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Someone Is Protecting Saudi Arabia

25 Sunday Sep 2016

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On Friday Hussein Obama issued the twelfth veto of his career.

President Obama on Friday vetoed legislation that would allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S courts, setting up a high-stakes showdown with Congress.

“I recognize that there is nothing that could ever erase the grief the 9/11 families have endured,” Obama wrote in his veto message. “Enacting JASTA into law, however would neither protect Americans from terrorist attacks nor improve the effectiveness of our response to such attacks.”

Obama’s move opens up the possibility that lawmakers could override his veto for the first time with a two-thirds vote in both chambers.
Republican and Democratic leaders have said they are committed to holding an override vote, and the bill’s drafters say they have the support to force the bill to become law.

The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) unanimously passed through both chambers by voice vote.

That means every member of Congress (both houses and both parties) voted for it. Members of the President’s party were just as enthusiastic about the law as Republicans. Why then did Obama shoot it down?

It has long been suspected that Saudi Arabia (and possibly other countries) gave support to the 9/11 terrorists. The Commission impaneled to investigate the attacks found some supporting evidence though their actions were constantly blocked by the Bush administration. A large chunk of their report was classified. When released this year the classified papers were still heavily redacted though they suggested Saudi involvement.

The danger of a lawsuit for the Saudis and maybe the administration (Obama, Bush, and perhaps even Clinton) is that the discovery process might reveal the details of the previous obstruction and redactions. There would be no way to compel the Saudis to comply. However, legally, certain questions and requests, if unanswered, could be deemed answered nonetheless in favor of the plaintiffs.

Did your government give material support to Muhammad Atta?

No answer.

The court deems material support was given to Atta by the Defendants.

Did Saudi Arabia act in concert with Washington to facilitate the attacks?

See how that works?

Such revelations might lead to the truth. And that is something the owners and special interests do not want.

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It would be amazing that, after almost never vetoing any legislation, Obama choose this one. It would be except we’re talking about the most corrupt administration since the last one.

Vetoes historically are difficult to override. There is a small single-digit percentage rate of success against them. The fact that the Congressional votes were unanimous and the scalding nature of this issue may help. We may know as soon as this week.

My 2001 Comments on Guns, Airliners, and 9/11

13 Tuesday Sep 2016

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Sunday was the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Two months after those attacks I went to D.C. for the annual Federalist Society National Lawyer’s Convention. It was my first real exposure to real power. They also featured a frequently open bar.

It was either Thursday, November 15th or Friday the 16th. Let’s say it was the 16th. A few hours before Ted Olson gave the inaugural speech in honor of his wife Barbara (deceased on 9/11/2001 on American Airlines flight 77), the Fed-Soc hosted several luncheon mini-seminars. Everything was at the Mayflower.

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The Mayflower, Washington.

I cannot recall which group I stumbled into nor what I had for lunch. We’ll just say Administrative Law & Regulation: Aviation Security with Tara Branum of Fulbright & Jaworski. And chicken – always a safe choice.

Of course, given that year’s main event the subjects of terrorism and hijackings dominated the discussion. Two days earlier I had flown into Reagan National under very tight security. Washington proper looked like an armed camp – fences, soldiers, Humvees – the whole nine yards.

Much of the talk centered on increased security. That and there was a debate over profiling Muslims at airports. I remember thinking, wondering how 19 savages with only box-cutters could have pulled off what they did. (At the time I had not considered outside and inside assistance). Also, most of the commentary then and there seemed irksome to me. I grew incredulous.

Finally, I raised my hand and was given the floor. Thus began my habit of making profound if off-beat comments at Society functions. Note: the “red wine incident” later that night does not count … what I recall of it…

I began by rhetorically asking the crowd exactly how such a tragedy could have happened in America of all places. I noted that we were (were especially now – past tense) a strong people. We had the Second Amendment. We had guns and lots of them. We carried them. Except, since the 1970s we were prohibited from carrying them on commercial airliners. That was where I found fault. I still do in spite of everything else odd about 9/11.

