The Congressional Research Service believes a court could
rule that the legislation “would exclude professional committee
staff, joint committee staff, some shared staff, as well as
potentially those staff employed by leadership offices.”
However, when the combined Senate bill came to the floor, the
definition of staff had been narrowed. Both senators filed a
second amendment in December restating their original intent,
but they say Democrats blocked it.
“The American people will be appalled to learn the
health care bill exempts leadership and committee staff.
This special deal for unelected staff underscores everything the
public detests about the arrogance of power in Washington,”
Coburn said. “I tried to fix this inequity along with senators
Grassley, Burr and Vitter, but Majority Leader [Harry] Reid
obstructed our effort.”
The fascist democrats obstructed an amendment that forced
themselves and their crony staff from being put into the same lot
with the rest of us.
Of course, why wouldn’t they?
They are a bunch of fascist looting criminal thieves intent on
destroying this country at all costs. They have no morals. They
have no respect for freedom or liberty. They have no respect for
the constitution.
As with all tyrannical governments – laws are for the little
people.
Of course, this is just one outrage among thousands. The history
of government giving itself more rights than its citizens is nearly
endless, even in our supposedly “free” country.
The leader of a Pakistan based terrorist organisation closely
affiliated with Al Qaeda has detailed how his group benefited from
extensive political and financial support from the CIA in return for
continued attacks against the government, the people and the
infrastructure of Iran.
Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of the Pakistan-based Jundullah terrorist
organization was captured earlier this week by Iranian security
officials in the south of the country.
Rigi was tracked by Iranian intelligence when he boarded a flight
from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday.
According to officials, Rigi was using a forged Afghan passport which
was issued to him by the U.S. government.
The 31-year-old terror leader issued a statement on Iranian state TV
yesterday, during which he alleged that he had made a pact with the U.S.
for safe haven and unlimited military aid to pursue terrorist activities
against the Iranian government.
“They said they would cooperate with us and will give me military
equipment, arms and machine guns. They also promised to give us a base
along the border with Afghanistan next to Iran,” Rigi said.
“They [were] prepared to give [us] training and/or any assistance
that [we] would require, in terms of telecommunications security and
procedures as well as other support, the Americans said they would be
willing to provide it at an extensive level,” he added.
Rigi indicated that the relationship with U.S. intelligence continued
through the election of Barack Obama and up to the present day.
Iranian officials paraded Rigi before the press and presented a photo
they claim showed the terrorist leader entering a U.S. base in
Afghanistan one day before his arrest.
The Pentagon has strenuously denied having any links to the Jundullah,
describing the revelations as “fabrications” and “propaganda” concocted
by Iranian officials.
Iran’s intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi also alleged that Rigi
had met the then Nato secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, in
Afghanistan in 2008, and had visited European countries.
Moslehi said agents had tracked Rigi’s movements for five months,
calling his arrest “a great defeat for the US and UK”.
Of course, you will not hear about this story in the controlled U.S.
media, so it is left to Russia Today broadcasters, with the help of
investigative journalist and author Webster Tarpley to break down the
story:
Iran has repeatedly claimed that Jundullah, which has carried out
scores of bombings against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, killing
hundreds of civilians in the process, is backed directly by Pakistan,
Britain and Israel, as well as America.
So why should we give any credence to a captured terrorist who has
undergone hours of interrogation from Iranian officials?
Because his confession backs up already substantial evidence that the
the Jundullah group, in addition to other anti-Iranian terrorist groups,
have enjoyed fruitful relationships with western intelligence.
We have consistently reported on the ties, as has award winning
journalist Seymour Hersh and other notable publications such as the
London Telegraph. Below is a selection of core articles that present
substantive evidence of the terrorist groups’ links to the CIA:
The following is a video and detailed transcript of Abdolmalek Rigi’s
confession, stated in Farsi, as broadcast on Iran’s Press TV:
“After Obama was elected, the Americans contacted us and they met me
in Pakistan.They met us after clashes with my group around March 17 in
(the southeastern city of) Zahedan, and he (the US operative) said that
Americans had requested a meeting.”;
“I said we didn’t have any time for a meeting and if we do help them
they should promise to give us aid. They said they would cooperate with
us and will give me military equipment, arms and machine guns. They also
promised to give us a base along the border with Afghanistan next to
Iran.”
“They asked to meet me and we said where should we meet you and he
said in Dubai. We sent someone to Dubai and we told a person to ask a
place for myself in Afghanistan from the area near the operations and
they complied that they would sort out the problem for us and they will
find Mr. Rigi a base and guarantee his own security in Afghanistan or in
any of the countries adjacent to Iran so that he can carry on his
operations.
“They told me that in Kyrgyzstan they have a base called Manas near
Bishkek, and that a high-ranking person was coming to meet me and that
if such high-ranking people come to the United Arab Emirates, they may
be observed by intelligence people but in a place like Bishkek this
high-ranking American person could come and we could reach an agreement
on making personal contacts. But after the last major operation we took
part in, they said that they wanted to meet with us.
“The Americans said Iran was going its own way and they said our
problem at the present is Iran not al-Qaeda and not the Taliban, but the
main problem is Iran. We don’t have a military plan against Iran.
