" Real Americans won't be silenced."

[TruthIsAll]

http://longislandpress.com/v02/i07040219/coverstory_01.asp?2192004


The 9/11 Truth Movement: Widows Lead Growing Effort To Expose What The Government Knew


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"This is the most serious independent investigation since the Warren Commission. And after watching History Channel shows on the Warren Commission...the Warren Commission blew it," Cleland went on. "I'm not going to be part of that. I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions."

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"It's just a dog-and-pony show," says John Judge, co-founder of 9/11 CitizensWatch, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group monitoring the work of the independent bipartisan commission. "It's just like when you go into the Warren Commission, and you have five areas of inquiry: 'Who was Oswald?'; 'Who was Ruby?'; 'Who was this and that?' But you don't have 'Who shot Kennedy?,'" he says. "They've already had a panel on 'Who are the terrorists?,' which was all about al Qaeda. So they're investigating the official line of assumptions."

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"I would rather eat dirt than into the fund," says Ellen Mariani, whose husband, Louis Mariani, died aboard United Flight 175, the plane that hit the World Trade Center's South Tower. "I don't want to sign off my rights as a citizen of this country. I want answers."

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"There's high levels of people in the Bush administration who knew of, failed to warn, failed to prevent and also are covering up since 9/11," says Berg. "Ashcroft, for instance, stopped flying commercial aircraft in July of 2001. Why?"

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"This may be uncharted waters, but I was thrown in a pool on Sept. 11, 2001, and had to learn to swim," says 9/11 widow Monica Gabrielle, of West Haven, Conn. "No one has been fired. No one has been demoted. The same people who are guarding us today on an elevated security alert are the same people who were working that day."

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In addition to secrecy and underfunding, many feel the commission's pursuits are compromised by the interests of its members (see sidebar). Some observers see nothing more than a collection of D.C. insiders who won't rock the boat. This theory gained credence recently when the commission called two of its own, Executive Director Philip Zelikow and Jamie Gorelick, as witnesses. Zelikow worked with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice during the first Bush administration and as part of the current administration's transition team. Gorelick was deputy attorney general during the Clinton presidency. Zelikow and Gorelick were interviewed by the panel regarding their influence on national security policy and terrorism.

"Did Zelikow interview himself about his own role in the failures that left us defenseless?" asked Lori Van Auken, one of the 9/11 widows.

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Hopsicker reports that he wouldn't be able to get information if it weren't for insiders willing to blow a whistle. "Sept. 11 was so overwhelming," he says, "that people who are functionaries for that secret government are still human, like you and I. It's compelled some of them to break ranks."

"What I saw, after a number of people talked about the FBI silencing them, was that American streak that won't let that happen," he continues. "Real Americans won't be silenced."


Published February 19,2004

[_Jumper_]

1. Amen

Thanks for posting this! :toast:

[sadiesworld]

2. A salute to the General for saying it aloud:

"HOLD BUSH ACCOUNTABLE"

[Minstrel Boy]

3. "No one has been fired. No one has been demoted."

Not true; some people have been fired: the whistleblowers.

Amazing, isn't it?

And those most responsible for actively impeding investigations prior to 9/11 - like the FBI's Dave Frasca, whose roadblocks the summer of 2001 were so mysterious and unjustified Colleen Rowley says the Minnesota field office joked there was an al Qaeda mole at headquarters - such people as Frasca were promoted after the attacks.

If Americans only knew....

[el_gato]

4. thanks for posting this