zelikow and ernest may essentially wrote the 9/11 commission report before any of the research had been done web.archive.org/web/2021012522…
zelikow pre-wrote the report so that key facts, like the infamous footnote 44 from chapter 6 detailing khalid al mihdhar's multiple entry US visa, could be suppressed and left out of the main text and relegated to the footnotes, where they knew no one would read it
wow this really blew up, while you’re here check this out
remember when the tsarnaev brothers committed a triple murder in waltham and the investigation was stymied by the fbi, and then less than two years later they blew up the boston marathon
remember when the fbi incited two men to attack an exhibit of mohammed cartoons, and an undercover fbi agent was on the scene to ensure that they were able to kill two people without interference from local police
rereading kevin fenton’s “disconnecting dots,” probably *the* book on cia/nsa/fbi coverup of al qaeda activities between the embassy bombings in 1998 and 9/11 ipgbook.com/disconnecting-…
the nsa was intercepting calls to al qaeda’s yemen hub for at least 2 years by the time of the 98 embassy bombings. in the days leading up to the attack, one of the bombers made several calls to this hub. the nsa certainly intercepted these calls. why didn’t they raise the alarm?
my favorite topic: the (alleged) hijackers’ visas. the applications clearly should have been rejected, and the person who issued almost half of them gave false reports regarding the approval process. nonetheless she remained at her post and later was on the board of the afsa.
Vincenzo Vinciguerra, member of Gladio-affiliated fascist militia: "When you were on the right, you were supposed to attack civilians, for one simple reason: to force the Italian public to turn to the state, and ask for greater security."
"People would willingly trade part of their freedom for the security of being able to walk the streets, go on trains, or enter a bank. This is the political logic behind all the bombings."
“[The bombings] remain unpunished, because the state cannot condemn itself.”