The end.
The percent of the questions about I answered was there the thanks
a maiden thirty percent got touched upon seven percent didn't the stuff that's
included the ISA stuff that they have too much choice in recording because they
knew what we know you can do an investigation and if you don't really want to
research an area you just don't look at it if you don't me ask them all the
questions or you don't let them tell you the whole story. You know then you could
write
a report based on half truths. Am. Anyway
what is going to join us I think just how the people who lost loved ones at nine
eleven like the families of guys who were lost in Vietnam they just can't get over
it sometimes people become crusaders because they they can't deal with reality the
families I think have to understand that it's virtually impossible to conceive of
any way in which these attacks could have been stopped even had the best things
happened on nine eleven the media started out by doing its job and somehow got
waylaid and stopped doing its job that began reporting solely on the administration
and the government's activities. The news media while yielding a fact here
a fact there failed again and again to connect the dots the one thing that I
personally was hoping for was another word working Bernstein with regard to nine
eleven. Someone anyone that was willing to put their
team and to the. Families discovered
a website created by independent investigator Paul Thompson. His complete nine
eleven timeline to minutely the internet research stitches together information
from over seven dollars
a mainstream news story. It was all our behinds our ears OK
but laid out beautifully on line and he has the ability to connect the dots he
would put time up there and then he would back it up with mainstream media sources
so you could understand why they were discrepancies in the timeline Flight ninety
three crashed at ten
o three but the seismic data says Tennessee and then he'd have
a link so you can see the side you only she couldn't tell this is
a reporter this. Information covertly this truth be told. Each
year of the many. Years. Nation of one me just
a little church your. Conscience works in game mainstream media
exposure. Timeline is based on public documentation what we know what the
world know about nine eleven. Changed which way it was among the first to bring
attention to Paul Thompson's timeline you know has to be almost taken more
seriously. Than nine eleven because I mean it's open there's nothing secret
here. This I began researching and it is this curious phenomenon which is that
there's
a lot of explosive information that has come out of the mainstream press but it
comes out buried as
a casual observer of the news I've never noticed any of this stuff. You might find
one important bit of information and say
a newspaper story and another bit of information on
a news show you know the. Right you know what we did you start to put all those
rather obscure stories together you end up with an almost completely different
narrative that we're just about any area relating to nine eleven the story is quite
different to dig deeper here. And clearly.
Something yesterday took place in New York that was not foreseen that we had no
specific specific information about like most American the Mr Thompson initially
didn't question the Bush administration's first statements about the attacks
ministration consistently maintain that there were no warnings or specific threats
of
a threat no specific threat involving really domestic operation involving what happened
obviously the cities airliner and so forth there were no warning signs and I'm
aware of that would indicate this type of operation in the country I first became
interested in nine eleven around mid two thousand and two right around the time
that President Bush is now famous August sixth P.T.B.
Became leaked to the press President Bush was told in August that Osama bin Laden
might be planning an attack involving the hijacking of U.S.
Aircraft. That it was
a revelation that the White House had no intention of making public an official
spent the entire day in full damage control I don't think anybody could have
predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile
a hijacked airplane as
a missile the way our government at least and I don't think the prior government
could envision flying airplanes into buildings. On such
a massive scale. His interest piqued Thompson began to search for new stories
that might help him determine exactly where the White House had been of all kind
his desire to use planes as weapons. He was quickly able to compile
a wealth of examples that any journalist should have been able to find one of the
earliest dates back to the one nine hundred ninety find it was code named Operation
Bojinka a terrorist plot to use commercial planes to attack U.S.
Targets Ramzi Yousef the bomb maker responsible for the one nine hundred ninety
three Trade Center bombing the Philippines where police discovered his bomb factory
inside again but it was
a complex was arrested and spoke with chilling plot. Operational chink of
a plan to blow up multiple airliners over the Pacific was heavily reported but
Thompson noted most journalists failed to mention the second aspect of the plot
only C.N.N.
International dug deeper into this story in confidential documents from the
Philippines a team by C.N.N.
The plan it was clear he will void any American commercial aircraft control its
cockpit and died at the CIA headquarters other buildings targeted the Pentagon and
the World Trade Center and the F.B.I.
