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Two of the victims’ families thoughts about 9-11
Asked if she believes the Bush Administration is withholding information, Patti Casazza, whose son, John, 13, thought his father was Superman - untouchable - until the trade center fell, replied, "They are blacking out info in the report. That is withholding information."
"I don't want anyone to know what it's like to watch your husband burn alive on television," Kristen Breitweiser said. "The report is incomplete at best. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudi. We have clear and convincing money trails linking the Saudi princes to the terrorists. Why that's not finding its way into the report, I don't know", she said.
Who do we care about here? Maybe I’m a bleeding heart but, I care about the people who are grieving. 43’s families’ 9-11 compensation fund has provided paltry benefits for the poor families. Also, there has been collusion between the fund’s Special Master and the U.S. District Judge assigned with their private litigation. Typical to their nature, 43’s team always stonewalls. This inhumanity to brokenhearted souls has caused the poor families of the victims of this tragedy; who really want to get the benefits and lawsuits behind them so they can stop being forced to dwell on their lost loved ones, to suffer more, and re-open their wounds with further lawsuits. If 43 had returned “honor and dignity” to his actions in this, then these poor people could get on with their lives. They are not “Pioneers” or “Rangers” so 43’s “compassionate conservatism” doesn’t include them.
A meeting of multiple misdeeds, combining to form a Perfect Storm of scandals for 43’s regime.
There is the Families 9-11 compensation fund, which is low-balling the victims’ families and sharing information detrimental to the victims’ families, with the Families 9-11 lawsuit
Did this fund assuage the victims’ loss? It didn’t! It only roused the anger of the families to such an extent that nearly half the victims eligible to apply for federal money under the Sept. 11 compensation fund have not filed claims for the program. Out of an estimated 3,000 eligible participants, 1,719 people have applied for the fund, created shortly after the terrorist attacks to protect airlines and other agencies from being bombarded with lawsuits. Those who receive checks, which average $1.4 million per victim, give up their right to sue.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, of the Southern District of New York, has private litigation before his court regarding the terrorist attacks of 9-11. 43’s team is maliciously coordinating information with the fund’s Special Master and this private suit’s U.S. District Judge, against the benefit of 9-11 victims’ families. How can they be that evil? Remember how the Paula ones lawyers, some who had worked with Starr, shared information with him and coordinated their legal shenanigans to impeach Clinton? GOP guys, once they see something can work, even though it is unethical, they are duty bound to continue doing it.
The 43 Administration is involved with political machinations linked to Special Master Kenneth Feinberg and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund which were revealed in a Department of Justice’s letter to Hellerstein’s court: “The Government has been advised that the Court is developing a procedure by which all Plaintiffs in the September 11 Tort Litigation must formally acknowledge the ramifications of pursuing a lawsuit rather than filing a claim with .”
This action will permit Feinberg to force families to listen to his attempts to convince them to give up their lawsuits -- accepting his reduced financial offers, instead of taking their chances for fair compensation, justice and accountability in court.
For those who want answers as to what actually led to these air disasters and the deaths of their loved ones, the victim compensation fund falls severely short, claim Schiavo and Greaves.
"The biggest problem with the fund is that no questions may be asked as to how this could have happened," said Greaves. "Plus, life insurance and other collateral sources of compensation are deducted from the award, but fault need not be proven. You get paid now, but less than the potential of a lawsuit."
"Our clients want accountability. They can't do that if they simply take a 'no fault' payment from the fund," Schiavo stated in a press release. " suing because they want answers, and they want change."
Schiavo and Greaves are lawyers who have filed 38 lawsuits on behalf of the victims' families.
Just recently, lawyers acting for families of the Lockerbie bombing victims say they have reached agreement with Libya on the payment of compensation. Under the deal Libya was expected to start transferring the compensation money - up to $10 million for every victim - into a Swiss bank account immediately. I’ve read that average will be between 4 and 6 million, which is considerably higher than the $1.4 million in the families’ 9-11 compensation fund. WHY? Remember how 43 gets incensed whenever he speaks about lawyers and their frivolous suits. He couldn’t keep his right-wing conservative standing if he permitted this fund to adequately recompense the victims’ families, even though he hypocritically seems to be such a compassionate person. He is so whenever the cameras are clicking!
The Families 9-11 lawsuit is in Cover-up mode!
