Skeptic
5th September 2004, 22:50
The associated press has told us that fighter aircraft were scrambled and flying beside errand commercial and private air traffic within minutes of the slightest deviation some 67 times in the calendar year preceding June 1, 2001. This is one of many where the Kean Commission not only fail to look, but actually altered evidence, in the preparation of its final report.
For me, the pivotal evidence absolutely demonstrating direct government complicity in, and management of, the attacks was found in a number of undisputed, yet virtually unaddressed wargames that I will show were being conducted, coordinated and/or controlled by Vice President Dick Cheney or his immediate staff on the morning of September 11th. The names of those wargames are known to include: Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Guardian, Northern Vigilance, and Tripod II. All Have been reported on by major press organizations relying on undisputed quotes from participating military personnel. They have also been confirmed by NORAD press releases. All except for Northern Vigilance and Tripod II had to do with hijacked airliners inside the continental United States, specifically within the Northeast Air Defense Sector where all four 9/11 Hijackings occurred.
According to a clear record some of these exercises involved commercial airline hijackings. In some cases false blips were deliberately inserted onto FAA and military radar screens and they were present during (at least) the first attacks. This effectively paralyzed fighter response because, with only eight fighters available in the region, there were as many as 22 possible hijackings taking place. Other exercises, specifically Northern Vigilance had pulled significant fighter resources away from the Northeast U.S.--Just before 9/11--into Northern Canada and Alaska. In addition, a close reading of key news stories published in the spring of 2004 revealed for the first time that some of these drills were "live-fly" exercises were actually aircraft, likely flown by remote control--were simulating the behavior of hijacked airliners in real life. All of this as the real attacks began. The fact that these exercises had never been systematically and thoroughly explored in the mainstream press, or publicly by Congress, or at least publicly in any detail by the so-called independent 9/11 Commission made me think they might be the Holy Grail of 9/11.
1. I will name Richard Cheney as the prime suspect in the mass murders of 9/11 and will establish that, not only was he a planner in the attacks, but also that on the day of the attacks he was running a completely separate command control and communications system which was superseding any orders being issued by the NMCC, or the White House situation room. To accomplish that end he relied on a redundant and superior communications system maintained by the US Secret Service in or near the Presidential Emergency Operations Center--The bunker to which he and National Security advisor Condeloeezza Rice were reportedly "rushed" after Flight 175 struck the WTC's South tower.
Excerpt from a Speech by Michael Ruppert: "Address to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club August 31st, 2004"
For me, the pivotal evidence absolutely demonstrating direct government complicity in, and management of, the attacks was found in a number of undisputed, yet virtually unaddressed wargames that I will show were being conducted, coordinated and/or controlled by Vice President Dick Cheney or his immediate staff on the morning of September 11th. The names of those wargames are known to include: Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Guardian, Northern Vigilance, and Tripod II. All Have been reported on by major press organizations relying on undisputed quotes from participating military personnel. They have also been confirmed by NORAD press releases. All except for Northern Vigilance and Tripod II had to do with hijacked airliners inside the continental United States, specifically within the Northeast Air Defense Sector where all four 9/11 Hijackings occurred.
According to a clear record some of these exercises involved commercial airline hijackings. In some cases false blips were deliberately inserted onto FAA and military radar screens and they were present during (at least) the first attacks. This effectively paralyzed fighter response because, with only eight fighters available in the region, there were as many as 22 possible hijackings taking place. Other exercises, specifically Northern Vigilance had pulled significant fighter resources away from the Northeast U.S.--Just before 9/11--into Northern Canada and Alaska. In addition, a close reading of key news stories published in the spring of 2004 revealed for the first time that some of these drills were "live-fly" exercises were actually aircraft, likely flown by remote control--were simulating the behavior of hijacked airliners in real life. All of this as the real attacks began. The fact that these exercises had never been systematically and thoroughly explored in the mainstream press, or publicly by Congress, or at least publicly in any detail by the so-called independent 9/11 Commission made me think they might be the Holy Grail of 9/11.
1. I will name Richard Cheney as the prime suspect in the mass murders of 9/11 and will establish that, not only was he a planner in the attacks, but also that on the day of the attacks he was running a completely separate command control and communications system which was superseding any orders being issued by the NMCC, or the White House situation room. To accomplish that end he relied on a redundant and superior communications system maintained by the US Secret Service in or near the Presidential Emergency Operations Center--The bunker to which he and National Security advisor Condeloeezza Rice were reportedly "rushed" after Flight 175 struck the WTC's South tower.
Excerpt from a Speech by Michael Ruppert: "Address to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club August 31st, 2004"