By
Donald F. Truax – Posting#
225
– Whistleblower
Containment
Often
times, when the subject of the 9/11 attacks against America is
discussed, people who are not informed will site that there would
have been people on the inside (whistleblower’s) that would have
come forward.
For
emphasis, this posting will give “those” who site such
“disinformation” a clear, concise, and concrete listing of the
numerous patriots that did just that in blowing the whistle on the
government's lack of proper investigation and diligence in protecting
the American people from harm to include it's defense contractors.
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Importantly,
each listing will give the public the information per whistleblower
and their United States Government Agency or State Agency to include
the United States Government defense contractors et. al. It's
important to note that those whistleblower’s who hold the most
damming evidence of corrupt governments (a) buse are often
unrecognized, to include being ignored by either the corporate media,
alternative media and or former government “agents” turned
whistleblower who are still government “agents” e.g. “fog flag
operatives”.
That being
said, the term “whistleblower” is often associated with a person
or person's who work for government agency's, whilst,
“whistleblower’s” who work for government contractors in the
defense industry for those government agency's are often times
ignored and not considered “whistleblower’s” per se.
Importantly,
I'm adding the definition to clarify what a whistleblower is:
whistleblower
A whistleblower
(whistle-blower or whistleblower) is a
person or person's who exposes misconduct, alleged dishonest or
illegal activity occurring in an organization. The alleged
misconduct may be classified in many ways; for example, a violation
of a law, rule, regulation and/or a direct threat to public interest,
such as fraud, health and safety violations, and corruption.
Whistle-blowers may make their allegations internally (for example,
to other people within the accused organization) or externally (to
regulators, law enforcement agencies, to the media or to groups
concerned with the issues).
Corporate
Whisleblower
- 6
Whistleblowers Who Turned Out To Be Right After Being Ignored:
To be clear, my
own definition of a "whistleblower" is anyone who
discloses information that proves to be either a danger to the public
safety and or evidence of a crime that has been committed against the
public.
We as
American's owe nothing less than the uppermost respect and gratitude
for the patriots who sacrificed not only their careers, but, put
their lives on the line for the American people and it's way of life
(freedom).
In my humble
opinion: /s/ Donald F. Truax
Agency: The
9/11 Commission
August 2, 2006: 9/11
Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon
Some staff
members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the
Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist
attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the
commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of
events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.
Suspicion of
wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret
meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring
the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation,
according to several commission sources. Staff members and some
commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough
probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials
violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the
commission, hoping to hide the bungled response to the hijackings,
these sources said.
In the end, the
panel agreed to a compromise, turning over the allegations to the
inspectors general for the Defense and Transportation departments,
who can make criminal referrals if they believe they are warranted,
officials said.
"We to
this day don't know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command]
told us what they told us," said Thomas H. Kean, the former New
Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. "It was just
so far from the truth. . . . It's one of those loose ends that never
got tied."
A National
Security Agency (NSA) linguist runs afoul of his superiors after he
and other linguists submit a report concluding that Islamist
terrorists are planning attacks on America. The analyst, who insists
on remaining anonymous and is nicknamed “J” by press reports, is
fluent in an unusual number of languages. His and his colleagues’
study of Arabic language messages, and the flow of money to terrorist
organizations from Saudi Arabia, lead them to believe that Saudi
extremists are plotting an attack.
Mr. Burton
served as an all-source threat analyst in NSA’s Information
Assurance Directorate (IAD) for most of his 16-year career. He was
the editor of IAD’s premier threat document; the 300+ page ISSO
Global Threat Summary, and was an adjunct faculty member at NSA’s
National Cryptologic School. He provided dozens of pages of relevant
information to the 9/11 Commission, but was completely ignored and
never asked to testify.
Fall of 2000:
NSA
Directory Hayden buries "Thinthread" and implements
SAIC's "Trailblaser" program:
In the fall of
2000, Hayden decided not to use ThinThread, largely because of his
legal advisers’ concerns. Instead, he funded a rival approach,
called Trailblazer, and he turned to private defense contractors to
build it. Matthew Aid, the author of a heralded 2009 history of the
agency, “The Secret Sentry,” says, “The resistance to
ThinThread was just standard bureaucratic politics. ThinThread was
small, cost-effective, easy to understand, and protected the identity
of Americans. But it wasn’t what the higher-ups wanted. They wanted
a big machine that could make Martinis, too.”
The N.S.A.’s
failure to stop the 9/11 plot infuriated Binney: he believed that
ThinThread had been ready to deploy nine months earlier. Working
with N.S.A. counterterrorism experts, he had planned to set up his
system at sites where foreign terrorism was prevalent, including
Afghanistan and Pakistan. “Those bits of conversations they found
too late?” Binney said. “That would have never happened. I had it
managed in a way that would send out automatic alerts. It would have
been, Bang!”
May 2001: NSA
Analyst Warns of Terrorist Planes into Buildings; Described as
‘Obsessed’ By Superiors:
A National
Security (NSA) linguist who only allows himself to be identified to
the media as “J” warns his superiors at the agency that
terrorists may be planning to hijack passenger planes to ram into
buildings, and that security measures need to be implemented to
prevent this. Instead, J is ordered to undergo psychiatric
evaluation. (J was given similar treatment in another instance eight
years before; see September
11, 1993). J will later claim that NSA officials dismissed his
warnings, and instead labeled him as “obsessed” with the idea of
a “kamikaze” threat because of time he had spent in Japan. In
2006, J will say that any time his analysis countered conventional
wisdom, he was ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluations. He will
eventually develop an irregular heartbeat due to the stress of
anticipating further retaliatory, potentially career-damaging
psychological evaluations.