Using the Philippine documents did check the for flight schools named there but
found no evidence of any other plan terror attacks. Only
N.B.C. Reported a stunning confession by
a man allegedly trained by Been lot it was over a year before nine eleven
a Pakistani British man told the F.B.I.
An incredible tale that he had been trained by followers of
a sama Bin Ladin the hijacking airplanes and he can fast he was now in America to
carry out an attack Khan was recruited into
a kind of British mosque then flown to Lahore Pakistan for a hijack training and
a mock seven. Sixty seven before being sent to America where it was told he would
hijack a plane from J.F.K.
And into
a building. I told him before the nine eleven about more than
a year the Hijacking America and America headline calling claims he got cold feet
instead of meeting his contacts he slipped away gambled away all his money and in
fear turned himself in and can that be but this I know about his hijacking
something going on N.B.C.
News has learned Khan was not one but two polygraphs a former F.B.I.
Official says no work Agent down that word came from headquarters while returning
to London and forget about it access to this exclusive footage from N.B.C.
Is now restricted. July two thousand and one according to sixty Minutes
Egypt's an intelligence received
a report that twenty Hokkaido had slipped into the US and four of them
a trained on systems. That are the Egyptian pilots of planes didn't sound terribly
alarming but they passed on the message to the CIA anyway fully expecting
Washington to request for information requests never pay and sign Thompson
compiled stories about fourteen different missions that are in the US prior to nine
eleven we could have one story that comes out on the front page and another story
that comes out on page B twelve but what I found is that many times the story that
comes out on B twelve is more important than the story that comes out on the front
page. March the talian intelligence gave information to the US based on their
wiretap of an all kind of cell in the line the L A Times and The Washington Post so
the wiretaps warrant of brothers going to the United States and
a massive strike involving aircrafts. August according to Moroccan
and French newspapers an intelligence agent reported that bin Laden's men were
preparing large scale operations in New York in the summer or fall of two thousand
and one agent was then called to the U.S.
To report this information directly. August
Britain warned three times of an al Qaeda attack in the US The final warning
specifying multiple airplane hijackings According to Britain's Sunday Herald The
warning was passed on to President Bush
a short time later. It's unknown how many
of these warnings reported but buried in back pages reached the White House through
channels but one threat assessment is well known to have reached President Bush
directly it was known as the presidential daily briefing or P.T.B.
Of August sixth. The Bush administration kept it from the public for months until
it was revealed in part by the C.B.S.
News in May two thousand and two putting the White House on the defensive all of
this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking you take
a plane people were worried they might blow some blow one up on the I'd like to ask
you about the August sixth P.V.P.
Or you mentioned two years later President Bush responded to questions about what
led him to request the August sixth briefing government. And I asked for
the briefing. And the reason I did is because there had been
a lot of threat. Intelligence from overseas and
so on and that part of it had to do with the genoa G eight conference that I was
going to attend eight of the world's most powerful leaders gathered here to discuss
global problems and yes present fun and means the having to keep the world at bay
just prior to the G eight summit C.N.N.
Dot com reported the head of Russia's federal bodyguard service has warned of
a plot by terrorist Osama bin Laden to assassinate George W. Bush. The L.A.
Times reported U.S.
Officials were warned of
a threat posed from the air by commercial airliners it's terrorists as well as
protesters the Italian government fears so. We're on standby at the airport
Congolese So Rice was present there President Bush Ari Fleischer Karl
Rove President Bush's own family they were going to sleep on the boat so that
a plane couldn't go into
a bell that this place in result will be home for three days of the G eight leaders
necessary for their safety. If the August sixth P.T.B.
Was prompted by
a threat from the air in Genoa. Clearly President Bush his spokesperson Ari
Fleischer and his National Security Adviser Condi Rice were more than aware of the
threat of planes as weapons but the news media appeared to mislead. Give
information about simultaneous hijackings. No specific threat
planes being used as weapons. I don't think anybody could have predicted
specific targets including mentions the Pentagon the World Trade Center.
Now they are good places and I don't think the prior government could envision
flying airplanes into buildings.
