A TIME FOR TRUTH: Bin Laden’s Death Won’t End the War on Terror Until Americans Understand the Threat Was Always Us
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By Susan Lindauer, 9/11 Whistleblower and author of Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq
May 10th, 2011
Some of our leaders think Americans don’t need the truth about 9/11 any more, because Osama’s dead and it’s over.
As somebody who got brutalized at “ground zero” of the 9/11 cover up for most of the past 10 years, I could not disagree more. I’m sick of asking for a proper Congressional investigation. Congress already knows the truth about 9/11.
That’s why they’re not poking around. However, it’s a huge mistake for the rest of us who know the truth, or parts of it, to wait for permission to speak. America has trapped itself in a mythic nightmare about terrorism that exaggerates our enemies, while our leaders manipulate our sense of patriotism and effectively blind us to mistakes in national security policy. It’s not a successful policy if it weakens our country.
The United States has reached a tipping point when we have to consider the end of the “American Age.” In which case, an honest examination of 9/11 becomes imperative.
Americans must understand 9/11, so that we can puncture the creepy bubble around the War on Terrorism, and sweep away the phony threat that’s got all of Washington plotting Wars in the Middle East, bankrupting our economy with runaway defense spending, and tearing down civil rights in the name of national security.
The lie itself is formidable. Valerie Plame, a lady I greatly admire, recently tried to assure Americans that the U.S. government could never keep such a huge and devastating secret for so long.
Wanna bet? Myself, I got rewarded with 5 years of indictment as an “Iraqi Agent,” including one year in prison on Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas—without a trial or hearing—after I requested to testify about Iraq and 9/11.
Thirty days after I spoke with top staffers for Senator Trent Lott and Senator John McCain, the FBI showed up with a warrant for my arrest.
My 5 year indictment on the Patriot Act nicknamed me “Symbol Susan.” It was not subtle. The viciousness I suffered was purposefully designed to scare off on anybody else who might consider talking. The cover ups of 9/11 and Iraq distinguished the Patriot Act as the premiere weapon to take down whistle blowers.
To those others I say, they cannot silence us if we refuse to give up our voice. I challenge Congress to put our country on the right track by holdings hearings on 9/11 to take our testimony. I will gladly swear to all of the following under oath.
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THE TRUTH: A SUMMER OF ADVANCE WARNINGS
The truth is that our team, which triangulated the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, discussed the 9/11 attack in its exact scenario and time frame throughout the summer of 2001.
We talked about it practically every week at our meetings. We also discussed it on the telephone, pointedly joking “Hello NSA! Pick up the phone—” knowing the National Security Agency had wire tapped my lines.
There’s no question that the story of the 9/11 conspiracy was planted months in advance to prep the intelligence community for the government’s reaction. And it unfolded exactly as they told us it would—with a little help from an orphan explosives team. That will be explained in a second article. The two are not contradictory.
Before we get to that, Americans must first accept the motivation for 9/11, and why the U.S. government allowed it to happen. This was a Pearl Harbor Day. And it achieved an agenda, which was already well defined.
From the first moment that I was told about 9/11 in April and May of 2001, I was informed that the United States planned to declare War on Iraq immediately when 9/11 happened. The two were already linked as cause and effect.
Threats of War Against Iraq
I can testify to that absolutely, because I was the Asset commanded to deliver those threats to Iraqi diplomats at the United Nations. I was instructed to say the “U.S. intended to declare War on Iraq if Baghdad failed to provide actionable intelligence to stop the conspiracy involving airplane hijackings and a strike on the World Trade Center. We would bomb Iraq more aggressively than ever before—back to the Stone Age.”
My CIA handler further demanded that I stress the threat of War “originated at the highest levels of government—above the CIA Director and the Secretary of State.” He considered the warnings to have more potency if Iraqi diplomats understood the muscle of those issuing the threats.
As the primary back channel to Baghdad from 1996 through 2003, I delivered that message with all precision from April and May right through August 4, 2001. I can pinpoint the day, because the conversation with my CIA handler took place on the day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Robert Mueller’s appointment to head the FBI.
My CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz speculated aloud that the 9/11 attack might occur before Mueller was formally instated as FBI Director.
In the same conversation, Dr. Fuisz warned that I must not go back to New York, because the attack was “imminent” and the CIA expected “mass casualties” and a “possible miniature thermo nuclear device.” Over his objections, I insisted on returning to Iraq’s Embassy at the U.N. one last time to see if diplomats had received any reports from Baghdad. Then I promised I would not go back to New York until after the attack.
My meeting with Iraqi diplomats occurred two days later on Saturday, August 4. I did not return to New York until September 18.
