Posted by
Mike on Sunday, February 08, 2009 4:02:26 PM
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The most sensitive information on 9/11 will remain classified for several decades. At that time we will get the full picture. My expectation is that information regarding Flight 77 will prove that Barbara Olson's telephone conversation and that of the flight attendant onboard were both made between the time of the actual highjacking after liftoff and the time radar contact was lost after the plane changed course over West Virginia. It was not picked up on radar after that because it had been shot down. The DNA samples of the crew and passengers including the hijackers were obtained there on the ground, and not at the Pentagon which had been hit by a missile as Defense Secretary Rumsfeld stated. Flight 93 was shot down over western Pennsylvania probably after an attempt was made by passengers to gain control of the aircraft as appears from audio voice recordings.
FBI agent John O'Neill, who died during the aftermath of the attacks, had said during an earlier interview with Barbara Newman that the biggest challenge was to balance the need for order with citizens' rights to liberty and freedom from government intrusion. This is what brought about the wall of separation between the CIA and the FBI under the Clinton Administration as implemented by Assistant Attorney General Jamie Gorelick (no relation to the saxophone player Kenny G). This gave the terrorists Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman in 1993 and Usama bin Laden in 2001 pockets to operate below the intelligence radar. The FBI had received directives not to share information at higher levels as was brought to light by agent Colleen Rowley in Minnesota. This effectively prevented the apprehension of the terrorists before the airplanes were off the ground on 9/11, even though the hijacking plot was known at the top levels well in advance. The CIA could not act within US borders, so the preparation for the attack was outsourced to Israeli agents who planted the explosives in the Twin Towers and Building 7 of the WTO used to blow up the structures after the terrorist attacks. Refurbishing of the Pentagon was begun months before to reduce civilian and military casualties in case the terrorists got past airport security. The contingency plan was to use the refurbished area of the Pentagon as a decoy target if US jets shot down any of the hijacked aircraft in midair, so that the terrorists could not use this as a propaganda weapon thereby gaining more support for their cause.