Media Blackout and 9/11 lawsuit article

[lapsedmodernist]

President Served Friday with Personal 9/11 RICO Compaint.

A very informative article about 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani and her lawsuit against Bush and other government officials and the surrounding media blackout can be read here

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[(Anonymous)]

i tried three times at that link and got:

"Maximum threshold reached. Please try again."

i'll try again tomorrow.

-mjm

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

hm. what browser are you using? it would not load when i went to it on AOL, but on internet explorer it works fine. i just clicked on it again, and it took a second to load, but was fine.

here it is again, pasting/copying from the email I got from the guy who runs the site. try copy and pasting the link if the above keeps not working, i guess, i'd like to hear your thoughts on the story.

http://www.tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=38&mode=&order=0&thold=0
U.S. media blackout continues as New Hampshire widow’s attorney also served multiple government officials and moved to examine new evidence while preparing subpoenas and written interrogatories for individual depositions. This, as corporate media execs continue to withhold important stories about presidential foreknowledge of attacks, military stand-down, and evidence of controlled demolition of third WTC Building 7, containing critical Securities and Exchange Commission corporate fraud investigation documents. (READ MORE)

[(Anonymous)]

i finally got in -- i'm running mozilla.

w.r. pitt gives the opinion/conjecture that shrub knew the attacks were going to occur, at least in the sense that shrub should have been able to connect the dots, given the warnings he had been given. once again, shrub benefits from the usual "he's to dumb/lazy/self-involved to do that" doubt.

there was a famous article (vanity fair, i think) back around june 2001 in which someone at the shrub white house said that shrub said something to the effect that he simply had karen hughes make half of the decisions. also, back then the media reported about the nearly non-stop vacationing that shrub did (he takes august off every year). in 2003 it was reported that a former fellow board member talked about how when shrub was on the board of directors at some company (back in his pre-governor days), he simply came to the board meetings and made crude jokes, and was finally asked to leave. i could go on about his lack of character, work ethic, etc. but the basic point is that "plausible deniability" works well for him because of his incompetence.

from http://truthout.org/docs_04/010504A.shtml:

"In a late November truthout interview, former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal said, 'Richard Clarke was Director of Counter-Terrorism in the National Security Council. He has since left. Clark urgently tried to draw the attention of the Bush administration to the threat of al Qaeda. Right at the present, the Bush administration is trying to withhold documents from the 9/11 bipartisan commission. I believe one of the things that they do not want to be known is what happened on August 6, 2001. It was on that day that George W. Bush received his last, and one of the few, briefings on terrorism. I believe he told Richard Clarke that he didn't want to be briefed on this again, even though Clarke was panicked about the alarms he was hearing regarding potential attacks. Bush was blithe, indifferent, ultimately irresponsible.'"

amazingly (well, not amazingly, but you know...), the media and the self-deluding repub rank-and-file go along with the official repub party line that the repub party is the one that will keep you safe. no, they aren't criminally incompetent chickenhawks who will draft your friends and children after the election. they will keep you safe from the scary world. be afraid. but shop. vote repub.

-mjm

"the toughest job in the world"

[(Anonymous)]

Jan. 9, 2004 | WASHINGTON -- Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, pushed out of the administration for not being a team player, says President Bush was so disengaged during Cabinet meetings that he was like a "blind man in a roomful of deaf people."

O'Neill, who has kept silent about the circumstances surrounding his ouster from the Cabinet 13 months ago, is now ready to give his side of the story with a tell-all book that paints Bush as a disengaged president who didn't encourage debate either at Cabinet meetings or in one-on-one meetings with his Cabinet secretaries.

To promote the book which will be out Tuesday, O'Neill was appearing Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes" in an interview with correspondent Lesley Stahl.

In an excerpt released by CBS, O'Neill said that a lack of real dialog characterized the Cabinet meetings he attended during the first two years of the administration and gave O'Neill the feeling that Bush "was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people."

O'Neill said that the atmosphere was similar during the one-on-one meetings he held with Bush.

Speaking of his first meeting with the president, O'Neill said, "I went in with a long list of things to talk about and, I thought, to engage (Bush) on. ... I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening. It was mostly a monologue."

-mjm

FYI

[(Anonymous)]

on iraq, not 9/11: here the carnegie endowment for int'l peace gives the report that should have come out during an impeachment hearing. you know all this, i know all this, we all know all this, but of course there will be no prosecution for war crimes --

http://www.ceip.org/files/Publications/IraqReport3.asp?from=pubdate

and here is the audio of CEIP presentation by the three authors:

http://www.forumsondemand.com/ceip/iraq/20040108_WMD_in_Iraq.wvx

you can also see the video of this at cspan.org under the title: "Carnegie Endowment for Peace Report on Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq"

finally, here is the w.post giving the surprising (to me) above-the-fold, front page article with the headline: "Iraq's Arsenal Was Only on Paper:
Since Gulf War, Nonconventional Weapons Never Got Past the Planning Stage"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60340-2004Jan6.html

this is a long report -- over two full pages. one of the threats that we were in imminent danger of dying from were missile "plans" -- there are pictures of an iraqi scientist's doodles of a rocket schematic. you can see them at the link wpost link, above. as you can imagine, these drawings could have been turned into leathal weapons in 45 minutes. we barely escaped with our lives.

-mjm