Let me be clear: The threat was not vague or undefined. We fully expected airplane hijackings and some sort of aerial strike targeting the World Trade Center, specifically. No other target or location was ever discussed.
Details of the 9/11 conspiracy and the full history of Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence are disclosed in my book, “Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq.” It’s a real life spy thriller, and it goes into much greater depth, whereas this article can only scratch the surface.
“Extreme Prejudice” reveals a truth that’s very different from what America has been told. I challenge Congress to put me under oath and rip me with questions. Americans have the right to hear my direct testimony, which would disclose a complete chronology of our advance discussions about the conspiracy, in addition to our considerable efforts to stop the attack.
It’s nothing like what you expect. As a life-long anti-war activist, I was highly agitated about the threats of war that I was commanded to deliver to Iraqi diplomats. And I’m not a passive individual.
Adding to the tension, by the summer of 2001 the international community had developed a deep loathing for U.N. sanctions that were destroying Iraq’s social fabric and community infrastructure. The days of U.N. sanctions on Iraq—which I reviled, too—were closing fast. The international community would have condemned any rogue military action against Iraq.
The CIA was way ahead of the curve on Iraq. Unbeknownst to the public, from the opening days of the Bush administration in January 2001, our team had begun hammering out a comprehensive framework for achieving all U.S. objectives, including weapons inspections, so that the U.S could claim a major victory while ceding to pressure for the U.N. sanctions to end.
Anti-terrorism was a central part of our peace framework. In fact, Iraq had agreed to invite an FBI Task Force to conduct terrorism investigations by February, 2001. The CIA had also won Iraq’s consent for major reconstruction contracts for U.S. corporations in telecommunications, hospitals and health care, transportation— and oil. Everything the U.S. wanted was ours for the taking. And the CIA wanted it all.
Our Team Efforts to Stop 9/11
When my CIA handler, Dr. Fuisz informed me on August 2 that the 9/11 attack was in play and considered “imminent,” he and I together resolved to take more aggressive action to prevent it.
I’m not telling you what somebody else did that I heard about later. I’m telling what actions I took myself in “real time” to try to stop the 9/11 attack.
On Monday, August 6, I reported to Dr. Fuisz after my trip to New York. I told him that Iraqi diplomats had thrown up their hands. They had nothing to give us. Yes, they assured me, Baghdad was fully aware that Iraq faced a threat of full scale war, if a 9/11 style of attack occurred.
They understood that it would be in their greatest interest to provide us with any fragment of intelligence to help stop the attack. They understood that 9/11 would complicate our peace framework exactly at the moment when the international community was ready to throw off U.N. sanctions. Bottom line, they had nothing to give us.
I was an unusual party to this discussion, motivated by deep antipathy for sanctions, violence through terrorism and war. For those reasons, I informed Dr. Fuisz that I felt super motivated to do everything in my power to stop 9/11, both to protect the people of New York City and to prevent an unnecessary War—exactly at the moment when our team was completing this outstanding peace framework that achieved all U.S. objectives.
At the instructions of Dr. Fuisz on August 6, I personally placed phone calls to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s private staff at the Justice Department on August 7 or 8. Identifying myself as the CIA Asset covering the Iraq and Libya Embassies at the United Nations, I personally requested that Ashcroft’s Office post “an emergency broadcast alert across all agencies, seeking any fragment of intelligence on airplane hijackings, with a known target of the World Trade Center.”
I described the attack as “imminent,” with the potential for “mass casualties. I asked for maximum inter-agency cooperation and urged that any information be forwarded to the CIA immediately.
Hearing my request, staff in the inner sanctum of Attorney General John Ashcroft’s office gave me a phone number at the Office of Counter-Terrorism in the Justice Department, and urged me to repeat exactly what I had just told them. I did so without delay. I dialed the number. I spoke to the staff.
I wasn’t taking any chances. A few days later, I visited the home of my cousin, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. I waited in my car while his neighbors peeked out their windows, determined to warn him about our 9/11 scenario, and request cabinet level support to pre-empt the attack. Alas, Andy did not come home. When I drove away after two hours, I did so believing that I might be making the greatest mistake of my life.
There was still plenty of time for action to pre-empt the attack. Americans have a right to know how top leaders in government handled our warnings, and effectively thwarted those best efforts in August of 2001.
There was a lot of action that August—including a second set of events that I would learn about years later, involving an unidentified orphan team that would lay explosives in the Twin Towers. My next article will explain how those two conspiracies converged. Contrary to what the 9/11 Truth Community supposes, these two operations do not cancel out each other.
