Posted on 08/12/2011 5:09:05 AM PDT by lbryce
In a new documentary, former national-security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers—then covered it up. Philip Shenon on George Tenet’s denial.
With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks only a month away, former CIA Director George Tenet and two former top aides are fighting back hard against allegations that they engaged in a massive cover-up in 2000 and 2001 to hide intelligence from the White House and the FBI that might have prevented the attacks.
The source of the explosive, unproved allegations is a man who once considered Tenet a close friend: former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, who makes the charges against Tenet and the CIA in an interview for a radio documentary timed to the 10th anniversary next month. Portions of the Clarke interview were made available to The Daily Beast by the producers of the documentary.
In the interview for the documentary, Clarke offers an incendiary theory that, if true, would rewrite the history of the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that the CIA intentionally withheld information from the White House and FBI in 2000 and 2001 that two Saudi-born terrorists were on U.S. soil—terrorists who went on to become suicide hijackers on 9/11.
Richard A. Clarke in 2010., Markus Schreiber / AP Photo
Clarke speculates—and readily admits he cannot prove—that the CIA withheld the information because the agency had been trying to recruit the terrorists, while they were living in Southern California under their own names, to work as CIA agents inside Al Qaeda. After the recruitment effort went sour, senior CIA officers continued to withhold the information from the White House for fear they would be accused of “malfeasance and misfeasance,” Clarke suggests.
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This needs to be shouted from the rooftops!
The MSM and the Dems count on short attention spans and shorter memories. Otherwise, their BS won't fly.
Of course, if you say this needs "investigation", then you are automatically branded a "Truther" which effectively ends all debate.
yeah, like revisiting 9-11 troofer theory is really going to be the deciding factor in this election.
Me: "Wow... this Able Danger stuff looks damning. This should be investigated to see who knew what in our government in regards to 9/11."
Them: "Oh you're just one of those Alex Jones Tr00fers who think the FBI blew up the Pentagon! You and that Ron Paul libertardian! Tin foil too tight?"
Me: "Well... No. But..."
Them: "'But' nothing... I bet you don't even believe we put a man on Mars!!!"
Me: :-|
It's happened more than once. Even here on FR. And yes, it has the feeling of a well run psy-ops campaign to keep any real data from being seriously considered.
Thank you!!
And he believes he is the only one who knew everything that was going on.
I think an objective analysis of the situation would show he was a single point of failure, one broken link in this chain of defense. IMO, he and anyone who hired or supervised him bears a great deal of the blame. Certainly criminal incompetence.
Richard Clarke is a self-serving opportunist and proven liar.
End of story.
The OFF program and the smuggling of Iraqi oil was used to manipulate the world price of oil.
Control the price of oil, and you can control the world economy.
In 1999 the price of oil was driven so low the oil producing countries around the world were running out of money thus triggering a recession.
The recession Bush inherited from Clinton was an orchestrated recession.
The 9/11 terrorist attack was an attack against the US economy.
The exact same thing happened with the first WTC bombing in 1993.
That was an attack against the economy and it was preceded by an orchestrated recession.
The terrorist attack that was planned for NYC’s subway system, stopped in 2009, would have been an attack against the economy and that too was preceded by an orchestrated recession.
Once is a coincidence. Twice is suspect. Three times is planned.
Did you understand how Able Danger worked and why the Clinton’s had to get rid of it?
If anyone had the brains to read up on the planning of 9/11 long before it took place this crap would be ignored.
I agree with your assessment of Clark. There are countless others who deserve the same assessment. Objective analysis has been lacking for decades, thus all of us are caught up in this matrix to never witness any analysis objectively analyzed. There is a reason for the matrix of lies the public is constantly fed. Confusion is only one objective on a battlefield, by each opposing commander. Another objective is to win. Competing forces with competing ideas. Both commanders want suppression, with the thoughts implemented each commander believes. One commander normally wins, or a stalemate is declared, where once more the forces come out for renewed battle, once both sides have healed. Makes one know, battles never really end, and also lends credence to the thought, in the world of today there will be no winners except for the few. America's Founders gave to the world something the tyrants disdain. For in the tyrants world where the tyrants rule, there are far fewer winners. I thank those who came before us, I pray we can keep what the Founders gave us for the battle is always before each of us. At least, in this country, the people will decide.
I thought Barry O was CIA too.
if God doesn’t decide first.
Right. And what documents did Sandy Berger have in his pants? I think it is safe to say he was protecting the Clintonistas and not President Bush or the CIA.
It would not surprise me if the CIA was working to infiltrate jihadists after the first attempt to bring down the towers with a truck bomb. In fact, I would be disappointed if all our agencies were not trying to infiltrate the jihadist cells in the US and abroad given they pulled off the first terrorist attack on the twin towers.
I find it far more “explosive” that 4 of the future hijackers were on expired visas when stopped for speeding tickets - all in cities with “sanctuary” policies on checking immigration status...so were released with mere citations. If Arizona’s SB1070 were in effect nationwide, Mohammed Atta himself would have been in Federal custody on Sept 11, 2001.
It’s Obama’s fault!
Yep...
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