Does Wes Clark Know The Truth About 9/11?

[sabra]

I remember seeing Clark on the Bill Maher show several months back. He was very outspoken about the * administration dropping the ball in regards to 9/11. He also hinted to other motives of the * administration:

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http://alysheba.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/29/23561/534

General Wesley Clark, appearing on tonight's Real Time with Bill Maher, told a story about his meeting with Pentagon generals 10 days after 9/11.

"One of the generals called me in and said, 'I got a joke for you.' And I said, 'Please, you guys don't have time for jokes.' And he said, 'Oh no, you gotta hear this one.'

(Big laugh from the audience)

'9/11 equals Saddam,' he said. 'Doesn't matter if he did it or not, we're going to get him.' And this was ten days after September 11th."

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What does he know? And why doesn't he expose the truth? I guess that goes to all the other officials who could blow some whistles...

Just curious.

edited: added link to dailykos link.

[melnjones]

1. Do you have a link to the transcript of that?

There are an awful lot of snips there...

[sabra]

3. Sorry, don't have the transcript, but got this snip from DailyKos

but I do remember him being very vocal when watching the show.

[bliss_eternal]

2. Hi Sabra--I'm not at all sure what he knows but

I would guess that he may be privy to more information than the rest of us.

Or he could be speaking from the place that others of us have in that he just has a bad feeling. I've seen others here on DU say that too.

Sorry I can't be of more help--hopefully someone else will respond that may know definitively one way or the other.

[Nite Owl]

4. He may not have definitive

proof. I do remember that show and him saying that though.

[bliss_eternal]

9. I remember that episode too, Night Owl.

[gbwarming]

5. The Cheney anti-terrorism task force never met

They ignored the Hart Rudman report.
Rice and Bush declined to be briefed by Richard Clarke.
Despite precautions taken in June at the G8 meeting in Genoa they didn't make serious warnings in the US about hijackings.
They ignored the Aug PDB.

That's just a couple

[DulceDecorum]

7. Richard Clarke

appears to hang out and get his info from Steve Emerson and Rita Katz.
Go spend a few moments looking them up.

[gbwarming]

8. Ok. Clarke says Emerson got him info the FBI and CIA didn't

What did you expect me to find?

http://www.harrywalker.com/speakers_template_printer.cfm?Spea_ID=262
Mr. Emerson is recognized as having been the first and only terrorist expert to have testified and warned about the threat of Islamic militant networks operating in the United States and their connections worldwide. He specifically warned about the threat of Osama Bin Laden's network in pioneering Congressional testimony delivered in 1998. Nearly every one of the terrorist suspects and groups first identified in his 1994 film have been indicted, prosecuted or deported since 9-11. Because of security threats, Mr. Emerson now lives under false cover in the United States.

Mr. Emerson has authored or co-authored five books: American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us (Free Press, 2002); Terrorist: The Inside Story of the Highest-Ranking Iraqi Terrorist Ever to Defect to the West (Villard/Random House, 1991); The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation (Putnam, 1990); Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan Era (Putnam, 1988); and The American House of Saud: The Secret Petrodollar Connection (Franklin Watts, 1985).

In a feature article on Emerson in Brown Alumni Magazine (November-December 2002), former head of NSC Counterterrorism Richard Clarke said, “I think of Steve as the Paul Revere of terrorism... credits Emerson with repeatedly warning of Al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States. He adds that he would attend Emerson’s speeches whenever possible because ‘we’d always learn things we weren’t hearing from the FBI or CIA, things which almost always proved to be true.'”

[DulceDecorum]

13. Terrorist Chicken Laundering

The Harry Walker Agency is a public relations firm = a bunch of paid liars.
And yes, they have an impressive roster of speakers.
http://www.harrywalker.com/alphabetical.cfm
Almost as impressive as Benador Associates.
http://www.benadorassociates.com/members.php
"Eleana Benador,
founder and CEO of Benador Associates, Inc.,
welcomes you to the website of the company
she created in 2001,
based in New York City.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Eleana_Benador
http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Benador_Associates

We need to look at other more objective opinions of those two players.

"He's poison,"
says investigative author Seymour Hersh,
when asked about how Emerson is perceived by fellow journalists.
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The three "experts" spend a lot of time congratulating each other on their courage and expertise. Pomerantz, for example, has written that Emerson "is actually better informed in some areas than the responsible agencies of government." (That came as news to Bob Blitzer, the FBI's top counterterrorism official, who says Emerson "doesn't have access to any high-level FBI intelligence.")
Revell's credits include quashing an investigation of the Iran-Contra arms smuggling operation (Leslie Cockburn, Out of Control, p. 231). Revell also acknowledges another member of the fraternity is Yigal Carmon, a right-wing Israeli intelligence commander who endorsed the use of torture (Washington Post, 5/4/95), and who has stayed at Emerson's Washington apartment on trips to lobby Congress against Middle East peace initiatives (The Nation, 5/15/95). An Associated Press reporter who has dealt with Emerson and Carmon says: "I have no doubt these guys are working together."
Says Vince Cannistraro, an ABC consultant and a retired CIA counterterrorism official, of Emerson's allies, Pomerantz, Revell and Carmon: "They're Israeli-funded. How do I know that? Because they tried to recruit me." Revell denies Cannistraro's assertion, but refuses to discuss his group's finances.
http://www.fair.org/extra/9901/emerson.html

Katz is also the author of a book called "Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America", which lists her authorship as "anonymous". It later became known that Katz was "Anonymous".
In the book she tells her personal story: how, as a child, she and her Jewish family escaped imprisonment in Iraq after the regime executed her father as a spy for Israel.
http://www.freeanwar.net/July2003/facnews261003.htm

Rita Katz Discovers 10 Million Terrorists in Georgia
The SBS Dateline television programme that claimed Anwar Ibrahim and IIIT has terrorist links depended heavily upon the accusations of the self-proclaimed "terrorist hunter" Rita Katz.
This is not the first time Katz has found terrorists. When she was interviewed on the American CBS programme "60 Minutes" last May, she claimed that the Safa Trust of Herndon, Virginia was laundering money for terrorists through a poultry farm in Gainesville, Georgia called Mar-Jac.
John Sugg, a senior editor for "Creative Loafing" in Atlanta, drove the 50 miles to Mar-Jac to track down the terrorists. Here is what he reported in this article, "Terrorist Chicken Laundering".
"Beware, if you visit Gainesville, Ga., of the terrorist chickens, alleged feathered friends of Osama bin Laden operating out of training camps (OK, deep fryers) near the shores of Lake Lanier. So says CBS News' "60 Minutes."
http://www.freeanwar.net/July2003/facnews271003a.htm

Katz said she was not discouraged by the criticism of the prosecutions. "When you call for the death of people
and then it results in actions--that is beyond the First Amendment," she said.
"You are organizing a crime."
http://news.com.com/On+the+Web,+a+new+front+in+the+terror+battle/2100-1028_3-5379151.html

And Rita Katz,
of all people,
ought to know just that.

[jdots]

6. The whistles could be blown

[bliss_eternal]

10. Here's to hoping...

:toast:

[spooked911]

11. he made similar comments before on Meet the Press-- that someone

was pressuring him right after 9/11 to blame Saddam.

I'm sure Clark knows a lot about 9/11 but is protecting his former colleagues.

[sabra]

12. That's what I was thinking too, but when will the truth come out?