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Coleen Rowley, a FBI special agent for more than 20 years, was legal counsel to the FBI field office in Minneapolis from 1990 to 2003. They begin: "If WikiLeaks had been around in 2001, could the events of 9/11 have been prevented? The idea is worth considering."

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a news conference at the Frontline Club in central London, 07/26/10. (photo: Andrew Winning/Reuters)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a news conference at the Frontline Club in central London, 07/26/10. (photo: Andrew Winning/Reuters)

 

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+10 # pdb 2010-10-15 21:03
Long live Wiki-leaks if this is the case! This could also have ramifications for professions such as nursing and doctor negligence. Taking away the "whistle blower" penalties would surely cause more people to speak up for the sake of their fellow man.
 
 
0 # Richard A Beck 2010-10-23 04:58
The 4th estate is in the Throes of existance. With the nascent of Wiki-leaks the 5th estate, it is emperative that we have a countervailing entity to foil government nefarious ops, cover-ups, false-Flag ops, etc.
 
 
+5 # bobpomeroy 2010-10-15 22:04
Are you kidding, it would be an expression of American tradition to disclose publically what snafus are hidden.
 
 
+15 # Larry Dennison 2010-10-15 22:48
Our government is a hollow shell. It exists to perpetuate itself and does so by selling itself to the highest bidders. It is all too obvious that 9/11, thus two wars and perhaps a financial meltdown could have been averted had our government done what it is supposed to do. But it didn't. Should we trust that same government with a multi-trillion $ "Defense" Department when they can't even get the obvious signals straight. You decide.
 
 
+17 # Eddy 2010-10-15 22:59
QUOTE;
FBI officials in Washington inexplicably turned down Samit's request Unquote.
Every one of these officials need to be closely investigated for treason.
IMHO,that's why it needed to be nipped in the budd, as 911 was not ready to be revealed to the public just then.
Again QUOTE;
we were ordered not to write up our reports vulnerabilities .... Finally, the FAA started providing advance notification of when we would be conducting our 'undercover' tests and what we would be checking."
Unquote.
In each case,such officials stood in the way of anyone discovering 911 and the dots leading to same, this is NOT Coincidence.
The question that should be on every American's lips today, is WHY, and from whence did these officials get their instructions ?
IMHO, these officials ARE the loose threads that will unravel 911 for all Americans to see, who/what exactly was the offender/s behind this atrocity.
 
 
+2 # Daljit 2010-10-16 01:46
Since 9/11 was an inside job, there is no way that Wikileaks would have been informed either before or after the event. Wikileaks would not have been provided the information, more than was allowed to 9/11 commission.
Wikileaks most likely depends upon officially sanctioned leaks, rather than the real whistle blowers.
 
 
+8 # gabriel lori 2010-10-16 02:10
A definitive yes would be the answer!!!Someth ing other than our own federal govt agencies would of saved all the inocents of that day!!!Seems our own fed agencies will only go after us american citizens!!Like now they are going after the ones who protest all the unbelievable sums of money to fight wars and to buy arms,but do not have money for healthcare for our own or to save families from living in the streets due to the massive amounts of stealing and financial hancky pancky wall st and the banks have done against the populace!!!
 
 
+18 # Nam-era Vet 2010-10-16 03:04
The people who were warned and ignored the warnings should have been named in this article.
 
 
+16 # Christopher Marlowe 2010-10-16 05:41
In over a century of steel frame buildings, never before had one fallen do to fire. On 9/11 three of them are supposed to have done so, after two of them were hit by airplanes. If you believe the official story of 9/11, then wikileaks is not going to help you because you probably have a wikileak in your brain. How can foreknowledge be of any use when all of the information gleaned after the attacks shows that the official story is a lie and still nothing is done? WTC buildings 1, 2, and 7 fell at free fall speed. That is documented on video. Those buildings had robust steel frameworks that were capable of supporting many times their own weight. They were also built to withstand the impact of a 707 jet (because the Empire St Building had been hit by a plane). NIST could not explain the collapse, and so took 7 years to produce a report that invented new science, and has been severely criticized. See Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth: Over 1200 think the official story is bunk.
 
