Facing up to a Whitewash of the White House:
Challenging the 9/11 Commission's Complicity in Cover-up and a Culture that Denies Accountability
Kyle F. Hence
9/11 CitizensWatch
While not defending President Clinton's unethical behavior, I feel compelled to point out that he was, as a sitting President, forced to testify under oath and in public in facing questions over sex at the conclusion of a 5 year investigation that consumed nearly $50 million.
In light of this record, it is indeed confounding that former Democratic Senator, now 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey insisted upon his appointment that the Commission in its work 'not embarass the President' relative to questions over what led up to the murder of thousands--a 'failure' for which Nazi War Crimes prosecutor John Loftus said could not, in light of multiple foreign intelligence warnings recieved by the CIA and FBI, be defended as mere incompetence.
The Whitewater investigation culminating in Clinton going under oath over sex stands in stark and shocking contrast to the approach of the comparitively underfunded, deadline-facing 9/11 Commission to questions of accountability and the truth about over September 11th.
After over 14 months into the largest and most important Commission in our nation's history--an investigation into the brutal murder of nearly 3000 Americans and foreign nationals from over 100 countries; there has NOT been A SINGLE high level Administration or intelligence official that has been brought before the Commission in public and sworn to tell "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" to explain how a multi-billion dollar defense and intelligence infrastructure suffered a simultaneous and across-the-board collapse in the months and weeks leading up to, and on 9/11. Nor has a single official has been held accountable in a single agency. In fact many have been rewarded with larger budgets and promotions.
The American people, who government officials serve, have every right to know exactly what the President was told, when and what was done in response.
The American people have every right to know what warnings our intelligence agencies recieved, when they recieved them, and what was done in response.
The American people have every right to know how it was over 30 minutes after flight 77 was confirmed hijacked, and after two planes had already struck the WTC, that Washington D.C. the Pentagon and the nation's most protected airspace was not defended.
Only top level officials in positions of responsibility at the time of the attacks can answer those questions. They must answer to us, the people directly by way of the 9/11 Commission, and do so in public rather than hide behind flimsy and evasive claims of 'executive priviledge' or 'national security' or protected from genuine scrutiny in private 'interviews'.
The Commission tells us they have 'interviewed' FBI Director Mueller and CIA Chief Tenet. Yes, 'interviewed'; and all privately and behind closed doors and under the direction of an Executive Director with a brazen conflict of interest dismissed as irrelevant by the 9/11 Commissioners. Dr. Zelikow is a consumate Republican-aligned former Bush aide, one of only three to be allowed to see the August 6th briefing and close associate of the current National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice; who now after weeks of 'negotiations' has been 'compelled' to be 'interviewed' in private this Saturday over what intelligence she and the President were privy to prior to the 9/11 attacks.
Americans must demand a wholely truthful account for what happened on September 11th. A merely "definitive account" just doesn't and won't cut it! 'Interviews' with minders don't and won't cut it. To get to the truth, the 9/11 Commission must demand testimony from Presidents Bush and Clinton, their respective Vice-Presidents and National Security Advisors, Richard Clarke, David Frasca, Air National Guard & NORAD pilots and the heads of all intelligence agencies. Anything short of this standard applied to this most important of investigations will leave the public wondering if they have just witnessed not only the biggest investigation of the U.S. Government in history but also the biggest Whitewash.
The bottom line here is if Administration and Intelligence officials have nothing to hide then why don't they come forward in public hearings, raise their hands and promise to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If the Commission fails to fully apply this standard then they will have been complicit in the dangerous denial of accountability and cover-up of the truth about events and circumstances of 9/11.
For the sake of American people and in the name of the thousands who died on 9/11 let us hope they adopt a higher standard before time runs out on them--that is if it's not already too late.
Kyle F. Hence
9/11 CitizensWatch http://www.911citizenswatch.org/
Please also visit:
9/11 Family Steering Committee http://www.911independentcommission.org
September Eleventh Families For Peaceful Tomorrows
http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/
Unanswered Questions - in our Links section or: http://www.unansweredquestions.org
Please also see an article on the "MATRIX"
AP Exclusive: Despite privacy worries, more states eying anti-crime
database January 31, 2004,
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw92144_20040131.htm
and
Families Call for Release of 9/11 Materials
By ERIC LIPTON
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/nyregion/19TOWE.html?ex=1064635200&en=250eaf247f9803b1&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
Please also see:
The Subterfuge Examined, by Ken Reiner
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=1039&blz=1
Debunking Conspiracy Theorists; Paranoid Fantasies About 911 Detract From Real Issues, by Gerard Holmgren
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=911&blz=1
9/11 Was A Hoax: The American Government Killed Its Own People, by John Kaminski
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=819&blz=1
9/11 IN NEVERNEVERLAND, by W. David Kubiak
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=1238&blz=1
9/11 Inquiry and Is Anyone Safe ?, by Chris Stevenson
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=910&blz=1
MORE BACKGROUND MATERIAL
Firefighters feel lasting effects of 9/11
By Rachel Clarke BBC News Online in New York
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3089470.stm
Two years, still no answers
Exploiting 2001's tragedy rather than accounting for it
Geov Parrish WorkingForChange.com 09.09.03
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15596
This 'War On Terrorism' is Bogus!