But first Americans must understand that 9/11 was a “stand down” operation, a true Pearl Harbor Day, meaning that U.S. and foreign intelligence understood what was coming.
The leadership at the top of the U.S. government made an active decision to let the attack go ahead— because the decision was already made that 9/11 would provide a pretext for War in Iraq. With peace breaking out in the Middle East at that very moment, the War Party required a massive scale threat to overturn the peace process. Clearly they decided that nothing would be allowed to interfere with that objective.
Once that factor’s understood, 9/11 becomes comprehensible.
Some of my testimony would surprise America—like efforts by Saddam Hussein’s government to guarantee Iraq’s complete cooperation with global anti-terrorism efforts before and after 9/11. That will be addressed in another article.
Finally, my book, EXTREME PREJUDICE provides a full scope of the brutality by the Justice Department to silence me and other Assets, using the Patriot Act as a weapon to guarantee the success of its deception. (A hint: Assets watched the cover ups of 9/11 and Iraq on prison television. And I wasn’t the only prisoner).
Oh it wasn’t all bad! My CIA handler got $13 million tax-free from emergency appropriations for the 9/11 investigation in November, 2001— He built himself a grand mansion a stone’s throw from CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Not a dollar or a dime got spent on 9/11.
Mind you, the government’s not complaining. But shifting tax dollars away from Iraq’s cooperation with the 9/11 investigation took food off my table. I paid a terrible price for it. More later in this series.
Democracy Requires Accountability
All parts of the 9/11 warnings, the cover up— the arrests and pay offs— should disturb Democrats and Republicans alike who brag about their leadership support for Assets engaged in anti-terrorism. It makes a lie of their pledge of loyalty, for sure. And it denigrates their performance as stewards of national security, which ought to be a litmus test for the 2012 Campaigns. Those who don’t care for the people’s business don’t belong in government.
Simply put, democracy requires accountability to the people. Americans have a fundamental right to possess the truth about 9/11 and the decision to declare War on Iraq months before the attack—because national security does matter in this age. Americans require that knowledge, so as to assess the leadership performance and quality of policy making on our behalf.
Good leaders don’t have to be afraid. Bad leaders should be sent packing for the betterment of government.
Most alarmingly, 9/11′s legacy has proved detrimental to the security of our country.
According to the National Journal, fighting this phantom demon of terrorism today involves 1,271 government agencies, producing 50,000 intelligence reports a year that for the most part nobody reads. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclusive/20110506/pl_yblog_exclusive/the-cost-of-bin-laden-3-trillion-over-15-years Meanwhile, “black budgets” for intelligence operations have mushroomed to $75 billion a year, financing both domestic and international surveillance that monitors law-abiding citizens across the country.
There’s no federal auditing authority or Congressional oversight over “black budgets.” It’s all tax free and unregulated. It’s a secret government gone wild.
Osama’s death has been a great victory for the CIA. But it will not bring U.S. soldiers home from Iraq and Afghanistan, where military operations have cost $1.6 trillion and counting. It won’t end the nonsense War against Libya, which has no justification at all.
Osama’s death will not quash the planning stages for future wars against Syria, and God help us, Iran.
Is it really patriotic to stay silent while the military industrial complex devours our economy for its own profits? Without producing benefits for U.S. soldiers? Admiral Mullen, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff doesn’t think so. He has described America’s national debt as “the greatest threat to our national security.”
Our country is teetering on the abyss. If we’re going to succeed in restoring the great traditions of liberty and moral authority, we’ve got to relearn the history of 9/11.
We must acknowledge the real threats to our quality of life are not “out there.” They start right here. And those threats are perpetuated by the myths that are leaders invented that tragic morning.
There is no better time for truth than today. The success of our national security policy—and our ability to avoid future wars that are guaranteed to destroy this earth—very well depend on it.
Susan Lindauer is the author of Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq, which recounts her nightmarish ordeal as the second non-Arab American ever indicted on the Patriot Act, facing secret charges, secret evidence, secret grand jury testimony and threats of indefinite detention.
The next article in this series will show how the detonation theory fits hand in glove with the airplane hijackings and aerial strike on the World Trade Center. Americans will see why the two are not contradictory at all.
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I am reading her book now and would say it is a MUST read for every American.
What gives Susan credibility for me is on that very day as we watched at work after the towers ‘fell’, I happened to be working with someone who’s husband was assigned to a base not far from where we worked. She let it slip that personnel at that base knew well in advance BEFORE 9/11. Then she zipped it when I asked why they did nothing.
