From GeorgeWashington.blogspot.com:
The newest volley in the disinformation campaign regarding 9/11 is a simulation of the Twin Towers created by Purdue University. As summarized by Raw Story :
The simulation found jet engine shafts from...
Consortium News' Robert Parry discusses some of the new 9/11 revelations in George Tenet's memoir, "At the Center of the Storm". We learn that Tenet went to Crawford, TX in late August 2001 and interrupted W's vacation because of the confidence he had in the intelligence pointing to an imminent terrorist attack. The president was apparently unmoved. This was Tenet's first visit to the ranch, and he reports that his conversation with the president descended into Tenet's "trying to make small talk about the flora and the fauna, none of which were native to Queens."
This meeting took place about two weeks before Andrew Card whispers into Bush's ear at Booker Elementary School, and that strange look of recognition dawned on the president's face.
Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say...
A fawning media yields many unhappy consequences, including the loss of concern among government officials that their crimes will be correctly contextualized for presentation to the public. They need not worry, because the corporte media has contracted the same disease infecting politicians: a malignant inability to identify with the public.
Poor George Tenet: he's worried about his reputation. In another world, he might be worried that he participated in a criminal deception that destroyed a country of 24 million and gotten hundreds of thousands killed.
It seems every federal failure these days becomes an excuse for expanding federal power. As James Bovard writes in the American Conservative, the Orwellian “Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order Act” grants the President a new power to declare martial law in response to "“natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition”—and of course, what other "condition" that might be was not specified.
This new law discards 200 years of civil protections greatly limiting the use of the military on US soil - limitation which were committed to law in the Insurrection Act of 1807. As usual, virtually nothing critical was heard from our somnolent representatives in Congress. Every US Governor opposed the passage of this Act, and yet it passed the House 398-23 and flew through the Senate by a unanimous consent vote.
As Bovard states:
“Martial law” is a euphemism for military dictatorship. When foreign democracies are overthrown and a junta establishes martial law, Americans usually recognize that a fundamental change has occurred. Perhaps some conservatives believe that the only change when martial law is declared is that people are no longer read their Miranda rights when they are locked away. “Martial law” means obey soldiers’ commands or be shot.
Some Senators did speak out before the bill was passed, and two [Patrick Leahy, (D-VT) and Kit Bond (R-MO)] are currently sponsoring a bill to repeal the changes to the original law that have resulted in these new executive powers. They need our support.
"Kucinich brings hard-nosed arguments"
In an article published today at TimesUnion.com Kucinich
said that as chairman of a House subcommittee on domestic policy, he plans to launch an investigation of "a narrow...
