The Truth Will Set You Freeh
The Truth Will Set You Freeh
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh, My FBI, pg. 289:
But in theory – and I stress theory – if we had been able to do that, and if we had connected that information with the arrest the next month in Minnesota of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French-Moroccan who aroused a flight instructor’s suspicions when he asked to learn how to fly a commercial airliner, and then tied that to the two al Qaeda cell members living in San Diego and to the earlier warnings that terrorists were plotting to use commercial flights as kamikaze planes…then perhaps 9/11 never would have happened, or would have happened at a lesser scale.
Washington Post, 3/21/06:
An FBI agent who interrogated Zacarias Moussaoui before Sept. 11, 2001, warned his supervisors more than 70 times that Moussaoui was a terrorist and spelled out his suspicions that the al-Qaeda operative was plotting to hijack an airplane, according to federal court testimony yesterday.
The truth, as we understand it now, is that the dots were connected. The higher-ups, however, weren’t listening.
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OK, Dems: Bush and Rove just stuck a shiv up your ass with this press conference. With an assist from Carl Cameron.
March 21st, 2006 at 10:37 amWhat are you going to do about it?
More proof that these criminals in the White House were either asleep at the wheel or complicit in this crime. Either way they need to be driven in to the street and tried as the criminals they are.
March 21st, 2006 at 10:42 amJust to clarify, I mean tried in accordance with the laws of the United States of America, or at least what’s left of them.
March 21st, 2006 at 10:43 amWill Sibel Edmunds ever get to tell her story? This took 6 years to get to that testimony to confirm this. Coleen Rowley has this addition over at the Huff Po. Enjoy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/fisa-not-to-blame-for-mou_b_13310.html
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March 21st, 2006 at 10:44 amWingnuts: It was KKKlinton’s fault!
March 21st, 2006 at 10:45 amit was state sponsored terror at its worst. and still doing it.
March 21st, 2006 at 10:49 amexecute these traitors!
March 21st, 2006 at 10:57 amwhere is a suicide bomber when you need one. can i say that. this time just make sure the grenade goes off!!!!!!
March 21st, 2006 at 11:01 amThe dots were not fully connected due to Clinton era regulations.
It’s no mistake that we haven’t had an attack on America since 9/11, that’s due to such programs as the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:03 am#9 nice post, you can tell it is two different men. NY times….better luck next time. and maybe you need adobe photo shop. i can hook ya up. big dummies.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:06 amI fully expect a terrorist attack any day now, so bush can further his war agenda. Nothing like a good ol’ terrorist attack to get the ball rolling ie: PNAC
March 21st, 2006 at 11:08 amZacarias Moussaoui?
Zacarias Moussaoui?
Zacarias Moussaoui!
Holy terror, batman!
I remember the beginnings of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. A radio news broadcast had some information about the dilemma. The announcement was made on the news broadcast that if the trial were to go forward with testimony from a witness, it would do irreparable harm to the United States. That’s what I remember hearing on a radio news broadcast about three years ago now.
“Vie will demonize these terr’ists, find them guilty of something, heresy, anything, just to cover our own asses, daggumit! Vie have our ways.”
You can’t trust the US gov. They’re not going about the ways things are the right way. If they were, it wouldn’t be the mess it is.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:13 am#11 – We didn’t have another attack on the WTC during the Clinton years after the first failed attack. Was that coincidence? It wasn’t until after Pres. Bush was sworn into office and he failed to heed the warning “bin Laden determined to attack on American soil” that they successfully attacked the WTC. Was that coincidence?
I think you’re making a common logic error: just because something happens or doesn’t happen after a specific event does not mean it was that event that made the difference.
Compare the number of terrorist attacks against Americans with the number of Republicans elected to Congress. There seems to be a direct correlation. Based on that “logic” it’s Republicans that cause terrorism.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:18 amEverything in Freeh’s book and in his interviews has been incredibly self-serving. He messed up about as badly as one can mess up, but will not take responsibility for himself.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:18 am#17 – Sounds like he’s a Republican, if he refuses to take responsibility for his actions.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:19 am#5. This is a pretty fascinating excerpt. It seems that Ashcroft is to blame for 9/11.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/fisa-not-to-blame-for-mou_b_13310.html
MYTH #3: THE FISA PROCESS IS NOT QUICK OR FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO DETECT AND THWART TERRORISTS.