My brother was a first responder to the Pentagon. My brother has three engineering degrees and that is his major field of expertise. While he has never spoken of what he saw (prohibited from speaking), whatever he pieced together in the weeks that followed clearly floored him. I do know my brother, and nothing rattles my brother usually, yet something did relative to what he saw at the Pentagon and he hasn’t been the same since. The only thing that does rattle my brother for sure is when the story doesn’t line up with the facts. He has also been a firefighter and EMT for decades, in addition to his regular job.
On Iraq, which Susan addresses in her book, I questioned from day one Bush’s decision to enter Iraq as it was completely illogical. Just as illogical as those planes being hijacked and crashed into the towers, the Pentagon and of course the one diverted to PA. With the level of technology that we had even then relative to our national security, no fricken way 9/11 could have happened the way it was said to have happened without somebody (several somebodies) at the top knowing about it. No way!!
Raised up a mil brat myself, smacks of someone ordering a stand down, allowing it to happen. That was my sense on that day, and remains my sense.
Within a few weeks of 9/11, a young man had stolen a small private plane and flew it into the taller Bank of America building (not the commonly called ‘beercan’ one, but the newer one) in Tampa, one of the higher floors. Granted, though it was considerably smaller than a commercial jet, it still had fuel. That plane was left hanging nose in the window of the Bank of America building for several weeks. There was no explosion, albeit if one were to follow the logic of the towers, certainly there should have been a small explosion at least or fuel fire albeit small or something when that private plane was flown directly into the BofA building. Only was nothing, beyond taking out a few windows and making a mess in the affected offices.
Plane looked like a toothpick hanging out of the building clean as a whistle. Nor was there any fire damage to the affected offices. I know that to be true; B of A was my employer at the time. We had already lost co-workers who worked in the towers on 9/11. One can bet that news of a plane into the Bank of America building in downtown Tampa flew internally faster than fleas can light on a dog.
Susan also addresses the UN Sanctions placed on Iraq by the UN and the US was a heavy fist on keeping those sanctions in place. As a former banker, I had awareness of those sanctions albeit only so far as no business was to be conducted with Iraq period, no wire transfers, no currency exchange for any customer, period.
What an eyeopener to learn to what depth the Iraqi people were impacted and even devastated by those sanctions. I know they were in place as long as she states in her book, it matches up with my awareness of their existence via my work. Banks were not to do any business with Iraq. That’s all we were told. Those sanctions were in place for well over a decade. I believe her account of the impact on the Iraqi people of those sanctions to be credible.
It’s long past time the truth come out. Another resource worth exploring is Dr. Judy Wood. From an engineering and physics perspective, she analyzes the data obtained after the towers ‘fell’. She doesn’t interpret the data, rather presents the data, questions the disconnect of the actual data with the ‘story’ we were fed and is well sourced on where she obtained the data from.
An example, the media did show pix of vehicles that were ‘off’. By off, I mean how can door handles be intact, yet parts of the vehicles melted? Illogical. The pix of the vehicles shown were not IN the buildings. Media back then even showed vehicles few miles away, engines poofed? Yet door handles intact? Portions of vehicles melted, yet door handles intact? Illogical.
Then when one recalls and even looks again on the pix of how the towers ‘fell’, it isn’t even logical that planes crashing into the towers could have taken those towers down. More so in consideration of how they fell from the visual aspect, which makes no sense as to how vehicles in the surrounding area and few miles away would be affected at all. Dr. Wood also addresses that in her videos presentations, and includes non-related actual demolitions for comparison. Best I can recall her presentation was at one of the Grenada forums.
As we put the truth together, please do keep in mind that while the ones giving orders to send our men and women into harm’s way had to know there was no reason to go into Iraq, our boots were lied to every bit as much as we were. Please be mindful of that as more of the truth comes to light. They did not know either.
Had to add a comment about demolitions possibly being used on the towers. In part, it would be consistent with how the towers fell. However,logically that can’t be the whole of it. Back to those cars, for example. How can metal melt yet the seats inside the cars not at least be scorched? Demolitions doesn’t do that, nor do commercial aircraft crashing into buildings.
“Some of the principal evidence that must be explained:” [scroll down in linked page to find]
http://www.drjudywood.com/wtc/key.html
Can’t find the grenada presentation, not surprised as observably the past couple of years, soon as people start putting together certain things, those kind of vids disappear.
However, her website has a wealth of data and analysis relative to 9/11.
http://www.drjudywood.com/
(home page, scroll down to link into related)
Time for truth – all of it, not just some of it.
Though I ever so admire this woman, Susan Lindauer, it seems that she is not aware of one essential fact and that fact is that we are a nation self satisfied ignorant and proud of it idiots. There is no longer any dignity, nor integrity, nor truthfulness to us. We have become a nation of mindless insects devouring everything in our path. There is no hope for us.