August 2001: The
NSA Four reveal how a mix of cronyism and fraud blinded the agency
before 9/11:
The story goes
back to 2002, when three of the 4 whistleblowers—Loomis, Wiebe and
Binney—asked the Pentagon to investigate the NSA for wasting
“millions and millions of dollars” on Trailblazer, which had been
chosen as the agency’s flagship system for analyzing intercepted
communications over a smaller and cheaper in-house program known as
ThinThread. That program was invented by Loomis, one of the NSA’s
top software engineers, and Binney, a legendary crypto-scientist,
both of whom began working for the NSA during the Vietnam War. But
despite ThinThread’s proven capacity to collect actionable
intelligence, agency director Gen. Michael Hayden vetoed the idea of
deploying the system in August 2001, just three weeks before 9/11.
Related: Part
1 on The NSA 4 with Whistleblower Bill Binney and Journalist Tim
Shorrock
September 2002: NSA Whistleblower Tom Drake
Thomas Drake is a patriot who has dedicated his life to safeguarding his country. A ten-year veteran of the Air Force (specializing in intelligence), he served as a CIA analyst and contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) for 12 years before joining it full time in 2001.
While working with NSA, Drake became familiar with ThinThread – a data collection program that could efficiently and cost-effectively analyze massive amounts of data. ThinThread could provide pivotal intelligence for government agencies charged with identifying terrorism threats and networks. Even better, the program had privacy protections for Americans built into the system. ThinThread was ready to deploy prior to 9/11.
NSA management rejected ThinThread in favor of a different project – Trailblazer. This program was vastly more expensive than ThinThread, completely undeveloped, and lacked critical protections needed to safeguard Americans' privacy. Drake was concerned that the decision to implement Trailblazer amounted to gross fraud that cost taxpayers billions, and that NSA was conducting illegal and unconstitutional domestic surveillance in the aftermath of 9/11. Drake and several colleagues were devastated by 9/11, believing that if management had deployed ThinThread when it was ready, NSA likely would have gained actionable intelligence prior to the attacks.
Drake took his concerns through official channels – including senior NSA management and two 9/11 congressional investigations. His concerns were ignored.
In September 2002, three retired NSA employees (two of whom are GAP clients – J. Kirk Wiebe and William Binney) and a retired congressional staffer filed a complaint with DoDIG accusing the NSA of massive fraud, waste and mismanagement in connection with NSA's rejection of ThinThread and endorsement of the failing Trailblazer. Drake did not sign the complaint because, still working at NSA, he feared retaliation. However, Drake became a critical material witness for the DoDIG, fully cooperating with the investigation and using proper channels to provide the office with thousands of documents – classified and unclassified. In late 2004/early 2005, after years of investigation and thousands of pages of documents from Mr. Drake, the DoDIG released a report substantiating Drake and the complainants.
Related: Exposing the Appalling Corruption, Cronyism & Cover-Ups at NSA
Organization: The
Federal Reserve
Summer 2001: Fed
Economist Fired for Investigating Suspicious 9-11 Cash Transfers:
Would you be
surprised to learn that tens of billions in cold, hard cash was
shuffled around just prior to 9-11 by none other than the Fed itself?
Probably not. Here's a graph, illustrating the change in USD
currency production over a ten week period prior to 9-11 compared to
the average over the five years prior (which, by the way, includes
the Y2K money printing orgy in the year 2000 itself, which skews the
average higher)
That's right.
The average increase was $8 billion over five years, but it exploded
to $18 billion just prior to that fateful day. None other than a
Federal Reserve economist discovered this and was promptly fired for
his efforts to reveal the cause. The official story involves an
Argentine currency crisis. Clearly, this required his termination.
September
1987-March 1989: Head
US Consular Official Told to Issue Visas to Unqualified Applicants:
Michael
Springmann, head
US consular official in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, later claims that
during this period he is “repeatedly ordered… to issue [more than
100] visas to unqualified applicants.” He turns them down, but is
repeatedly overruled by superiors. [BBC, 11/6/2001; St. Petersburg
Times, 11/25/2001]
In one case, two Pakistanis apply for
visas to attend a trade show in the US, but they are unable to name
the trade show or city in which it will be held. When Springmann denies them a visa, he gets “an almost immediate call from a CIA
case officer, hidden in the commercial section [of the consulate],
that I should reverse myself and grant these guys a visa.”
Springmann refuses, but the decision is reversed by the chief of the
consular section. Springmann realizes that even the ambassador,
Walter Cutler, is aware of the situation, which becomes “more
brazen and blatant” as time goes on. On one occasion Springmann is
even told, “If you want a job in the State Department in future,
you will change your mind.”
September
18, 1994: Ex-State
Department Security Officer Charges Pre-9/11 Cover-Up:
Samuel Karmilowicz, a former State Department security officer has given
CounterPunch a detailed memoir and documents that point to very
curious conduct by the CIA, Secret Service and FBI in the Philippines
following warnings of an assassination bid on President Clinton
during his November 12/13, 1994 visit to Manila. "A few weeks
afterwards", Karmilowicz says, " high ranking officers of
the CIA and Secret Service came into my office and informed me that
they had conducted an investigation concerning the threat and
concluded that the allegations against the Pakistani, Rana, were a
hoax in order to have the police harass him. They offered no motive
or information as to why such a ‘hoax’ would be perpetrated or
who might be behind.