The FISA process has always been a secret process which contains effective emergency provisions. These emergency provisions allow the attorney general enormous power to authorize secret “emergency” electronic surveillance and searches before any court order is granted, or an application is made, for up to 72 hours. No application is even necessary if the surveillance is terminated before the 72 hour “emergency” period ends. In fact, Minneapolis agents were so convinced of the urgency of the situation involving Moussaoui that they requested use of this emergency provision, not the regular FISA process.
Unfortunately, this would have required Attorney General Ashcroft, who had just ranked terrorism as his lowest priority in early August 2001, to appreciate the danger and sign off on the “emergency.” And it would have required then FBI Acting Director Pickard to take the emergency request to Ashcroft after he (Ashcroft) had rebuked him (Pickard) earlier that summer, as Pickard testified to the 9-11 Commission, saying “he (Ashcroft) didn’t want to hear any more about terrorism.” Given these circumstances, FBI Headquarters quickly gave up on Minneapolis’ request to seek AG approval for use of this emergency provision.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:22 am#9 and #12: The New York Times admitted the mistake three days ago. They were duped, despite multiple sources. Is this relevant to the topic?
March 21st, 2006 at 11:26 am#19 – Yes, it’s relevant. It proves that the New york Times can do something that Pres. Bush refuses to do: admit it when they made a mistake.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:27 amto the adm. This is censure , you are silencing my voice , perhaps buckling to pressure , for i may be right in my analysis.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:28 amFor more on the revisionist history of Louis Freeh, see:
March 21st, 2006 at 11:30 am“Freeh at Last: Revenge and Revisionism at the FBI.”
Actually Gary using your logic terrorism is on the rise since 9/11. given that the number of terrorist attacks world wide has increased greatly, that means that bush is not doing enough to fight terrorists.
See I can use faulty logic too.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:33 am#21 & #24 – Do your work:
1 – The New York Times ran a story.
2 – The New york Times realized they made a mistake.
3 – The New York Times ran a “correction” that stated:
A front-page article last Saturday profiled Ali Shalal Qaissi, identifying him as the hooded man forced to stand on a box, attached to wires, in a photograph from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal of 2003 and 2004. He was shown holding such a photograph. As an article on Page A1 today makes clear, Mr. Qaissi was not that man.
The Times did not adequately research Mr. Qaissi’s insistence that he was the man in the photograph. Mr. Qaissi’s account had already been broadcast and printed by other outlets, including PBS and Vanity Fair, without challenge. Lawyers for former prisoners at Abu Ghraib vouched for him. Human rights workers seemed to support his account. The Pentagon, asked for verification, declined to confirm or deny it.
Despite the previous reports, The Times should have been more persistent in seeking comment from the military. A more thorough examination of previous articles in The Times and other newspapers would have shown that in 2004 military investigators named another man as the one on the box, raising suspicions about Mr. Qaissi’s claim.
The Times also overstated the conviction with which representatives of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International expressed their view of whether Mr. Qaissi was the man in the photograph. While they said he could well be that man, they did not say they believed he was.
4 – What more are you looking for? If you expect every news paper to disband any time the screw the pooch, then we’d have NO news available!
March 21st, 2006 at 11:40 amRuppert is wrong and is just another liar. There are only a few that aren’t too embarrassed to admit it, but even Ruppert won’t say it aloud. It just sounds too stupid doesn’t it Gary?
It ain’t Clinton’s fault; it is your dear leader’s ignorance. You can’t argue that an IQ of less than 100 is anything other than mediocre. You screwed up when you expected anything but ignorance and misperceptions from someone so average. Sorry dude, you voted for an imbecile.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:41 am4- I would have to say no re Edmonds. They’ll keep the gag order on her until hell freezes over. They have a lot riding oh her story never coming out. And in related note, the same judge will be on the bench for Scooter’s trial.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:42 am#27 – Correct. And guess what? They apologized for the story.
Let me repeat that for you, since you seem to be missing the point:
The New York Times APOLOGIZED for the story!
That’s something you’ll NEVER hear come out of Pres. Bush’s mouth: “I apologize”.
Therefore, the NYT has the honesty to say “Hey, we screwed up, we’re sorry we screwed up”, and Pres. Bush has no honesty to say the same thing about his lies, mendacity, calumny, and falsehoods.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:43 amThere was a terrorist attack on US soil a few weeks ago in NC. A man tried to run over students at the UNC as revenge for the death of Muslims around the world. No one was killed and a few had minor inguries, but it was still a terrorist attack.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:55 am#32 – My pardon.