Americans, I said, had become conditioned to do nothing in such circumstances. “Just let the hijacker take the plane where he wants. Give him some money. We’ll be fine. The police will handle it.” Bull. One Monday morning turned all that malarkey on its head.

I said, sarcastically but firmly, that the headlines that day should have read: “Nineteen Hijackers Shot Dead.” That’s what should have happened and little more. The following cartoon could have been my visual exhibit:

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Scott Bleser, 2001.

An armed America could send its people onto any plane without worry of attack because they could defend themselves. Thus, gun control helped facilitate 9/11. And gun freedom will go a long way towards making sure it never happens again.

Most of the people at lunch that day nodded along (some with alarm at the prospect). Then there was nothing. Many in attendance made their livings off of regulations and laws. Laws are good for that and little more – certainly not good for freedom and security. My comments essentially died right there.

Fifteen years later and we still have the same gun control on planes. And we have a much less freedom-friendly society in general. Once clear of intrusive yet useless airport security and in the absence of an Air Marshal (frequently missing) passengers are still sitting ducks. My money says they will act the part too.

Passivity in the face of danger rarely works out well. Gun control never does. Remember that the next time they tell you disarmament is for your own good. Blame it on me if you have to.

Fifteen Years Later Americans Feel Less Safe

11 Sunday Sep 2016

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A Pew Survey found that 71% of Americans felt less safe from terrorist attacks than they did 15 years ago. There’s good reason for that. As a philosophical and political matter Americans traded freedom for safety and got neither. As a practical matter there are more terrorists in the country now than there were then.

The poll consensus centered on mass attacks, like 9/11. However, the threat today is likely from small-scale acts like Orlando. ISIS seems to have a lock on the lone-wolf action but al Qaeda wants in. On this anniversary of 9/11, not wanting to be forgotten, the original CIA-created monster reared its internet head.

“As long as your crimes continue, the events of 9/11 will be repeated thousands of times, by the will of Allah. And we will follow you – if you don’t cease your aggression [against us] – until the Day of Judgment…, ” [al-CIA-da leader Ayman Al Zawahiri] says.

Referring to the events of 9/11 as the “blessed raids,” Zawahiri boasts at both the economic and human toll the attacks had on the U.S. which are still felt by Americans today.

According to that poll above he may be right. The U.S. government shows no signs of slowing the aggression. Nor do they seem willing to stem the tide of terror-prone immigrants coming to America. It’s the same or worse in Europe.

The day after Germany admitted concern over 500, or 520, or 880 known terrorists in country, the French one upped their neighbors – they boast of 15,000 known jihadis. If they know, why don’ they act? This is the same government that recently asked the French people to take the new invaders into their homes. Rather than house them, why not deport them all?

The British government has deported at least one “refugee” of late. Passengers on a commercial jet flight from the UK to Italy were treated to a barrage of threats from the handcuffed African man.

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Daily Mail, UK.

Charming. Why no-one thought to bash his head in is beyond me. You don’t have to passively accept such behavior at 30,000 feet. At least he was deported. And that reminds me of a story about 9/11 which I shall share sooner or later.

I wonder what percentage of the people would support deporting the politicians?

 

 

 

 

Fifteen Years Ago

11 Sunday Sep 2016

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I was standing in a parking lot in Florida. I was talking to a CIA CS operative. The second plane had just hit the WTC. On that day and at that time my friend knew more about what was happening that most people do today. Interesting, frightening, and more than a little sad, that.

What do we know about 9/11? And what have we done about it over the past decade and a half? The substantive answer to both is, “nothing”. I’ve recently mentioned that, here and here.

In reality 9/11 and the ensuing federal response have done three things: it’s given state-worshipers another day to wave flags and talk tough in most delusional fashion; it’s allowed the government unprecedented power, and; it has enriched the special elite via spending of astronomical proportions.