Agency:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
1994 - 1995:
Wright
Allegedly Thwarted By FBI Intelligence:
FBI agent
Robert Wright had begun to investigate terrorism financing in 1993,
and apparently quickly discovered many leads (see After January
1993). However, he will later claim that by 1994, he encounters
resistance to his investigations from the FBI’s International
Terrorism Unit. Wright will claim, “[T]here existed a concerted
effort on the part of agents conducting counterterrorism intelligence
investigations to insulate the subjects of their investigations from
criminal investigation and prosecution.” In 2002, Wright will claim
that the agents were doing this because they were lazy, and he will
sue these unnamed agents. [United Press International, 5/30/2002] But
in 2003, he will suggest that in addition to such incompetence, his
investigations into Hamas operatives living in the US were
deliberately blocked so Hamas would be able to foment enough violence
in Israel to derail the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He will
allege that some people in the FBI had a political agenda regarding
Israel contrary to President Clinton’s (see June 2, 2003).
April 1998:
FBI Agent Stifles Investigation into Ptech Figures:
FBI agent
Robert Wright will later recall that at this time, he is pleasantly
surprised when FBI management provides his Vulgar Betrayal
investigation with a 10 year veteran agent to assist with his
efforts. According to Wright, the unnamed agent is assigned to
“investigate a company and its 20-plus subsidiaries which were
linked to a major financier of international terrorism.” However,
Wright and fellow agent John Vincent will soon become dismayed when
they realize the agent is not actually doing any work. He merely
shuffles papers to look busy when people walk by. He will continue to
do no work on this important assignment until the Vulgar Betrayal
investigation is effectively shut down one year later (see August 3,
1999). Wright will claim in 2003, “The important assignment he was
given involved both the founder and the financier of Ptech.”
Presumably these could be references to Oussama Ziade, the president
and chief founder of Ptech, and Yassin al-Qadi, apparently Ptech’s
largest investor.
November 2000:
John
P. O'Neill FBI Counterterrorism Expert Denied Re-Entry Visa
O'Neill's
New York FBI team was at the center of bureacratic arm-wrestling over
who would head the 1998 investigation into the embassy bombings in
East Africa. O'Neill again was the focus of a heated political battle
over the investigation of the 2000 attack against the USS Cole in
Yemen.
Current
and former government officials such as Richard Clarke,
counterterrorism chief in the Clinton administration and Barry Mawn,
former head of the New York FBI office, recount how O'Neill's desire
to show the Yemeni security forces -- which he viewed as being less
than cooperative -- that the FBI meant business was one of many
issues in the investigation which angered U.S. Ambassador Barbara
Bodine.
Finally,
when O'Neill made a brief trip home to New York for Thanksgiving,
Bodine denied his re-entry visa, preventing him from returning to the
investigation. Insiders tell FRONTLINE that O'Neill's removal from
the scene in Yemen may have seriously limited the Cole investigation
-- an inquiry that some speculate might have led O'Neill to the Sept.
11 hijackers in time to foil their plans.
An
August 19,2001
New
York Times report by James Risen and D.Johnston
suggested
that O'Neill had been the subject of an "internal investigation"
at the FBI. The report suggested that O'Neill was responsible for
losing a briefcase with "highly classified information" in
it, containing among other things "a description of every
counterespionage and counterterrorism program in New York." The
briefcase was recovered shortly after its disappearance.
The
FBI investigation was reported to have concluded that the suitcase
had been snatched by local thieves involved in a series of hotel
burglaries, and that none of the documents had been removed or even
touched.
Several
people came to O'Neill's defense, suggesting that he was the subject
of a "smear campaign". One of O'Neill's associates claimed
later that O'Neill believed the source for the Times story was FBI
official Thomas J. Pickard.[9] The Times reported that O'Neill was
expected to retire in late August.
July 10, 2001:
FBI
Agent Sends Memo Warning that Muslim Extremists Are
Learning to Fly in Arizona:
Phoenix,
Arizona, FBI agent Ken Williams sends a memorandum warning about
suspicious activities involving a group of Middle Eastern men taking
flight training lessons in Arizona. The memo is titled: “Zakaria
Mustapha Soubra; IT-OTHER (Islamic Army of the Caucasus),” because
it focuses on Zakaria Soubra, a Lebanese flight student in Prescott,
Arizona, and his connection with a terror group in Chechnya that has
ties to al-Qaeda. It is subtitled: “Osama bin Laden and
Al-Muhjiroun supporters attending civil aviation
universities/colleges in Arizona.”
May 12, 2002:
Coleen
Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller:
Dear Director
Mueller:
I feel at this
point that I have to put my concerns in writing concerning the
important topic of the FBI's response to evidence of terrorist
activity in the United States prior to September 11th. The issues are
fundamentally ones of INTEGRITY and go to the heart of the FBI's law
enforcement mission and mandate. Moreover, at this critical juncture
in fashioning future policy to promote the most effective handling of
ongoing and future threats to United States citizens' security, it is
of absolute importance that an unbiased, completely accurate picture
emerge of the FBI's current investigative and management strengths
and failures.