I thought you were non-partisan, but it seems I was incorrect in my assumption.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:58 amDoes the book mention, John O’Neill who retired a month before 9/11 as the FBI’s counterterrorism to head chief of security at the World Trade Center. Unfortunately he died that day. According to the news he was obsessed with getting Bin Laden, knew tons about him, but was being railroaded and blocked by folks in the FBI and Washington. From the news it sounds like the intelligence agency was fighting big time among itself. An environment was created to allow 9/11 to happen. And why did it take the 9/11 widows to get an investigation of 9/11, that this administration tried to block. These are terribly sad days on so many levels.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/etc/synopsis.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/eveningnews/main589137.shtml
March 21st, 2006 at 11:58 am9# give it a rest ..you know in the UK when the torture claims came out ,,,,,the goverment set up false pictures in the papers (Tabloids) then said they were fake cause they were ….and then the real claims came out and nobody beleived them ,,,,,,,,,talk about spin
March 21st, 2006 at 12:28 pm#36 – Don’t waste your breath. SG is a partisan who believes that the current administration can do no wrong, and anyone who questions them must be lying.
The New York Times printed a correction to the referenced article, but SG refuses to accept it.
March 21st, 2006 at 12:33 pmThe truth, as we understand it now, is that the dots were connected. The higher-ups, however, weren’t listening
I believe they were listening, and planning for post 9-11.
March 21st, 2006 at 12:40 pmThey wanted their ‘terrist attack’, in a big way.
They wanted to kill hundreds of thousands of innocents in pursuit of endless no-bid contracts.
No amount of money is ever enough for these War Pigs.
They are hired murderers of the white collar breed and should be treated as such.
Did anyone see the report yesterday about Bush wanting to conduct warrantless search against US citizens? Apparently Roberto Gungalez sent a report to Congress stating he thought the President had the authority to conduct warrantless searches. I thought the 4th amendment prohibited such searches, and that any evidence gained as a result could not be used in a criminal prosecution. Oh I forgot the US Constituion means absolutely nothing to this administration. How could I have been stupid enough to think they would want to follow the Constituion.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:56 pmKnow one saw 9/11 coming this is getting old. Hijack is one thing -but use jets as bombs. First time it was done, THE horrible genius in their sick twisted plan.
March 21st, 2006 at 3:38 pmt’s no mistake that we haven’t had an attack on America since 9/11, that’s due to such programs as the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
Comment by Gary Ruppert — March 21, 2006 @ 11:03 am
ruppert you don’t know sheeet about sigint, go back to your dark little lawyer clerk desk, les nessman, and close the door to your paranoid world Ruppert. Your rehashing old crap and calling it ‘Neo’
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Menwith Hill Station, UK
( 54.0162 N; 1.6826 W )
http://www.fas.org/irp/facility/menwith.htm
Menwith Hill in the UK is the principal NATO theater ground segment node for high altitude signals intelligence satellites. The facility, jointly operated with the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is now capable of carrying out two million intercepts per hour.
Menwith Hill Station was established in 1956 by the US Army Security Agency (ASA). Menwith Hill was operated by ASA from 1958 until its turnover to NSA in June 1966. The Army 713th MI Group remains the Executive Agent for the NSA Menwith Hill field site, which was awarded the NSA’s “Station of the Year” prize for 1991 after its role in the Gulf War. The Air Intelligence Agency 451st Intelligence Squadron (451 IS) as an integral part of Menwith Hill Station (MHS). Inside the closely-guarded 560 acre base are two large operations blocks and many satellite tracking dishes and domes. Initial operations focused on monitoring international cable and microwave communications passing through Britain. In the early 1960s Menwith Hill was one of the first sites in the world to receive sophisticated early IBM computers, with which NSA automated the labor-intensive watch-list scrutiny of intercepted but unenciphered telex messages. Since then, Menwith Hill has sifted the international messages, telegrams, and telephone calls of citizens, corporations or governments to select information of political, military or economic value.
The official cover story is that the all-civilian base is a Department of Defense communications station. The British Ministry of Defence describe Menwith Hill as a “communications relay centre.” Like all good cover stories, this has a strong element of truth to it. Until 1974, Menwith Hill’s SIGINT specialty was evidently the interception of International Leased Carrier signals, the communications links run by civil agencies — the Post, Telegraph and Telephone ministries of eastern and western European countries. The National Security Agency took over Menwith Hill in 1966. Interception of satellite communications began at Menwith Hill as early as 1974, when the first of more than eight large satellite communications dishes were installed.
