http://video.yahoo.com/watch/182579/730267
NORAD Stand-Down on 9/11: Not Just Simple Incompetence
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3114rich_clarke.html
Excerpt:
Hart also recounted a meeting he had with Condoleezza Rice on Sept. 6, 2001 (two days after the Principals' meeting described by Clarke). Hart told Rice: "Get going on homeland security. You don't have all the time in the world." Her response, Hart says, was to say "I'll talk to the vice president about it." Which confirms, not only Clarke's contention that there was absolutely no sense of urgency about terrorism, but also that it was Cheney who was in charge.
Taking Advantage of 9/11
That's what happened, or didn't happen, before Sept. 11, 2001. What is equally significant in Clarke's account, is what happened afterwards.The next morning, before the dust had even settled from the previous day's attacks, "I walked into a series of discussions about Iraq," Clarke recounts. "At first I was incredulous.... Then I realized with almost a sharp physical pain that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were going to try to take advantage of this national tragedy to promote their agenda about Iraq." Clarke notes that since the beginning of the administration, and well before, they had been pushing for a war with Iraq. "My friends in the Pentagon had been telling me that the word was we would be invading Iraq sometime in 2002."
On that morning, Sept. 12, Wolfowitz was arguing that the attacks were too sophisticated for a terrorist group to have pulled off by itself (a true enough statement, as EIR has shown). But Wolfowitz's answer was that the attackers needed a state sponsor, and that state was—guess who—Iraq.
http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/001519.html
Excerpt:
September 14, 2005
Who could have predicted 9/11?
Indeed.From Condoleezza Rice on May 16, 2002
"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."
From the 9/11 Commission report, August 2004 [after the Dubya administration's edits were restored]:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/gary-harts-new-memoir-sho_b_711492.html
Excerpt & videos:
Gary Hart's New Memoir Shows the Continuity in Contemporary History
Gary Hart has just released a fascinating personal memoir. In The Thunder and the Sunshine: Four Seasons in a Burnished Life, the former U.S. senator and presidential candidate weaves his personal story and observations through the history of the past 40 years.
An accomplished author of more than a dozen books, Hart's been in a unique position throughout. And in this book, Hart unleashes a slew of intriguing vignettes that bring those decades of modern American history to life.
Reading the book, which is a brisk read at 240 pages or so, I'm struck by the threads of continuity running from 1970 to 2010. Then, as now, America was in a state of imperial overstretch, riven by a foolish war and roiled by divisive politics, fatefully dependent on foreign oil and tethered to an old energy economy that threatens the future of our economy, our environment, and our security.
Reading the book, which is a brisk read at 240 pages or so, I'm struck by the threads of continuity running from 1970 to 2010. Then, as now, America was in a state of imperial overstretch, riven by a foolish war and roiled by divisive politics, fatefully dependent on foreign oil and tethered to an old energy economy that threatens the future of our economy, our environment, and our security.
