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The following TIMELINE found in the just released trade paperback of 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE traces the origin of the Government negligence on the road to 9/11 back 12 years. CLICK TO ORDER [AMAZON] [BARNES & NOBLE]
[TIMELINE PART ONE] [TIMELINE PART TWO] [TIMELINE PART THREE]
An even more detailed TIMELINE can be found in the work of Paul Thompson and The Center For Cooperative Research, also just released as a trade paperback by ReganBooks. That book, also accessible at http://www.cooperativeresearch.org traces the origins of the attack back to December 26th, 1979. Peter Lance, wrote the forward for THE TERROR TIMELINE:
In the fall of 2002, as I was researching the intelligence failures that dated back 12 years prior to the 9/11 attacks, I had no idea that half way around the world, in New Zealand, an American Stanford graduate was preparing his own history of the same events. My book, 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE, ultimately focused on the negligence in the New York office of the FBI. It began with a quote from the Roman poet Juvenal: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?” Who is guarding the guardians themselves.
Back then, it was a difficult question to answer, since so much of the factual database on al Qaeda and what our government knew about it on the road to 9/11 was classified. The challenge was to piece together a “mosaic” of the truth from the thousands of pages of trial records, news stories, books and other open source references that I could get my hands on.
A year later, as I began to research my next book on the failure of the 9/11 Commission to get at the full truth behind the Sept. 11th attacks, I found the answer to Juvenal’s question. The man guarding the guardians was Paul Thompson. By assembling a meticulous series of timelines tracing back the history of Islamic terrorism to 1979 he and his co workers at the California based Center for Cooperative Research had provided an objective database against which the nation’s spy agencies could be judged.
With almost no budget and simple access to the internet, Mr. Thompson and his colleagues have done what the 9/11 Commission itself failed to do in fulfilling the intent of Congress to “make a full and complete accounting of the circumstances surrounding the attacks.” Further, he’s supported his findings with mainstream media sources in what amounts to an almost week by week history of the events that preceded the attacks.
When the dots on that terrible day are lined up, the reader will be confronted with a jaw dropping illustration of government negligence at its worst.
It’s impossible to fully judge the quality of the 9/11 Commission’s work when it comes to evidence previously classified. Since vast amounts of data was “in the black,” and thus secret, we’re forced to rely on the Commission’s staff to determine who knew what and when and, as evidenced in my new book Cover-Up, their record is vastly incomplete.
What we can rely on is Thompson’s vast history -- backed up by articles that fill more than 100 two-inch thick three-ring binders. All of his sourcing is from the mainstream media. He cites reports from ABC News, The New York Times, Newsweek, the major broadcast and cable networks and hundreds of other sources.
By examining those stories which described events in real time as they happened, we get a stunning collection of dots unencumbered by government spin. This is crucial because the Bush Administration’s record on the “day of” 9/11 changed in the thirty-one months between Black Tuesday and the 17th of June, 2004 when the 9/11 Commission completed its last public hearing. By going back and examining the events as they were chronicled by print and electronic media sources during that period, we have an independent method of judgment the White House’s performance. And not just this presidency, but the two that came before it.
Years ago, Washington Post publisher Philip Graham, called daily journalism, “the first rough draft of history,” and Paul Thompson’s timelines serve as proof. They allow anyone with access to the internet or a book store to “audit the auditors;” In effect, to measure the work of our intelligence agencies against the best historical record there is – the day to day description of events by reporters worldwide.
Just a single citation will give the reader a sense of how important the timelines have become as an independent yardstick measure the negligence of our intelligence and defense agencies. The 9/11 Commission’s Staff Statement No. 17 which deals with the defense failures on “the day of” notes that the first signal to FAA flight controllers that American Airlines Flight #11 may have been hijacked came at 8:13 a.m.
Here’s the precise citation from Paul’s timeline which provides internet click-throughs to the very news stories and the 9/11 Commission report that he cites:
(8:14 a.m.): Flight 11 Hijacked, but Pilot Makes No Distress Call
The last routine communication takes place between ground control and the pilots of Flight 11 around this time. Flight controller Pete Zalewski is handling the flight. The pilot responds when told to turn right, but immediately afterwards fails to respond to a command to climb. Zalewski repeatedly tries to reach the pilot, even using the emergency frequency, but gets no response. [Boston Globe, 11/23/01; New York Times, 10/16/01; MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B); 9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] Flight 11 is apparently hijacked around this time.