In 1984, British Telecom and MoD staff completed a $25 million extension to Menwith Hill Station known as STEEPLEBUSH. The British government constructed new communications facilities and buildings for STEEPLEBUSH, worth L7.4 million. The expansion included a 50,000 square foot extension to the Operations Building and new generators to provide 5 Megawatts of electrical power. The purpose of the new construction was to boost an cater for an ‘expanded mission’ of satellite surveillance. It also provides a new (satellite) earth terminal system to support the classified systems at the site. With another $17.2 million being spent on special monitoring equipment, this section of the Menwith Hill base alone cost almost $160 million dollars.
Menwith Hill Station is an extensive complex of domes, vertical masts and satellite dishes, as well as more than 4.9 acres of buildings. There are 23 spherical domes and three satellite dishes, one of which is sixty meters in diameter, all pointing in an easterly direction. The tall radio masts appear to be high frequency radio supports. Since 1985 the number of domes and dishes at the base has increased from four to 26. Current expansion plans for the base include building two more radomes, and an earth-sheltered uninterruptible power-supply bunker and a Mission Support Building. The two 16-meter domes will require moving the site boundary, including fencing and lights, around 160 meters closer to the A59 Harrogate-Skipton road to the south. The base now constructs radomes before dish construction begins so that observers cannot determine which satellites the dishes are targetted against. The expansion is to establish a European ground relay system at Menwith Hill which will be part of a new generation of satellite communications. In addition, an initiative to address security deficiencies at Menwith Hill includes fencing the perimeter of the site.
In addition, the PUSHER High Frequency Direction Finding (HFDF) system at Menwith Hill monitors radio transmissions covering the HF frequency range between 3MHz and 20-30MHz, including military and civilian embassy, maritime and air radio communications. As with other HFDF stations, PUSHER consists of three concentric rings of monopoles, each ring having a total of 24 monopoles.
Initially, tapes containing data collected at Menwith Hill were returned via air to the United States for analysis. The Post Office installed two wideband circuits to Menwith Hill in 1975 which were connected to the nearby Hunters Stones microwave radio station, a part of the country-wide microwave network which carried British long-distance telephone calls during the 1970s and 1980s. Starting in 1992 British Telecom [BT] added digital optical fiber cables, which by 1996 were capable of carrying more than 100,000 simultaneous telephone calls.
RAF Menwith Hill is a Crown freehold site belonging to the Ministry of Defence. The designation RAF Menwith Hill came into effect on 19 February 1996. This was simply an administrative change to bring the base into line with other RAF sites made available by the Ministry of Defence to the United States Government. There is no security of tenure agreement in place at RAF Menwith Hill. The assurances that were given to the US authorities in 1955 and again in 1976 that the site would be made available to the US Forces by Her Majesty’s Government for a period of 21 years, and which are known as the security of tenure arrangements, were given to facilitate the commitment of US funding to the station. They were an administrative mechanism, and did not constitute any form of renewable lease for the site.
Women have been permanently camped at the Menwith Hill Women’s Peace Camp for several years to draw attention to the facility. The camp is at Kettering Head lay-by on the A59 about 7 miles west of Harrogate. In the early 1990s, opponents of the Menwith Hill station obtained large quantities of internal documents from the facility. The activists routinely climbed over the fence and go wherever they can inside to gather as much intelligence as they can about the activities and what is going on. In the past, this did not violate any British laws, even the trespassing law, as long as they leave at once whenever they are found by the guards. However a new 1996 military lands bylaw criminalized trespass on the site. In September 1997 a judge at York Crown Court ruled that the new military bylaws at the Menwith Hill US-NSA spy base were invalid because they took in land which was not being using for military purposes. The ruling was based on the fact that facility’s lands were 70% occupied by sheep. The Ministry of Defence subsequently announced that the decision would be appealed to the High Court.
On 23 April 1997 Leeds peace campaigner Tracy Hart was sentenced by the High Court in London to 42 days in Holloway Prison for breaking an injunction banning her from Menwith Hill. The injunction, imposed in March 1996, bans Tracy from crossing an invisible line surrounding the Menwith Hill base. Tracy has trespassed onto the base at Menwith Hill over 300 times in the last 2 years and is only the second peace campaigner in five years to have been served with a restraining order following protests at the facility.
In 1995, in addition to funds otherwise available for such purpose, the Secretary of the Army was authorized to transfer or reprogram funds for the enhancement of the capabilities of the Bad Aibling Station and the Menwith Hill Station, including improvements of facility infrastructure and quality of life programs at both installations. This provision would permit the Department of the Army to use up to $2 million of appropriated O&M funds per annum, at Menwith Hill and Bad Aibling, to rectify infrastructure and quality of life problems. It would in no way obviate or modify current law or practice with regard to reprogramming amounts in excess of $2 million. Previously the Army was prohibited by 31 U.S.C. section 1301, from using appropriated funds to support an NSA installation, notwithstanding the fact that the Army has become the Executive Agent for these field sites. Although the Director of Central Intelligence could use his special authorities under section 104(d) of the National Security Act of 1947, the procedures available under that law are extremely time consuming and were not intended to accommodate relatively minor transfers of funds.