The 9/11 Attacks Gave the US an Ideal Pretext to Use Force to Secure Its
Global Domination
by Michael Meacher
© 2003 Guardian Newspapers Limited
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html
MUST SEE:
Bush Knew – An American Requiem
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/true911.html
Pentagon
Hunt the Boeing! And test your perceptions!
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm
Cameras were mute witnesses at 911
http://www.thewebfairy.com/911/index.htm
35 USAF Bases Within Range On 911 The 7 Air Stations On Full Alert Covering The Continental United States
And 28 More Air Stations That Were In Range Of The 4 Airliners On 911 http://www.standdown.net/usafbases.htm
Map: Hijacked 9/11 Flights and Military Bases
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/911-flightpaths-bases.htm
Bombs in the Building: World Trade Center 'Conspiracy Theory' is a Conspiracy Fact, By Randy Lavello
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_lavello_050503_bombs.html
New Seismic Data Refutes Official WTC Explanation
By Christopher Bollyn, Exclusive to American Free Press
http://www.rense.com/general28/ioff.htm
September 11th And The Bush Administration Compelling Evidence for Complicity - Walter E. Davis, PhD
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4582.htm
KAMINSKI: ARREST THE PRESIDENT NOW!
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=36952
More Interesting articles
No profiteering on terror attacks
September 19, 2003 BY DAVID ROEDER Business Reporter
http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-fin-fbi19.html
Who Is Osama Bin Laden? by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
The CIA met Bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an American Hospital in July 2001 in Dubai, by Alexandra Richard.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html
9/10/01: Osama bin Laden's Whereabouts were known: admitted to Pakistani Military hospital on 9/10, less than 24 hours before the terrorist attacks, CBS News with Dan Rather
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CBS203A.html
9/09/01: Shah Masood, leader of the Northern Alliance assassinated two days before 9/11, Michel Chossudovsky,
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO309B.html
No Urgency, George Szamuely revisits the curious lack of military action on the morning of 9-11
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/SZA202A.html
Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading lead directly into the CIA`s Highest Ranks, by Michael C. Ruppert
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP110A.html
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence Agency (ISI) in the September 11 Attacks, by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html
The main justification for this war has been totally fabricated. "Osamagate," by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html
The Clinton Administration supported the Militant Islamic Network, 1997 Congressional Report, Republican Party Committee.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DCH109A.html
The CIA in Afghanistan
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout1.php&id=17&blz=1
The 9/11 Joint Inquiry chairmen in "conflict of interest": Mysterious September 11 Breakfast Meeting on Capitol Hill, by Michel Chossudovsky
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO308C.html
Daniel Pearl and the Paymaster of 9/11: 9/11 and The Smoking Gun that Turned On its Tracker, by Chaim Kupferberg
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP209A.html
Wall Street, The CIA & The Terrorist Attacks. Interview with Michael C. Ruppert, with Kellia Ramares and Bonnie Faulkner
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP205B.html
The mystery surrounding the death of John O'Neill: The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11, by Chaim Kupferberg
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP206A.html
FBI points finger at the CIA: Terror Alert based on Fabricated Information
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CRG302A.html
Who's Who on the 9/11 "Independent" Commission, by Michel Chossudovsky,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html
Foreknowledge: Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller, by Coleen Rowley
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ROW205A.html
Senate Committee Hearing (July 2003) opens a Can of Worms: FBI acknowledges 9/11 was financed out of Pakistan
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SEN308A.html
Pearl Harbor: History Whitewashed? President Franklin D. Roosevelt had "prior knowledge" of the Attack, by Ian Woods
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/WOO203A.html
"Operation Northwoods": US government plan to stage the assassination of civilians and blame it on Communist Cuba. "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba", National Security Archive.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/NOR111A.html
Articles on Reseau Voltaire (in French)
http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/11septembre.html
(Ed. Note) There are many many other articles. Hopefully, people will look for them and read them and maybe begin to think independently.
