A growing mutiny of US Admirals

[donhakman]

I said (and editorially cartooned) in a another thread that a growing mutiny against Rumsfeld was coming from select US Admirals.



It is growing steadily in a structured release of increasingly incriminating information that Rumsfeld is an archetect of a terror designed for "our own good".

When Rummy served Nixon, he was dismissed as being too much of a dove.
The opinion of a growing number of people is that Rumsfeld has evolved into a monster that only the People for the New American Century could love.

I mentioned the first step was establishing the Special Orders Office in the Pentagon that was insulated from any other chain of Pentagon command except for a small band including Cheney.

Best regards
Don Hakman

Chapter 2 ...........................................


Jim Hoffman has discovered a document which I believe may be very important to the 911 skeptic movement. This document superseded earlier DOD procedures for dealing with hijacked aircraft, and it requires that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is personally responsible for issuing intercept orders. Commanders in the field are stripped of all authority to act. This amazing order came from S.A. Fry (Vice Admiral, US Navy and Director, Joint Staff) so it appears to me that responsibility for the US armed forces "Failure to Respond" rests directly with Fry for issuing this instruction, as well as with Donald Rumsfeld for failing to execute his responsibility to issue orders in a timely fashion.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction CJCSI 3610.01A (dated 1 June 2001) was issued for the purpose of providing "guidance to the Deputy Director for Operations (DDO), National Military Command Center (NMCC), and operational commanders in the event of an aircraft piracy (hijacking) or request for destruction of derelict airborne objects." This new instruction superseded CJCSI 3610.01 of 31 July 1997.

This CJCSI states that "In the event of a hijacking, the NMCC will be notified by the most expeditious means by the FAA. The NMCC will, with the exception of immediate responses as authorized by reference d, forward requests for DOD assistance to the Secretary of Defense for approval."

Reference D refers to Department of Defense Directive 3025.15 (Feb. 18, 1997) which allows for commanders in the field to provide assistance to save lives in an emergency situation -- BUT any requests involving "potentially lethal support" (including "combat and tactical vehicles, vessels or aircraft; or ammunition") must still be approved by the Secretary of Defense. So again, the ability to respond to a hijacking in any meaningful fashion, is stripped from the commanders in the field.

While none of this relieves the Bush Administration from ultimate responsibility from 911, nevertheless there is the possibility that this discovery could somewhat diffuse the power of our movement's message about the "Stand Down", since it is now clear that it was implemented through a routine administrative memo.

If this comes up as an issue at the Washington 911 cover-up commission, it would be interesting if Fry could testify as to the reasoning behind making it bureaucratically impossible for the DOD to respond to hijackings in a timely fashion.

The relevant documents are on the Web at:

http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/analysis/norad/docs/intercept_proc.pdf

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/d302515_021897/d302515p.pdf


Best regards,

Jerry Russell
www.911-strike.com

[tabasco]

1. It's about time the Navy got onboard.

The Army already had a mutiny and a purge. I am proud of the senior military leadership that shows the moral courage to oppose this corrupt administration. There are many great people in the military, and it is their duty to expose the crimes and corruption of the Bush corporate cabal.

[donhakman]

2. I am not aware of an Army purge

I do remember that the civilian director of the Army was fired by Rumsfeld in the typical Washington resign or else fashion.

[tabasco]

3. Shinseki and other top generals that told Rummy he was nuts.

Forced to retire. Many were passed over for the Army Chief of Staff position, the highest position in the Army. Rummy had to get a general out of retirement to become Army CofS. Unheard of. The Army top brass were most unhappy with Rummy applying corporate management to the Iraq invasion. Many spoke out and effectively ended their careers. The men who had the moral courage to speak their minds were punished.
BushCo put AF General Myers as Chairman of the JCS because he was a Star Wars expert, despite the fact they were told terrorism was the number one threat. So we had leadership at the top that did not understand the threat from day one. Now we are engaged in two ground wars, with a USAF Star Wars geek as the number one general. The incompetence of the Bush administration is mind boggling.

[damnraddem]

4. A mutiny of admirals?

Is that like a pod of whales, a murder of crows? What a wonderful collective plural!