 
+6 # Charles McGee 2010-10-16 07:06
Great piece. Rowley and Dzakovic probably never heard of Daniel Ellsberg.
 
 
+7 # Interested Observer 2010-10-16 17:52
Ellsberg released his information long after it could make any difference.
He admits this in a recent documentary and based on it recommends others to leak sooner than he did.
 
 
+3 # JD Hughes 2010-10-16 22:20
Quoting
Great piece. Rowley and Dzakovic probably never heard of Daniel Ellsberg.

Rowley wrote articles and a book. She ran for office. She went over her boss's head with her concerns. Fix was in.
 
 
+4 # Just Sayin 2010-10-17 10:16
"Over 1200 think the official story is bunk."

How about any human being with an IQ over 80, plus some small modicum of free brain space....

Hmm. That might even still be a *majority* of the currently Frankenfood-poisoned and corporate media cartel-abused American PEOPLE.
 
 
+3 # Merschrod 2010-10-16 06:22
It is clear that "we do not have a partner with which negotiations can be conducted." Fold the cards on anither fool's erand.
 
 
+14 # Harold R. Mencher 2010-10-16 06:34
9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION! END OF CONVERSATION!
 
 
-1 # Joan Kaul 2010-10-16 22:55
Yes, 9/11 was an inside job by the Bush Administration. Wake up. Think out of the box and study this topic.
 
 
-1 # Mike K 2010-10-23 15:10
Not so much a "inside job" as something they let happen either intentional or via Criminal negligence. Either way they wasted no time makeing a case for war with Iraq and Iran which had little or nothing to do with 9/11.
 
 
+1 # Just Sayin 2010-10-17 10:37
If one was to *follow the money*, would Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama admin. fundings and big money financial supt. really be that different?

Why don't the "Democra"..., er, Faction-B politicians seem willing to connect the dots?

A little *fear* goes a long way?
 
 
+4 # Pikewitch 2010-10-17 21:02
Yes, 911 was an inside job.

Together, over 1300 licensed architects and engineers have assembled more than enough evidence for a real investigation.

Why won't someone come forward and post to wikileaks? PLEASE?

Unless you are all dead. If that is the case I forgive you.
 
 
-3 # Bud Olesen 2010-10-18 18:48
You are an absolute Buffoon!!! Even your "God of Liberalism", Michael Moore in his movie, Fahrenheit 911, shows an absolutely befuddled Geo. W. Bush... Mr. Bush was rushed from the Elementary school in a state of bewilderment, and total disbelief.
You Guys on the left actually believe that all of this was orchestrated by Bush, and Chaney. You need to move to Iran where Government doesn't deceive, and lie to their citizenry!!!
Bud Olesen
 
 
+20 # genierae 2010-10-16 07:19
The "rugged individualists" propaganda perpetrated by the wealthy elites, since this country began, continues to keep us disorganized and powerless. As long as we are rugged individualists, who care only about ourselves, we won't be able to organize and work as one body to promote the common good. This was deliberate, in order to keep those rich elites in power. In this case, it seems that most of the people involved cared only about their own interests, and therefore they allowed 3000 people to be slaughtered. Until we begin to work together to create a better world, this country and its people will continue to suffer. One thing should be clear: We must not allow Republicans to regain power, they are avowed enemies of the common good.
 
 
0 # Mike K 2010-10-23 15:13
Agreed most People 'get by with a little help from there friends'. The rich elites get by with a lot of help from there friends, inherited wealth and people they have bought.
 
 
+10 # Edgar Valderrama 2010-10-16 07:39
"connect the dots":
"criminal negligence," "superiors seeming indifference," "warnings against talking to the media," "frowned on whistle blowing," "serious vulnerabilities being ignored," etc. etc.
MAYBE an innocent babe could interpret these and other items as coming from typical stupid bureaucrats, but it doesn't take a professional conspiracy theorist to see the writing on the wall.
 
 
+10 # RonTruth 2010-10-16 07:46
I think this whole Moussaiwi story is just that: A COVER STORY. I think the combined criminal talents of the Carlisle Group, the bin Laden CIA family, and one of the sons of one of Richard Nixon's "the Texans," ("Smoking Gun Watergate tape, late 1972) all played the BushOilCo. tune, and we danced to it like we believed it.