The 9/11 Commission Staff Statement says that “In addition to making notifications within the FAA, Boston Center took the initiative, at 8:34, to contact the military through the FAA’s Cape Cod facility. They also tried to obtain assistance from a former alert site in Atlantic City, unaware it had been phased out.”
In fact the Commission says, it took 18 minutes for the FAA to contact the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) via Otis Air National Guard base on Cape Code and that although attempts were made to get help from a former NORAD early warning site in New Jersey, it had been “phased out.”
That was it. The only reference in the report of the last official body to evaluate the response by FAA and NORAD to the Atlantic City facility. But if you consult Paul Thompson’s timeline you’ll find this:
(8:34 a.m.): Atlantic City Fighters Not Reached; Not Redeployed Until Much Later Around this time, Boston flight control attempts to contact an Atlantic City, New Jersey air base, to send fighters after Flight 11. For decades, the air base had two fighters on 24–hour alert status, but this changed in 1998 due to budget cutbacks. The flight controllers do not realize this, and apparently try in vain to reach someone. Two F–16s from this base are practicing bombing runs over an empty stretch of the Pine Barrens near Atlantic City. Only eight minutes away from New York City, they are not alerted to the emerging crisis. Shortly after the second WTC crash at 9:03 a.m., the two F–16s are ordered to land and are refitted with air–to–air missiles, then sent aloft. However, the pilots re–launch more than an hour after the second crash. They are apparently sent to Washington, but do not reach there until almost 11:00 a.m. After 9/11, one newspaper questions why NORAD “left what seems to be a yawning gap in the midsection of its air defenses on the East Coast – a gap with New York City at the center.” [Bergen Record, 12/5/02; 9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] Had these two fighters been notified at 8:37 a.m. or before, they could have reached New York City before Flight 11.
In other words, the Atlantic City facility was still active. In fact, two F-16’s from the 177th Fighter Wing in Pomona, New Jersey were not only in their air, they were eight minutes from Lower Manhattan and able, if properly notified, to get to the World Trade Center’s North Tower at minute before AA Flight #11 slammed into it.
Even more revealing, if you click through from Thompson’s website to reporter Mike Kelly’s Bergen Record story from December 5, 2003, you’ll see that both Gov. Tom Kean, the 9/11 Commission chairman and John Farmer, one of his lead investigators were quoted, and thus aware of the F-16’s presence.
“We want to know why jets at Pomona were decommissioned,” says Farmer in the Record piece, which went on to ask why fighters at other bases closer to New York than Cape Cod weren’t scrambled. “That’s a big question,” said Gov. Kean, also quoted in the story.
Yet despite the awareness of two top 9/11 Commission officials, the staff left out this crucial piece of information from its final statement. What’s worse, the Commission created the impression that the Atlantic City facility was inactive.
“For months and months now we have relied on Paul Thompson’s timelines for the real truth behind the attack,” says Lorie van Auken, whose husband Ken died on the 107th floor of the North Tower where AA Flight #11 struck. “Paul and the people at the Center for Cooperative research have performed an invaluable service by documenting the public body of knowledge leading up to and beyond 9/11.”
Now, thanks to the ReganBooks division of Harper Collins, Paul’s remarkable database is available in print form. From the first entry: December 26, 1979 marking the invasion of Soviet troops into Afghanistan, through the last reference on the timeline which chronicles the latest body count following the invasion of Iraq, Paul’s timelines offer a chilling reminder of the old French adage, “plus c’est changes, plus c’est la meme chose,” the more things change, the more they stay the same.
But if information is power, especially in an election year, the work of Paul Thompson and the Center for Cooperative Research will provide any voter with the ultimate owner’s manual – a kind of “Little Golden Book on al Qaeda.” It’s a tremendous resource that will give voters a truly independent means of judging this Administration and the two that came before it, in their errant conduct of the war on terror.
Peter Lance
New York City
http://www.peterlance.com/
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Sun 09.04 >> COAST TO COAST AM - 5 MILLION + Listeners
Investigative reporter Peter Lance returns with devastating new evidence that the U.S. Government has been covering up its own counterterrorism failures since the mid-90s.