Dr Rice you please rise raise your right. We
swear or affirm tell the truth whole truth and nothing but the truth. In April
two thousand and four public pressure finally forced the White House to allow Dr
Rice to testify before the nine eleven Commission to answer questions about the
P.T.B.
And the nature of warnings given ministration. The threat reporting that we
received in the spring and summer of two thousand and one was not specific as to
time nor place nor manner of attack almost all of the reports focused on al Qaeda
activities outside the United States this set in stark contrast to the warnings
well documented in Thompson's timeline what the August sixth P.T.B.
Said and perhaps I should read it to you we would be happy to have it the
classified info when he was testifying one bend in nice was really trying to get
into the nitty gritty did you tell the president at any time prior to August sixth
of the existence of al-Qaeda cells in the United States. But first let me just make
certain if you could just answer that all or should I only have
a very I understand Commissioner but I did you get over impression that I also
addressed. There was like
a trial you can grill these people too you got the answer I really don't remember
Commissioner whether I discussed this with the president let me move on
a dime there were no specifics what organs six what six members say and then she
would start going off it was historical information based on old reporting there
was no new threat information and it did not in fact warn of any coming attacks
inside the United States and what was the title of the memo. I believe the title
was Finland Determined to Attack Inside the United States and now the.
Two weeks later the White House finally declassified the P.T.B.
There's lots of examples where it's
a domestic threat in modern told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington you
know bin Laden was planning to exploit the operatives access to use to the U.S.
To mount a terrorist strike abodes Abida with planning his own U.S. Attack us F.B.I.
Information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this
country consistent with preparations for hijackings are other types of attacks
including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York that's present tense
and domestic Ari Fleischer came out right after September eleventh and said there
were no warnings I watched him tell me there were no warnings OK I want to know
why nobody has gone back and said What did he mean Howard Dean recently seemed to
muse all out whether you had advance knowledge of nine eleven yeah. OK there's time
for politics. And. Time for
politics and. Some sort of
situation. The press has reported this one that one
could never really put it all together is. That how many different wordings did you
get how many different ways was this information coming at you and why wasn't
anything done about all these warnings. Wright is the attorney general of
the United States doing his travel by specially chartered jet the Justice
Department cited what it called a threat assessment by the F.B.I.
And said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet to the remains.
And on the night before the attacks the president may have slept more soundly
knowing surface to air missiles were placed on the roof of the service sort of
Florida resort where he was staying not
a typical security procedure at the time. It seemed night.
Particularly urgent warning may have been received causing some top Pentagon brass
to cancel their scheduled flights the morning of nine eleven and. Why that same
information was not available to the two hundred sixty six people who died aboard
the four hijacked aircraft may become
a hot topic on the Hill. It never did. We took an oath not to talk
about their campaign and I think correctly so did increase the capacity of that
commission's report to be heard by the People's Congress now to be on the campaign
for the promise I had to keep this out campaign is over Mr President you are in the
United States you are one by the CIA you know in July they were inside the United
States you were told again by briefing officers in August that it was up to the
dire threat didn't do anything that hard enough border security didn't do anything
to harden airports or security didn't do anything to engage local law enforcement
didn't do anything to round up INS and consular office and say we have to shut this
down and didn't warn the American people. What did you do nothing so far as we can
see.
The government first said there were no want to use their work. Then the White
House and the warnings were not specific as to whether when. The nine eleven
families and the time line connected the dots with. There were many warnings
most were detailed somewhere urgent and yet little or no difference of action was
taken by responsible officials except for their own personal protection. The public
was better informed in the summer of two thousand and one lives would have been
saved maybe they wouldn't been prevented lives would have been saved my husband was
in Tower to if he knew that it was
a terrorist attack he would've stayed in the building when they were told that the
building was secure and. They would have.
Thought that the first. Plane would have thought differently. But
again we were given information.
Even as the first tower burned on every channel that morning no one on the federal
level who had received warning all summer cold New York to order an evacuation of
tower to. No one ordered fighters to perform anytime we defensive action against
remaining hijacked planes. No one responded adequately to the crisis.