To get to the
point, I have deep concerns that a delicate and subtle
shading/skewing of facts by you and others at the highest levels of
FBI management has occurred and is occurring. The term "cover
up" would be too strong a characterization which is why I am
attempting to carefully (and perhaps over laboriously) choose my
words here. I base my concerns on my relatively small, peripheral but
unique role in the Moussaoui investigation in the Minneapolis
Division prior to, during and after September 11th and my analysis of
the comments I have heard both inside the FBI (originating, I
believe, from you and other high levels of management) as well as
your Congressional testimony and public comments.
2002:
FBI
Called off Terror Investigations:
Two veteran FBI
investigators say they were ordered to stop investigations into a
suspected terror cell linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network
and the Sept. 11 attacks. In a dramatic interview with ABCNEWS, FBI
special agents and partners Robert Wright and John Vincent say they
were called off criminal investigations of suspected terrorists tied
to the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. U.S.
officials say al Qaeda was responsible for the embassy attacks and
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
"September
the 11th is a direct result of the incompetence of the FBI's
International Terrorism Unit. No doubt about that. Absolutely no
doubt about that," Wright said. "You can't know the things
I know and not go public."
2002:
FBI
Agent Sees ‘Grave Violations’ in FBI Handling of Terrorism Case
in Florida:
FBI agent Mike
German is assigned to a counterterrorism case involving international
militant groups. Apparently a domestic militia group in Tampa,
Florida is considering allying with a major, unnamed militant Islamic
organization. He becomes concerned that the investigation will fail
due to “grave violations of FBI policy and possibly even grave
violations of the law.” He complains to the Justice Department’s
inspector general, claiming that FBI managers have falsified records,
failed to properly handle evidence, falsely discredited witnesses,
and failed to adhere to laws and regulations about electronic
surveillance. German also sends his complaints directly to FBI
Director Robert Mueller. But Mueller does not respond. Some time
after German submits his complaints, he is removed from the case.
“The phone just stopped ringing, and I became a persona non grata.
Because I wouldn’t let this go away, I became the problem.… My
entire career has been ruined, all because I thought I was doing the
right thing here.” Frustrated with the bureau’s continuing
mismanagement, he will retire from the FBI in 2004. German will later
be exonerated in a 2005 Justice Department report investigating his
charges (see
December 3, 2005).
2002:
Two
FBI Whistleblowers Confirm Illegal Wiretapping of Government
Officials:
State Secrets Privilege Was Used
to Cover Up Corruption and Silence Whistleblowers – Report
Here
The National
Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) has obtained a copy of an
official complaint filed by a veteran FBI Special Agent, Gilbert
Graham, with the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector
General (DOJ-OIG). SA Graham’s protected disclosures report the
violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in
conducting electronic surveillance of high-profile U.S. public
officials.
Before his
retirement in 2002, SA Gilbert Graham worked for the FBI Washington
Field Office (WFO) Squad NS-24. One of the main areas of Mr. Graham’s
counterintelligence investigations involved espionage activities by
Turkish officials and agents in the United States. On April 2, 2002,
Graham filed with the DOJ-OIG a classified protected disclosure,
which provided a detailed account of FISA violations involving misuse
of FISA warrants to engage in domestic surveillance. In his
unclassified report SA Graham states: “It is the complainant’s
reasonable belief that the request for ELSUR [electronic
surveillance] coverage was a subterfuge to collect evidentiary
information concerning public corruption matters.” Graham blew the
whistle on this illegal behavior, but the actions were covered up by
the Department of Justice and the Attorney General’s office.
2005:
Former
FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls for National Security Officials to
Step Forward:
ED. NOTE:
FBI whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds' story has been partially told over
the last several years in several different media outlets, including
a lead story on CBS' 60 Minutes and more recently, a detailed feature
in Vanity Fair. The information she has been able to reveal publicly
about her experience during her time translating for the FBI has so
far been limited given the arcane "States Secrets"
privilege that the Dept. of Justice and the Bush Administration has
invoked to effectively place a "gag order" on the
information she has shared with internal FBI investigators as well as
the Dept. of Justice's Inspector General who found her allegations
"credible" and "serious" and "warrant[ing] a
thorough and careful review by the FBI." Edmonds was fired by
the FBI after voicing allegations including those about possible
espionage inside the bureau. She has also testified to the 9/11
Commission, U.S. Senators Grassley (R-IA) and Leahy (D-VT) and many
other officials on both the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence
Committees. Her case recently made its way to the Supreme Court who
refused to hear it on November 28, 2005, thus ending her legal
options to have her case heard publicly.
2009:
FBI
Veteran Executive Calls For Special Investigation, Prosecutions in
Sibel Edmonds Case:
An 18-year
Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has
called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the
allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds.
John M. Cole, who now works as an intelligence contractor for the Air
Force, made his comments during an audio interview released late last
week with radio journalist Peter B. Collins.
2009:
SIBEL
EDMONDS' DEPOSITION: VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT RELEASED:
Just over two
weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was
finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration
spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly on the
record. Twice gagged by the Bush Dept. of Justice's invocation of the
so-called "State Secrets Privilege," Edmonds has been
attempting to tell her story, about the crimes she became aware of
while working for the FBI, for years.