That’s about all. From those root effects we have received: constant (and pointless) wars; loss of civil liberties; acceptance of a police state; debts which can never be repaid; inflation and loss of income opportunity (at a time when the opportunity is most needed); a loss of credibility and even likability around the world, and; more terrorism – here, not “over there”.

The terrorists keep coming. Last week ISIS grossly underestimated its own capability and man-power in Europe. Last night I read that Germany admitted as much, for their part.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s interior minister has warned that the country is home to more than 500 Islamic militants who could be capable of carrying out assaults on their own or as members of “hit teams.”

Speaking in an interview with Bild newspaper, Thomas de Maiziere said there were currently at least 520 “potential attackers” in the country, which has been on edge since two Islamic State-inspired attacks in July.

He said another 360 “relevant” people were known to police because of their close proximity to the potential attackers.

Many Germans fear that fighters belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group could have slipped into Germany with the roughly one million of refugees from Syria, North Africa and Asia who arrived last year.

Notice how the number, just within the beginning of this story, grew immediately from “more than 500”, to 520, and the to 880? It nearly doubled in three short paragraphs. The fourth paragraph has the dangerous number – “roughly one million”. One million is “more than 500”. And, those numbers are active – bombing, shooting, hacking, slashing, trucking, robbing, rioting, and raping.

They’re in America too. Geography and the police state might mean their numbers are a little lower here and their course of action a little slower. They also know they’re up against 150 Million gun owners too. Still, it’s a problem and one that we didn’t have before.

Just remember that the terrorism is a byproduct of the three roots, maybe the most visible. We need to stamp it out but we also need to get to the bottom of the underlying issues. Hell, we need to get started on those. For all the talk about “never forget” it’s interesting that we never knew to begin with.

In fifteen years we have destroyed a handful of countries that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. God only knows how many people are dead, injured, and displaced. (He’s watching, if you recall). We’ve spent at least $20 Trillion we didn’t have. We have stupidly embraced the new and meaningless Amerika.

I want the old America back.

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Lower Manhattan from NY Harbor, circa 1990. Perrin Lovett.

We need a real investigation, an independent investigation. The Saudis, the Israelis, and the Pakistanis (and some in Europe even) deserve special consideration. An even closer examination is in order for a small sect of the Washington-New York power elite.

I’m not sure my sentiment is shared. I don’t know if Americans could handle the truth or if they even want it. What if some of our “allies” and our own “leaders” were implicated? I, of course, would favor rope. I suspect the masses would favor more entertainment and less truth. The extent to which the criminal class has gone to prevent an investigation and to obscure the facts speaks volumes. Volumes most will never read.

It might as well be 1,500 years.

How Many Lies and Deceits Before a Government Loses Credibility?

10 Saturday Sep 2016

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Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of 9/11. The memorials (and celebrations) have already started. Most local observances are relatively honest; they focus on the loss and the valor of the day. The national spectacle is only concerned with furthering the evil agenda of the elite and in keeping the people brainwashed into accepting mythology as reality.

It may not be working. Paul Craig Roberts notes that an increasing number of Americans, many half even, are now skeptical of the official state lie about 9/11. They are joining the ranks of scientists, military and intelligence experts, and those who were actually there in questioning the narrative. The causes given (glossed over really) for the attacks are under new scrutiny also.

The leading publication for the European physics community has already determined the official mechanical explanation for the demise of the WTC is an impossibility. Indeed the official story has become the conspiracy theory. Many want Congress to launch a real investigation.

Those who expect honesty from the House and Senate forget that those entities are owned by certain masters. There will be no new inquiry. There’s too much money at stake now for the truth, as Eric Margolis points out:

Since 2015, the US has dropped at least 32,000 1,000-2,000 lb. bombs on Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and Afghanistan – all Muslim nations. US bomb inventories are running critically low as arms makers work overtime.