Attacking Iran is very difficult for us (the US). The CIA is very
particular about you and is prepared to do anything for you because our
government has reached the conclusion that there was nothing Americans
could do about Iran and only I could take care of the operations for
them.
“One of the CIA officers said that it was too difficult for us to
attack Iran militarily, but we plan to give aid and support to all
anti-Iran groups that have the capability to wage war and create
difficulty for the Iranian (Islamic) system. They reached the conclusion
that your organization has the power to create difficulties for the
Islamic Republic and they are prepared to give you training and/or any
assistance that you would require, in terms of telecommunications
security and procedures as well as other support, the Americans said
they would be willing to provide it at an extensive level.”
An Obama executive order that creates a council of state
governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in
domestic security, together with PDD 51, a Bush era executive order that
gives the President dictatorial power in times of national emergency,
eliminate the last roadblocks to declaring martial law in the United
States.
The new order, which is entitled
Establishment
of the Council of Governors (PDF), creates a body of ten
state governors directly appointed by Obama who will work with the
federal government to help advance the “synchronization and integration
of State and Federal military activities in the United States”.
The governors will liaise with officials from Northcom,
Homeland Security, the National Guard as well as DoD officials from the
Pentagon “in order to strengthen further the partnership between the
Federal Government and State governments,” according to the executive
order.
The exective order combines seamlessly with
Presidential
Decision Directive 51 to hand Obama dictator status in times
of declared, and not necessarily genuine, national emergency.
In May 2007, former President George W. Bush sparked much alarm by
openly declaring himself to be a dictator in the event of a national
emergency under provisions that effectively nullify the U.S.
constitution, but such an infrastructure has been in place for over 70
years and this merely represented a re-authorization of martial law
powers.
Legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a
“catastrophic event”, the President can take total control over the
government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at
the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus
ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power.
The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive,
which also places the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of
domestic “security”, was signed earlier without the approval or
oversight of Congress and seemingly supercedes the National Emergency
Act which allows the president to declare a national emergency but also
requires that Congress have the authority to “modify, rescind, or render
dormant” such emergency authority if it believes the president has acted
inappropriately.
Journalist Jerome Corsi, who studied the directive, also states that
it makes no reference to Congress and “its language appears to negate
any requirement that the president submit to Congress a determination
that a national emergency exists.”
In July 2007, Congressman Peter DeFazio (D – OR) was asked by his
constituents to see what was contained within the classified portion of
the White House’s plan for operating the government after a terrorist
attack.
Since DeFazio also sits on the Homeland Security Committee and has
clearance to view classified material, the request would have appeared
to be routine, but the Congressman was unceremoniously denied all access
to view the documents, and the White House wouldn’t even give an excuse
as to why he was barred.
“I just can’t believe they’re going to deny a member of Congress the
right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United
States after a significant terrorist attack,”
DeFazio told the Oregonian.
“We’re talking about the continuity of the government of the United
States of America,” DeFazio says. “I would think that would be relevant
to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security
Committee.”
“Maybe the people who think there’s a conspiracy out there are
right,” DeFazio concluded.
These new powers have now been handed over to President Obama,
allowing him, along with a body of councillors personally selected by
him, to declare martial law without there necessarily being a genuine
national emergency, greasing the skids for U.S. troops and National
Guard to conduct domestic policing of the American people.
In October 2008, Northcom, a Unified Combatant Command
of the United States military based out of Peterson AFB, Colorado
Springs, was assigned the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat
Team returning from Iraq. An
alarming September 8 Army Times report which was
later denied after it sparked controversy stated that the troops
would be used by Northcom to deal with “civil unrest and crowd control”
in the aftermath of a national emergency.
The Obama executive order states that governors will
help advise the feds on National Guard, homeland defense, and civil
support activities.
The fact that the order further blurs the lines between
state and federal power, as well as greasing the skids for more military
involvement in domestic affairs has stoked fears that Obama may be
laying the groundwork for his
promised “national civilian security force”.
Conservatives and libertarians responded to the
announcement by expressing their suspicion that Obama is preparing to
give governors their marching orders in targeting “anti-government”
types that have long been characterized as a terrorist threat by the
feds in numerous reports stretching back over a decade.
“There is a definite purpose to this,” wrote one
commenter on the popular
Free
Republic website, “The initial steps toward a domestic “Civilian
Security Force” in each state, as called for by the fascisti during the
campaign. It will be coordinated at the state level, under the authority
of DHS and DoD and assorted agencies. The provision will be made for it
to be “federalized” in an emergency, as is the National Guard.”
“This is a concrete step toward eliminating the
independent authority and dissolving the sovereignty of the several
States. It lays the groundwork for the end of the United States as a
Republic,” she adds.
Others warn that Obama could be preparing to cancel
elections under the justification of a national emergency, a fear that
was often expressed when Bush was in office but one that never
materialized.
However, the executive order clearly represents another
assault on Posse Comitatus, the 1878 law that bars the military from
exercising domestic police powers, which was temporarily annulled by the
2006 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act before parts of it
were later repealed.