They did 9/11. They used bin Laden's name and name of his al Quieda group as a cover story so they could get by without taking responsibility; a bit like what happened to Lee Harvey Oswald.
 
 
+1 # Just Sayin 2010-10-17 10:25
JFK?

The 911 story is WAY stupider, my friend.

Just google 'world trade center 7'

Q: You know how stupid the 911 story is?
A: Stupid enough that Everyone is supposed to see through it; and not 500, 100, or 50 years later... (if there are presumably still "Freedom of Information" Act document to come out then)

...but just as soon as they can stop being *completely brainwashed* by the (bought & paid for) corporate media cartel.
 
 
+18 # WE want the TRUTH 2010-10-16 08:18
Powerful report! We might also ask why G.W. (nose candy) Bush said there would be NO investigation after 9/11 happened. AND, he let over 100 members of the binLaden family get on airliners and go back to Saudi Arabia---FBI was forbidden to interrogate any of them! Od course, these were Osama's relatives! Speaking of Republicans, the Republican Party here in Ohio has put up JOHN KASICH---Mr. Lehman Bros. director (worked there 10 years), got Ohio pension funds deposited there AND is a multi-millionaire even though his employer was the biggest bankruptcy on Wall St. Running KASICH for Gov is not only ridiculous, it's a slap in the face of every Ohioan! It may not be quite as bad, but the RATS running KASICH for Ohio Gov is like putting Hitler in charge of a Jewish orphanage.
 
 
+16 # paradoctor 2010-10-16 08:22
Wikileaks would have been useful in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 inside job. We would have heard more about put calls and the air-defense stand-down and free-fall collapse and firefighter reports of explosions and nanothermite in WTC dust and molten steel and neatly sliced girders... and on and on. We heard about those things eventually, but timely reporting would have complicated - and perhaps halted - the runup to the imperial wars.

As is we have a generation of Americans who have at least heard a bit about this evidence of high treason. That's why there hasn't been a recurrence of 9/11; enough citizens wouldn't buy it.
 
 
+15 # Mary Stromquist 2010-10-16 08:39
Nanothermite in all three buildings. Warnings given to some workers ref going to work in the towers that day, as well as calls to a few political fold to stay off planes. The Pentagon...gas station video confiscated by FBI minutes after the hit, and only a couple of inconclusive frames released to date. 9-11 Commission Report a joke (see the 9-11 timeline). The many different faces of Bin Laden in videos. Google "for 911 truth" for a long list of expert investigating groups. Our corporate media has done a yeoman's job of disinformation. How in hell do we wake up millions of breathtakingly ignorant Americans?
 
 
+1 # Just Sayin 2010-10-17 10:31
Why should they care?

& the kids (at least) already know the corporate media is full of paid liars.
 
 
+6 # thomasaf 2010-10-16 11:29
Encourage more people to come out/disclose crimes/reveal atrocities/warn the public. We may need a video game or a new "Winston" the Whistle Blower, Super Hero to teach us that Truth Telling is heroric and patriotic.
 
 
+7 # Harold R. Mencher 2010-10-16 16:51
No! What we need even more is someone to write a screen play that can be turned into a movie that directly and publicly accuses George Bush and Dick Cheney of the heinous crime that took place that day.

Quoting
Encourage more people to come out/disclose crimes/reveal atrocities/warn the public. We may need a video game or a new "Winston" the Whistle Blower, Super Hero to teach us that Truth Telling is heroric and patriotic.
 
 
+7 # TruthUnveiled 2010-10-16 11:55
The fact that superiors ignored warnings based on hard evidence is yet another indication that 9/11 was an inside job and those planning it ALLOWED Arab novice pilots to grab the planes (if indeed they did). Of course, anyone who got suspicious would be silenced and told not to talk to media for fear of derailing the plan. This is the only explanation that makes a lot of sense.
 