2011:
The
Censored Testimony of FBI’s Behrooz Sarshar:
The Witnessed & Documented
“Kamikaze Pilots” Case
In a public
statement issued today (see below), members of the 9/11 Family
Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former
Chairman and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding
Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sarshar’s censored testimony
to the Commission. The press release was prompted by recently
released documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11
Commission published at Cryptome.org, in particular the “Memoradum
for the Record” containing the Commission’s interview with
Mr. Sarshar. The memorandum, after establishing Mr. Sarshar’s
credibility and vaguely referring to his documented and witnessed
testimony regarding specific tip(s) provided to the FBI in April and
June 2001 regarding planned imminent “Kamikaze Pilots” attacks
targeting major cities in the United States, leaves out the entire
testimony. This testimony was also entirely left out of the
Commission’s final report released in July 2004.
April 2015: HEAD of the FBI’s Anthrax Investigation Says the Whole Thing Was a SHAM
Agent In Charge of Amerithrax Investigation Blows the Whistle
The FBI head agent in charge of the anthrax investigation – Richard Lambert – has just filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit calling the entire FBI investigation bullsh!t: In the fall of 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, a series of anthrax mailings occurred which killed five Americans and sickened 17 others. Four anthrax-laden envelopes were recovered which were addressed to two news media outlets in New York City (the New York Post and Tom Brokaw at NBC) and two senators in Washington D.C. (Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle). The anthrax letters addressed to New York were mailed on September 18, 2001, just seven days after the 9/11 attacks. The letters addressed to the senators were mailed 21 days later on October 9, 2001. A fifth mailing of anthrax is believed to have been directed to American Media, Inc. (AMI) in Boca Raton, Florida based upon the death of one AMI employee from anthrax poisoning and heavy spore contamination in the building.
Agency:
Central
Intelligency Agency (CIA)
Summer 2001: Former
Accused Iraqi Agent Reveals Facts about 9/11 Warning:
Foreknowledge
The feds
dropped all charges against Susan Lindauer, and now she's talking
freely. Michael Collins's interview with Lindauer covers the
warnings provided to the Bush-Cheney administration prior to 9/11.
It presents entirely new information from an angel that will add
substantially to knowledge that terrible attack.
But what
exactly was the U.S. government trying to hide?
The answer is
more far reaching than you would expect. In the first article of this
series written and edited with the help of Michael Collins, we talk
about the 9/11 warning that my team delivered to the Office of
Counter-Terrorism at the Justice Department in August, 2001.
For those who
think you've heard the whole story of 9/11, you might be surprised.
_Susan
Lindauer, March 1, 2009
Agency: United
States Central Command (CENTCOM)
September
2006: Military
whistleblower comes forward with key information:
In
a letter that first appeared on the 9/11 Veterans For Truth Website,
Sergeant Lauro "LJ" Chavez responds to a Cincinnati Post
hit piece article by outlining his own doubts about the official
version of 9/11 and his personal experiences of the strange prelude
to the events of that morning.
Despite
early (and healthy) reactions claiming this may be a hoax designed to
poison the well of the 9/11 truth movement, Sergeant Chavez has now
provided us with evidence of his credentials, his honorable discharge
documents showing the military installations he was located inside.
The last station he held was inside United States Central Command in
Tampa - the
pdf can be viewed here.
Agency:
Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
September
11, 2001: 9/11
FEMA videographer at Ground Zero goes public:
As
official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt
Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001,
where he spent an entire month filming: "What I saw at certain
moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!" He never
handed his 29 tapes over to the authorities and has been persecuted
ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, where he
wrote "El Perseguido"
(Persecuted). His recently-published book tells the story of his
unending nightmare and drives another nail into the coffin of the
government’s account of the 9/11 events.
Agency:
Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA)
September
11, 2001: 9/11
FAA Red Team Whistleblower Bogdan Dzakovic
There
are serious indications that the FAA deceived the public about what
happened on 9-11. On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, I was
working in one of the FAA operations centers collecting information
on details of what happened during the hijacking. We received
information that a firearm was used on one of the hijacked aircraft.
At the time I gave it little thought. If you are going to hijack an
aircraft why not bring a firearm? I knew from working in the Red Team
how easy it is to do. Several years earlier the FAA had canceled
testing with firearms, after a national Red Team study found over two
thirds made it past security.
That
evening the Administrator of FAA requested an Executive Summary
covering the day's activities, and this information about a gun was
included in the Summary. Day's later, without any explanation or
questioning of the Summary's author, the Administrator publicly
announced that no guns had been used in the hijacking. Several months
passed when the press re-surfaced this issue. FAA's initial response
was that no so such Executive Summary existed. Later, when confronted
with the document, FAA admitted the Executive Summary existed, but
denied its accuracy. Sometime later I learned that another operations
center also received a report that a firearm was used. They conducted
a cursory investigation but did not talk to all the pertinent
witnesses. There were also reports of a possible explosive threatened
on a flight. I hope this Commission investigates and credibly
determines whether the public was deceived, and if so, why.
In
my case, about a month after 9-11, I filed a Whistleblower Disclosure
against FAA with the United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC).
Last year the Special Counsel found a substantial likelihood I was
right, and ordered Secretary Mineta to investigate. OSC flunked the
agency's first draft report, which I had attacked as a cover-up. This
past March, the OSC accepted a second report from the Transportation
Security Administration (TSA), which concluded that, "…the Red
Team was grossly mismanaged and that the result was the creation of
substantial and specific danger to public safety…" in
connection with 9-11. The Special Counsel still flunked the report as
failing to meet legal requirements, however, because it failed to
address accountability for confirmed wrongdoers.