Have to be right one hundred percent of the time. To get lucky. This
explanation for the devastating attack. Of September eleventh simple on its face is
wrong in its value because the nine eleven terrorists were not just lucky ones they
were lucky over and over again when you have this repeated pattern of broken
protocols broken laws broken communication one cannot still call that. If at some
point we don't look to hold the individuals accountable for not doing their jobs
properly then how can we ever expect the terrorists to not get lucky again.
Thank.
The president of the United States.
On September the eleventh. Anime's of freedom committed an act of war against our
country and tonight the United States of America makes the following demands on the
Taliban delivered to United States authorities all the leaders of al Qaeda who hide
in your land Taliban must act and act immediately they will hand over the
terrorists. Where they will share in their fate.
We have a live picture that we're showing from. Our forces our hour and
a trading Afghanistan. Has been taken to the house and what about
some of been Lott's top lieutenants was killed one of the infamous paid money and
fighters with the American bought stock. Brokers military activity the
White House despite the crushing defeat of al Qaeda forces a Tora Bora U.S.
Military officials still don't know where to find Osama bin Laden this is Tora Bora
the ripping the rest of the fighters or at in the caves of Tora Bora
a terrorist shelter about just to hold. The distinguished interim leader of
a liberated Afghanistan chairman Hammad Karzai.
America's apparently clear military victory in Afghanistan was not so clear cut.
The war ended very quickly but in the end the U.S.
Was only able to capture or kill one major figure and no Taliban figures you know
the fact is right now today we don't have any high ranking Taliban or al Qaeda but
we haven't really captured anybody wanted to on the fringe. His understanding of
the. From its actions before nine eleven now fundamentally changed Thompson decided
to take
a similar look into what happened in Afghanistan. The pressed never looked very
closely at how so many of these leaders were able to escape every few pieced
together
a number of different music yes you can begin to understand the story. Early
November the London Times reported gun Laden's closest advisers all escaped in
a late night convoy from the Afghan capital of Kabul. And eyewitness reported we
don't understand how they weren't all killed the night before because they came in
a convoy of at least
a thousand cars and trucks it must have been easy for American pilots to see that
lights. By the tenth bin Laden had joined the convoy in
Jalalabad an intelligence official told Knight Ridder newspapers it was obvious
that this area was to be the base for an exodus to Pakistan we were amazed that
nothing was done to prepare for. On November fourteenth
the Northern Alliance captured Jalalabad that night one thousand fighters in
a convoy of several hundred vehicles escaped again this time with Been watch
driving hours to the fortress in Tora Bora. The U.S.
Bombed the nearby Jalalabad airport but apparently did not attack the convoy.
Of Ember fifteenth at the cave complexes of Tora Bora an estimated sixteen hundred
of bin Laden's fighters are now surrounded the most important battle the war begins
. As warplanes are keeping a close eye on mountain passes U.S.
Special Forces are working with Pakistani troops on the border to watch possible
escape routes while there were two main escape routes Newsweek reported that the
U.S.
Bombed only one. Using the other route hundreds of all kind and Taliban including
senior leaders escaped. In the wake of the attacks eyewitnesses told
Britain's The Daily Telegraph that they were shocked that the US had surrounded
Tora Bora only on three sides. Bin
Laden walked out of the Tora Bora cave complex and into Pakistan with
a number of loyal followers. Of course were after Saddam Hussein I mean
that meant
a lot and he sees is isolated. In August two thousand and five
a story broke that gave Paul Thompson
a missing piece of the puzzle in an exclusive interview with Newsweek the CIA field
commander in Tora Bora during the invasion Gary Berntsen broke his silence he
explained that his intelligence operatives had tracked bin Laden to Tora Bora Mr
Bernstein feels so strongly about getting the story out and getting his book
published that he actually resigned two years short of retirement from the CIA in
order to publish his book at the time of this interview he was required to speak
through his attorney until the CIA cleared his book for publication. At various
points in time they did have to my understanding definitive intelligence as to his
general location within Tora Bora I can't go into detail as to the actual.
Sources of the intelligence and the collection methods because those remain
classified However we had Osama bin Laden essentially cornered in Tora Bora and for
whatever reasons we did not do what was necessary in order to ensure that he did
not escape. The goal has never been to get bin Laden obviously that's desirable.