9/11 was a revenge attack conducted by mostly Saudi nationals who claimed they wanted to punish the United States for supporting Israeli oppression of Palestine, and for what they claimed was the US ‘occupation’ of Saudi Arabia.

That’s as much as we really know. We have never gotten the full story about 9/11. The best we can do is ask “qui bono,” who really benefitted from the attacks?

The bombs are somewhat expensive – a Mark 84 costs Uncle Sam about $3,200 – but the real money is in commodities and finance. Most wars are fought strictly to make money for banks.

One wonders where the money will come from in order to keep this insanity going. Well, from the printing press, obviously. But how long can the charade continue? America is worse than bankrupt. Here’s a look at the growth of U.S. debt since the days of Reagan.

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And that’s just on-books debt. The true extent of the bankruptcy is much, much worse. So much worse, in fact, that it really can’t be calculated anymore. There is no way to determine how many Trillions (tens of Trillions) of dollars the government is destroying for the banksters.

America’s currency and financial conditions are as obliterated as the official lies behind the modern wars. This leaves aside other policy circuses, foreign and domestic. They are as bad if not worse. How much of this is needed before absolute failure is recognized?

Anyway, on a brighter if blander note, today appears to be college football pud day. You’re team may put up 70+ points. Then again, LSU and MSU last week put a little conspiracy in that theory too.

The Fifteenth Anniversary of 9/11 Approaches

09 Friday Sep 2016

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It’s this coming Sunday. And fifteen years later we still know next to nothing about what happened that fateful day. The lies and miscommunication have passed into myth and legend. Much that was known at the time has now been largely forgotten.

Jeff Clyburn composed a list of known “knowns” about 9/11. Many of these have been lost for sometime on the public. The owners and controllers of America would have us all forget them. A few tidbits:

The money trail was never followed to its logical conclusion. The 9/11 Commission concluded the question of who funded the attacks “was of little practical significance.”

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Indian intelligence, corroborated by the FBI, showed a wire transfer of $100,000 from the phone of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Mahmud Ahmad to 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in 2000. Ahmad (also reported as Ahmed) was in Washington D.C. on the morning of the attacks, meeting with US lawmakers.

The $100,000 transaction was never mentioned in the 9/11 Commission report — and Ahmad was never detained for questioning.

The “28 pages” from a redacted chapter of the 2002 Joint Inquiry report into the attacks, we were told, had “nothing to do with national security.” But national security was the very reason given for withholding them for 14 years by both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama White Houses.

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In the days before 9/11, highly abnormal levels of put options — bets that a stock price will fall — were in place on major US stock markets for not only the airlines involved, but also for multiple financial giants that suffered significant losses in the attacks.

The SEC’s investigation into those irregularities gave little details for their benign conclusion that all trades were legitimate and curiously destroyed all their records.

Blaming Iraq was the talking point advanced by the Bush administration within days of the attacks. Later, multiple reports surfaced alleging that the neoconservatives who made up the hawkish Project for a New American Century think tank and the Bush Administration had been planning for (and discussing the need to publicly justify) an invasion of Iraq (and Afghanistan) long before 9/11.

Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

These are but a few of the known, if disregarded facts about 9/11. Then there is the matter of questions and controversy. I wonder if any of this will be brought up during the national “celebration” of 9/11 this Sunday/Monday. I suspect not.

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The Daily Sheeple.

And I’m serious about the celebration part. 9/11 has rapidly become the premier holiday of statism in America, a holy day for the unholy. Without those events Washington would have had to wait years before commencing lucrative wars and Draconian, Stalinist security theater. This too, is well-known if overlooked.

Fifteen years is a long time but not so long as to preclude an honest investigation. Twenty years or fifty years on and it will be a moot point. Maybe it’s all moot now. Ponder that this weekend.

What’s Trending This Friday

15 Friday Jul 2016

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The day after another terror attack in Nice, news of a cover-up from a prior attack. The French government let slip horrifying details about the Bataclan Massacre. The acts committed were truly barbaric. Why not disclose them so the people can see what they face? Do they want this to be the new normal?

