Flying in the Face of Facts [View All]

[paulthompson]

Happy to report that my timeline work got mentioned again today in the Village Voice:


Flying in the Face of Facts

Lots of people dialed 911 to the U.S. Before 9-11. Who put them on hold?
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0429/mondo1.php


WASHINGTON, D.C—First they said they'd never heard of an attack with planes. Then they said there had been vague mentions of something like that. But the intelligence info was full of nuance and might have meant this or that, and anyhow, the computers weren't properly talking to one another. Now, six years after the first alarms went off in the White House under Clinton, and three years after the attacks, the horrid truth emerges: The top levels of the U.S. government knew from 1998 on that a big attack was coming. They never told us.

...

Place this memorandum amid the steady stream of warnings, and you begin to get a pretty clear picture that intelligence agencies and governments in various parts of the world were well aware that bin Laden was planning an attack in the U.S. involving commercial planes. Here are just a few of the warnings we've already culled from Paul Thompson's 9-11 timeline (cooperativeresearch.org):