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9/11 - The Phoenix Memo - Congress' 9/11 Report - MORE!
Fri Jul 25 14:48:25 2003
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updated 24 July 2003
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Congress' 9/11 Report
After months of bloody fights, Congress releases its joint intelligence committee report on the September 11 attacks
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/joint-report/

The Phoenix Memo
In an appendix of its 858-page report, Congress has released the famously unheeded warning about Islamic terrorists training at US flight schools
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/phoenix-memo/

High-Ranking Officials Admit 9/11 Could've Been Prevented
Appearing one at a time, usually deep within articles, these quotations are now gathered in one place.
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/911-preventable.htm

Selected Titles of FBI Research Reports, 1953-60
Michael Ravnitzky reveals the existence of dozens of publicly unreleased FBI reports, mostly concerning communism
http://www.thememoryhole.org/feds/fbi-research-reports.htm

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5-Minute Video of George W. Bush on the Morning of 9/11
In this footage obtained exclusively by The Memory Hole, watch as the President of the United States sits and does nothing after learning that his country is under attack. Note: This is not the truncated, 2-minute footage that has been available for a year. This is a much longer version, never before seen by the public
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.htm

The Secret Service's Videos
You won't find these at Blockbuster
http://www.thememoryhole.org/foi/ss-videos.htm

9/11 Families Fed up With Government/Media BS
http://www.thememoryhole.org/memoryblog.htm

>>> 9/11 family members are pissed--and rightfully so--at the Bush Administration's continuing cover-up of the Sept. 11 attacks, as well as the pathetic media's complicity in letting officials change the subject.

An 11 June Newsweek article tells of a closed meeting between 9/11 families and FBI officials, including Director Robert "Perjurer" Mueller. Family members refused to put up with Mueller's spin and lies:

“A lot of family members were angry, and there was a lot of shouting out of turn,” said Steve Push, the leader of one of the 9-11 victims’-family groups. “There was a lot of unhappiness with quite a few of the responses.”

Much of the stiffest criticism came from “the Jersey Girls”—a group of feisty young widows from northern New Jersey whose husbands died in the World Trade Center and who have become increasingly radicalized by what they view as the U.S. government’s failure to provide them with answers to many key questions about the attacks.

The women from New Jersey got especially frustrated when Mueller and other top bureau officials at the meeting repeatedly brushed aside their questions, saying they couldn’t respond because the answers might jeopardize the Justice Department’s pending case against Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused Al Qaeda terrorist who is facing charges that he was a co-conspirator in the 9-11 attacks.

“I don’t give a rat’s ass about Moussaoui!” said Patty Casazza, a 38-year-old New Jersey resident whose husband, John, died in the World Trade Center’s north tower. “Send him to Guantanamo Bay and … get what you can from him there.”

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“I don’t think he understands we’re done with there being no accountability for what happened to our loved ones,” said Lorie Van Auken, 48, another one of the Jersey group, whose husband, Kenneth, died in the attacks.

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“We’re anxious,” said Casazza. “And we want answers.”

On 18 June, Salon revealed more about the contentious, restricted meeting. Some direct quotes from the family members prove very enlightening:

"We've been fighting for nearly 21 months -- fighting the administration, the White House," says Monica Gabrielle. Her husband, Richard, an insurance broker who worked for Aon Corp. on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center's Tower 2, died during the attacks. "As soon as we started looking for answers we were blocked, put off and ignored at every stop of the way. We were shocked. The White House is just blocking everything."

Another 9/11 family advocate -- a former Bush supporter who requested anonymity -- was more blunt: "Bush has done everything in his power to squelch this [9/11] commission and prevent it from happening."

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"We're the most skeptical audience Mueller will ever have, and I think it showed," says Sept. 11 widow Beverly Eckert, whose husband, Sean Rooney, died in the twin towers. "We want answers."

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"Iraq changed everything with the press," says one victims' advocate whose wife died in Tower 1. "Nobody cares about this after Iraq."

"It was a successful attempt to change the story," notes John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a nonprofit defense policy group. "From the White House's perspective, no good can come of these [9/11] investigations. So I think their approach has been entirely predictable, and easy to understand."

