Village Voice: Something Should Have Clicked (9/11 security failure)

[paulthompson]

This is great. First, James Ridgeway wrote an article in the Village Voice about my 9/11 timeline a couple of days ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x499237

Now, a couple of us 9/11 researchers alerted him to a New York Post article that was relevant to the recently declassified PDB for Bush, and voila, nearly instantly, this article appears today. Ridgeway seems to have caught the 9/11 bug, and seems really committed to do lots of reporting on it in the future.


Something Should Have Clicked

A "tourist" with a phony passport took photos of NYC federal building in the summer of 2001: Police let him go.

by James Ridgeway

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0416/mondo4.php

WASHINGTON, D.C.—When the 9-11 Commission convenes its two-day public hearing at the New School in Manhattan on May 18, it will be under pressure from the survivor families to find out why the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force was napping when a so-called tourist from the Middle East with a phony passport, phony visa, and non-existent address was breezing around Lower Manhattan, taking pics of cop posts, security cameras, and federal buildings. A federal property police officer got suspicious and detained the man, but the FBI let him go after determining—wrongly, as it turned out—that he was on the up and up.

The by-now-legendary President's Daily Brief of August 6, 2001, apparently refers to this incident, and it reportedly was discussed during that summer in the anti-terrorism law enforcement community on a hush-hush basis. The daily brief, which has been fobbed off as a mostly "historical" document, states in the next to last paragraph: "Nevertheless, FBI information since <1998> indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York."

But there was nothing hush-hush about it. The New York Post ran a story—"Feds Let Terror Spy Wriggle Free: Suspect Was Photographing Security Operations Around Town"—about the incident more than two months before 9-11. (You can see the Post's July 1, 2001 story here.)

[DUreader]

1. It was 'husu-hush" because they 'classified' already public info.

I don't have a link , but am certain I read about info that had been

printed in newspapers that has since been either classified or 're-classified' (I read that word somewhere...no not 1984.)

[boobooday]

2. It's like we're a bunch of boom boxes

In the war against the mighty Wurlitzer that is the Republican party. Thank God for those few journalistic heroes like Ridgeway.

The information is there, in plain sight, about the criminal failures of this administration, and it always was. What's mysterious is not why and how we got attacked but why and how this administration let it happen, and then tries to obstruct the investigation.

Thanks for the link!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[DUreader]

3. Why do you let the "Free Press" off the hook?

The US's only excuse for not having UN monitored elections is that our so-called free press used to pay for independent exit polling! Remember 2002? NO EXIT POLLING!

Exit Polling 2000 = Gore Won Florida!

Votes 2000= Gore Won Florida!


Free Press Reporting Since 911 = Iraqi Pilot HighJackers on 911

and saddam had wmds


I hate to flame but, wake up already

[DUreader]

4. kick

[mistertrickster]

5. I'm kicking this too . . . this is fascinating.

The bits and pieces of the truth slowly float to the surface . . .
"though murder hath no tongue, it will speak, with most miraculous organ." Hamlet