Judge Andrew Napolitano, a libertarian television commentator and author, has discussed the issue of whether there was a cover-up regarding the 9/11 attacks on his show "FreedomWatch". You can see part of this in this youtube video, in which he talks with Col. Anthony Shaffer, the former head of the US Special Operations Command's Able Danger program.
In dealing with the issue of cover-up, one of the first questions that comes to mind is---"what information did the U.S. government possess in advance regarding the 9/11 attacks?" It turns out, there were indications of an attack to come---as you can see here.
More specifically, it is not correct to say the hijackers were unknown to authorities prior to the attacks. 15 of the 19 hijackers received visas through the U.S. consulate of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where there had reportedly been a history of CIA intervention to allow visas to be issued to what would normally be unqualified applicants. (See also this). In the months prior to 9/11, alleged hijackers Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi were renting rooms in a house owned and lived in by an FBI informant. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman documented in a 2002 article entitled "The Hijackers We Let Escape," how "The CIA tracked two suspected terrorists [the same two who rented from the FBI informant---Rob] to a Qaeda summit in Malaysia in January 2000, then looked on as they re-entered America and began preparations for September 11." There is also this report concerning the training of alleged hijackers at U.S. air bases.
Then there is the Able Danger program which we referred to at the beginning of our post, which identified the hijackers and their accomplices before 9/11. However, when the head of the program, Colonel Shaffer, tried to pass the information on to the 9/11 Commission, he was gagged and slandered, and information retrieved is now lost. Curt Weldon, former Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, documented how the U.S. government tracked the hijackers' movements prior to September 11.
According to the testimony of FBI whistleblower and translator Sibel Edmonds, a foreign spy ring that has penetrated the U.S. government may be connected to 9/11. And indeed, there are other very suggestive reports indicating foreign intelligence involvement or at least foreknowledge.
In discussing the 2002 report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on 9/11, Senator Bob Graham, the committee chairman, said he is “surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the [9/11] terrorists in the United States.… To me that is an extremely significant issue and most of that information is classified, I think overly classified. I believe the American people should know the extent of the challenge that we face in terms of foreign government involvement. I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing—although that was part of it—by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down.… It will become public at some point when it’s turned over to the archives, but that’s 20 or 30 years from now.” The former senator has just recently (July 2011) elaborated on this issue further, specifying the government of Saudi Arabia.
Mahmoud Ahmad, the chief of Pakistan's Inter-Services-Intelligence (ISI), was reportedly the money man behind the hijackers. Significantly, Ahmad was meeting with U.S. government and intelligence officials on the very morning of September 11, 2001.
There are also the five “dancing Israelis” arrested that day who were reported to have set up camera equipment pointed at the World Trade Center before the attack unfolded. When the planes slammed into the towers, the men were seen dancing and cheering.
But what of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader blamed for the 9/11 attacks? What did the U.S. government know of him prior to that day? It has been admitted that bin Laden was at one time a CIA asset. (For a more in-depth piece on bin Laden, see "The Truth behind 9/11: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?"). According to former FBI translator Edmonds, the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden "all the way until that day of September 11."
Perhaps, leaving intelligence issues aside, there was another national security issue or situation that would call for a cover-up. There was a total break with known standard operating procedure in relation to NORAD's failure to intercept any of the planes, as shown in this post of George Washington's Blog
If Judge Napolitano was right when he said that "the State...is rooted in deception, theft, and murder," it would not be too surprising if we have been given a false picture of 9/11.
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