Host: George Noory George@costtocoast.com
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
The following TIMELINE found in the just released trade paperback of 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE traces the origin of the Government negligence on the road to 9/11 back 12 years. CLICK TO ORDER [AMAZON] [BARNES & NOBLE]
[TIMELINE PART ONE] [TIMELINE PART TWO] [TIMELINE PART THREE]
An even more detailed TIMELINE can be found in the work of Paul Thompson and The Center For Cooperative Research, also just released as a trade paperback by ReganBooks. That book, also accessible at http://www.cooperativeresearch.org traces the origins of the attack back to December 26th, 1979. Peter Lance, wrote the forward for THE TERROR TIMELINE:
In the fall of 2002, as I was researching the intelligence failures that dated back 12 years prior to the 9/11 attacks, I had no idea that half way around the world, in New Zealand, an American Stanford graduate was preparing his own history of the same events. My book, 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE, ultimately focused on the negligence in the New York office of the FBI. It began with a quote from the Roman poet Juvenal: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?” Who is guarding the guardians themselves.
Back then, it was a difficult question to answer, since so much of the factual database on al Qaeda and what our government knew about it on the road to 9/11 was classified. The challenge was to piece together a “mosaic” of the truth from the thousands of pages of trial records, news stories, books and other open source references that I could get my hands on.
A year later, as I began to research my next book on the failure of the 9/11 Commission to get at the full truth behind the Sept. 11th attacks, I found the answer to Juvenal’s question. The man guarding the guardians was Paul Thompson. By assembling a meticulous series of timelines tracing back the history of Islamic terrorism to 1979 he and his co workers at the California based Center for Cooperative Research had provided an objective database against which the nation’s spy agencies could be judged.
With almost no budget and simple access to the internet, Mr. Thompson and his colleagues have done what the 9/11 Commission itself failed to do in fulfilling the intent of Congress to “make a full and complete accounting of the circumstances surrounding the attacks.” Further, he’s supported his findings with mainstream media sources in what amounts to an almost week by week history of the events that preceded the attacks.
When the dots on that terrible day are lined up, the reader will be confronted with a jaw dropping illustration of government negligence at its worst.
It’s impossible to fully judge the quality of the 9/11 Commission’s work when it comes to evidence previously classified. Since vast amounts of data was “in the black,” and thus secret, we’re forced to rely on the Commission’s staff to determine who knew what and when and, as evidenced in my new book Cover-Up, their record is vastly incomplete.
What we can rely on is Thompson’s vast history -- backed up by articles that fill more than 100 two-inch thick three-ring binders. All of his sourcing is from the mainstream media. He cites reports from ABC News, The New York Times, Newsweek, the major broadcast and cable networks and hundreds of other sources.
By examining those stories which described events in real time as they happened, we get a stunning collection of dots unencumbered by government spin. This is crucial because the Bush Administration’s record on the “day of” 9/11 changed in the thirty-one months between Black Tuesday and the 17th of June, 2004 when the 9/11 Commission completed its last public hearing. By going back and examining the events as they were chronicled by print and electronic media sources during that period, we have an independent method of judgment the White House’s performance. And not just this presidency, but the two that came before it.
Years ago, Washington Post publisher Philip Graham, called daily journalism, “the first rough draft of history,” and Paul Thompson’s timelines serve as proof. They allow anyone with access to the internet or a book store to “audit the auditors;” In effect, to measure the work of our intelligence agencies against the best historical record there is – the day to day description of events by reporters worldwide.
Just a single citation will give the reader a sense of how important the timelines have become as an independent yardstick measure the negligence of our intelligence and defense agencies. The 9/11 Commission’s Staff Statement No. 17 which deals with the defense failures on “the day of” notes that the first signal to FAA flight controllers that American Airlines Flight #11 may have been hijacked came at 8:13 a.m.
Here’s the precise citation from Paul’s timeline which provides internet click-throughs to the very news stories and the 9/11 Commission report that he cites:
(8:14 a.m.): Flight 11 Hijacked, but Pilot Makes No Distress Call
The last routine communication takes place between ground control and the pilots of Flight 11 around this time. Flight controller Pete Zalewski is handling the flight. The pilot responds when told to turn right, but immediately afterwards fails to respond to a command to climb. Zalewski repeatedly tries to reach the pilot, even using the emergency frequency, but gets no response. [Boston Globe, 11/23/01; New York Times, 10/16/01; MSNBC, 9/11/02 (B); 9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] Flight 11 is apparently hijacked around this time.