 
+12 # Barry Eisenberg 2010-10-16 12:28
Let's see now: JFK assassinated by a "lone gunman", phony Gulf of Tonkin attack on USS Maddox leads to intensification of Vietnam war, the Maine "blown up by Cubans" leading to the 1898 war...is there any doubt that American governments lie about geopolitical events for there own nefarious purposes and that they even go so far as to perpetrate atrocities on their own citizens to get their way? 9/11 is just one in a long series of false flag ops, the biggest one in history maybe, and yet here we are almost twenty years later and the truth still struggles to emerge. the media perpetuates the big lie technique Goebbels perfected in Nazi Germany and the public willingly swallows the phony propaganda, maybe because the truth is too terrible to believe. Americans are totally self-interested, ignorant, complacent and easily hoodwinked and get the type of government they deserve. Thus it was and ever shall be, Wikileaks notwithstanding , as long as "my country, right or wrong" is the prevailing ethos.
 
 
-7 # Peacedragon 2010-10-16 13:02
I commend the authors of the article and believe what they say. I don't believe that 9/11 was a plot by Americans. For one thing, I don't believe that Bush II is smart enough to have carried it out.
 
 
+6 # Harold R. Mencher 2010-10-16 16:47
Bush didn't have to be smart to carry it out because he didn't. He simply covertly authorized it, and he didn't even have to know the gory details. Smarter people than him carried it out. The preponderance of the massive physical and visual evidence, and sometimes lack of, that day and the PNAC plan prove beyond the shadow of any doubt that the Bush administration was behind the 9/11 attacks.


Quoting
I commend the authors of the article and believe what they say. I don't believe that 9/11 was a plot by Americans. For one thing, I don't believe that Bush II is smart enough to have carried it out.
 
 
+2 # Blackrock 2010-10-19 16:11
I honestly don't believe that W. had any knowledge of the operation/coverup. It was his job to be completely ignorant of anything that may have happened by our government/Cheney. His handlers knew that he could accidentally slip up and let something out of his fool mouth if he had any knowledge whatsoever. I think Cheney was one of the true masterminds behind the idea and that he made orders to allow events to unfold as they had. Gave stand down orders to let things happen. Ordered Black-ops to entice, encourage, and help facilitate Al Quida terrorists in the lead up to their plan. Also orchestrated with other agencies to help muddle the events with things like military test drills to simulate such an attack that just happened to coincidentally occur that very same day. They had the information, they knew what was in the works, they may not have written the horror story but they were the editors in chief. Give me a break.
 
 
0 # Richard A Beck 2010-10-22 13:05
I am in agreement with your statement except for the first sentence. I believe he was cognizant of the ops/cover-up. He did not need to know the day to day details which gives him the "plausible deniability" defense. That is why his handlers registered him in that elementary school.
 
 
+5 # Anarchist 23 2010-10-17 14:06
Bush II was just a sock puppet. The rogue Network that killed JFK ('magic bullet; bolt action rifle -3 shots in 5.6 seconds-yeah right) did not just go away after that successful coup de etat. On 911 they just did a bigger 'shock & awe 'operation and most of the people have still not gotten beyond it!
 
 
-5 # Interested Observer 2010-10-16 18:28
This article seems to have turned up the truthers like a spade turns up earthworms. Bureaucratic incompetence and the long tradition in both the FBI and CIA to sack or muzzle internal critics and promote the screw-ups seems as sufficient and plausible explanation for the clues of an impending 9/11 being ignored. That it was also the answer to many neo-con prayers and welcomed quietly behind the public facade of grief and outrage is a side effect not the base of a conspiracy. Another aspect that never seems to get enough attention is that 9/11 can be rightly viewed as blowback for Charlie's War (our tit for tat payback aid to Afghanistan when it became the USSR's Vietnam) when the U.S. built the foundation for al-Qaeda that came back to bite us after the first gulf war.

Another thing is that 9/11 was a sucker punch good for one time only. The Havana model of hostage behavior only worked 3 of 4 times on the day and will never work again.
 
 
+7 # ej 2010-10-16 19:38
too bad you forgot something, here.
Sunday, 23 September, 2001, 12:30 GMT 13:30 UK
Hijack 'suspects' alive and well

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1559151.stm

At Least 7 of the 9/11
Hijackers are Still Alive

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

The muscle hijackers 'picked by bin Ladin':

Satam al Suqami, Wail and Waleed al Shehri (two brothers) Both Alive, Abdul Aziz al Omari Alive, Fayez Banihammad (from the UAE), Ahmed al Ghamdi, Hamza al Ghamdi, Mohand al Shehri Alive, Saeed al Ghamdi Alive, Ahmad al Haznawi, Ahmed al Nami Alive, Majed Moqed, and Salem al Hazmi Alive (the brother of Nawaf al Hazmi).