Challenging the 9/11 Commission's Complicity in Cover-up and a Culture that Denies Accountability
Kyle F. Hence
9/11 CitizensWatch
While not defending President Clinton's unethical behavior, I feel compelled to point out that he was, as a sitting President, forced to testify under oath and in public in facing questions over sex at the conclusion of a 5 year investigation that consumed nearly $50 million.
In light of this record, it is indeed confounding that former Democratic Senator, now 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey insisted upon his appointment that the Commission in its work 'not embarass the President' relative to questions over what led up to the murder of thousands--a 'failure' for which Nazi War Crimes prosecutor John Loftus said could not, in light of multiple foreign intelligence warnings recieved by the CIA and FBI, be defended as mere incompetence.
The Whitewater investigation culminating in Clinton going under oath over sex stands in stark and shocking contrast to the approach of the comparitively underfunded, deadline-facing 9/11 Commission to questions of accountability and the truth about over September 11th.
After over 14 months into the largest and most important Commission in our nation's history--an investigation into the brutal murder of nearly 3000 Americans and foreign nationals from over 100 countries; there has NOT been A SINGLE high level Administration or intelligence official that has been brought before the Commission in public and sworn to tell "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" to explain how a multi-billion dollar defense and intelligence infrastructure suffered a simultaneous and across-the-board collapse in the months and weeks leading up to, and on 9/11. Nor has a single official has been held accountable in a single agency. In fact many have been rewarded with larger budgets and promotions.
The American people, who government officials serve, have every right to know exactly what the President was told, when and what was done in response.
The American people have every right to know what warnings our intelligence agencies recieved, when they recieved them, and what was done in response.
The American people have every right to know how it was over 30 minutes after flight 77 was confirmed hijacked, and after two planes had already struck the WTC, that Washington D.C. the Pentagon and the nation's most protected airspace was not defended.
Only top level officials in positions of responsibility at the time of the attacks can answer those questions. They must answer to us, the people directly by way of the 9/11 Commission, and do so in public rather than hide behind flimsy and evasive claims of 'executive priviledge' or 'national security' or protected from genuine scrutiny in private 'interviews'.
The Commission tells us they have 'interviewed' FBI Director Mueller and CIA Chief Tenet. Yes, 'interviewed'; and all privately and behind closed doors and under the direction of an Executive Director with a brazen conflict of interest dismissed as irrelevant by the 9/11 Commissioners. Dr. Zelikow is a consumate Republican-aligned former Bush aide, one of only three to be allowed to see the August 6th briefing and close associate of the current National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice; who now after weeks of 'negotiations' has been 'compelled' to be 'interviewed' in private this Saturday over what intelligence she and the President were privy to prior to the 9/11 attacks.
Americans must demand a wholely truthful account for what happened on September 11th. A merely "definitive account" just doesn't and won't cut it! 'Interviews' with minders don't and won't cut it. To get to the truth, the 9/11 Commission must demand testimony from Presidents Bush and Clinton, their respective Vice-Presidents and National Security Advisors, Richard Clarke, David Frasca, Air National Guard & NORAD pilots and the heads of all intelligence agencies. Anything short of this standard applied to this most important of investigations will leave the public wondering if they have just witnessed not only the biggest investigation of the U.S. Government in history but also the biggest Whitewash.
The bottom line here is if Administration and Intelligence officials have nothing to hide then why don't they come forward in public hearings, raise their hands and promise to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If the Commission fails to fully apply this standard then they will have been complicit in the dangerous denial of accountability and cover-up of the truth about events and circumstances of 9/11.
For the sake of American people and in the name of the thousands who died on 9/11 let us hope they adopt a higher standard before time runs out on them--that is if it's not already too late.
Kyle F. Hence
9/11 CitizensWatch http://www.911citizenswatch.org/
Please also visit:
9/11 Family Steering Committee http://www.911independentcommission.org
September Eleventh Families For Peaceful Tomorrows
http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/
Unanswered Questions - in our Links section or: http://www.unansweredquestions.org
Please also see an article on the "MATRIX"
AP Exclusive: Despite privacy worries, more states eying anti-crime
database January 31, 2004,
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw92144_20040131.htm
and
Families Call for Release of 9/11 Materials
By ERIC LIPTON
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/nyregion/19TOWE.html?ex=1064635200&en=250eaf247f9803b1&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
Please also see:
The Subterfuge Examined, by Ken Reiner
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=1039&blz=1
Debunking Conspiracy Theorists; Paranoid Fantasies About 911 Detract From Real Issues, by Gerard Holmgren
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=911&blz=1
9/11 Was A Hoax: The American Government Killed Its Own People, by John Kaminski
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=819&blz=1
9/11 IN NEVERNEVERLAND, by W. David Kubiak
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=1238&blz=1
9/11 Inquiry and Is Anyone Safe ?, by Chris Stevenson
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=910&blz=1
MORE BACKGROUND MATERIAL
Firefighters feel lasting effects of 9/11
By Rachel Clarke BBC News Online in New York
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3089470.stm
Two years, still no answers
Exploiting 2001's tragedy rather than accounting for it
Geov Parrish WorkingForChange.com 09.09.03
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15596
This 'War On Terrorism' is Bogus!
