EXCLUSIVE: New Docs Claim Intel on Bin Laden-al-Qaeda Targets Withheld From Congress' 9/11 Probe

[kpete]

Source: Truthout

EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Claim Intelligence on Bin Laden, al-Qaeda Targets Withheld From Congress' 9/11 Probe
Monday 13 June 2011


On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, just as he has done in years past, a top military intelligence analyst identified by the US government only as "Iron Man" will hunker down in front of his television and watch a particularly gruesome scene of the carnage left behind on that fateful day.

"Although I try to avoid it, I glimpse a film clip, a scene, of people throwing themselves from a burning tower, people who deserved better protection from their country, from me and the men I worked with, and I hear the sounds of the lobby in the (World Trade Center) on tape," said the man, whose alter ego chosen by the government appears to be paying homage to the Marvel Comics superhero. "To me, the sights and sounds, the smoke of that day are not yet history. They are a knot, a silence, a facial tick, a missing friend in Iraq. They are not history yet."

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Intelligence Withheld From Congress

Even worse, according to Iron Man's letter, the information DO5 had collected about Bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the lead up to 9/11 was withheld from Congress after the House and Senate Intelligence Committees launched an investigation into the attacks.

"When the Justice Department requested all documents relating to 9/11 from DoD in May 2002, I notified (redacted) in the DIA Congressional Affairs office that I retained these documents," Iron Man's letter states. "I spoke to (redacted) JFIC DI1 (an individual who works in the command administrative staff), who informed me that JFIC had already submitted a response without any documents. I was surprised and disappointed when my successor at DO5 (redacted) notified me of the full JFIC non-response. I notified (redacted) in the Congressional Affairs office, and was told to submit the documents as DIA documents, with an explanatory e-mail. I did so on 29 May 2002, presuming (probably correctly) that the documents might be overlooked, since they originated at JFIC. I forwarded copies to (redacted) (who was departing JFIC that week), (his subordinate), and (redacted) (who was also departing JFIC that week)."

Read more: http://www.truth-out.org/new-documents-claim-intelligence-bin-laden-al-qaeda-targets-withheld-congress-911-probe/1307986777

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[rfranklin]

1. Oh, a Bush-Cheney coverup? Who could have known?

They knew....the knew...and they let it happen on purpose.

[Name removed]

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[xchrom]

3. Just a little reminder: even many of our elected officials

Are impotent in the face of a select few.

[SoapBox]

4. BushCo....rotten to their very core.

...Bush, Cheney and the ilk...they make me sick.

[Old and In the Way]

5. (1) They stole the election of 2000.

(2) They throttled back on OBL and AQ terrorism as soon as they took office.
(3) They planned the hostile takeover of Iraqi National Oil under the pretext of 'energy planning' in the Spring of 2001.
(4) They let 9/11 happen because they needed a pretext to cover (3)
(5) They let AQ/OBL escape from Tora Bora...because they needed an enemy to justify their GWOT/cash generating machine.
(6) They lied about a Casus Belli to justify a war and invasion of Iraq. War Crimes.
(7) They used the CPA as a front to steal billions in cash to enrich their MIC friends and buy off the election in 2004.
(8) They stole the election in 2004.
(9) They left office with a trillion dollar bailout to Wall St. and trillions more debt they created for this country's taxpayers to deal with.

War criminals. War profiteers. Treasonous bastards. But worst of all...no friggen' accountability.

[Electric Monk]

9. K&R

K&R


K&R


K&R


K&R

[Blue Owl]

6. The "dungeon" should really be reserved for all M$M "official stories"

Because the official story is bullshit.

[Kaleko]

13. Excellent idea.

But a little too smart for DU.

[truth2power]

18. Yes it is.

[bahrbearian]

7. Off the table, no investigation.

[snagglepuss]

8. K & R nt

[hugo_from_TN]

10. What a nest of truthers in the comments.

They are all starting to conflict each other's 'truth'. Here is an example.

"Excuse me, folks, but this "exclusive" from "Iron Man" is preposterous. Do you not realize that (1) Bin Laden and Al Qaeda did not carry out the attackes on 9-11, (2) any "exclusive" that purports to show advance planning by these parties is complete disinformation, and (3) Bin Laden was not killed last month in Pakistan? Do your homework, guys. This is embarrassing"

[hugo_from_TN]

11. Another one...

This is gold.
:rofl:

the ABSURD Propaganda Machine that "Truth"-out ™ has become ... stopped keeping them on my short list of News-outlets-regularly-viewed when they added NYT's moronic Paul Krugman to their permanent op-ed staff a few months back ... checked in just now & there was ONLY your regular yuppie-liberal BS ...

not a single story that AT ALL represented New Info, or a new take on Old Info or ANYTHING that was even remotely 'challenging' ...

but THIS story, a feature headline, is especially FARCICAL & simply G-R-O-T-E-S-Q-U-E considering now that so much other evidence has been made available, & supposed progressive outlets like this SYSTEMATICALLY CHOOSE to ignore ALL & simply reprint garbage like this that COULD have passed for 'news' back in late 2001 or early 2002 ...

for pete's sake, folks, if nothing else, & suspending ALL other disbelief, all you have to remember is that on sept 09 2011 at 9:30 am ET there just HAPPENED to be three different military war games going on, ONE of which just HAPPENED to exactly 'MIMIC' the events transpiring, um, 'on the ground' ...

this leaves only two options for consideration :

1) those 'raghead-in-cave-terrorists' either had VERY V-E-R-Y HIGH contacts within the Pentagon ...
O-R
2) the Pentagon 'contacts' were the actual terrorists and the 'raghead-in-caves' merely dupes ...

THIS VERY SAME RELATIONSHIP (& choice of options) REPEATED THEMSELVES FOR THE 07-07-07 bombings in London . . .

how STUPID do they think we are ? ? ?

no, "Truth"-out is a S H A M . . .

it is fit for consumption ONLY for the Subaru or hybrid driving, money-laundering set who want to believe they're on 'the cutting edge' but can't really handle anything close to the REAL TRUTH ...

F*CK the Lot of 'em .

[blackspade]

12. ?

Not sure what you are saying.
Are you saying that the American pubic knows all the facts of 9/11?
Because that is simply not true.
The 9/11 commission was a whitewash in an attempt to make the whole thing go away.
There is no deep conspiracy here.
The US government, led by Bush the Lesser, fucked up.
Like everything else in his stupid life, there needed to be a way to wallpaper it over.
Thus the commission.

[Kaleko]

17. You must be the opposite of a "truther" then.

What do you call those people?

Liars? Liar Enablers?

[SpiralHawk]

14. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[SpiralHawk]

15. "Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

[SpiralHawk]

16. "No one could possibly have imagined this. Smirk." - Condi 'Oil Queen' Rice (R)