How can the 9/11 Commission be taken seriously when they refer to alive 'hijackers'?

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/hijackers.html
 
 
+2 # Glen 2010-10-17 10:52
Interesting you are getting negative scores on this post. It is easy to check into these records and other facts available. Thanks for bringing up the subject of living hijackers.
 
 
0 # RealM5 2010-10-18 10:41
Aren't you missing the point of the BBC article? They are stating that the FBI list of names of the 19 hijackers is wrong because many of those named are alive elsewhere. Therefore they couldn't be hijackers.
 
 
+6 # Glen 2010-10-18 11:21
The word hijackers is typed with tongue in cheek. The word living is there for emphasis.

The United States government and accomplices pulled off the biggest damn killing maneuver and lie that far surpasses all past lies, and as always, they got away with it.
 
 
+6 # paradoctor 2010-10-16 21:37
It is true that incompetence goes a long way towards explaining failure, and conformity goes a long way towards explaining cover-ups. Therefore I try to avoid speculation about motive and agents, and focus on forensic evidence. The overclass may break moral law, but it cannot break physical law.

For instance, JFK's head snapped backwards, therefore Oswald did not act alone. WTC towers 1, 2 and 7 fell at free-fall acceleration, therefore they did not pancake. These in turn imply that the official stories in both cases are not true.

The truth remains unknown, though that fact itself is a clue of sorts; as is the old Roman motto: qui bono? Who benefits?
 
 
+12 # Glen 2010-10-17 09:28
Check on Pilots for 9/11 truth. One cannot contribute to the research unless a certified pilot, and many have flown planes as used on the attacks that day.

They say without hesitation, citing facts both aeronautical and the physics of it, that much of what was reported was not possible in such planes, most especially by the amateurs who couldn't even fly a small plane. Their investigations are exhaustive and available to anyone.

Thousands of people around the globe have investigated the events of that day initially due to the demolition type fall of the buildings, then went on to discover many more aspects that revealed the nonsense of the reports.

Had I not researched this site and those posted above, I might not believe in an inside job myself.

I do believe we all know who is/was capable of coordinating a job this enormous and evil, and it wasn't Osama bin Laden.
 
 
+7 # Barry Eisenberg 2010-10-17 18:58
An interesting theory, offered by some pilots, is that the planes were actually being flown remotely, just like the drones we frequently employ now in Afghanistan and Pakistan, directed out of CIA hq in Arlington, I believe. The hijackers on board never expected to crash into the WTC or Pentagon, even if they had had the skill to do so, which they didn't.
There are so many suspicious aspects of 9/11 but just try convincing ordinary Americans, who pride themselves on their "common sense and moderation", of that. You'll get two words in response: "conspiracy theorist" and that's about the extent of the intellectual curiosity. Behind those words lies a sea of smugness in which the commenter is really saying: "I'm not a radical, I don't want to hear it and please quit disturbing my sleep."
 
 
+8 # Glen 2010-10-18 06:42
Your comments above in this thread were straight to the point concerning American attitudes and the odd pride folks continue to feel in the honesty and integrity of their government. Very elementary in their thinking. Of course, it is difficult to eliminate school days brainwashing.

The above comments are also straight to the point, and worse, folks actually take pride in NOT researching anything, as though citizens are much too aware of reality through mass media to have to do anything further. A good example is the glaring lack of airplane debris at the Pentagon and a hole and damage similar to a rocket attack. Right there in photos and television coverage.

The events of September are, in truth, a conspiracy - against U.S. citizens and the rest of the world.
 
 
0 # Donna Blagg 2010-11-07 09:29
If wikileaks ever would publish what really happened on 911, all hell would break loose in the US. You just need to look at the original newsbroasdcasts from the day to see that it was an inside job. Many of these pictures were no longer available on 9/12, but some people recorded them and put them in Youtube. So check out WTC 7 on Youtube to see one of the WTC buildings being demolished on the same afternoon and ask yourself: when did they plant the dynamite??????
 

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