An example of the problems this is intended to rectify was contained in a memorandum prepared by a joint NSA/Army inspection team entitled. `DoD Child Development Program Inspection Report’ dated June 23, 1995. The memo, which describes the childcare facility at Menwith Hill station states:
The Child Development Center (CDC), originally constructed as a office building, is a 35 year old dilapidated structure with major health and safety violations. The CDC capacity of 89 children cannot accommodate the increasing demands for child care. The current station population includes 289 children ages four and under. As a result of the conversion from a civilian to a military facility, the demographics are changing to younger, junior enlisted personnel with many single parents who will rely on based-provided child care.
This legislation was requested by the Department of the Army and enjoys the full support of the Director of the National Security Agency.
March 21st, 2006 at 4:06 pmsince 1966 ruppert..gee golly don’t you feel uninformed about now ruppert?
the British Ministry of Defence describe Menwith Hill as a “communications relay centre.†Like all good cover stories, this has a strong element of truth to it. Until 1974, Menwith Hill’s SIGINT specialty was evidently the interception of International Leased Carrier signals, the communications links run by civil agencies — the Post, Telegraph and Telephone ministries of eastern and western European countries. The National Security Agency took over Menwith Hill in 1966. Interception of satellite communications began at Menwith Hill as early as 1974, when the first of more than eight large satellite communications dishes were installed.
March 21st, 2006 at 4:09 pmI know you wont CLICK links or read any paragraph over two sentences Ruppert, so here I shortenened to fit the Hamster Brain Span of Attention [2 sentences]
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1]The National Security Agency took over Menwith Hill in 1966.
2]Interception of satellite communications began at Menwith Hill as early as 1974, when the first of more than eight large satellite communications dishes were installed.
March 21st, 2006 at 4:13 pmIs it incompetence to systematically ignore warnings, internal and external, of a pending terrorist attack when it allows you to-
(1) Start your elective ME war plan to occupy and control the ME oil?
(2) Make you a “war President”, thereby voiding the Constitutional limitations
(3) Provide a Treasury revenue stream for your closest supporters in the MIC?
It’s not incompetence, it’s treason.
To paraphrase our Maximum Leader on 9/11/01-
“I saw the 1st plane hit the tower on TV and I thought to myself, that’s one bad pilot”.
March 21st, 2006 at 5:56 pm#44 We are about due for George to order another one. Makes his polls go up.
March 21st, 2006 at 6:45 pmIs there a statue of limitations on prosecuting the whole lot of these criminals?
March 21st, 2006 at 7:18 pm“The dots were not fully connected due to Clinton era regulations.
It’s no mistake that we haven’t had an attack on America since 9/11, that’s due to such programs as the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
Comment by Gary Ruppert”
This is what’s called a “Non Sequitur” Gary. It means that what you say follows each others is not true. Just because there’s no attack on american soil since 9/11, doesn’t mean that it’s because of the Warrantless Searches and Violations of american civil liberties. That warrantless searches however do prove that you’re a fascist, unamerican, and undeserving of citizenship because of your direct betrayal of the duty of all americans to uphold the constitution. In otherwords gary, all your ‘rant’ proves is that you’re a traitor, but nothing more.
And just so you know moron, there were 8 years between the last 2 attacks, I’m sure people were saying in year 7 that whatever they were doing was working as well. And in that period of time we had several attacks abroad – just like we currently have with Madrid, London, Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact there probably have been more attacks on american lives since 9/11 than before it. Just think Gary, 9/11 left 3,000 american casualties, the Iraq war has left 30,000. Oh wait I said ‘think’, sorry, you’ve proven that skill eludes you.
Ignorance is bliss Chump, and you pass the bliss test.
So gary’s argument is to think the same people who ignored intelligence despite CLEAR warning of terrorism will somehow become competent enough to not ignore the next set of warnings? Wishful thinking gary, just keep up that ‘wishcraft’ of yours. It seems to be the one true religion of fascism.
March 21st, 2006 at 8:08 pmIndeed, truth shall set this nation free.
I hope Sybil Edmonds will expose these thugs soon.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:03 pmEZ are we related ?
August 2nd, 2006 at 6:50 pm