Wright "worked in the Chicago office on counter-terrorism cases
that focused on money-laundering efforts by terrorist cells operating
within the US. His work developed into an operation that was named 'Bulgar
Betrayal,' which seemed on the verge of becoming officially designated
as a major case because of its far reach and national security
implications. Before he was finished, a Saudi businessman named Yasin
Kadi became implicated in the terrorism funding... One month after the
9/11 attacks, Kadi was named by the Federal government as a financial
supporter of Osama bin Laden. Yet Kadi's name was known to Wright well
before 9/11, when the Bulgar Betrayal investigations were taking place.
Did his work take root within the FBI?... 'FBI management,' said Wright
on Thursday, 'intentionally and repeatedly thwarted my attempts to
launch a more comprehensive investigation to identify and to neutralize
terrorists.'" We demand Judiciary Committee hearings on Wright's
explosive allegations!

According to Knight-Ridder, the National Security Agency
"monitored telephone conversations before Sept. 11 between [Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed,] the suspected commander of the World Trade Center and
Pentagon attacks and [Mohamed Atta,] the alleged chief hijacker, but did
not share the information with," the CIA or FBI. "When the NSA
monitored their conversations, Mohammed was overseas and Atta was in the
US. Mohammed was included on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List when
it was published in October because he had been indicted on charges of
being involved in a failed 1995 plot to bomb 11 U.S. airliners flying
over the Pacific Ocean on a single day. The U.S. Justice Department has
offered a $25 million reward for him." The NSA has a $5 BILLION
budget and 30,000 employees, and it wasn't PAYING ATTENTION to calls
from TOP Al Qaeda terrorists TO THE US? This is the THIRD published 911
screwup by the NSA We think the NSA told Bush, and is now lying - we
demand a Blue Ribbon Commission!

Molly Ivins writes, "The Bush administration has decided that
global warming is indeed taking place and they are planning to do
exactly nothing about it... They will not even do anything to slow it
down or soften its impact... 'Adapt to the inevitable changes'? The
changes are not inevitable... To keep right on doing what is already
causing disastrous consequences is either insane or profoundly stupid...
We can cut greenhouse gases; we can even do it dramatically. We are not
helpless. We are, however, currently governed by an administration of
oil executives and people whose main guiding principle seems to be
opposing anything Bill Clinton favored. This is both pathetic and
ridiculous... To fail to take action in the face of a recognized threat
is not only incredibly stupid, but also legally actionable. Misfeasance,
malfeasance and nonfeasance can all be alleged, reckless, irresponsible
conduct, failure of duty ... a litany of charges." Like we say --
Impeach Bush NOW!

Salon's Jason Leopold reports that the Bush administration was tipped
off "last August about [Enron's] impending financial problems.
Enron lobbyist Pat Shortridge met with White House economic advisor
Robert McNally Aug. 15, the day after Enron president Jeff Skilling
resigned, to alert the White House that Enron could face a financial
meltdown that could possibly cripple the country's energy markets... If
McNally was tipped off to Enron's troubles it would mean that the White
House had been warned several months earlier than it has previously
acknowledged... It would also mean the White House received such a
warning even before Sharon Watkins delivered her famous memo to then
Enron chairman Kenneth Lay... It also fuels the most common question
plaguing the administration these days: What did Bush know, and when did
he know it?"

"The soldier from Fort Stewart, Ga, who was arrested on charges
of planting an explosive device on a dirt road will serve 18 months
probation after pleading no contest yesterday. A Jacksonville police
officer stopped Derek Lawrence Peterson in May and found him wearing all
black clothing and black plastic pads on his knees and elbows. Police
said Peterson, 27, told them he was in the area practicing 'recon
tactics.' After he was arrested, Peterson, who has served on an Army
tank crew at Fort Stewart since March, at first was held on a $5 million
bond. Peterson's attorney, Hank Coxe, said yesterday his client's case
had been blown out of proportion because police initially suspected
Peterson's actions were related to terrorism." WHAT? "No
contest" means the Government did not want the truth to come out.
Probation means Peterson will return to ACTIVE DUTY. This looks like a
BLACK OPERATION by the Pentagon to create a "terrorist"
attack. Call your rep at 202-224-3121 and demand the truth!

Judicial Watch "is suing the Bush administration for access to
documents about last fall's anthrax attacks, asserting that top
officials might have known the bioterrorist attack was coming... Larry
Klayman, chairman of Judicial Watch, said administration officials said
last fall that some White House staff members had begun taking the
antibiotic Cipro on Sept. 11, weeks before the anthrax attacks were made
public. 'We believe that the White House knew or had reason to know that
an anthrax attack was imminent or underway,' Klayman said. 'We want to
know what the government knew and when they knew it.' 'We did not know
about the anthrax attacks. Period!' said Gordon Johndroe, a White House
spokesman." [Gee Gordon, why don't we believe a word you say?]
Klayman said the mistake goes beyond a bad judgment call. 'They
deliberately withheld information,' he said. 'The political elite,
they'll be protected from day one. The ordinary folks will be treated in
a lesser fashion.'"