Newly decoded data provided by an independent researcher and computer
programmer from Australia exposes alarming evidence that the reported
hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 77 was impossible to have
existed. A data parameter labeled “FLT DECK DOOR”, cross checks with
previously decoded data obtained by Pilots For 9/11 Truth from the
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) through the Freedom Of
Information Act.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 77
departed Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles at 8:20 am
Eastern Time. According to reports and data, a hijacking took place
between 08:50:54 and 08:54:11[1] in which the hijackers allegedly
crashed the aircraft into the Pentagon at 09:37:45. Reported by CNN,
according to Ted Olson, wife Barbara Olson had called him from the
reported flight stating, “…all passengers and flight personnel,
including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed
hijackers…”[2]. However, according to Flight Data provided by the NTSB,
the Flight Deck Door was never opened in flight. How were the hijackers
able to gain access to the cockpit, remove the pilots, and navigate the
aircraft to the Pentagon if the Flight Deck Door remained closed?[3]
Founded in August 2006, Pilots For 9/11 Truth is a growing
organization of aviation professionals from around the globe. The
organization has analyzed Data provided by the National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB) for the Pentagon Attack, the events in Shanksville,
PA and the World Trade Center attack. The data does not support the
government story. The NTSB/FBI refuse to comment. Pilots For 9/11 Truth
do not offer theory or point blame at this point in time. However, there
is a growing mountain of conflicting information and data in which
government agencies and officials along with Mainstream Media refuse to
acknowledge. Pilots For 9/11 Truth Core member list continues to grow.
Farrakhan says H1N1 vaccine developed to kill people
Andrew Moran
Digital Journal
October 22, 2009
In Memphis on Sunday, Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan
said to an audience that the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccination was developed to
depopulate the human race.
The 76-year-old Louis Farrakhan, speaking for nearly three hours to a
religious group on the 14th anniversary of the Million Man March in
Washington, believes the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccination is nothing more than
a guise to depopulate the Earth, according to United Press
International.
“The Earth can’t take 6.5 billion people. We just can’t feed that
many. So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can. We have to
develop a science that kills them and makes it look as though they died
from some disease.”
President Barack Obama has quietly
decided to bypass Congress and allow the indefinite
detention of terrorist suspects without charges.
The move, which was controversial when the idea was
first floated in The Washington Post in
May, has sparked serious concern among civil liberties
advocates. Such a decision allows the president to
unilaterally hold “combatants” without habeas corpus — a
legal term literally meaning “you shall have the body” —
which forces prosecutors to charge a suspect with a
crime to justify the suspect’s detention.
Obama’s decision
was buried on page A 23 of The New York Times’
New York edition on Thursday. It didn’t appear on that
page in the national edition. (Meanwhile, the front page
was graced with the story, “Richest
Russian’s Newest Toy: An N.B.A. Team.”)
Rather than seek approval from Congress to hold some
50 Guantanamo detainees indefinitely, the administration
has decided that it has the authority to hold the
prisoners under broad-ranging legislation passed in the
wake of Sept. 11, 2001. Former President George W. Bush
frequently invoked this legislation as the justification
for controversial legal actions — including the NSA’s
warrantless wiretapping program.
“The administration will continue to hold the
detainees without bringing them to trial based on the
power it says it has under the Congressional resolution
passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, authorizing
the president to use force against forces of Al Qaeda
and the Taliban,” the Times‘
Peter Baker writes. “In concluding that it does not
need specific permission from Congress to hold detainees
without charges, the Obama administration is adopting
one of the arguments advanced by the Bush administration
in years of debates about detention policies.”
Constitutional scholar and Salon.com columnist Glenn
Greenwald discussed the policy in a
column in May. He warned that the ability for a
president to “preventively” detain suspects could
mushroom into broader, potentially abusive activity.
“It does not merely allow the U.S. Government to
imprison people alleged to have committed Terrorist acts
yet who are unable to be convicted in a civilian court
proceeding,” Greenwald wrote. “That class is merely a
subset, perhaps a small subset, of who the Government
can detain. Far more significant, ‘preventive detention’
allows indefinite imprisonment not based on proven
crimes or past violations of law, but of those deemed
generally ‘dangerous’ by the Government for various
reasons (such as, as Obama put it yesterday, they
‘expressed their allegiance to Osama bin Laden’ or
‘otherwise made it clear that they want to kill
Americans’). That’s what ‘preventive’ means: imprisoning
people because the Government claims they are likely to
engage in violent acts in the future because they are
alleged to be ‘combatants.’”
“Once known, the details of the proposal could — and
likely will — make this even more extreme by extending
the ‘preventive detention’ power beyond a handful of
Guantanamo detainees to anyone, anywhere in the world,
alleged to be a ‘combatant,’” Greenwald continues.
“After all, once you accept the rationale on which this
proposal is based — namely, that the U.S. Government
must, in order to keep us safe, preventively detain
“dangerous” people even when they can’t prove they
violated any laws — there’s no coherent reason
whatsoever to limit that power to people already at
Guantanamo, as opposed to indefinitely imprisoning with
no trials all allegedly ‘dangerous’ combatants, whether
located in Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Western
countries and even the U.S.”