Agency:
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
1998 - 2001:
Dick
Stoltz, Retired Special Agent; ATF - Operation Diamondback:
Mr. Stoltz, a
veteran undercover agent with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and
Firearms, had played an important role in Operation Diamondback
between 1998 and 2001. The sting operation involved a group of Middle
Eastern men living in New Jersey who were caught on tape in an ATF
weapons sting conspiring to buy millions of dollars of weapons
including components for nuclear bombs. The case came to a screeching
halt with the arrest of only a handful of suspects in June of 2001
even though there was ample evidence that some of the people who were
attempting to buy these weapons had connections with the Taliban, Al
Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden himself. The 9/11 Commission refused to
contact Agent Stoltz despite all attempts made by several witnesses
from the intelligence & Law Enforcement Communities, and the 9/11
Family group, Jersey Moms.
In 1999,
Magdy
Elamir and his brother Mohammed were named suspects in Operation
Diamondback which was an FBI/ATF undercover
infiltration of Pakistani arms dealers who sought to arm Osama bin
Laden with conventional and nuclear weapons. According to the
testimony of officer Duncan and taped transcripts with FBI informant
Randy Glass, Elamir was a key player in this operation. According to
Dateline NBC Mohammed Elamir tried to purchase small arms and
ammunition in a recorded telephone conversation with Glass.
According to
Dick Stoltz, a federal undercover agent posing as a black market arms
dealer, one of the Pakistanis at the warehouse claims he is working
for A.Q. Khan. A Pakistani nuclear scientist, Khan is considered the
father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program and also the head of
an illegal network exporting nuclear technology to rogue nations.
[MSNBC, 1/14/2005] Government informant Randy Glass passes these
warnings on before 9/11, but he claims, “The complaints were
ordered sanitized by the highest levels of government.”
Agency:
Special
Operations Command (USSOCOM)
Agency:
Defencse
Intelligence Agency (DIA)
January 2001:
High
Ranking Official Refuses to Hear about Able Danger:
Foreknowledge
Lt. Col.
Anthony Shaffer will later claim that DIA Deputy Director of Human
Intelligence William Huntington is briefed by Shaffer at this time
about a project named Dorhawk Galley. Some information about Able
Danger’s methodology comes up. According to Shaffer, Huntington
refuses to hear it and announces, “I can’t be here, I can’t see
this.” Huntington immediately leaves Shaffer’s office and refuses
to hear the information. Commenting on the episode, Shaffer later
notes, “By doing this, he could later feign ignorance of the
project should it have been compromised to the public. It is my
belief that he is an example of the cultural problem—senior
bureaucrats who are more focused on their own career and having
‘plausible deniability’ to never allow anything ‘controversial
or risky’ to ‘touch them.’” Shaffer will also state, “It is
of grave concern that Mr. Huntington is the one who is behind the
troubling coincidence regarding my security clearance being suspended
in March of 2004, just after reporting to my DIA chain of command [to
include Mr. Huntington] of my contact with the 9-11 Commission, and
my offer to share the Able Danger information to the 9-11
commission.”
Agency:
Department
of Defense (DOD)
Agency:
Joint
Forces Intelligence Command (JFIC)
1999:
Intelligence
Unit Told Before 9/11 to Stop Tracking Bin Laden:
Department
of Defense (DoD) inspector general (IG) report 2008, summarizing an
investigation made in response to an accusation by a Joint Forces
Intelligence Command (JFIC) whistleblower (Kirk von Ackermann), which
indicated that a senior JFIC commander had halted actions tracking
Osama bin Laden prior to 9/11. JFIC is tasked with an intelligence
mission in support of United States Joint Force Command (USJFCOM).
The report, titled "Review
of Joint Forces Intelligence Command Response to 9/11 Commission,"
was declassified last year, in response to a Freedom of Information
Act request from Steven Aftergood at the Federation of American
Scientists.
The
whistleblower, who the IG report identified as a former JFIC employee
represented only by his codename "IRON MAN," claimed in
letters written to both the DoD inspector general in May 2006 and,
lacking any apparent action by the IG, to the Office of the National
Director of Intelligence (ODNI) in October 2007, that JFIC had
withheld operational information about al-Qaeda when queried in March
2002 about its activities by the DIA and higher command officials on
behalf of the 9/11 Commission. The ODNI passed the complaint back to
the IG, who then opened an investigation under the auspices of the
deputy inspector general for intelligence.
The
Asymmetric Threats Division was "realigned" in summer 2001
under the "Intelligence Watch Center." The Intelligence
Watch Center may be the Combined Intelligence Watch Center associated
with NORAD, which is an "indications and warning center for
worldwide threats from space, missile and strategic air activity, as
well as geopolitical unrest that could affect North America and US
forces/interests abroad." This would be consistent with the work
DO5 did with the JTF-CS. The order to stop tracking Bin Laden,
therefore, came sometime between the origin of DO5 in 1999 and its
realignment just prior to, or right after 9/11. In 2005, the JFIC
itself was renamed the Joint Transformation Command-Intelligence,
still subordinate to and serving USJFCOM.