“There is no longer any dignity, nor integrity, nor truthfulness to us. We have become a nation of mindless insects devouring everything in our path.”
I disagree with your opinion as stated. Dignity, integrity and truthfulness begins with the individual. A nation is comprised of many individuals. That some are in fact as you describe doesn’t mean the whole of a people within a nation are.
To say there is no hope is both true and untrue. Hope in itself is a deception, for it requires minimal action beyond wishful thinking and wishful thinking accomplishing nothing. Once one believes there is no hope, they have in effect surrendered. Contrasting that, once one climbs aboard the hope train enticed by promises lacking any substance to back them up, one has already surrendered as well.
If anything, from the “collective” approach, Americans are a deceived people. I would go so far as to say even lazy and complacent, albeit not all. However, one cannot excuse nor claim ‘victim’ either. Deception is like dancing the tango – requires ‘two’. One selling the lie, and one willing to swallow it. Even lies cannot be sold without someone willing to ‘buy’ them. Perhaps the biggest lie we bought into was the lie of ‘easier is better’.
Regardless of what she says concerning previous knowledge of the attacks, a thinking person, looking over the available evidence, and consulting the laws of physics, knows full well that no commercial airliners were involved in those attacks. They were special effects placed on the videos after the fact, at least with regards to the WTC. Nobody ever saw a live impact by one of these alleged planes on TV. And no video has ever been released showing a commercial airliner striking the Pentagon.
I’m not going to get into a lot of details here, but it has been proven that neither of the AA flights were even scheduled to fly that day, and the two UA flights had their tail numbers listed as “valid” by the FAA until September 28, 2005, meaning that the planes were still in service. And neither one of those two airlines has EVER filed a loss claim with their insurance carrier(s) over planes worth tens of millions of dollars.
Big M
Correct. And it takes no degree in physics to see and understand the obvious.
Something else too, logically speaking, why so much vid purported to have been taken by non-media? One would think that the last thing anyone in close proximity at the time would be even thinking of filming it.
Of the ‘interviews’ the media picked up after from said to be witnesses, where was the emotion that one would expect to hear in recounting what they saw and/or experienced? Not even the shock of the moment can account for the lack of emotion in the interviews that followed. While it is only my opinion, my sense then was these interviews were all scripted with very poor actors/actresses.
To clarify my meaning, one of my employer’s associates who survived sent via internal communications his account of that day several months later, the part where he was in the stairwell while many were trying to get out. It took him several months just to be able to talk about it. His account was so riveting that, even tho we were not there with him at the time of the event, reading his account brought us there back in time to that stairwell, and furthermore was graphically detailed and packed with emotions that fit the account. In retrospect, I regret not keeping a copy of his account.
Furthermore, how is it that the media was conveniently in place so quickly? One of those questions that answers itself, in my opinion.
I asked the same questions and more back then, as well as many more over the years since. Goes without saying the type of responses.
Well, my nickname growing up was the “why child”. Sure hope asking so many ‘why’s’ doesn’t come back to bite me at the end of the day.
If so, c’est la vie.
“Furthermore, how is it that the media was conveniently in place so quickly?”
Good question. In fact, within ten minutes of the first explosion, the media had copters aloft, cameras on the top of buildings, and they were already interviewing people, the majority of whom just happened to be employees and, in many cases, high-ranking officers of the same news organizations that were interviewing them. Quite a coincidence. And the so-called eyewitnesses at the Pentagon were also found to be almost exclusively media people, who just happened to be there.
Take a look at the most famous (I think, anyway) video of the crash of “Flight 93″ into WTC 2, with the “plane” coming in from screen left. Start the video, and immediately pause it, before the “plane” appears. Look at it for 10 seconds or so, and then ask yourself two questions:
1) Who is operating the camera?
2) Why, out of all of the things that the camera could be focused on, is it focused right on the section of WTC 2 where the explosion occurs?
The answer is simple. There were explosives in the building. They knew where they were, so they took a shot of the explosion, and then placed a “plane” in the video. Unfortunately, no plane could behave the way that one does. They should have been a bit more careful, but they rightly figured that the shock aspect would mean that practically nobody would look that closely. And if that was phony, then the whole operation, including 19 “Arabs” who don’t show up on any boarding videos, was a hoax. So either Lindauer was completely taken in, or else she is part of the hoax. I choose to believe the former, but who really knows?
You are absolutely correct and that part about the cameras, the explosives, the presence of thermate will be examined in detail in Part 2. Promise!
Oops!! I meant to say the crash of “Flight 175.” Sorry . . .