It's interesting I just read
a piece by some analysts that said you may not want to go after the top people in
these organizations who may have more effect by going after the middle managers
because they're harder to replace. Toward the end of the war when all eyes were on
Tora Bora the news media missed another major story again thousands of Taliban and
al Qaeda escaped without drawing U.S.
Buyer this time from the northern city of can do. The Taliban's only stronghold in
the region is all but full into the forces of the Northern Alliance once again the
door was left open for us. Our side in that battle at the enemy surrounded there
were
a reported perhaps eight thousand enemy forces in there now they have the cream of
the crop of al Qaeda cause journalist Seymour Hersh later broke this story in The
New Yorker magazine briefly sparking T.V.
News coverage and from there all of
a sudden one night around Thanksgiving in the middle of the siege an air corridor
was set up between condos in northern Pakistan and at night Pakistani really
playing regularly flew through that corridor was
a very orderly organized thing that armed men would stand on the tarmac waiting for
a flight that would come in and then they would be taken out. As many as forty five
thousand they were not only al Qaeda but maybe even some of Bin Ladin the media
family were flown out on those evacuation. Had to be done with the blessing of
exactly and of the United States. When I tell you it cams at the level of Don
Rumsfeld that has to what we're describing here is something which would clearly be
noticed by the United States wanted to maybe not OK an airlift of these portions It
certainly would this is the most secure space on the face of the earth right now if
someone's moving over Afghanistan the United States knows about no plane conduit to
Pakistan without getting shot down unless we let it happen and we let it happen and
I think there's just no other way to explain it my take on it basically is the fact
there is some sort of
a deal in place between the government of Pakistan and the United States.
Intrigue Thompson. Deeper into Pakistan his timeline showed Osama bin Laden was
reportedly last seen in Pakistan after escaping from Tora Bora C.B.S.
News has exclusive information tonight but thanks to an in-depth investigation by
C.B.S.
He also learned bin Laden was in Pakistan on the eve of nine eleven bin Laden was
spirited into this military hospital in relativity for kidney dialysis treatment
the military had him surrounded says this hospital employee who also wanted his
identity managed they were saying that Osama bin Laden had to be watched carefully
and looked after we will make no distinction between
a terrorist who committed these acts. And those who harbor them. To
better understand the times between bin Laden and Pakistan Thomas and followed
a timeline thread that began with covert Pakistan involvement in the Soviet Afghan
war two decades ago. In one nine hundred seventy nine
in the midst of the Cold War the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. As well
as the Soviets battled the would jockey
a group of anti Soviet fighters that included enlargement. The mujahideen were
backed by the Central Intelligence Agency who hoped to give the Soviets their own
costly Vietnam type. Rather than fund the Mujahideen directly the
CIA covertly channeled money through the Pakistani intelligence agency the I.S.I.
. The Washington Post has published some of the definitive accounts of the
conflicts that have helped create that modern and the roots of al Qaeda during the
Russian occupation of Afghanistan when this record CIA and intelligence services of
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia created this group of people to fight the Russians in
Afghanistan. Billions of dollars from the CIA and the
Saudis were passed through the I.S.I.
To support the war. The strategy worked under Soviets were
defeated. The Taliban are widely and led to be the
creation of Pakistan's military intelligence the I.S.I.
Experts say that explains that with military success that emboldened by their
victory and the influx of weapons and cash the I.S.I.
Helped to install the Taliban and deepen their ties to Dunlop and his terror
networks. Because there's really no difference between an I.S.I.
a Trainee here to terrorists. You know I'll try to treat. It would have some people
working for al Qaeda they would go out with
a private mission that other people working for the highest sign they would go up
to Kashmir or one of their missions. Thompson wondered if
I.S.I.
