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Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 11:58 PM
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Did Pre-9/11 Intelligence Leak to the Private Sector Through CHENEY?
PRESS RELEASE Citizens for Corporate Accountability

(SEATTLE) 04/09/04 - The revelation of the existence of a memo entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."--just five weeks before the 9/11 attacks--raises more questions than it answers.

And despite the testimony of Condaleeza Rice, few minds are put to rest. What people really want to know--particularly the families of the deceased--is why some warning of the strike didn’t make it out to their loved ones in those weeks.

Indeed, while the actual memo has yet to be released(NOW IT HAS BEEN, LOOK BELOW), there are now plenty of other avenues open for investigation. One important avenue is to determine to whom, and when such knowledge of the imminent attacks was communicated. Specifically, given the administrations close ties with various non-elected policy, defense, and corporate groups, it makes sense to explore whether information was released to the private sector, even though no warning was communicated to ordinary folks.

A close examination of pre-911 activities of certain privileged associates of Bush, Cheney, and others is now called for. After all, Americans would expect that Pre-9/11 information wasn’t leaked "for benefit or profit" to a privileged few--while so many others went on their way to work, or to the airport that morning...and on to their deaths.

NOW today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9642-2004Apr13.html

By the time a CIA briefer gave President Bush the Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief headlined "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US," the president had seen a stream of alarming reports on al Qaeda's intentions. So had Vice President Cheney and Bush's top national security team, according to newly declassified information released yesterday by the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 12:01 AM
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Kool Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 12:10 AM
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2. Sheesh. Good article.
Did anyone ask the mayor of San Francisco (Willie Brown) who had told him about the threats, and warned him not to fly? Or is that just a rumor? I read something about him being told not to fly.
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 01:07 AM
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8. I heard him say it on the radio
just days after the attacks

its the real thing. SF Chronical carried the story
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Eye and Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 12:16 AM
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3. It would seem so, when you look at Halliburton's share-price '01-present.
Edited on Wed Apr-14-04 01:13 AM by Eye and Monkey
Yes, of course, vastly over-simplified:

Yes, in Summer '01, there were pending Dresser Industries, etc., asbestos claims. But it is notable that with the rePubs controlling Congress (and federal court appointments), there was an expectation that something would be done to alleviate that constraint on Halliburton. The share-price plummetted, and insiders (including Larry Eagleburger of Reagan-Bush I) bought like crazy.

After 9-11, it was pretty clear to most everyone who had ever been exposed to their operation - if the US goes to war, Halliburton-KBR would make out like bandits.

Winter (on edit) of '01, Halliburton reached a low around 10$ per share. Today, around 30. Look at the insider transactions - insiders have been buying heavily since the BushCo sElection.

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Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 12:50 AM
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5. Halliburton peaked, then dropped after PDB memo, all the way to Sept 11th!
Edited on Wed Apr-14-04 01:19 AM by DanSpillane
This is incredible!

Halliburton stock peaks on august 6 or 7, then heads down until sept 11!

'http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=HAL&a=06&b=01&c=2001&d=08&e=10&f=2001&g=d'

It looks to me like the stock had a REVERSAL on or near August 7 -- just like a few of the airlines did!

Northwest airlines peaks around same time...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=NWAC&a=06&b=01&c=2001&d=08&e=10&f=2001&g=d

Also, notice the HIGHER VOLUME in northwest air about a week before the 11th!

Other charts are similar!
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Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 01:06 AM
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Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 01:19 AM
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Thione1n Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 12:46 AM
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4. In other words, they "stood down" intelligence efforts as well as the
jet fighters........Fucking pigs.
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Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 01:05 AM
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6. They got the plane that was headed for the white house
Edited on Wed Apr-14-04 01:06 AM by DanSpillane
Though....
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RedEagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-04 12:43 PM
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10. Follow the Money
This is SO important!

Remember Catherine Austin Fitts letter.
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