Adding insult for some family activists was the fact that Bush used the 9/11 attacks as a justification for the war on Iraq. "I sat and listened to the State of the Union speech [last January] when Bush mentioned 9/11 12 or 13 times," recalls Kristin Breitweiser, whose husband, Ronald, was killed when United Flight 175 slammed into Tower 1. "At the same time, we were having trouble getting funding for the independent commission."

Gabrielle was equally upset: "Bush has never personally met with the [9/11] families to discuss any of this, so for him to use Sept. 11 and its victims to justify his agenda, I myself am disgusted."

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"It was upsetting to find out the White House was trying to block the independent commission's access to the joint inquiry information, when we all know the mandate that created the independent commission states clearly that the commission is to use the joint inquiry as a starting-off point," notes Breitweiser, who also voted for Bush in 2000. "So why would they be blocking access to that?"

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"Bush begrudgingly signed [the commission] into law," complains one family advocate. "Since it was created, he's done everything to take the teeth out of it. His fingerprints and Karl Rove's are all over this."

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"I'm very disappointed in the press," says Breitweiser. "I think it's disgusting the independent commission is doing the most important work for this nation and it's not even reported in the New York Times or on the nightly news. I've been scheduled to go on 'Meet the Press' and 'Hardball' so many times and I'm always canceled. Frankly I'd like nothing better than to go head to head with Dick Cheney on 'Meet the Press.' Because somebody needs to ask the questions and I don't understand why nobody is."

Among frustrated family members of Sept. 11 victims, there's a feeling they're losing the battle of time in their struggle to get answers from the Bush administration. "There's a very, very small window to effect changes," says one 9/11 widower, Bill Harvey. "And unfortunately, that window is closing."

posted 30 June 2003


Another Plant Headed for the Memory Hole

>>> The US Consciousness Police have their sites set on a new plant that they're moving to outlaw. Says USA Today:

Federal drug agents are so concerned about the growing use of a little-known and accessible herb with hallucinogenic qualities that they are taking steps to treat it like cocaine, heroin and LSD, and make it illegal....

''It's not like this substance is overtaking the streets of America, but I could see it becoming a problem as it becomes more available,'' said Sgt. Rick Gerger, a detective in St. Peters [Missouri].

The Drug Enforcement Administration agrees and is collecting information about the herb's active ingredients as the first step toward seeking to have it declared an illegal controlled substance.

Salvia divinorum is an increasingly popular entheogen/psychedelic that leads to visions and often profound experiences in users. Like all psychedelics--such as LSD and peyote--it is absolutely non-addictive. It's also likely to be safe, since it's a form of the flavorful herb sage.

But we know that we can't let people have substances that open up hidden areas of their minds, so the Drug Warriors are aiming to outlaw this mint plant and--if the past is any guide--they'll do what they can to stamp it out of existence (although, like all other such attempts, this one will fail miserably). The USA Today article doesn't mention it, but last year a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to designate Salvia as a Schedule I controlled substance.

For right now, though, this psychedelic sage remains legal. Buy it and grow it while you still can. Stock up on it. And if you're going to ingest it, learn as much as you can first and treat it with respect. This is not a party drug.

To find sellers, just enter the plant's name into any search engine. To learn more about it, check out these resources:

The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center

Report on Salvia Divinorum and its Active Principle, Salvinorin A

Salvia Divinorum Action Center

Erowid | Lycaeum

Salvia Divinorum Grower's Guide (book)


posted 30 June 2003



>>> There's been some buzz recently about the CIA's pre-war reports on Iraq's supposed mobile weapons labs (which a UK government study has determined were for filling hydrogen balloons). Suddenly, the report disappeared from the CIA's Website at cia.gov. It wasn't completely gone from the Web, though. For reasons we can only guess, it had been moved to the Website of the Director of Central Intelligence at odci.gov. The original link at the CIA site just led to a dead end--no notice or redirecting to the new page.

However, once word swept the Net that the report was gone from the CIA site, it suddenly reappeared in the old location. Here it is:

Iraqi Mobile Biological Warfare Agent Production Plants, 28 May 2003
CIA site | ODCI site | MemHole mirror

And a related CIA report:

Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, October 2002
CIA site | ODCI site | MemHole mirror


posted 30 June 2003
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