Iron
Man states in his letter that in the summer of 2000, DO5 briefed
USJFCOM senior intelligence officials and staffers, including the
deputy commander in chief, on the "WMD Threat to the U.S."
Iron Man describes a "sensitive," "oral briefing"
that took place that summer "indicating that the World Trade
Centers #1 and #2 were the most likely buildings to be attacked [by
al-Qaeda], followed closely by the Pentagon. The briefer indicated
that the worst case scenario would be one tower collapsed onto
another."
January 2001:
Pentagon
Analysts Replaced With Neoconservative Ideologues:
Foreknowledge
Karen
Kwiatkowski escorts about half a dozen Israelis, including some
generals, from the first floor reception area of the Pentagon to
Douglas Feith’s office. “We just followed them, because they knew
exactly where they were going and moving fast,” she later explains.
The Israelis are not required to sign in as is required under special
regulations put into effect after the 9/11 attacks. Kwiatkowski
speculates that Feith’s office may have waived this requirement for
the Israelis so that there would be no record of the meeting.
Business: JP
Morgan Chase Bank
May – December 5, 2002:
US
Investigators Pressed to Look Into Ptech:
In October
2001, Ptech insiders attempted to warn the FBI that suspected
terrorist financier Yassin al-Qadi had funded Ptech (see Shortly
After October 12, 2001). Then Indira
Singh,
an employee at JP Morgan Chase bank, develops her own suspicions
about Ptech after her bank assigned her to investigate Ptech for a
potential business deal. In May 2002, she speaks with the FBI about
her concerns. Weeks later, she learns the FBI still has not told any
other government agencies about the potential Ptech security threat.
She later will recall, “the language, the kind of language law
enforcement, counterterrorism, and the FBI agents themselves were
using basically indicated to me that absolutely no investigation was
going on, that it was totally at a standstill, at which point my hair
stood on end.” She contacts a Boston CBS television station,
WBZ-TV, and a reporter for the station named Joe Bergantino begins
investigating Ptech.
Business: Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
September 11, 2001:
Offices
at SAIC Located Beside Dulles International Airport Are Empty on
9/11:
Foreknowledge
Donald F.
Truax, an employee of SAIC (lab manager) blows the whistle that the
offices of SAIC located beside Dulles International Airport where
empty through-out the day of the 9/11 attacks. After years of
harassment, he writes The
Ominous Parallels Reports and submits it to
congressmen, senators and VIPs around the world. (See SAICs 9/11 Footprint (.png)
In the said
report Truax is the first to inform the public that SAIC
performed the "Security"
assessments against the World Trade Center Complex, that proved
factual and correct. Moreover, Truax also informed through the report
the targeting of American's by SAIC and the U.S. Government. (NSA et
al)
After years of
research Truax proves that SAICs has more connections to the 9/11
event than any other element through-out the US government and it's
defense contract industry. (See SAICs
9/11 Footprint)
In the summer of 2001, it was suggested that
SAIC do a "phased" pilot so that some aspect fo CityTime
could be implemented before the change in Administration. This was
conditional on SAIC completing the Pilot Phase 1 by year-end, viz.
December 2001.
But the city discovered that the status of the
builds had been misrepresented. Build 4A was nowhere near completion.
This "contrasted drastically" with what had been
represented to the City. It's been a year and a half since then and
SAIC is yet to complete the Release 1A test: and of course OPA and
FISA have yet to be implemented. In fact the date for their
implementation has been delayed three times, totaling 11 months.
Caveat:
The
City Time project is important regarding the 9/11 attacks because it
proves that SAIC was involved with the New York city Government
holding several contracts "before" the 9/11 attacks. See:
Related: SAIC
Whistleblower: Office Empty On The Morning of 9/11
Business: Fiduciary
Trust, Inc - World Trade Center (WTC)
September 8-9, 2001: Pre-9/11
World Trade Center Power-Down
Did the World Trade Center towers undergo a deliberate
“power-down” on the weekend prior to the 9-11 terrorist attacks?
According to Scott
Forbes, a senior database administrator for Fiduciary Trust, Inc.
– a high-net investment bank which was later acquired by Franklin
Templeton – this is precisely what took place. Forbes, who was
hired by Fiduciary in 1999 and is now stationed at a U.K. branch
office, was working on the weekend of September 8-9, 2001, and said
that his company was given three weeks advance notice that New York’s
Port Authority would take out power in the South Tower from the 48th
floor up. The reason: the Port Authority was performing a cabling
upgrade to increase the WTC’s computer bandwidth.
Forbes stated that Fiduciary Trust was one of the WTC’s first
occupants after it was erected, and that a “power-down” had never
been initiated prior to this occasion. He also stated that his
company put forth a huge investment in time and resources to take
down their computer systems due to the deliberate power outage. This
process, Forbes recalled, began early Saturday morning (September
8th) and continued until mid-Sunday afternoon (September 9th) –
approximately 30 hours. As a result of having its electricity cut,
the WTC’s security cameras were rendered inoperative, as were its
I.D. systems, and elevators to the upper floors.
Organization: World
Trade Center Complex (WTC)
September 11, 2001:
Janitor
Hears Explosion from WTC Basement:
According to a
WTC janitor, there is an explosion in the basement of the North Tower
just before the plane hits up above. William
Rodriguez has worked at the World
Trade Center for 20 years, including the time of the 1993 bombing,
and is responsible for cleaning three stairwells in the North Tower.