What have 43’s boys done, other than the “dishonorable and undignified” actions? We have seen where they are communicating with Special Master Kenneth Feinberg and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, to the detriment of the victims’ families. In the opening legal gambits of this suit, U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Robert D. McCallum, Jr. and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York James B. Comey advised U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will intervene to control access to all evidence and documents related to all private litigation before Hellerstein’s court regarding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 -- citing grave national security concerns as their motivation.
Why? How can 43 hope that this will go unchallenged? What a perfect example of “compassionate conservatism”! The victims’ families have resorted to lawsuits.
Motley’s 9-11 $1 trillion lawsuit on behalf of more than 500 family members of 9-11 victims!
The families’ 9/11 attorney Ronald Motley lawsuit alleges that Saudi money has “for years been funneled to encourage radical anti-Americanism as well as to fund the Al Qaeda terrorists“.
The 259-page complaint names 100 defendants, including members of Saudi Arabia's royal family, the Republic of Sudan, seven Saudi and Sudanese international banks, Islamic charities, Saudi government officials, individual Saudi financiers, and Osama bin Laden.
Another batch of federal lawsuits
38 in total have been or soon will be filed on behalf of victims' family members by attorneys Mary Schiavo and John Greaves of the Los Angeles. It is important to note the distinction between the Schaivo suits and the $1 trillion suit filed against Saudi and Islamic defendants. Plaintiffs who have accepted compensation from the federal victim fund are not precluded from taking part in the Saudi suit, however, those compensated by the fund may not sue the airlines, security companies or U.S. government entities, according to the fund's guidelines.
Hilton’s Families 9-11 lawsuit
Stanley Hilton isn’t another example of a wacko lawyer who’d sue anybody. He is a former aide to Senator Bob Dole. The class-action suit names ten defendants, among whom are George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld.
Hilton's suit charges Bush and his administration with allowing the September 11th attacks to take place so as to reap political benefits from the catastrophe. Hilton alleges that Osama bin Laden is being used as a scapegoat by an administration that ignored pressing warnings of the attack and refused to round up suspected terrorists beforehand.
Did you know that Hilton claims to have sources within the U.S. intelligence community, who have stated the Bush Administration ignored intelligence information warning of the impending attacks and refused to round up suspected terrorists known to the FBI and other intelligence agencies before 9-11?
Hilton's plaintiffs in this case are the families of 14 victims of 9/11. These are the same families that rallied in Washington to advocate for an independent investigation into the attacks. They rightly suspected that the just concluded 9/11 hearings which were conducted by Congress behind closed doors, would leave too much unanswered.
They didn’t have to be great prognosticators to get this accurate forecast; they only had to be realistic.
In an article, “All Along the Watchtower”, by William Rivers Pitt, he spells out the reasoning behind this belief, “Mr. Hilton, by filing his lawsuit, has joined the ranks of an ever-increasing body of Americans who subscribe to what they call the LIHOP Theory. LIHOP stands for Let It Happen On Purpose. The LIHOP Theory puts forward the accusation that Bush and his people allowed the September 11th attacks to take place, despite the fact that they had been repeatedly warned of an impending strike.
The LIHOP Theory is straightforward: In the months before 9/11, American intelligence agencies received ominous warnings from the intelligence services of nations like Israel, Russia, Egypt and Germany. These warnings were pointed - an attack involving hijacked aircraft and prominent American landmarks was imminent, our security forces were told. Bush himself was briefed of these warnings weeks before they happened. Instead of responding vigorously to these warnings, the Bush administration and its security apparatus did nothing.”
This briefing, in particular was so damning that the current, hypocritical GOP president has cited executive privilege in refusing to declassify the Presidential Daily Briefing item.
What is he hiding? Can we find a pattern?
Then there is the redaction of 28 pages relating to Saudi Arabia in Congressional 9-11 Report
The Saudi foreign minister spoke with the president of the United States and demanded that the 28 pages be released. And Republican Senator Shelby, who is a friend of the president, says 95 percent of it could be released without any problem for sources and methods.
Why is he stonewalling yet again? The Congress is preparing to start a process that permits the declassification of information if the Senate voted to release it — even over the objections of the administration.
43’s and Kean share a business partner and to keep that secret the 9-11 Investigation that Kean heads will turn into a sham.