Involvement in terrorism included the attacks of nine eleven. We
will. Get the facts and government
a chance to cooperate dissipate as we. Hunt
down. Those people who committed this unbelievable spectacle I think America
what I am told by senior administration official that the Pakistani government has
promised about fully cooperate the dictator Pakistan general Bashar within days of
the attacks Pakistan was hailed as
a major ally in the new war on terror to fight against Osama bin White House seemed
confident that all kind of alone was behind nine eleven. Will you release publicly
a white paper which links him and his organization to this attack we are you know
we are hard at work bringing all the information together intelligence and for the
good information law enforcement information and I think in the near future will be
able to put out
a paper document that will describe quite clearly the evidence that we have now I
think that there was just
a misinterpretation of the exact words such are used on the Sunday shows I'm not
aware of anybody who said white paper the secretary and say that
a white paper yesterday you know you're here talking about actions in other parts
of the world. And certainly you want the support of this many people around the
world it's possible. You know I guess it seems as though you're
asking everyone to trust. I mean logic.
Intelligent they couldn't have done a wrong this was
a sophisticated plot of bin Laden was not capable of doing this by himself and his
group so who was cable obviously there has to be much more of an investigation in
Pakistan but on October first the F.B.I.
Discovered evidence linking the alleged hijackers and al Qaeda by following the
money trail that ended at Mohamed Atta in Florida. Suspected hijacker Mohamed Atta
received wire transfers by
a Pakistani and then distributed the cash via Money Orders bought here and Florida
a senior law enforcement source tells C.N.N.
The man sending the money is believed to be Aquaman Omar Saeed Shaikh He reportedly
is controlling certain aspects of the financial transactions of the network
once a standout student at the London School of Economics the British born son of
a study parents beaks five languages. The story made news in every major newspaper
. With nine eleven paymaster identified as an alleged al Qaeda money
man it seemed that the U.S. Finally had its proof that al Qaeda was involved in U.S.
War on terror could now move ahead.
But most of his post nine eleven reports about Omar Saeed shake and failed to
mention was that at the same time
a shaikh dropped out of the London School of Economics to presumably join al Qaeda
he had also joined the I.S.I.
. Arresting officer aka JANE SAYS under questioning Omar Shaykh admitted he was
supported by the Pakistan government's intelligence service the I.S.I.
He had gotten there he admitted to or yes and after his relief it was very clear
that he was provided for to action and safe haven in Pakistan with the direct
support with the knowledge and obviously with the connivance of the Pakistani
intelligence only two days after the invasion of Afghanistan the Times of India
reported the F.B.I.
Discovered credible evidence that one hundred thousand dollars was wired to alleged
hijacker Mohamed Atta by nine eleven paymaster Omar Saeed Sheikh on the orders of
the I.S.I.
Director Lieutenant General Mahmud. And that been the head of the Iraqi intelligence
agency do you think we would have heard of that. You have to understand that kind
of general Mahmoud Ahmed. Was
a key player. William Pepper He's an international lawyer and consultant to the
Pakistani government. Indian state intelligence came upon this
transfer it was then you know The Times of India was able to get this information
and the F.B.I.
Got involved in this whole situation because this was now becoming very public as
a result of the Indian investigation though the evidence was never publicly
disclosed Indian intelligence claimed that the F.B.I.
Had privately confirm the story to them and it soon made every major Indian
newspaper in the U.S.
Only
a single news outlet even mentioned the allegation the information was reported as
an Internet only story on the editorial section of The Wall Street Journal website
. Now this cutesy title may contain this completely explosive information after the
Times of India story broke paymaster Omar Saeed Shaykh was no longer the apparent
proof that al-Qaeda was the sole sponsor of the attacks instead Sayed Shaikh acting
on the orders of the I.S.I.
Appeared to be the smoking gun of Pakistani involvement in nine eleven. And
instantly within that they basically saved Shaikh becomes personified grata and
then
a whole bunch of other people are put forth as the paymaster. Over the next several
months authorities began confusing the news media with the bill will during variety
of alternate names for the paymaster each sounding similar to Omar Saeed Sheikh no
it's this guy no it's this guy they keep changing the story about who the guy is it
becomes hard to keep track. By the one year anniversary of nine eleven Newsweek had
concluded that the paymaster remains almost
a total mystery. The nine eleven Commission would ultimately conclude that the
question of who financed the attacks is
a little practical significance. And in my
opinion it seems to be
a bunch of smoke and mirrors to try to really hide the fact that there's money
coming from the I.S.I.
Going to the hijackers.