The 9/11 Attacks Gave the US an Ideal Pretext to Use Force to Secure Its
Global Domination
by Michael Meacher
© 2003 Guardian Newspapers Limited
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html
MUST SEE:
Bush Knew – An American Requiem
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/true911.html
Pentagon
Hunt the Boeing! And test your perceptions!
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm
Cameras were mute witnesses at 911
http://www.thewebfairy.com/911/index.htm
35 USAF Bases Within Range On 911 The 7 Air Stations On Full Alert Covering The Continental United States
And 28 More Air Stations That Were In Range Of The 4 Airliners On 911 http://www.standdown.net/usafbases.htm
Map: Hijacked 9/11 Flights and Military Bases
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/911-flightpaths-bases.htm
Bombs in the Building: World Trade Center 'Conspiracy Theory' is a Conspiracy Fact, By Randy Lavello
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_lavello_050503_bombs.html
New Seismic Data Refutes Official WTC Explanation
By Christopher Bollyn, Exclusive to American Free Press
http://www.rense.com/general28/ioff.htm
September 11th And The Bush Administration Compelling Evidence for Complicity - Walter E. Davis, PhD
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4582.htm
KAMINSKI: ARREST THE PRESIDENT NOW!
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=36952
More Interesting articles
No profiteering on terror attacks
September 19, 2003 BY DAVID ROEDER Business Reporter
http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-fin-fbi19.html
Who Is Osama Bin Laden? by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
The CIA met Bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an American Hospital in July 2001 in Dubai, by Alexandra Richard.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIC111B.html
9/10/01: Osama bin Laden's Whereabouts were known: admitted to Pakistani Military hospital on 9/10, less than 24 hours before the terrorist attacks, CBS News with Dan Rather
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CBS203A.html
9/09/01: Shah Masood, leader of the Northern Alliance assassinated two days before 9/11, Michel Chossudovsky,
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO309B.html
No Urgency, George Szamuely revisits the curious lack of military action on the morning of 9-11
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/SZA202A.html
Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading lead directly into the CIA`s Highest Ranks, by Michael C. Ruppert
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP110A.html
The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence Agency (ISI) in the September 11 Attacks, by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html
The main justification for this war has been totally fabricated. "Osamagate," by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html
The Clinton Administration supported the Militant Islamic Network, 1997 Congressional Report, Republican Party Committee.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DCH109A.html
The CIA in Afghanistan
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout1.php&id=17&blz=1
The 9/11 Joint Inquiry chairmen in "conflict of interest": Mysterious September 11 Breakfast Meeting on Capitol Hill, by Michel Chossudovsky
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO308C.html
Daniel Pearl and the Paymaster of 9/11: 9/11 and The Smoking Gun that Turned On its Tracker, by Chaim Kupferberg
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP209A.html
Wall Street, The CIA & The Terrorist Attacks. Interview with Michael C. Ruppert, with Kellia Ramares and Bonnie Faulkner
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RUP205B.html
The mystery surrounding the death of John O'Neill: The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11, by Chaim Kupferberg
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP206A.html
FBI points finger at the CIA: Terror Alert based on Fabricated Information
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CRG302A.html
Who's Who on the 9/11 "Independent" Commission, by Michel Chossudovsky,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307B.html
Foreknowledge: Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller, by Coleen Rowley
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ROW205A.html
Senate Committee Hearing (July 2003) opens a Can of Worms: FBI acknowledges 9/11 was financed out of Pakistan
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SEN308A.html
Pearl Harbor: History Whitewashed? President Franklin D. Roosevelt had "prior knowledge" of the Attack, by Ian Woods
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/WOO203A.html
"Operation Northwoods": US government plan to stage the assassination of civilians and blame it on Communist Cuba. "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba", National Security Archive.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/NOR111A.html
Articles on Reseau Voltaire (in French)
http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/11septembre.html
(Ed. Note) There are many many other articles. Hopefully, people will look for them and read them and maybe begin to think independently.