Another newsworthy release – but still heavily redacted – the missing 28 pages from the 9/11 report came out. Saudi involvement, to some degree, is pretty obvious. What struck me as extreme was the extensive, nationwide network that existed before 2001 and how much the government seemed to know or suspect (and did nothing about).

And, another military coup in Turkey. This one may not be going so well. The Turkish military has a history of intervention dating to 1960; they are secularists who may be concerned about the Islamist leanings of the Erdogan regime. They may also be tired of fighting a border war with ISIS while simultaneously having to mop up after terror attacks within the borders. If they succeed, which is doubtful, hopefully they will route out the extremists. If they fail, hopefully there will be reforms and a routing. In any event, hopefully this ends as peaceably as possible.

Lastly, while out on my evening jog I saw them. I saw the Pokemon zombies. Actually it looked like they were having fun. Good for them.

9/11: The Political Gift That Keeps On Giving

06 Monday Jun 2016

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9/11/2001, while murder for 3,000 Americans and a nightmare for the rest of us, has been a boon for the low-rent political class in the D.C. swamp. It allowed them to: create new agencies even to the cabinet level of corruption; start two big useless wars and more smaller (but still useless) wars; steal Trillion$ from the people to give to Wall Street and the MIC; place the whole population under surveillance; kill countless people and destroy countless things; stomp the Constitution and the Rule of Law into the mud; keep the people alarmed to the point of fatigue, and; provide a (terrible) reason for their own continued existence.

Nearly 15 years after the attacks the trauma of the day itself is largely forgotten while life under the new police state has been accepted almost universally. There was a hasty, sham investigation into the event but the “official story” was already contrived even as the horrors unfolded. Everyone, including the 9/11 Commission, new the Commission’s work was rigged … rigged and/or obstructed.

The Executive Branch mislead and hindered the 9/11 Commission and destroyed evidence in order to sabotage future investigations.

Presumption of a Cover-Up …

Judges and lawyers know that – if someone intentionally destroys evidence – he’s probably trying to hide his crime. American law has long recognized that destruction of evidence raises a presumption of guilt for the person who destroyed the evidence.

So what does it mean when the US government intentionally destroyed massive amounts of evidence related to 9/11?

It means the government is guilty and should be disbanded immediately.

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As part of the post-9/11 wars and money-making rackets, the government has held various “terrorists” at GITMO, some with show trials, some just sitting around … forever. The government has lazily farmed out both the prosecution and defense of these men to a private company, SRA International. The same team handling both sides in “court” – conflict of interest anyone??

The Defense Department has paid SRA almost $39 million over the last five years, U.S. government contracting records show, for the cases of just seven accused terrorists — those charged in the 9/11 attacks and two others charged in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole off Yemen.

SRA has supplied roughly 45 investigators, intelligence analysts, and others to both the prosecution and defense teams at the military commissions, which are trying the cases at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. About a fifth of the total military commission staff are SRA contractors, a Defense Department spokesperson said. And the firm’s “proprietary software,” records show, is used to process the evidence in the case.

There really isn’t any Due Process concern as the system is designed to avoid any acquittals:

In 2008, the former chief prosecutor for Guantanamo’s military commissions disclosed that the trials have been rigged to prevent any possibility of acquittal.

Specifically, the head of the Guantanamo tribunal — who is actually in charge of both prosecuting and defending the suspects — told the former chief prosecutor:

‘Wait a minute, we can’t have acquittals. If we’ve been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can’t have acquittals, we’ve got to have convictions.’

In addition, three other Guantanamo prosecutors — Maj. Robert Preston, Capt. John Carr and Capt. Carrie Wolf — “asked to be relieved of duties after saying they were concerned that the process was rigged. One said he had been assured he didn’t need to worry about building a proper case; convictions were assured.”