The Obama Administration appears to have embraced
“preventive detention” in part because of problems with
how Guantanamo prisoners’ cases — and incarceration —
were handled under President Bush. Military prosecutors
have said that numerous cases could not be brought
successfully in civilian courts because evidence was
obtained in ways that wouldn’t be admissible on US soil.
The Bush Administration originally sought to try
numerous detainees in military tribunals, but the
Supreme Court ruled that at least some have the rights
to challenge their detention in US courts.
Baker notes that Obama’s decision to hold suspects
without charges doesn’t propose as broad an executive
authority claimed by President Bush.
“Obama’s advisers are not embracing the more disputed
Bush contention that the president has inherent power
under the Constitution to detain terrorism suspects
indefinitely regardless of Congress,” Baker writes.
In a statement to Baker, the Justice Department said,
“The administration would rely on authority already
provided by Congress [and] is not currently seeking
additional authorization.”
“The position conveyed by the Justice Department in
the meeting last week broke no new ground and was
entirely consistent with information previously provided
by the Justice Department to the Senate Armed Services
Committee,” the statement added.
Roughly 50 detainees of the more than 200 still held
at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are thought to
be affected by the decision.
Sibel
Edmonds and Philip Giraldi
The American Conservative
September 23, 2009
Sibel Edmonds.
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and
Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was
to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between
suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She
was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one
of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization
that was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and
members of Congress, drug trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money
laundering, and nuclear proliferation. She appealed her termination, but
was more alarmed that no effort was being made to address the corruption
that she had been monitoring.
A Department of Justice inspector general’s report called Edmonds’s
allegations “credible,” “serious,” and “warrant[ing] a thorough and
careful review by the FBI.” Ranking Senate Judiciary Committee members
Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have backed her publicly.
“60 Minutes” launched an investigation of her claims and found them
believable. No one has ever disproved any of Edmonds’s revelations,
which she says can be verified by FBI investigative files.
John Ashcroft’s Justice Department confirmed Edmonds’s veracity in a
backhanded way by twice invoking the dubious State Secrets Privilege so
she could not tell what she knows. The ACLU has called her “the most
gagged person in the history of the United States of America.”
Evidence of Thimerosal, H1N1 Virus in Seasonal Vaccination
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
September 23, 2009
An Infowars reader has sent a vaccine insert that
proves Fluzone contains thimerosal, the deadly antiseptic and antifungal
agent. “Thimerosal is a very effective preservative that has been used
since the 1930s to prevent contamination in some multi-dose vials of
vaccines,” according to the
Centers for Disease Control.
“In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to ethylmercury,
the form of mercury in thimerosal, suffered brain damage years later,”
writes
Dawn Prate for Natural News. “Studies on thimerosal poisoning also
describe tubular necrosis and nervous system injury, including
obtundation, coma and death. As a result of these findings, Russia
banned thimerosal from children’s vaccines in 1980. Denmark, Austria,
Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have also banned
the preservative.”
According to a number of researchers, thimerosal is responsible for a
dramatic increase in autism and other neurological disorders. There is
also a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit
disorder, hyperactivity and autism. The Institute of Medicine conducted
a study on thimerosal and concluded that the link between thimerosal and
neurodevelopmental disorders was biologically plausible and called for
the removal of thimerosal to “reduce mercury exposure of infants and
children as much as possible.”
“Fluzone vaccine is indicated for active immunization in people 6
months of age and older against influenza disease caused by influenza
virus subtypes A and type B contained in the seasonal influenza
vaccine,” reports
Medical News Today. “Fluzone vaccine is the only vaccine licensed in
the United States for children as young as 6 months of age through
adults.”
In other words, if you are buying into the government and corporate
media hype about the flu and permit your children to get a seasonal
vaccine, they are getting thimerosal. “Sanofi Pasteur expects to supply
over 50 million doses of Fluzone vaccine to the U.S. for the 2009-2010
season.” Sanofi Pasteur produces approximately 40 percent of the
influenza vaccines distributed worldwide, and in the U.S. Fluzone
vaccine accounts for more than 45 percent of the influenza vaccines
distributed each year.
Finally, the insert indicates Fluzone contains the H1N1 virus.
Video: Canada Prepares for H1N1 Pandemic with Body Bags
CBC
September 18, 2009
The Government of Canada concedes defeat to the H1N1 Pandemic,
bypassing the distribution of Tamilflu, Vaccines and Hand Sanitizer,
moving straight to the body bags.
Actor Charlie Sheen has followed up on his
“20 Minutes With The President” letter by directly addressing
President Obama in a You Tube clip to request he use his executive power
to reopen the investigation into 9/11 and its aftermath.
Alex Jones interviews Charlie Sheen.
I recently had the pleasure
of sitting down with our 44th President of the United States
of America, Barack Hussein Obama, while he was out promoting his health
care reform initiative. I requested 30 minutes given the scope and
detail of my inquiry; they said I could have 20. Twenty minutes, 1200
seconds, not a lot of time to question the President about one of the
most important events in our nation’s history. The following is a
transcript of our remarkable discussion.
