Section N
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Investigations and Alleged Cover-ups
Introductory text here.
- N.1. Signs of a Systematic 9/11 Cover-up
- N1.1. Attack Cover-ups
- N1.100. Airplane black boxes were found at Ground Zero, according to two first responders and an unnamed NTSB official, but they were "disappeared" and their existence is denied in The 9/11 Commission Report.
- N1.101. U.S. officials consistently suppressed and destroyed evidence
- N1.101a. The rapid and illegal scrapping of the WTC ruins at Ground Zero disposed of almost all of the structural steel indispensable to any investigation of the collapse mechanics.
- N1.101b. Tapes, recorded by air traffic controllers who handled the New York flights, were destroyed
- N1.102. Whistleblowers (like Sibel Edmonds and Anthony Shaffer) were intimidated, gagged and sanctioned, sending a clear signal to others who might be thinking about speaking out.
- N1.103. Officials who "failed" (like Myers and Eberhard, as well as Frasca, Maltbie and Bowman of the FBI) were given promotions.
- N.1.2. Aftermath Cover-ups
- N1.200. The White House deliberately pressured the EPA into giving false public assurances that the toxic air at Ground Zero was safe to breathe. This knowingly contributed to an as-yet unknown number of health cases and fatalities, and demonstrates that the administration does consider the lives of American citizens to be expendable on behalf of certain interests.
- N1.1. Attack Cover-ups
- N2. Investigations
- N2.1. The 9/11 Commission
- N2.100. The Commission's mandate is to provide a “full and complete accounting” of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and recommendations as to how to prevent such attacks in the future.
- N2.1. The 9/11 Commission
Specifically, Section 604 of Public Law 107-306 requires the Commission to investigate "facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001," including those relating to intelligence agencies; law enforcement agencies; diplomacy; immigration, nonimmigrant visas, and border control; the flow of assets to terrorist organizations; commercial aviation; the role of congressional oversight and resource allocation; and other areas determined relevant by the Commission for its inquiry.
President Bush initially refused to allow for an independant investigation.
- N2.101 Public Law 107-306 provided for the reprogramming of $3 million for the Commission. Congress subsequently appropriated, and the President signed into law, an additional $11 million appropriation for the Commission. Recent legislation authorized an additional $1 million, bringing the Commission’s total budget to $15 million.
The Commission is confident that it can fulfill its mandate with this amount. We appreciate very much the support of Congress and the President for this level of funding.
- N2.103 President Bush and Vice President Cheney meet privately with Chairman Kean and Vice Chairman Hamilton, but prefered not to meet with all 10 Commissioners.
The Commission plans also meet with President Clinton and Vice President Gore.
- N2.104 The Commission had access to every document. It asked to see—more than two million pages—including the most sensitive documents the government possesses. The President has yet to assert executive privilege on any document. The Commission also has interviewed every single official with whom we requested to meet, including national security advisers, cabinet secretaries, FBI directors, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, and directors of central intelligence, past and present.
- N2.2. National Institute of Standards and Technology
- N2.3. Federal Emergency Management Agency
- N2.4. Journalistic Investigations
- N2.4.100. The senior researcher on Popular Mechanics' 9/11 debunking piece is a distant cousin of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff
- N.5. Accountability
- N5.1. The various responsible agencies - NORAD, FAA, Pentagon, USAF, as well as the 9/11 Commission - gave radically different explanations for the failure (in some cases upheld for years), such that several officials must have lied; but none were held accountable.
- N5.100. Pres. Clinton's NSA (National Security Advisor) Sandy Berger pled guilty to unauthorized removal and retention of classified material. He took five copies of an after-action report -- one during his September 2003 visit to the Archives and four during his October 2003 trip. He admitted to officials that he then used scissors to cut up three copies that night while at his office. At first he had said he had either misplaced or unintentionally thrown them away. He was reviewing the documents at the request of Pres. Clinton and in preparation for the 9/11 commission.
