US air traffic authority had multiple Bin Laden hijack warnings before 91

[RBHam]

By Patrick Martin
https://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/faa-f11.shtml

excerpt:
It is worth recalling once again the extraordinary exchange during a hearing of the 9/11 commission between commissioner Bob Kerrey—a right-wing former Democratic senator and supporter of the war in Iraq—and former CIA and State Department counterterrorism official Cofer Black.

Kerrey: Let me ask you one last question: How in God’s name did this thing happen? I’ve got to tell you, I hear battle stations and everything we’re doing, and at our airports we were at ease. We were stacked arms. We were not prepared for a hijacking. And you may say, “Well, we didn’t know all the conspiracy”—a hijacking surprised us. That’s what Betty Ong said, when we heard her voice, that the government and the FAA—none of us were prepared for even a simple hijacking. How in God’s name did that happen?

Black: Am I meant to answer that, sir?

Kerrey: Yes. If you can. If you can’t, fine. I mean, I’m not sure I could.

Kerrey uses the term “stacked arms,” referring to a deliberate refusal to fight. Far more plausible than the administration’s claim that the attacks came as a complete surprise is that some form of stand-down was imposed on the intelligence and security services, knowing that a terrorist attack within the United States was imminent. The Bush White House wanted to use such an incident as the pretext for the long-planned campaign of military action in the Middle East that has unfolded over the last four years. (It is, of course, not necessary to suppose that those who permitted the attack knew exactly what its scale would be, nor the colossal cost in human lives.)

The Bush administration’s conduct in response to this latest 9/11 finding is a further confirmation of this theory. The White House deliberately stalled for months in allowing the declassification of the report on the FAA’s performance, pushing it past the election in which Bush sought to focus on his supposedly vigorous conduct of the “war on terror.”

Once the election was safely past, the White House had the report quietly delivered to the National Archives for burial, where it was uncovered by the Times—apparently thanks to a tip from an angry member of the 9/11 commission. This is more than just electoral skullduggery, which would be reprehensible enough. It is the hallmark of a government that has many crimes to hide, not least them its role in the September 11 terrorist attacks.

[dbeach]

1. 9/11 was the ultimate inside job..

it legitimized an illegal and stolen election of 11/00...
I personally believe that JFK,BK.MLK and 9/11 were all done by the same criminal element many with nazi past's

prescott bush was a nazi..its in National archives..but money buys lots of things..also operation paperclip was the entrance of nazis into our intelligence..OSS and the recruited nazis formed the CIA
Goss will cover bush history cuz he too is a criminal

"bush went insane from snorter goss cocaine"

[IndianaGreen]

2. 9/11 was our Reichstag on fire

and it led to the PATRIOT Act, just as the Reichstag fire led to the Nazi's Enabling Act.

[dbeach]

3. which leads to ???

not a nice place .
and the press and most folks yawn on and look for heroes in pols who got us into this mess...
I voted for kerry ..but liked both dean and clark
and now think its all a rip-off

[libodem]

4. Thank you for the info

I've been thinking this for at least two years. I was dating a right-winger and during a political discussion, I blurted out that I thought 'they' designed 9/11. He went so crazy throwing a red shrimp cocktail sauce jar from wall to wall to vaulted ceiling and screaming that it was 'blasphemy' to suggest such a thing. He'd never heard anyone any where say such a thing. I thought I must be conspiracy-theory nutz and never mentioned it again. Needless to say I had to break up with him during the elections because I couldn't stand him any more.