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Charlie Sheen – Good
afternoon Mr. President, thank you so much for taking time out of your
demanding schedule.
President Barack Obama
– My pleasure, the content of your request seemed like something I
should carve out a few minutes for.
CS – I should point out
that I voted for you, as your promises of hope and change, transparency
and accountability, as well as putting government back into the hands of
the American people, struck an emotional chord in me that I hadn’t felt
in quite some time, perhaps ever.
PBO – And I appreciate
that Charlie. Big fan of the show, by the way.
CS – Sir, I can’t
imagine when you might find the time to actually watch my show given the
measure of what you inherited.
PBO – I have it Tivo’d
on Air Force One. Nice break from the traveling press corps. (He glances
at his watch) not to be abrupt or to rush you, but you have 19 minutes
left.
CS – I’ll take that as
an invitation to cut to the chase.
PBO – I’m all ears. Or
so I’ve been told.
CS - Sir, in the very
near future we will be experiencing our first 9/11 anniversary with you
as Commander in Chief.
PBO – Yes. A very
solemn day for our Nation. A day of reflection and yet a day of
historical consciousness as well.
CS – Very much so sir,
very much so indeed…. Now; In researching your position regarding the
events of 9/11 and the subsequent investigation that followed, am I
correct to understand that you fully support and endorse the findings of
the commission report otherwise known as the ‘official story’?
PBO – Do I have any
reason not to? Given that most of us are presumably in touch with
similar evidence.
CS – I really wish that
were the case, sir. Are you aware, Mr. President, of the recent stunning
revelations that sixty
percentof the 9/11 commissioners have publicly stated that
the government agreed not to tell the truth about 9/11 and that
the Pentagon was engaged in deliberate deception about their
response to the attack?
PBO – I am
aware of certain “in fighting” during the course of their very thorough
and tireless investigative process.
CS – Mr. President,
it’s hard to label this type of friction as “in fighting” or make the
irresponsible leap to “thorough,” when the evidence I insist you examine
regarding 6 of the 10 members are statements of fact.
(At this point one of
Obama’s senior aides approaches the President and whispers into his ear.
Obama glances quickly at his watch and nods as the aide resumes his post
at the doorway, directly behind me.)
PBO – No disrespect Mr.
Sheen, but I have to ask; what is it that you seem to be implying with
the initial direction of this discussion?
CS – I am not implying
anything Mr. President. I am here to present the facts and see what you
plan to do with them.
PBO - Let me guess;
your ‘facts,’ allegedly supporting these claims are in the folders you
brought with you?
CS – Good guess Mr.
President.
(I hand the first folder of
documents to the President)
CS – Again sir, these
are not my opinions or assumptions, this is all a matter of public
record, reported through mainstream media, painstakingly fact checked
and verified.
(the President glances into
the folder I handed him)
CS – You’ll notice sir
on page one of the dossier
dated August of ‘06 from the Washington Post, the statements of
John Farmer, senior council to the 9/11 commission, his quote stating,
“I was shocked how different the truth was from the way it was
described.”
PBO – (as he
glances down at the report, almost inaudible) …. um hmm….
CS – He goes on to
further state “The [NORAD Air Defense] tapes told a radically different
story from what had been told to us and the public for two years….”
CS – On pages two and
three, sir, are the statements, as well, from commission co-chairmen
Thomas Kean and
Lee Hamilton, commissioners
Bob Kerrey,
Timothy Roemer and John Lehman, as well as the statements of
commissioner Max Cleland, an ex-Senator from Georgia ,
who resigned, stating:
“It is a national scandal. This
investigation is now compromised. One of these days we will have to get
the full story because the 9/11 issue is so important to America. But
this White House wants to cover it up.”
He also described President
Bush’s desire to delay the process as not to damage the ‘04
re-election bid. They suspected deception to the point where they
considered referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal
investigation. Mr. President, this information alone is unequivocally
grounds for a new investigation!
PBO – Mistakes were
clearly made but we as a people and as a country need to move forward.
It is obviously in our best interest as a democratic society to focus
our efforts and our resources on the future of this great nation and our
ability to protect the American people and our allies from this type of
terrorism in the coming years.
CS – Sir, how can we
focus on the future when THE COMMISSION ITSELF is on record stating that
they still do not know the truth??
PBO – Even if what you
state, might in some capacity, begin to approach an open discussion or
balanced debate, I can’t speak for, or about the decisions
certain commission members made during an extremely difficult period.
Perhaps you should be interviewing them instead of me.
Wait, don’t tell me; I was easier to track down than they were?
CS - Not exactly sir,
but let’s be honest. You’re the President of the United States, the
leader of the free world, the buck stops with you. 9/11 has
been the pretext for the systematic dismantling of our Constitution and
Bill of Rights. Your administration is reading from the same playbook
that the Bush administration foisted on America through documented
secrecy and deception.
PBO – Mr. Sheen, I’m
having a difficult time sitting here and listening to you draw distorted
parallels between the Bush/Cheney regime and mine.
