Richard Clarke is one of the few reliable insiders. He knows that 9/11 was an inside job, for which the evidence is overwhelming. The official story, of course, protects the guilty and 10 years later the public is not considered adult enough to deal with the real facts. We're waiting for some deathbed confessions.

What does make sense is that Bush and the White House knew the 9/11 attacks were coming weeks ahead of time (certainly 8/6/2001 CIA Daily President Report, probably others) and did nothing because he wanted the "New Pearl Harbor" Dick Cheney wrote about for PNAC to come to pass. That is what the "conservatives" wanted to happen, and they cheered when it did.

even if this is true and fantasists claim it makes their theories about "inside jobs" plausible, it simply proves what most reasonable people have always known: the un-intelligence community failed, miserably, for reasons having nothing to do with plotting to help terrorists unless those terrorists were in the employ of the u.s. government.

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Within 30 seconds of being formed all Bureaucracies become far more important than their missions. In government any mission is very much scondary to what's in it for the bureaucracy.

At one point the CIA admitted that its agents commit on average 100,000 felonies each year. I am sure many of those felonies seek to protect the agency from any blowback or being outed for screwups.

In her book Area 51 Annie Jacobsen talks about how the CIA knew where bin Ladin was and how they want to use a predator drone aircraft to take him out. But less than a month after he became CIA director and after the State Department gave the go ahead. George Tenat said no that he thought it was a mistake because the compound where he was know to have high-profile Middle Eastern royal family members visit there.

“...Mr. Clarke went on to speculate – which he admits is based on nothing other than his imagination – that the CIA might have been trying to recruit these two future hijackers as agents. This, like much of what Mr. Clarke said in his interview, is utterly without foundation.”

This public statement from Tenet and Black is illuminating in its parsing of every word. These people are masters of the verbal feint, the parse, the plausible denial, and so forth. It's their stock-in-trade. Tenet's not saying all of Clarke's allegations are false, but only "much" are "without foundation", meaning there's no public evidence to prove them, not that they're untrue. Clarke is too important a player, too knowledgeable of the prior inner workings of the CIA, for Tenet to accuse him of lying head-on, as he most certainly would of a lesser figure.

He says Clarke bases his allegations on "imagination", as if he dreamed this up while reposing in a hammock one summer day. Clarke is indeed "speculating" based on the fact this information was singularly withheld at the time, and this seems the only plausible reason for it to have been withheld. That's more than fanciful "imagination".

Richard Clarke came off back then and since as the ONLY senior official that was candid with the American People about the events of 9/11. Where's Tenet been hiding?

Clark is believable - even IF the fact that Tenet CIA had order to NOT to share information IS CRIMINAL.
Did Mossad know? CIA and Mossad share information - THERE was NOT inside job - BUT agencies knew and let it go - 911 was perfect for NEOCON agenda.

Tenet is himself utterly discredited. His "slam dunk" over "Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq"--however much he's tried to explain it away--means he absolutely missed any honorable rendezvous with history. There he sits, forever immortalized, behind Colin Powell at the U.N., backing up the pretext on which a country of 25 million fellow humans was smashed to smithereens. I've heard him excuse himself; I've never heard him say he is sorry. The man has placed himself beyond the pale of respectable society. That he should offer himself as a credible denier of Clarke is absurd.

What we do know is that we had been monitoring Al Qaeda communications for a goodly while before 9/11. We also know NORAD proved inexplicably "incompetent" on 9/11. Further, Clarke himself recounts his desperate attempts to catch the attention of our national defense apparatus in the days leading up to 9/11, and recounts the near absolute incapacity of the apparatus to focus. Or so it seemed. A point Clarke has not yet reached is the possibility, plausible to me, that the defense apparatus was in fact very focused, and was awaiting what it regarded as a golden opportunity. (Do not expect any help from Barack Obama on clarifying these things; the man is, like George Tenet, totally committed to covering the backside of the CIA.)

I found myself wondering why, other than perhaps his defeatist leftist agenda, would Richard Clarke go off about "theories" that he admittedly had no real basis for . . . then it hit me right at the end - "Clarke, now a security consultant and bestselling author, has hinted in his writings in the past that there may have been a CIA cover-up . . ."

Gee, could the "bestselling author" thing have anything to do with it?

I confess to having been duped by the Cheney/Bush "orthodox" 19-Islamic-terrorists-with-box-cutters theory of 9/11 for about 2 years...then I discovered the demolition of Building 7. I don't see how anyone can look at that building coming down and not see that it was deliberately destroyed in a controlled demolition process, which means that charges had to have been installed weeks in advance.

Examination of video of the twin towers collapsing also shows evidence of controlled demolition.

The Kean Commission was charged with finding evidence supporting the Islamic terrorist theory, not with finding out what really happened. It was totally under the control of the Cheney/Bush administration through its executive administrator, White House stooge Philip Zelikow. Its findings should in no way be taken as conclusive or even authoritative.

The anti-Islamic hysteria mounted by the government and its propaganda organs can only be compared with the synthesized minutes of hate against Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

We will never know the complete truth about 9/11 in our lifetimes. Perhaps, it will never come out in any lifetime. However, I firmly believe there was some type of cover-up, a great deal of incompetence and self-serving agendas, and lies will continue to be told. It is the same with the assassination of JFK. The Jackie tapes reveal she felt LBJ was involved. I have always believed that. Definitely, there were lies told and a cover-up. But, as usual, anyone not buying the official line is called a conspiracy theorist, etc. It is just like a whistleblower is always called a disgruntled employee. I go with the old saw that where there is smoke, there is fire.

Oh come now Mr. Clarke, the CIA being secretive, dishonest, not talking about there operations??? Nawwww, they wouldn't do that.

Shenon did a great job :there is a rebuttal out there from the 3 nutcakes ; They were under oath . SO WAS THE FAA , but they all lied along with the ten Commissioners .look at the 12th public meeting of the 911 Commission ,last session ,FAA.It is the worst case ,or the best case of PERJURY ever recorded in the annals of Criminal Law

false flags, 911, pearl harbor

for those of you who cannot get you mind around the actual 911 conspiracy, you never will. your conditioning is thorough. you'll go to your death believing and having faith in those few who own all the wealth and own the government thinking they have your welfare in mind. i'm not sorry, but glad to inform you that they don't. 911's have happened here and other places around the globe before. it's always the same scenario. the wealthy class, for their narrow, selfish, and fiendish reasons, find it necessary and to their financial advantage that some of the sheep must be sacrificed. yes, you are sheep people. and the wealthy class call you at their whim, and they have many ways of getting you to follow and step in lockstep. patriotism and religion are probably two of their most faithful and reliable tactics to get you to obey. and it never fails. every generation you obey and walk blindly to the beat of their drum.

so, pickwicky, texan, activista, interested observer and whoever else is out there walking around in the dark, it's not a question of "getting educated. clearly it's a question of "getting liberated". liberate that gray matter between your ears. get those chains off your brain. think outside the box you've been taught to think in. you're missin' it yo!

EVOLVE!

Had Bill Clinton read about terrorist plans to fly into office buildings in his PDB he would have had the FBI and CIA top brass kicking the rank and file's ass to find out more about - George W. took a 6 week spoiled rich kid's vacation in Texas.