The first question that I asked, as I surveyed the wreckage on my television screen was, with all of the intelligence data that the government collects, how could they overlook not one, not two, not three, but four separate airplane hijacking incidents? You talk about being asleep at the switch!
Add to that the fact that they announced a list of Muslim hijackers only hours after the incident took place. If we are to believe that September 11th was a huge intelligence failure — as it would have to be to support the government's official story — then how could they have known so quickly who the perps were, without having adequate time for an investigation? In order for the government to be able to have a list of suspects that soon, it would have had to have been the work of intelligence agencies, that had been tracking these individuals. Yet, we are told that the government was completely blind-sighted by the plans to destroy the twin towers and the Pentagon. How can it be both ways? Either 9/11 was an intelligence failure of behemothic proportions, or there was a conspiracy to lower our defense shields on that fateful day.
Additionally, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a branch of our military that partners with Canada to protect against just such an aerial assault, also dropped its guard. NORAD flies non-stop missions in search of any aircraft that might be utilized in an attack on America of any kind. But on 9/11, not only are we to believe that our intelligence agencies failed, but also, NORAD was asleep at the switch. Another coincidence?
I'll have more information about NORAD later, as there is yet another interesting "coincidence" regarding this entity that is as shocking as a lamp in the bathtub.
There are many other interesting coincidences regarding September 11th.
For example, the publication of Justice Department Terrorism Response Booklet in 1999. The cover of the booklet shows the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center with a bullseye target over one of the towers in about the exact place where the aircraft struck. Of all the landmarks to use on the cover of a booklet, designed to illustrate the threat of terrorism, why use the twin towers? Another coincidence?
Then, there is the issue of the massive selloff of airline stock, by officials in the CIA, just prior to the day of the terrorist attacks. Michael C. Ruppert has written an excellent piece regarding this, which was completely ignored by the media. I quote from his article:
"Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the 'put options' on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency ... It is well documented that the CIA has long monitored such trades — in real time — as potential warnings of terrorist attacks and other economic moves contrary to U.S. interests. 'Promis' software is used to monitor such trades ...
Ruppert goes on to detail the specifics of the transactions. You can read more of his article here, including a USA Today article about the market oddities.
The bottom line is that the CIA Executive Director, "Buzzy" Krongard, managed the firm that handled "put" Options on UAL. Having worked in the media for over a decade now, I can tell you my friends that that is news! Why haven't we seen this being reported anywhere in the media?
The point is that if such massive pre-9/11 trades were made, how could they have not been caught by those in the intelligence community, given the fact that they routinely monitor financial trades, looking for signs of just such an attack? Unless the CIA knew about the attacks, or worse, helped execute them.
Where is the investigation of the "put" options?
