| Here's the highligts from a post on Gary Palast's site, posted Friday 10th september. Is Palast making this stuff up or is he doing what jounalists like Woodward and Bernstein used to do and now hardly any do, especially journalists owned by the corporate media conglomerates? So is he lying or is he revealing the truth?
full article here: http://gregpalast.com/blog.cfm
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SEPTEMBER 11: WHAT YOU "OUGHT NOT TO KNOW"
DOCUMENT 199-I AND THE FBI'S WORDS TO CHILL THE SOUL
Shortly after George W. Bush took office, he [a top-level US intelligence agent] told us reluctantly, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the FBI, "were told to back off the Saudis."
agents had long wanted to question these characters ... but could not until after the attack. By that time, these bin Laden birds had flown their American nest.
the sheiks' piggy banks were effectively off-limits to the US agents during the Bush years. One of the men in the posh hotel's meeting of vipers happens to have been a Bush family business associate
Before you jump to the wrong conclusion, let me tell you that we found no evidence -- none, zero, no kidding -- that George Bush knew about Al Qaeda's plan to attack on September 11. Indeed, the grim joke at BBC is that anyone accusing George Bush of knowing anything at all must have solid evidence.
In his last year in office, Clinton sent two delegations to the Gulf to suggest that the Royal family crack down on "charitable donations" from their kingdom to the guys who blew up our embassies. But when a failed Texas oil man took over the White House in January 2001, demands on the Saudis to cut off terror funding simply stopped.
November 2001, when BBC ran the report...No action was taken on the group headed by the bin Ladens
May this year, fifty FBI agents surrounded, invaded and sealed off WAMY's (World Assembly of Muslim Youth) Virginia off... Why now this belated move on the bin Laden's former operation? Why not right after the September 11 attack? This year's FBI raid occurred just days after an Islamist terror assault in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Apparently, messin' with the oil sheiks gets this Administration's attention. Falling towers in New York are only for Republican convention photo ops... The raid took place three years after our report [on the BBC] and long after the bin Ladens had waved bye-bye
We authenticated it, added in our own sleuthing, then gave the FBI its say, expecting the usual, "It's baloney, a fake." But we didn't get the usual response. Rather, FBI headquarters said, "There are lots of things the intelligence community knows and other people ought not to know." |
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