Here's a very important 9/11 article from the Wall Street Journal. Too late to make it to Latest Breaking News:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2004/wallstreetjournal040104.htmlKamikaze Terrorism Wasn't a New Idea
White House Statements Aside, Protective Steps Date Back Through Clinton Administration
By Scot J. Paltrow
The Wall Street Journal
April 1, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Despite official assertions that the U.S. had little reason to suspect before Sept. 11 that airliners would be used as weapons, there is new evidence that the federal government had on several earlier occasions taken elaborate, secret measures to protect special events from just such an attack.
The events that were protected included the 1996 Olympics and President Bush's inauguration in 2001. Planning for similar special protection for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah was under way at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials say.
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As a consequence, a strategy for protecting airspace over special events was drawn up by the National Security Council staff for the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, in response to concerns about possible Iranian-backed terrorism. It included closing airspace over events to civilian air traffic, placing armed Air National Guard fighter jets on alert at a nearby base and launching on patrol a small air force belonging to the U.S. Customs Service, including jets, Black Hawk helicopters and a special radar-equipped plane. The customs service had the aircraft to interdict drug smuggling.
In addition, the plan was used for Mr. Clinton's second inauguration in 1997, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 50th anniversary celebration in Washington in 1999, the Republican and Democratic conventions in 2000 and the Bush inauguration in 2001, according to former White House officials and Mr. Clarke's book. The plan's use for designated "National Security Special Events" was made official in a classified portion of a "presidential decision directive" that Mr. Clinton signed in 1998. Use of the plan at these events wasn't publicized, and officials were forbidden to talk about it.
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My comment: The mystery as to why New York City and Washington wasn't protected from an air attack on 9/11 deepens. With the unprecedented number of warnings coming in in the summer of 2001, many mentioning those cities as targets, especially NYC, why no air cover? Even the friggin' NATO anniversary celebration is protected from air, but not things like the World Trade Center? Four fighters to protect the entire East Coast, and no fighter closer than 200 miles of either city? It makes no sense.
The article doesn't mention it, but Bush's hotel in Florida the night before 9/11 was protected with an anti-aircraft battery. They knew something was up, but did absolutely nothing to protect New York or Washington.
It's getting harder and harder for anyone to doubt they had foreknowledge and let it happen.