Mark Ames

John O'Neill: An Unbelievable Life

Mon Sep 23 03:38:05 2002
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John O'Neill: An Unbelievable Life
http://www.exile.ru/150/150010101.html

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For example, we know that the Bush Administration lied, just flat-out lied to
the public, when they told us over and over that they had no idea and no warning
that a terrorist attack of this type would happen. They said that such an attack
couldn’t even have been conceived of—it wasn’t humanly possible for a decent
American to imagine that “such evil was possible.” That was a lie. They knew
that these very attacks were planned, ready and coming. They lied, and they knew
that they lied when they told us. And when the lie fell apart this spring, when
the FBI agents came forward and the intelligence reports were leaked about how
they did expect this sort of attack, they lied again and jammed the airwaves
with warnings of impending nuclear terror attacks. And the most amazing thing
of all was how this was met with a collective shrug. We’re not talking about
a simple corruption story—we’re talking about the biggest attack ever on America,
about war and our potential destruction.

The press seemed oddly cowed by the whole thing—by the public’s collective shrug
(they STILL trust Bush!), and perhaps by the fear that they were onto something
a little too scary. Fear is the only reason I can think of that the American
press didn’t push that story, the story of how the Bush people, our supposed
friends, lied to us in the days and weeks after the attacks, and then scared
the shit out of the country to cover up the lies when they were exposed.

In this special post-9/11 press review, rather than going through the depressing
exercise of picking apart all that was grotesque and deluded in the press
coverage of the anniversary, I’m instead offering a 9/11 anniversary story
that has received far too little coverage than it deserves. I assumed that
this would be a big story in the 9/11 retrospectives, because it’s certainly
one of the most bizarre stories about 9/11.

Of all of the bizarre circumstances and personages tied to the September 11th
attack, no single character throws the official American version more into
doubt than former FBI counter-terrorism chief John O’Neill. His fate is so
strange that it seems to have been scripted by a B-movie director or a
first-time spy novelist. And yet it’s true. Perhaps the only thing stranger
than O’Neill’s fate is the mainstream American media’s near-total reluctance
to pursue the story of their former counter-terrorism chief.

The story really begins in 1993, when O’Neill, a lifetime FBI agent, was
brought out from the Chicago field office to New York City as one of the
FBI’s six lead investigators of the World Trade Center bombing, which left
six dead and over 1,000 injured. His success in the investigation into the
first WTC bombing—he coordinated the Pakistan arrest of Ramzi Yousef-—propelled
him two years later to head the FBI’s counter-terrorism section in Washington.

In 1997, O’Neill continued his ascent, moving to the FBI’s National Security
Division office in New York where he became the special agent in charge of
counter-terrorism. His specialty was Islamic extremism.

John O'Neill: An Unbelievable Life
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