The NY Times editorializes, "The Bush administration's
post-Sept. 11 assault on civil liberties reached a new low recently when
the Justice Department argued in court that an American-born detainee,
who may be a United States citizen, should not be allowed to talk to a
lawyer. This is the same Justice Department that has refused to release
the names and locations of the estimated 1,200 people detained after
Sept. 11, and that has insisted on conducting detainees' legal hearings
in secret. These policies are blatantly unconstitutional, and in recent
rulings, courts have begun saying just that." Bush took a solemn
oath of office - on a Bible - to "Protect and Defend the
Constitution of the United States." Impeach Bush Now!

Frank Rich writes, "No one seems to remember anymore that
President [sic] Bush put Mr. Cheney in charge of not one but two task
forces last year... On May 8, 2001, the president charged Mr. Cheney
with overseeing a 'national effort' to coordinate all federal programs
for responding to domestic attacks... Did Mr. Cheney take on that
responsibility with the same urgency with which he met with Enron
executives to develop energy policy? [After 9/11, The Washington Post
reported] that the government-wide review that Mr. Bush had entrusted to
Mr. Cheney had never taken place... Were the vice president to be
quizzed about his pre-Sept.-11 efforts at preparedness, he'd likely
either invoke secrecy or impugn the questioner's patriotism. [The cure
Mr. Bush now proposes for such ailments is still another avoidance of
accountability that reshuffles the same deck of lightweights we have
now]. These days that's a sure sign that the buck-passing will never
stop."

Joe Conason writes, "From what we know of Mr. Ashcroft's conduct
since he assumed office last year, he shrugged off the terrorist threat
in favor of his own small-time agenda. He wanted to prosecute people in
California who provide marijuana to cancer patients. He wanted to
prosecute doctors in Oregon who assist the suicides of terminally ill
patients. He wanted to prosecute pornographers... He can't say he wasn't
warned. As Newsweek reported two weeks ago, Mr. Freeh tried to convince
him that additional resources and action were needed to fight
terrorism... but Mr. Ashcroft brushed him off... Last year, Mr. Ashcroft
challenged the patriotism of anyone who dared question his incursions on
traditional freedoms, and his critics quickly backed down. Now it is he
who should be challenged, to explain his past approach to terrorism and
to justify his present assaults on liberty. And he should not be allowed
to hide his answers behind closed doors."

A.R. Torres writes in Salon, "I used to know whose fault it was.
At least I thought I did. The loss of my beloved Eddie hurt badly enough
when 9/11 was a story about a secret plot that was so fantastic, so
sophisticated and hidden, that it escaped our mighty intelligence
network... But now the story has become one of incompetence vs. evil.
There had been knowledge, hints, warnings - shared at the highest levels -
and yet no action, not a peep. How was that possible? Suddenly the
diabolic geniuses behind this plot weren't that smart. Instead they were
just a few fundamentalist lunatics with box cutters and a dream, who could
have - should have - been stopped at so many points before 8:46 a.m.,
Sept. 11." Eddie Torres died on Sept. 11, his second day of work in
the World Trade Center.

Marie Cocco writes in Newsday, "In all the verbiage that has
rained down since word leaked that President [sic] Bush was warned that
Osama bin Laden's crew might hijack a plane and strike at the United
States, two words count: 'No warnings.' That is what White House spokesman
Ari Fleischer told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sept. 11. He said it
as the flames from the World Trade Center and the Pentagon lit the sky and
the office workers and firefighters and deli-counter men were buried
beneath the molten steel. It was a lie... Since word leaked about the
infamous memo Bush received on Aug. 6, the White House has spun another
web of lies... Now there is an unnerving shadow that will follow Bush
through his presidency... Bush lied to us, and covered up." Impeach
Bush NOW!

John Ashcroft played "down the terrorist threat in the first
months of the Bush administration. [He accused] his critics of undermining
the fight against terrorism. But it is becoming clear that before
September 11 he had little interest in counter-terrorism, and diverted
resources from measures to prevent terrorism... He also sent a
memorandum... stating his seven priorities. Counter-terrorism was not on
the list. He turned down an FBI request for hundreds more agents to be
assigned to tracking terrorist threats. Nevertheless, he began using a
chartered private jet to travel around the country, rather than take
commercial airliners. [Ashcroft had a showdown with FBI director Louis
Freeh last spring on counter-terrorism. When] Mr Freeh began to talk about
his concern about the terrorist threat facing the country, 'Ashcroft
didn't want to hear about it'... But even since September 11 Mr Ashcroft
has been accused of putting ideology before the battle against
terrorism."

Robert Scheer writes, "Until Sept. 11, the Bush administration was
simply too distracted and/or incompetent to maintain the American pressure
on Osama bin Laden begun in 1998 under President Clinton. [Sandy Berger
was totally preoccupied with the prospect of domestic terror attack. He
warned Condi Rice]: 'You will be spending more time on this issue than on
any other.' Problem was, she didn't. [She wasn't alone. John Ashcroft also
downshifted anti-terrorism efforts, and] Rumsfeld blocked an attempt to
move $800 million from his pet missile defense program into
counter-terrorism... We already know enough... to raise strong suspicions
that executive privilege is now being invoked to conceal enormous
incompetence on the part of the [Bushies. But] we as a nation have long
believed that it is the truth--full, complex and unsanitized--that shall
make us free. We should continue to act accordingly."

