."
The letter provoked immediate retaliation against the 24-year Air Force
veteran. Butler was transferred from the Monterey installation and
threatened with court martial under Article 88 of the military code,
which prohibits officers from publicly using "contemptuous words"
against the president and other officials.
Last week the Air Force announced it had concluded its investigation of
the case and suggested Butler would likely face "nonjudicial
punishment," such as a fine or a letter of reprimand, rather than a
stiffer sentence. If he refuses this punishment, however, Butler, who is
ready to retire, could still face a court martial.
The issue is a particularly sensitive one for the Pentagon and the Bush
administration. While many people believe that the Bush administration
viewed September 11 as a priceless opportunity to implement an
ultra-reactionary program of militarism and repression, Butler is
different. His military assignment brought him into contact with at
least one of the alleged hijackers.
Shortly after September 11, several US news outlets reported that Saeed
AlghamdiÑnamed as taking part in the hijacking of United Airlines
Flight
93, which crashed in western PennsylvaniaÑhad taken courses at the
Defense Language Institute, the US military's primary foreign language
facility, where Butler was a leading officer overseeing students
(essentially, dean of students).
Alghamdi, a 41-year-old Saudi national, was one of several alleged
hijackers, including accused ringleader Mohamed Atta, who reportedly
trained at US military facilities, according to a series of articles
published between September 15 and 17 in the Washington Post, Newsweek
magazine, the New York Times and several other newspapers.
On September 15, Newsweek reported: "U.S. military sources have given
the FBI information that suggests five of the alleged hijackers of the
planes used in Tuesday's terror attacks received training at secure U.S.
military installations in the 1990s."
The magazine said that Saeed Alghamdi was among three who had taken
flight training at the Navy Air Station in Pensacola, FloridaÑknown
as
the "cradle of US Navy aviation"Ñwhich also administers training
of
foreign aviation students for the Navy. The magazine, citing "a
high-ranking Pentagon official" as its source, reported that two
othersÑboth former Saudi air force pilots who had come to the USÑalso
attended such facilities. One received tactical training at the Air War
College in Montgomery, Alabama and the other language training at the
Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Over the next few days,
more detailed information appeared in several other newspapers. A
September 16 article in the New York Times reported:
"Three of the men identified as the hijackers in the attacks on Tuesday
have the same names as alumni of American military schools, the
authorities said today. The men were identified as Mohamed Atta,
Abdulaziz al-Omari and Saeed al-Ghamdi.
"The Defense Department said Mr. Atta had gone to the International
Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama; Mr. al-Omari to
the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas; and Mr.
al-Ghamdi to the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio in Monterey,
Calif."
The Knight Ridder news service also reported that Saeed Alghamdi had
been to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and the Associated
Press cited Air Force sources indicating that more than one of the
hijackers may have received language training at the installation. The
media dropped the story after the Air Force officials issued a cursory
statement aimed at preventing any further inquiry into links between the
US military and the terrorists. While acknowledging that some of the
suspected terrorists "had similar names to foreign alumni of U.S.
military courses," the statement said discrepancies in biographical
information, such as birth dates and name spellings, "indicate we are
probably not talking about the same people." Without providing any
substantiation, the statement suggested the hijackers may have stolen
the identities of foreign military personnel who received training at
the bases.
Following this less than convincing explanation, the Air Force refused
to release the ages, countries of origin or any other information about
the individuals whose names matched those of the alleged
hijackersÑmaking it virtually impossible to verify the claim that
these
were not the same individuals.
Attorney General John Ashcroft and the FBI also refused to make public
any information. Asked by Florida Senator Bill Nelson whether any of the
hijackers were trained at the Pensacola base, the Justice Department
refused to give a definitive answer, and the FBI said it could not
respond until it could "sort through something complicated and
difficult," according to the senator's representative.
To receive such training, the hijackers would have had connections to
Arab governments that enjoyed close relations with the US government. A
former Navy pilot at the Pensacola air station told Newsweek that during
his years on the base, "We always, always, always trained other
countries' pilots. When I was there two decades ago, it was Iranians.
The Shah was in power. Whoever the country du jour is, that's whose
pilots we train."
Military officials acknowledged that the US has a longstanding agreement
with Saudi Arabia to train pilots for the kingdom's national guard.
Candidates receive air combat training and other courses on several Army
and Navy bases, in a program paid for by Saudi Arabia. Significantly 15
of the 19 hijackers were believed to be Saudi nationals.
According to its web site, the Defense Language Institute Foreign
Language Center in MontereyÑfounded in 1946 as the Military Intelligence
Service Language SchoolÑ"provides foreign language services to
Department of Defense, government agencies and foreign governments" to
support "national security interests and global operational needs."
As vice chancellor for student affairs, Butler had extensive contact
with students, according to Pete Randazzo, a close associate of the
officer and president of the National Association of Government
Employees Local 1690, which represents civilian employees at the
language school.
"He would go and have lunch with the students, sit in their classrooms.
He was a very caring officer over there," Randazzo told the Herald.
Butler was also navigator of a B-52 bomber during the Persian Gulf War,
which made it likely he was familiar with Saudi military operations,
given the close relations between the US and Saudi Arabia during the
1990-91 war against Iraq.
In the 1990s, several officers were disciplined under Article 88 of the
military code for publicly denouncing Clinton, including an Air Force
general who went so far as to ridicule the president as a "gay-loving,
pot-smoking, draft-dodging womanizer" in front of 250 people at an
awards banquet.
With Butler's comments, however, the Pentagon faces a more delicate
problem. The Lieutenant Colonel may well know considerably more than he
is saying about US military-intelligence apparatus involvement in the
September 11 events, and, on the eve of his retirement, took the
opportunity to set the record straight.