CS – Mr. President the
parallels are not distorted just because you say they are. Let’s stick
to the facts. You promised to abolish the Patriot Act and then voted to
re-authorize it. You pledged to end warrantless wire tapping against the
American people and now energetically defend it. You decried the
practice of rendition and now continue it. You promised over and over
again on the campaign trail, that you would end the practice of
indefinite detention and instead, you have expanded it to permanent
detention of “detainees” without trial. This far exceeds the outrages of
the former administration. Call me crazy Mr. President, but is this not
your record?
PBO – Mr. Sheen, my
staff and I authorized this interview based on your request to discuss
9/11 and deliver some additional information you’re convinced I’d not
previously reviewed. Call me crazy, But it appears as though
you’ve blindly wandered off topic.
CS – Sir, the examples
I just illustrated are a direct result of 9/11.
PBO – And I’m telling
you that we must move forward, we must endure through these dangerous
and politically challenging years ahead.
CS – Mr. President, we
cannot move forward
with a bottomless warren of unanswered questions surrounding that day
and its aftermath.
PBO – I read the
official report. Every word every page. Perhaps you should do the same.
CS – I have sir, and so
have thousands of family members of the victims, and guess what;
they have the same questions I do and probably a lot more. I didn’t
lose a loved one on that horrific day Mr. President and neither did you.
But since then I, along with millions of other Americans lost something
we held true and dear for most of our lives in this great country of
ours; we lost our hope.
PBO – And I’d like to
believe that I am here to restore that hope. To restore confidence in
your leaders, in the system that the voting public chose through a
peaceful transfer of power.
(An odd moment of silence
between us. Precious time ticking away).
CS – Mr. President, are
you aware of the number of days it took to begin the investigation into
JFK’s assassination?
PBO – If memory serves
I believe it was two weeks.
CS – Close. Seventeen
days to be exact. Are you aware sir, how long it took to begin the
investigation into Pearl Harbor?
PBO – I would say again
about….two weeks.
CS – Close again sir,
eleven days to be exact. Are you aware Mr. President how long it took to
begin the investigation into 9/11?
PBO – I know it must
have seemed like a very long time for all the grieving families.
CS – It was a very long
time Mr. President – four hundred and forty days. Roughly 14 months.
Does it bother you Mr. President that it only took
FIVE HOURS for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld after the initial
attack to recommend and endorse a full scale offensive against Iraq?
PBO – I am not aware of
any such purported claim.
CS – I have the proof
Mr. President, along with scores of documents and facts I’d like you to
take a look at. Here.
(I hand him another file –
much thicker than the first)
PBO – I see you came
prepared Charlie.
CS – No other way to
show up Mr. President. When in doubt over prepare I always say.
PBO – Now you sound
like the First Lady.
CS – That’s quite a
compliment sir.
PBO – As you wish.
Please continue.
CS – Sir, I’d like to
direct your attention to the stack of documents in the folder I just
handed you. The first in from the top is entitled “Operation
Northwoods”, a declassified Pentagon plan to stage terror attacks on
US soil, to be blamed on Cuba as a pretext for war.
PBO – And I’d like to
direct your attention to the fact that the principle draftsman
of this improbable blueprint was quickly denied a second term as Joint
Chiefs chairman and sent packing to a European NATO garrison. Thank God
his otherworldly ambitions never saw the light of day.
CS – I wouldn’t be so
certain about that Mr. President.
PBO – I could easily
say the same to you Charlie.
(the President checks his
watch)
CS – The next document
reads “Declassified staged provocations.” Now, Honestly Mr. President I
wish I was making this stuff up. I’m certain you are familiar with the
USS Maine Incident, the sinking of the Lusitania, which we all now know
brought us into WW1, and of course the most famous, the Gulf of Tonkin
incident.
PBO – Of course I am
familiar with these historical events and I’m aware that there’s a
measure of controversy surrounding them. But to be quite frank with you,
this is all ancient history.
CS – Mr. President, it
has been often said; “Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat
it.” And I concede to you sir, these events are the past.
PBO – A vastly
different world young man, shouldering a radically disparate state of
universal affairs.
CS – No argument sir,
I‘m merely inviting you to acknowledge some credibility to the pattern
or the theme. Case in point; the next document in your folder. It was
published by the think-tank, Project For a New American Century
and it’s entitled “Rebuilding
Americas Defenses”, and was written by Dick Cheney and Jeb Bush. To
quote from the document sir – (the President interrupts)
PBO – “Further, the
process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event –
like a new Pearl Harbor.”
CS – Touché, sir. Your
thoughts on this statement Mr. President?
PBO – I would call this
a blatant case of misjudgment fueled by an unfortunate milieu of
assumption. For some, the uninformed denial of coincidence.
CS – Interesting angle
sir. Nevertheless, Vice President Cheney didn’t stop there. In early
2008, Pulitzer prize winning journalist
Seymour Hersh
and MSNBC, both
reported that Cheney had proposed to the Pentagon an outrageous
plan to have the U.S. Navy create fake Iranian patrol boats, to be
manned by Navy Seals, who would then stage an attack on US destroyers in
the Strait of Hormuz. This event was to be blamed on Iran and used as a
pretext for war. Does any of this information worry you Mr. President?
Should we just ignore it, until these realities can be dismissed years
from now by our children, as ancient history as well?
