The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan

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The book discusses the al-Hazmi/al-Mihdhar sharing failures in a section entitled "unanswered questions." To date nobody in the US government has credibly explained such bizarre conduct by Alec Station and the FBI UBLU. 9/11 Commission MFR's are still being withheld by these agencies. At least the agencies are consistent in their pattern of withholding information.

From the book:

The job of finding Mihdhar, nevertheless, went to an intelligence agent, Robert Fuller, working on his own. Corsi marked the assignment "Routine" because--she would later tell investigators--she "assigned no particular urgency to the matter." The designation "Routine" gave Fuller thirty days to get under way. It was August 29.

pg. 335

Routine? Al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were linked to the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in addition to the Cole attack.

Corsi is the same person who falsely claimed the wall prevented the criminal side agents from being involved in the investigation. One should note that the US media has never interviewed any Alec Station and UBLU agents about the al-Hazmi/al-Mihdhar issues. Evidently deference to government secrecy is more important than getting answers as to why al Qaeda operatives were able to freely wander around the US in preparation for 9/11.

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1. I posted the Vanity Fair article a week ago.

This is too important to just go away. I fear that it will, but I couldn't care less if we have another worthless congressional hearing or commission.

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3. Where is the media on this?

It is incredible that both the government and the media have gotten a pass on this. What good is access to power when the media refuses to use it for the benefit of the public?

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2. Oh, that's just more lookin' backwards to the past

It's time for hope and change and lookin' forward to the future! Get with the program. What's done is done, it is what it is, and you can't bring the dead back. Besides, we already know all we need to know, and that is that terrorists hate us for our freedom. We have the military working very hard right now to instruct the rest of the world on just what American freedom means.

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4. Note in contrast how

the government constantly brings up 9/11 to justify policy or counterterrorism measures.

The book notes that a section of the Joint Inquiry report concerning a Saudi support network for the hijackers is still classified.

From a Vanity Fair adaptation of the book:

Within weeks of his inauguration, in 2009, Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, made a point of receiving relatives of those bereaved on 9/11. The widow of one of those who died at the World Trade Center, Kristen Breitweiser, has said that she brought the new president’s attention to the infamous censored section of the Joint Inquiry report. Obama told her, she said afterward, that he was willing to get the suppressed material released. Two years later, the chapter remains classified—and the White House will not say why. “If the 28 pages were to be made public,” said one of the officials who was privy to them before President Bush ordered their removal, “I have no question that the entire relationship with Saudi Arabia would change overnight.”

The Kingdom and the Towers