Another former Guantanamo prosecutor resigned, saying in a sworn declaration that the government pulled all sorts of shenanigans in one case.

The head of the tribunal also said that — even if the defendants are somehow acquitted — they may not be released from Guantanamo.

No wonder the American Bar Association, “which the Pentagon had said would help arrange such representation, has refused to participate because it objects to the trial procedures.”

Despite all this fraud and criminal misconduct the only thing keeping the rats of Congress up at night is Rand Paul stalling parts of the nefarious PATRIOT ACT.

Republicans, furious at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), are accusing him of jeopardizing national security to further his presidential campaign.

Paul used Senate procedure to successfully — and temporarily — block the chamber’s push to renew parts of the Patriot Act on Sunday.

This caused three sections of the controversial surveillance bill, including the National Security Agency’s bulk records-collection program, to expire early Monday morning.

Again, when you go vote (unless you luckily get to vote for Paul), this is what you’re getting – pure, unadulterated corruption and evil. Keep letting the fox into the hen-house and he’ll keep eating the chickens.

More Crazy 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Nutiness

12 Tuesday Apr 2016

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Everyone knows the only valid conspiracy theories are those put forth by the government for consideration by wise judges and noble, attentive jurors. You know – conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to rob a bank, conspiracy to catch a short lobster – serious crimes (the base crimes of murder and robbery simply are not enough; the conspiring, rather than the act, is what counts). Theories about the origin and operation of the Federal Reserve, MK Ultra, Operation Northwoods, Bretton Woods, and the imperfect ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment are the stuff of insane fantasy. Sure, they all turned out to be true but, come on, crazy, crazy, crazy.

No set of such lunatic fancies have a deeper and more fanatical following than those surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The truth is plain and simple: 19 young, poor, semi-educated men from Saudi Arabia (one or two of whom may have known someone who once said they met Osama Bin Laden), who hated Americans for their freedoms and who did not receive any state support, moved through and received some training in Germany and England, arriving in their base of operations in the United States where they carried out the most sophisticated terror attacks in history without any warning whatsoever, thus justifying wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Syria. Clear as a bell, really.

The crazies come up with all sorts of wholly unbelievable drivel regarding this simple event. They ask why Larry Silverstein insured the World Trade Center for twice its value and specifically against terrorist attacks a few months before 9/11. They ask why Israelis were stationed around New York like spectators at a football game on 9/11. They ask why President Bush didn’t immediately react once told of the attacks. They ask why Saudis were allowed to freely travel out of the U.S. on 9/11 when all other travel was banned. They ask why a CIA Clandestine Services agent would seem to have so much information about the attacks as to basically narrate them as and before they  unfolded. So many damned questions! Are they trying to learn something!?

These jokers actually insinuate that explosives were used to bring down the Towers that day; they claim airliners were insufficient for the job. The “proof” they foist on the sane consists of things like the following: That the modern buildings were specifically designed to withstand crashes by jumbo jets. That jet fuel fueled fires are not hot enough to melt steel. That the maximum temperatures in those fire were around 1800 degrees while months later hot pockets revealed temperatures in excess of 4000 degrees. That there were traces of titanium diboride found in the rubble. These nuts even claim the BBC reported the collapse of WTC building No. 7 twenty minutes before it happened. This screen capture from 9/11 disproves that one:

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Now we welcome a new nut to the bag – former U.S. Senator Bob Graham. Graham was once chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence so he obviously knows nothing about anything regarding either government or intelligence. I met the man once; he tried to tell me his suit was blue when it was inarguably gray. Now Graham is set to tell another whopper and feed the 9/11 conspiracy furnaces under the internet loony ward.

Sunday he will go on CBS’s 60 Minutes and drop a bombshell of a lie. He seems to think the 19 hijackers had outside, professional and state level help. He thinks the public needs to know what’s on the 28 pages of classified information redacted out of the 9/11 Commission Report. “I think it’s implausible to believe that 19 people, most of whom didn’t speak English, most of whom had never been in the United States before, many didn’t have a high school education, could have carried out such a complicated task without some support from within the United States,” said Senator Nutjob.