PBO – Of course this
information worries me, yet it’s not nearly as worrisome as you
sitting here today suspiciously implying that 9/11 was somehow allowed
to happen or even orchestrated from the inside.
CS – Mr. President I am
not suspiciously implying anything. I am merely exposing the
documents and asking the questions that
nobody in power will
even look at or acknowledge. And as I stated earlier, I voted for you, I
believed in your message of hope and change. Mr. President I have come
to you specifically hoping for a change. A change in the
perception that our government has not yet made itself open and
accountable to the people. These are your words Mr. President not mine.
The lives of thousands were brutally cut short and those left behind to
suffer their infinite pain are with me today Mr. President. They are
with me in spirit and flesh, and the message we carry will not be
silenced anymore by media fueled mantras insisting how they are supposed
to feel. Deciding for them, for 8 long years, what can be
thought, what can be said, what can be asked.
PBO – And I appreciate
your passion, I appreciate your conviction. In spite of your concerns,
in spite of what your data might or might not reveal, what you and the
families must understand and accept is that we are doing everything we
can to protect you.
CS – Mr. President , I
realize were very short on time, so please allow me to run down a list
of bullet points that might illuminate some reasons why we don’t embrace
the warm hug of Federal protection.
PBO – We’ve come this
far. Fire away.
CS – Please keep in
mind Mr. President everything I’m about to say is documented as fact and
part of the public record. The information you are holding in your hands
chronicles and verifies each and every point.
PBO – You have five
minutes left. The floor is yours. Brief me.
CS – Thank you Mr.
President.
Okay, first; On the FBI’s most wanted list Osama Bin Laden is not
charged with the crimes of 911. When I called the FBI to ask them why
this was the case, they replied: “There’s not enough evidence to link
Bin Laden to the crime scene,” I later discovered he had never even been
indicted by the D.O.J.
CS –
Number 2; FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, was dismissed and gagged by
the D.O.J. after she revealed that the government had foreknowledge of
plans to attack American cities using planes as bombs as early as April
2001. In July of ‘09, Mrs. Edmonds broke the Federal gag order and went
public to reveal that Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Taliban were all
working for and with the C.I.A. up until the day of 9/11.
CSS –
Number 3; The following is a quote from Mayor Giuliani during an
interview on 9/11 with Peter Jennings for ABC News. “I went down to the
scene and we set up headquarters at 75 Barkley Street, which was right
there with the Police Commissioner, the Fire Commissioner, the Head of
Emergency Management, and we were operating out of there when we were
told that the World Trade Center was going to collapse. And it did
collapse before we could actually get out of the building, so we were
trapped in the building for 10, 15 minutes, and finally found an exit
and got out, walked north, and took a lot of people with us.”
WHO TOLD HIM THIS??? To this
day, the answer to this question remains unanswered, completely ignored
and emphatically DENIED by Mayor Giuliani on several public occasions.
CS –
Number 4; In April 2004, USA Today reported, “In the two years
before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense
Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was
unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash
into targets and cause mass casualties.” One of the targets was the
World Trade Center.
CS –
Number 5; On September 12th 2007, CNN’s ‘Anderson Cooper 360’,
reported that the mysterious “white plane” spotted and videotaped by
multiple media outlets, flying in restricted airspace over the White
House shortly before 10am on the morning of 9/11, was in fact the Air
Force’s E-4B, a specially modified Boeing 747 with a communications pod
behind the cockpit; otherwise known as “The Doomsday Plane”.
Though fully aware of the
event, the 9/11 Commission did not deem the appearance of the military
plane to be of any interest and did not include it in the final 9/11
Commission report.
CS –
Number 6; Three F-16s assigned to Andrews Air Force Base, ten miles
from Washington, DC, are conducting training exercises in North Carolina
207 miles away as the first plane crashes into the WTC. Even at
significantly less than their top speed of 1500 mph, they could still
have defended the skies over Washington well before 9am, more than 37
minutes before Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, however, they did
not return until after 9:55am.
Andrews AFB had no armed
fighters on alert and ready to take off on the morning of 9/11.
CS –
Number 7; WTC Building 7. Watch the video of its collapse.
Fueling further suspicion on
this front is the fact that three months before the attacks of 9/11,
Dick Cheney usurped control of NORAD, and therefore he, and no one else on planet Earth,
had the power to call for military sorties on the hijacked airliners on
9/11. He did not exercise that power. Three months after 9/11, he
relinquished command of NORAD and returned it to military operation.
CS –
Number 9; Scores of main stream news outlets reported that the
F.B.I. conducted an investigation of at least FIVE of the 9/11 hijackers
being trained at U.S. military flight schools. Those investigations are
now sealed and need to be declassified.
CSS –
Number 10; In 2004, New York firefighters Mike Bellone and Nicholas
DeMasi went public to say they had found the black boxes at the World
Trade Center, but were told to keep their mouths shut by FBI agents.
Nicholas DeMasi said that he escorted federal agents on an all-terrain
vehicle in October 2001 and helped them locate the devices, a story
backed up by rescue volunteer Mike Bellone.