Remember how Kissinger had to recuse himself from this investigation because of conflict of interests? There is no possibility that Thomas Kean, Kissinger's 9-11 Investigation replacement, won’t have to do the same. Rove had to have planned it this way desperately hoping that nothing could come out before the election. When 43 had second thoughts about running in 2000, it was because he didn’t think his history could pass the close inspection a presidential candidate gets. It was not his trivial DUI that concerned him, but his shady business dealings with Saudis.
We have to do a brief recent history primer here. The CIA uncovered the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, ( BCCI ) criminal activities in 1981--no great feat, considering how many of its own foreign "associates" were involved, including the head of Saudi intelligence, Kamal Adham, brother-in-law of King Faisal. Instead of stopping the terrorists, the CIA joined them, using BCCI's secret channels to finance "black ops" all over the world.
When a few prosecutors finally began targeting BCCI's operations in the late Eighties, President Bush 41 boldly moved in with a federal probe directed by Justice Department investigator Robert Mueller. The U.S. Senate later found that the probe had been unaccountably "botched"--witnesses went missing, CIA records got "lost," all sorts of bad luck. Lower-ranking prosecutors told of heavy pressure from on high to "lay off”.
One of the scams they came up with involved Dubya. Mini-me's maladroit business skills were about to sink Harken Energy, but the firm was saved by a $25 million investment from a Swiss bank -- a subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, partly owned by the beneficent Khalid bin Mahfouz -- perhaps better known as "Osama bin Laden's bagman" or even "Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law."
What is Kean’s involvement? Kean is a director of Amerada Hess, an oil giant married up to Saudi Arabia's Delta Oil in a venture to pump black gold in Azerbaijan. The partnership is incorporated in a secretive offshore "tax haven," natch. You can't expect a GOP inner-circle criminal, like Kean, to pay taxes like some grubby wage slave. One of those cut-outs was Mahfouz factotum James Bath, a partner in George W.'s early oil venture, Arbusto, who has admitted serving as a pass-through for secret Saudi money.
When the GOP say that 43 and Kean were playing by the book, remember that Clinton desperately tried to reign in these offshore dodges, but the GOP controlled Congress wouldn’t go along with it. This little recent history excursion also shows the “honor and dignity” of 41, who knows what these people are capable of, and still is a shill for Carlyle to them. This is an aristocratic family?
The Court cases, proving these allegations behind a reasonable doubt, will carry more weight than even the gop media can cover-up!
What has happened to the rightful outrage regarding Bush’s “16 words”? This, as well as the
43’s regime disclosing intentionally information identifying a covert agent Joseph Wilson’s wife, are both going to require congressional investigations, yet our major media hasn’t trumpeted these situations daily.
The lawsuits for the 9-11 victims’ families will draw attention to information that 43 is desperately trying to hide until after the election. These lawsuits would have been avoided if 43’s had exhibited the “moral clarity” that he struts around duplicitously expounding about. He should have helped the victims’ families in their time of need, rather than shafting them.
FOX, the leading star in the Murdoch’s inspired GOP monopoly of the media will attempt to downplay this. It can’t succeed as the constant attention that court cases require assures that enough will surface to destroy the leaking ship of lies these rats dwell in.
Let’s see, first 43 threw Tenet off the life raft about the “16 words”. That didn’t quiet people down so his team of sinking rats picked Ambassador Robert Joseph, a special assistant to the president with responsibility for counter-proliferation matters on the National Security Council staff to jettison next. That didn’t work, so off went Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. It is clear that 43 is the chief rat and he’ll sacrifice anyone.
With these lawsuits, if the perfectly obvious fact that Attorney General Ashcroft, cut the anti-terrorism budget prior to 9-11, against the advice of the outgoing Clinton team comes to light, that won’t kill 43’s run. Neither would Ashcroft’s penchant for covering up naked statues, and evading calico cats, instead of doing something about the terrorist threat. That, at that time was what his job required him to do. How do you explain the AG’s abrupt avoidances of airplanes in the immediate months prior to 9-11, due to intelligence he received related to the terrorist threat? This falls into the category of LIH, maybe accidentally, or due to incompetence.
If the LIHOP Theory bobs to the forefront of our peoples’ minds, then the “would-be king rat”, 43, will be sunk!
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