If we were really going after the people who sponsored Al Qaida would we be bombing
Pakistan are we better off in Pakistan or in Iraq in terms of being terrorism I
would say to you if you asked me that question I would say No question let's forget
about Iraq and let's focus on Pakistan there is no reason for the administration to
continue to shield make believe allies who are supporting either directly or
indirectly terrorist who's. Goal is to kill Americans and do you think that will
ever become public which countries become public at some point when it's turned
over to the archives but that's twenty or thirty years from now we need to have
this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people the United
States are facing today. And here the story took another
unexpected turn several top news sources had all reported that the Pakistani I.S.I.
Director had actually been in Washington for
a rare visit during the week of September eleventh. Are you OK are you
hearing any force at the time that I have thanked if was in Washington on September
eleventh and going for the most than one hundred thousand dollar life Wired If you
think you know here in this area and life like maybe you didn't look at anybody in
the research I'm not seeing that report and he was certainly not meeting with me
yes. Elie Weekly reported that on the very evening
of September eleventh U.S.
State Department officials began negotiating the terms of the US Pakistani
partnership with I assigned director Mahmoud I'm in the very man who was alleged to
have ordered the wire transfer to Mohamed oughta. The talks continued over the next
several days before the lieutenant general returned to Pakistan on September
fourteenth. But an undercover operative named Randy
Glass says he can prove that USA officials knew about the I.S.I.
Role in nine eleven even as they chose to partner with Pakistan. The revelation
came in yet another largely overlooked story this one reported by Dateline N.B.C.
Conmen turned undercover operative brandy glass was infiltrating
a terrorist arms buying network layer by layer former Kamen glass was part of
a one nine hundred ninety nine government sting called Operation Diamondbacks
a two and a half year investigation by the F.B.I.
And the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms on July twenty second one thousand
nine hundred nine last flew to New York for
a meeting here at the trendy try back and grill it was dinner for four last his
first contact via moisten the Jersey City businessman Mike Malik and the mystery
man are G.
Bonds and also quite funny and. As was wearing
a wire mixed in with the dinner crowd were agents from the F.B.I.
As terrorism task force basically what he told me was they were interested in
purchasing. A large amount of sophisticated weapons systems and who was
a boss representing as a boss was represented to me as being an I.S.I.
Agent and this is where the stakes really get high because of Abbas was telling the
truth Randy glass when the feds were about to cut any legal weapons deal with
a Pakistani intelligence operative linked to terrorists the story of or in
a glass that was in the kitchen the best most people have heard about this Have you
heard about Randy glass they haven't heard about earlier today perhaps the story
failed to spark the public imagination because the most dramatic revelation ended
up on Dateline's cutting room floor. I had been threatened by F.B.I.
Agents Cleburne asked me if I mention any of that I would be charged with
obstruction of justice. Two months later the Palm Beach Post ran the story
during the course of the conversation I asked him exactly what his intentions were
. After dinner as we walked outside. He
pointed in the direction of the World Trade Center. And said those towers are
coming down.
I'm not suggesting from this that Pakistan is the quote unquote solution in nine
eleven because it's not. Pakistan is one part in the very complicated story.
The question to me is who else was involved with al Qaeda was
Al Qa to use as a tool just as in the one nine hundred eighty S.
The Mujahedeen were basically used by the U.S.
Government.
In August two thousand and four after the nine eleven Commission had disappointed
so many of the families with its report. Paul Thompson's completed timeline was
published as
a book by Harper Collins. The brokering themes of Paul Thomas from stime line are
clear no accountability enters and many missed me.
The sponsors of the attack yet to be confronted with the fact there is some sort of
a deal in place between the government of Pakistan and the United States. The man
named as the culprits allowed to escape but we haven't really captured anybody
wanted to run the brain. And the government officials could Nord warnings before
nine eleven still their position is I don't remember the al Qaeda cells as being
something that we were told we needed to do something obviously. Still despite
years of investigation and advocacy by their families and others the official story
of what really happened on September eleventh remains.
What is democracy you know it's government by the people it's
a simple equation OK The biggest part of the mock Recy is the media
they have the whole everyone accountable you know it would be impossible as
a citizen to be up and informed on every single topic because it took us thousands
of hours of research in order to be informed enough to ask the right questions here
and that's where you need media because you know what. Somebody has to be out there
connecting the dots. And we don't have.