As the Philadelphia Daily News
reported at the time, “Their story raises the question of whether there
was a some type of cover-up at Ground Zero.”;
CS –
Number 11 – Hundreds of eye witnesses including first responders,
fire captains, news reporters, and police, all described multiple
explosions in both towers before and during the collapse.
In addition, over an hour
before the collapse of WTC 7, at 4:10pm, CNN’s Aaron Brown reported that
the building “has either collapsed, or is collapsing.”;
CS –
Number 13; Solicitor General Ted Olson’s claim that his wife Barbara
Olsen called him twice from Flight 77, describing hijackers with box
cutters, was a central plank of the official 9/11 story.
However, the credibility of the
story was completely undermined after Olsen kept changing his story
about whether his wife used her cell phone or the airplane phone. The
technology to enable cell phone calls from high-altitude airline flights
was not created until 2004. American Airlines confirmed that Flight 77
was a Boeing 757 and that this plane did not have airplane phones on
board.
According to the FBI, Barbara
Olsen attempted to call her husband only once and the call failed to
connect, therefore Olsen must have been lying when he claimed he had
spoken to his wife from Flight 77.
CS –
Number 14; The size of a Boeing 757 is approximately 125ft in width
and yet images of the impact zone at the Pentagon supposedly caused by
the crash merely show a hole no more than 16ft in diameter. The engines
of the 757 would have punctured a hole bigger than this, never mind the
whole plane. Images before the partial collapse of the impact zone show
little real impact damage and a sparse debris field completely
inconsistent with the crash of a large jetliner, especially when
contrasted with other images showing airplane crashes into buildings.
CS –
Number 15; What is the meaning behind the following quote attributed
to Dick Cheney which came to light during the 9/11 Commission hearings?
The passage is taken from testimony given by then Secretary of
Transportation Norman Mineta.
During the time that the
airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would
come in and say to the Vice President, “The plane is 50 miles out.” “The
plane is 30 miles out.” And when it got down to “the plane is 10 miles
out,” the young man also said to the Vice President, “Do the orders
still stand?” And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around
and said, “Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to
the contrary?”;
As the plane was not shot down,
in addition to the fact that armed fighter jets were nowhere near the
plane and the Pentagon defensive system was not activated, are we to
take it that the orders were to let the plane find its target?
CS –
Number 16; In May 2003, the Miami Herald reported how the Bush
administration was refusing to release a 900-page congressional report
on 9/11 because it wanted to “avoid enshrining embarrassing details in
the report,” particularly regarding pre-9/11 warnings as well as the
fact that the hijackers were trained at U.S. flight schools.
CS –
Number 17; Top Pentagon officials cancelled their scheduled flights
for September 11th on September 10th. San
Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, following a security warning, cancelled a
flight into New York that was scheduled for the morning of 9/11.
CS –
Number 18; The technology to enable cell phone calls from
high-altitude airline flights was not created until 2004, and even by
that point it was only in the trial phase. Calls from cell phones which
formed an integral part of the official government version of events
were technologically impossible at the time.
CS –
Number 19: On April 29, 2004, President Bush and V.P. Cheney would
only meet with the commission under specific clandestine conditions.
They insisted on testifying together and not under oath. They also
demanded that their testimony be treated as a matter of “state secret.”
To date, nothing they spoke of that day exists in the public domain.
At least a third of the WTC
victim’s bodies were vaporized and many of the victims of the Pentagon
incident were burned beyond recognition. And yet visas and paper
passports which identify the perpetrators and back up the official
version of events miraculously survive explosions and fires that we are
told melted steel buildings..
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PBO – Well Charlie I
can’t say this hasn’t been interesting. As I said earlier you’ve showed
up today focused and organized. Regardless how I feel about the
material you’ve presented, I must commend your dedication and zeal.
However, our time here is up.
((the President rises from
his chair , I do the same).
CS – Mr. President! One
more second!
(The President starts
towards the door – I follow him quickly step for step).
CS – Mr. President, I
implore you based on the evidence you now possess, to use your
Executive Power. Prove to us all Sir, that you do, in fact, care. Create
a truly comprehensive and open Congressional investigation of 9/11 and
its aftermath. The families deserve the truth, the American people and
the rest of the free world deserve the truth. Mr. President -
(He pauses. We shake
hands).
CS – Make sure you’re
on the right side of history.
(The
PBO – I am on the right
side of history. Thank you Charlie, my staff and I will be in touch.
((I watch as he strides
gracefully out of the room, the truth I provided him held firmly by his
side; in the hand of providence.)
Author’s Note: What you have just read didn’t
actually happen… yet.
This is an open letter to the President requesting a new
investigation.
Charlie Sheen.
Charlie Sheen is going to be on Alex Jones’ syndicated radio show
live twice this week. This letter to the President is only the opening
salvo in a chain of key events.
Read more details here and tune in at 11am CST when Alex will lay
out this exciting new development. Sheen first appeared on The Alex
Jones Show in
March 2006 to air his doubts about the official 9/11 story, an
interview that garnered national attention and put the issue of 9/11
truth at the forefront of public debate.
Listen to a 20 minute interview with Charlie Sheen conducted by
Alex Jones
here.