There has been great speculation, this year and going back to 2001, about official Saudi involvement in the attacks. Just because the attackers were from Saudi Arabia means nothing. Maybe they met with other Saudis in the U.S. prior to the attacks. Who cares!? Yes, those other Saudis had to leave the country in a hurry – they had flights to catch. Geesh.

Some like Graham are demanding the 28 pages be declassified. They say the time has come, that the classification was only done by the Bush Administration to protect security interests while the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq raged. So what if those wars are history now (and such impressive successes too)? The release would only confuse the literate public about the nature of the original 9/11 Report.

That Report is the gospel truth. Sure the Commission said the government obstructed the investigation. Sure, Cheney and Bush refused to testify under oath. Yes, the Commission co-chair said the Commission was “set up to fail”. Senator Bob Kerrey said the Commission was denied access to evidence. Commissioner Tim Roemer said the government made false statements to the Commission. Yes, Senator Max Clelland walked off the job and called the Commission “compromised” and a “national scandal”. What’s the big deal?

For many more examples of this deranged questioning of the honesty of government read 7 Reasons 9/11 Could NOT Have Been An Inside Job by the Washington Blog, April 5, 2016. An example of the insidious whining:

Much of the 9/11 Commission Report was based upon the testimony of people who were tortured. At least four of the people whose interrogation figured in the 9/11 Commission Report have claimed that they told interrogators information as a way to stop being “tortured”.  One of the Commission’s main sources of information was tortured until he agreed to sign a confession that he was NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO READ.

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If you can’t trust a torture coerced confession, what can you trust? You can certainly trust the U.S. government. It has never lied about anything. Well, except for lying about the Federal Reserve, MK Ultra, Operation Northwoods, Bretton Woods, the imperfect ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, Waco, income tax withholding, income tax brackets, social security, elections, the drug war, Pearl Harbor, the Grace Commission, JFK’s assassination, MLK’s assassination, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the U.S.S. Maine, the U.S.S. Liberty, the Gulf of Tonkin, weapons of mass destruction, global warming, education, VA medical treatment, the national debt, the deficit, trade agreements, the gold standard, Three Mile Island, gun control, immigration and about a thousand other things.

Those with conspiracy theories questioning our benevolent Washington (that’s you, Mr. Graham!) are just plain crazy.

Flyin’ N Spyin’

17 Sunday May 2015

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A little while back I did a popular series on the electronic dangers lurking inside your new automobile.  I started with a post on a 60 Minutes segment on auto computers and their susceptibility to hacking.  I expounded thereon once Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts released a damning report on the vulnerability and the complete lack of defense provided by auto manufacturers.  The Markey Report is worth a read.

Next I sounded the alarm on the Federal government’s efforts to track you via computers – even in your car.  I noted some might welcome the intrusion – for the children and such.  If these nuts fly commercial in addition to driving, then they will be further elated.  News comes that a disgruntled techie was able to hack into the controls of an airliner and temporarily take over the flight.

The malicious nerd:

hacked the in-flight entertainment system, or IFE, on an airplane and overwrote code on the plane’s Thrust Management Computer while aboard the flight. He was able to issue a climb command and make the plane briefly change course, the document states.

“He stated that he thereby caused one of the airplane engines to climb resulting in a lateral or sideways movement of the plane during one of these flights…

Just so you know, you are now at risk on the road and in the sky.  I’m sure the TSA is hard at work on a remedy.  Maybe passengers will be barred from bringing any electronic devices aboard.  Maybe they’ll have to fly naked.  At any rate, the problem will still exist, but with a host of new issues to accompany.

Things are out of hand.  In the good old days it took a couple of thugs armed with box-cutters to destroy an airplane.  Now, any dork with a smart phone can do the job.