He is talking to his supervisor in an office in the B-1 level in the
basement when, he says, “I heard this massive explosion below, on
level B-2 or 3.” He says, “The floor vibrated. We were all thrown
upwards, then everyone in the office started screaming.” Then,
“seconds later, there was another explosion way above, which made
the building sway from side to side. And this, we later discovered,
was the first plane hitting the North Tower on the 90th floor.” A
man then runs into the office, shouting, “Explosion! Explosion!”
The man, Felipe David, had been standing in front of a nearby lift
when a fireball had burst from the lift shaft, severely burning him.
Rodriguez will later question, “Now you tell me how an explosion
from a jet liner could have burnt a man 90 floors down within seconds
of impact?”
Barry
Jennings, a City Housing Authority worker, and Michael Hess, New
York’s corporation counsel, hear unexplained explosions inside
World Trade Center Building 7, where they become trapped. The two men
went up to the emergency command center on the 23rd floor of WTC 7
after the first attack occurred (see (Shortly Before 9:03 a.m.)
September 11, 2001). At some point, the power goes out in the
building. They then start walking down the stairs to get out.
According to
Hess, when the two men get down to the eighth floor, “there was an
explosion and we’ve been trapped on the eighth floor with smoke,
thick smoke, all around us, for about an hour and a half.” Jennings
will also recall hearing explosions. He will say: “I made it to the
sixth floor and there was an explosion. The explosion was beneath
me.” He will add, “[T]he staircase that I was standing on just
gave way,” and, “Then we made it back to the eighth floor, I
heard some more explosions.”
Kevin Ryan, the laboratory director at
Environmental Health Laboratories Inc., which is a subsidiary of
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., writes an e-mail to the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—the agency currently
investigating the WTC collapses—in which he challenges the official
theory regarding the WTC collapses. According to Ryan, Underwriters
Laboratories Inc. was the company that certified the steel components
used in the construction of the World Trade Center, and it had been
agreed that the samples it certified met all requirements. His e-mail
states, “This story just does not add up. If steel from [the Twin
Towers] did soften or melt, I’m sure we can all agree that this was
certainly not due to jet fuel fires of any kind, let alone the
briefly burning fires in those towers.” His e-mail is published on
the Internet, and generates interest on many websites. Days later,
Kevin Ryan is fired because, according to a company spokesman, he
“expressed his own opinions as though they were institutional
opinions and beliefs” of Underwriters Laboratories.
Individual Person's: Dr.
David Graham
Two years ago, he first wrote about the mysterious case of Dr. David Graham, a dentist in Shreveport, Louisiana. Graham said that he had met three of the 9/11 hijackers a year before the attacks at a home in Shreveport. He became suspicious of them (he thought they were planning attacks on nearby Barksdale AFB) and contacted the FBI.
The man who hosted the hijackers in Shreveport was a Pakistani named Jamal Khan. In 2004, Khan pled guilty to hiding cash transfers to Pakistan, and in an unusual plea deal the government stated that nothing in this deal would absolve Khan from any future prosecution regarding the attacks of September 11.
Dr. Graham apparently met Khan in conjunction with the 9/11 conspirators and was set to testify against him at a deportation hearing sometime in 2004, following Khan's conviction on the money transfer charge. He was also trying to publish a manuscript about meeting the three men and his contacts with the FBI.
Individual Person's:
Beverly
Eckert
December
22, 2003:
9/11
Victims’ Families Accept Cash Settlement from US Government, Some
Sue:
Widow Beverly
Eckert explains her decision: “I am suing because unlike other
investigative avenues… my lawsuit requires all testimony be given
under oath and fully uses powers to compel evidence. The victims’
fund was not created in a spirit of compassion.… Lawmakers capped
the liability of the airlines at the behest of lobbyists who
descended on Washington while the September 11 fires still
smoldered.”
February 2013:
Marshall
a victim of Saudi-CIA hit:
Marshall was in
contact with former Florida Senator Bob Graham, the chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Committee on 9/11 and someone who was aware of
the contents of the 28-pages in the Joint Senate-House Intelligence Committee report on 9/11 that detailed the $2 billion slush fund
created by the "Al Yamamah" bribe to Bandar from the
British defense firm BAE. The slush fund was used by the CIA, Saudi
ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin
Abdulaziz -- currently the head of the Saudi General Intelligence
Service, and the 9/11 hijackers, including Egyptian Air Force Lt.
Col. Mohammed Atta, as well as "special project" mission
sub-managers Saudi Air Force officer Omar Bayoumi and Saudi deputy
defense minister Khaled bin Sultan, to carry out their Saudi-financed
intelligence mission in the United States.
The mission included
flight training on Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft at the CIA's longtime
aviation base at Marana Airfield/Pinal Air Park, Arizona, a joint
operational base of the U.S. Special Operations Command and the CIA. (Philip Marshall Interview can be seen here:) Fall back links: (
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1C)
Three Secret Domestic CIA Bases With Ties To 9/11 (Updated 23 Sept 2014)
A former CIA official who was involved in the CIA's planning of the Iran-contra "arms-for-hostages; Iranian profits for the contras" operation confirmed that Evergreen had a close working relationship with the firm PTech, a firm with connections to the Saudi royal family and Israel's Mossad and which had contracts to provide computer software support to the Department of Defense, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Justice, FBI, and the Secret Service from 1997 until 9/11.
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