The 9/11 Commission Staff Statement says that “In addition to making notifications within the FAA, Boston Center took the initiative, at 8:34, to contact the military through the FAA’s Cape Cod facility. They also tried to obtain assistance from a former alert site in Atlantic City, unaware it had been phased out.”
In fact the Commission says, it took 18 minutes for the FAA to contact the North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) via Otis Air National Guard base on Cape Code and that although attempts were made to get help from a former NORAD early warning site in New Jersey, it had been “phased out.”
That was it. The only reference in the report of the last official body to evaluate the response by FAA and NORAD to the Atlantic City facility. But if you consult Paul Thompson’s timeline you’ll find this:
(8:34 a.m.): Atlantic City Fighters Not Reached; Not Redeployed Until Much Later Around this time, Boston flight control attempts to contact an Atlantic City, New Jersey air base, to send fighters after Flight 11. For decades, the air base had two fighters on 24–hour alert status, but this changed in 1998 due to budget cutbacks. The flight controllers do not realize this, and apparently try in vain to reach someone. Two F–16s from this base are practicing bombing runs over an empty stretch of the Pine Barrens near Atlantic City. Only eight minutes away from New York City, they are not alerted to the emerging crisis. Shortly after the second WTC crash at 9:03 a.m., the two F–16s are ordered to land and are refitted with air–to–air missiles, then sent aloft. However, the pilots re–launch more than an hour after the second crash. They are apparently sent to Washington, but do not reach there until almost 11:00 a.m. After 9/11, one newspaper questions why NORAD “left what seems to be a yawning gap in the midsection of its air defenses on the East Coast – a gap with New York City at the center.” [Bergen Record, 12/5/02; 9/11 Commission Report, 6/17/04] Had these two fighters been notified at 8:37 a.m. or before, they could have reached New York City before Flight 11.
In other words, the Atlantic City facility was still active. In fact, two F-16’s from the 177th Fighter Wing in Pomona, New Jersey were not only in their air, they were eight minutes from Lower Manhattan and able, if properly notified, to get to the World Trade Center’s North Tower at minute before AA Flight #11 slammed into it.
Even more revealing, if you click through from Thompson’s website to reporter Mike Kelly’s Bergen Record story from December 5, 2003, you’ll see that both Gov. Tom Kean, the 9/11 Commission chairman and John Farmer, one of his lead investigators were quoted, and thus aware of the F-16’s presence.
“We want to know why jets at Pomona were decommissioned,” says Farmer in the Record piece, which went on to ask why fighters at other bases closer to New York than Cape Cod weren’t scrambled. “That’s a big question,” said Gov. Kean, also quoted in the story.
Yet despite the awareness of two top 9/11 Commission officials, the staff left out this crucial piece of information from its final statement. What’s worse, the Commission created the impression that the Atlantic City facility was inactive.
“For months and months now we have relied on Paul Thompson’s timelines for the real truth behind the attack,” says Lorie van Auken, whose husband Ken died on the 107th floor of the North Tower where AA Flight #11 struck. “Paul and the people at the Center for Cooperative research have performed an invaluable service by documenting the public body of knowledge leading up to and beyond 9/11.”
Now, thanks to the ReganBooks division of Harper Collins, Paul’s remarkable database is available in print form. From the first entry: December 26, 1979 marking the invasion of Soviet troops into Afghanistan, through the last reference on the timeline which chronicles the latest body count following the invasion of Iraq, Paul’s timelines offer a chilling reminder of the old French adage, “plus c’est changes, plus c’est la meme chose,” the more things change, the more they stay the same.
But if information is power, especially in an election year, the work of Paul Thompson and the Center for Cooperative Research will provide any voter with the ultimate owner’s manual – a kind of “Little Golden Book on al Qaeda.” It’s a tremendous resource that will give voters a truly independent means of judging this Administration and the two that came before it, in their errant conduct of the war on terror.
Peter Lance
New York City
http://www.peterlance.com/
===============================
Sun 09.04 >> COAST TO COAST AM - 5 MILLION + Listeners
Investigative reporter Peter Lance returns with devastating new evidence that the U.S. Government has been covering up its own counterterrorism failures since the mid-90s.
Host: George Noory George@costtocoast.com
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
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