The Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11 (Paperback)

[RamboLiberal]

Not a :tinfoilhat: book. I just got this last week but haven't had a chance to read.

"The 5 Unanswered Questions About 9/11: What the 9/11 Commission Report Failed to Tell Us" will not satisfy those who believe that the attack was "an inside job." That's not at all where Ridgeway is coming from.

Instead, he sees 9/11 coming about as a result of Bush's incompetence and disinterest in terrorism prior to the Twin Towers and Pentagon attacks, as well as chronic institutional failures in D.C. "The Intelligence Community, in many ways," Ridgeway writes, "took blame that rightly should have been levied against the Bush Administration." But, Ridgeway also notes, that doesn't mean that the intelligence community was without blame. Nor does it mean that they fully cooperated with the 9/11 Commission (the White House certainly didn't).

Ridgeway concludes his query of the 9/11 Commission's failings with this observation: "Surely even the most cynical among us believes that a betrayal of such magnitude must carry consequences. Without consequences, there is no justice for the dead and no safety for the living. Why has no one been held accountable?"

http://www.buzzflash.com/reviews/05/11/rev05119.html



With the passage of time, an ever-growing number of indisputable facts are pointing to very serious breaches of integrity and an unsettling lack of transparency surrounding the motivations of key individuals and agencies with distinct roles in events leading up to and following that fateful morning.

In The Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11, investigative reporter James Ridgeway pinpoints five glaring black holes of information surrounding 9/11:

1. The initial government response: Why was Cheney running the country on 9/11? Where was Donald Rumsfeld, commander of the US armed forces? Why didn't American Airlines immediately alert the FAA headquarters and the military at 8:20 when the airline first learned from flight attendants onboard that a hijack was underway?

2. The ignorance of the FBI and CIA: With Al-Qaeda firmly on the radar for years, why were they unable to see this coming?

3. The failings of the FBI's translation department: Why wasn't the Bureau set up to decipher the transmissions within its grasp?

4. The role of Pakistani secret intelligence: As the attacks were planned in Afghanistan, who was watching and who was invested?

5. The 9/11 Commission's investigation: Why weren't even the most obvious questions addressed?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1583227121/qid=1132171554/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6082427-8613720?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[CrispyQ]

1. Sounds like a great book that would generate some good

discussion in the book club! If you're inclined, consider nominating it for the January title. I would love to have some non-:tinfoilhat: points to throw at the few bushites I'm still in contact with.

January noms thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=209x2801

[pretzel4gore]

2. is it possible that bush wasn't elected played a role?

in 911? was it possible the NORC results, which publication was imminent in early sept/01, and would, if nothing done, completely expose the fact bushinc was trying to stage a coup, was in fact staging a coup, and had taken office illegally, against the expressed wishes of the majority of US citizens, and that a 'new pearl harbour' was a very good thing for bush...was there a link between bush's illegal occupation of white house, and the 911 tragedy that drowned any attention to that fact? Did the seamless, almost dedicated media coverage of the event, which ignored the fact of the bush coup, the NORC results, or the fact only bush derived any benefit from the 911 tragedy, suggest that, intelligence failures and iraq are really substitutes for the real story, and questions about the real story, which is the bfee, and its war on the USA/human race...