Good morning everyone thank you much the manager on the base Don't go away because
I think news reporting drastically changed since nine eleven the Becket
Abrams an assignment editor with A.B.C.
News all the reporting. There is always use of
caution. In how we cover this story. For those turning to the
Internet rather than network news online buzz about President Bush in the Florida
classroom had started within weeks of the attack. But most
Americans remain unaware that for nearly three years the footage gathered dust on
NEWSROOM shelves as the networks avoided the issue and their anniversary
retrospective so maybe she knew it was going to be with you all day long bringing
you the events of the day starting with the memorial here they seemed to go out of
their way to avoid exposing the president's lack of response and president thought
for a second or two about you know walking over there with the bros coming to
a close and even with all our children instead Bush pauses thanks the children.
And heads for the empty classroom next door. Finally into the void created by the
news media crossing over the discomforting issues came filmmaker Michael Moore with
his record breaking film Fahrenheit nine eleven. Barclay critical of the
administration the film sparked controversy and fiery attacks on Moore himself.
During prime time at the Republican National. Certainly not it just.
Why had it been left to McCain's disingenuous filmmaker to bring these questions to
the American public and I wonder what. Our record. Book E.C.U.
News has free access to everything. And B.B.C.
Television was
a clue. Run the story you don't like the way Michael Moore does you think it's too
clever by five run the hard news but. It's
a question. We hear every day kicking and screaming in the news room
trying to get stories out but we could do
a story and it might not make air you have someone from the corporation making the
editorial decisions these are not journalists another reaction from the
administration now and again not exactly the stifling of dissent on the rise in
America after nine eleven the tough questions were not asked much less answered
there was
a time in South Africa people would put flaming tires around people from next. If
they dissented. And in some ways the fear
is that you will. You'll be necklaced here have
a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around from that now it's that fear.
That keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions so all this
information keeps popping out here and there but what happens is that no one wants
to take the ball and run with it because all the information is there that we can
put it together and get it into the Washington Post. A ten day series and people
say. The facts were driven out and over
such an extended period of time that I think that effect was lost on you Merican
public. The press should have been doing
a better job of putting. Conflicts if you will. You know side by
side in reporting but that's not the job of the work that's the job of toil pages
politicians and others to make those kinds of judgments and the public itself and
the nine eleven relatives to make those kinds of sessions all we can do in our
reporting is report facts that we have reporting those facts and we have held those
facts up against public statements time which is why they know that that's that's
what took place in my reporting.
This is skin of tremendous proportion makes what. This strange lack of interest of
people both on the left and on the right nobody seems to want to uncover the truth
and just follow. I think that goes to
a lot of really damaging place maybe we should have question whether or not
President had any involvement in Watergate maybe we should have just accepted that
story maybe. We should have accepted the story that President Clinton had no
involvement had never had sex with that woman Miss Lewinsky So just because it's
the official story of records and that we should not delve further and really.
Yes they lie. Whether consciously or unconsciously.
Why they. And what were the results that.
We were going to. We have to go beyond that.
We have to know we have to. Believe it was the biggest.
And if it wasn't. That. We had to take
this tragedy and do the best we could with our lives and with our
country. To try and make. The people
that are supposed to take the right thing. What I really wanted to happen
here is for my child. I could have cared less. I wanted to troops and I
wanted what was wrong. What we're left with after our journey. No
answers no accountability and. More years of my life.
Trying my damnedest with the other family members to make sure this never
happens again.
Let me just real quickly.
How. Are you doing this for one reason.
Because of this cover.
TIMOTHY.
Kramer and my big.
Speech.
We'll take
a break here. I
lost my husband I still had my uncle my note from September eleventh two thousand
and one most people don't know with third tower fell by the government says by
a brought it down to collapse and won't Trade Center seven was primarily due to
five years and I along with fourteen hundred other architects and engineers have
said on the government's conclusion to be physically impossible possible impossible
we need the truth about what happened that day go to remember building seven why it
fell why it matters and what you can do.