MediaWhoresOnline writes, "At the end of August, in disgust, [FBI
terrorism expert John] O'Neill left the FBI to take what he somewhat
ruefully regarded as his 'retirement' job - as head of security at the
World Trade Center. There, on September 11, [he] died at the hands of his
arch-enemy bin Laden's fiendish followers. Connect the dots? Well, duh!
O'Neill got the Phoenix message. No one would listen... The Bushies had
backed off bin Laden. So O'Neill changed jobs - and went on to die a
martyr's death. While all the people who ignored him, on up the chain to
the Oval Office, live on - ghoulishly making political hay out of his
sacrifice and their own incompetence - and... their own perfidy. But
here's the really amazing thing - having unearthed this blockbuster, NY
Times reporters David Johnston and Don Van Natta, Jr. simply bury it in
their story. They report, incredibly, that O'Neill simply 'retired' back
in August - ignoring the well-known background, leaving the dots
unconnected!"

Daily Brew writes, "It is simply impossible to examine the FBI's
role... prior to 9/11 without examining the work of John O'Neill [who]
quit the agency just two weeks prior to the 911 attacks to serve as
Director of Security at the WTC, where he died in the attacks... French
intelligence analysts Brisard and Dasquie claim to have met O'Neill
several times last summer, and reported in their book, 'bin Laden: Hidden
Truth' that O'Neill had complained bitterly that the US State Department -
and behind it the oil lobby who make up Bush's entourage - blocked his
attempts to prove bin Laden's guilt. They quote O'Neill as stating 'The
main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate
interests, and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it.' They also charge
that shortly after assuming office the Bush administration slowed down FBI
investigations of Al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to do a
deal with the Taliban for an oil pipeline across Afghanistan."

Even before Bush took office in 2001, he was apparently scheming with
Unocal to force through a deal with the Taliban to put an oil pipeline
through Afghanistan. Thus, in AUGUST 2001, instead of taking steps to
avert terrorist attacks, Bush was holding secret meetings with the Taliban
over the pipeline, threatening to bury them "beneath a carpet of
bombs" if they didn't play ball. Two weeks before Sept. 11, FBI
deputy director John O'Neill - the nation's top Osama Bin Laden expert -
quit in disgust because he felt Bush was placing corporate interests ahead
of national security. This heroic man took a job as head of security at
the WTC, where he died on 9/11. Did O'Neill KNOW the WTC was targeted and
thus tried in his own way to protect the bulding and those in it because
the "President of the United States" REFUSED to?

At a top-level meeting on July 5 2001, 'Something really spectacular is
going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon,' the government's top
counterterrorism official, Richard Clarke, told the assembled group,
according to two of those present. The group included the Federal Aviation
Administration, along with the Coast Guard, FBI, Secret Service and
Immigration and Naturalization Service. Clarke directed every
counterterrorist office to cancel vacations, defer nonvital travel, put
off scheduled exercises and place domestic rapid-response teams on much
shorter alert. For six weeks last summer, at home and overseas, the U.S.
government was at its highest possible state of readiness - and anxiety -
against imminent terrorist attack. That intensity - defensive in nature -
did not last. By the time Bush received his briefing at his ranch in
Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, the government had begun to stand down from the
alert." AND WHY DID BUSH LET THEM STAND DOWN??? WE DEMAND ANSWERS!

It's not every day that Bob Woodward calls the National Security
Advisor and the White House Spokesman liars. So read Woodward's article
"Aug. Memo Focused On Attacks in U.S." carefully: "In
earlier comments this week, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and
other administration officials stressed that intelligence officials were
focused primarily on threats to U.S. interests overseas. But sources made
clear yesterday that the briefing presented to Bush focused on attacks
within the United States.... Ari Fleischer told reporters yesterday said
the headline on the document was, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike the
United States.' But sources who have read the memo said the headline ended
with the phrase 'in U.S.'" We demand that Bush fire Rice and
Fleischer for lying to the American people about 911!

There really is no limit to the despicable things the Bushies will say.
Ari attacked Senators Hillary Clinton and Dianne Feinstein, demanding to
know "What did the Democrats in Congress know? And why weren't they
talking to each other?" Of course, the Democrats only knew what Bush
WANTED them to know, since Bush runs the CIA and the FBI. DiFi hit Ari
right between the eyes with her response: "I was so concerned that I
contacted Vice President Cheney's office that same month to urge that he
restructure our counter-terrorism and homeland defense programs to ensure
better accountability and prevent important intelligence information from
slipping through the cracks. Despite repeated efforts by myself and staff,
the White House did not address my request. I followed this up last
September 2001 before the attacks and was told by 'Scooter' Libby that it
might be another six months before he would be able to review the
material. I told him I did not believe we had six months to wait."

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