I don’t know about you, but I smell a rotten barrel of fish whenever I see an ex-CIA man join the fifth estate. It would be the equivalent of hiring ex-KGB to write for the Pravda or Izvestia during the Cold War. This was a common practice in the Soviet Union and we see it more often today in newsrooms across the U.S., as we undergo our own "Sovietization".
Commenting on a 1977 Rolling Stone article written by Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame, Daniel Elsberg in a Daily Kos interview speculates on the current state of affairs as seen through the prism of the Judith Miller affair:
["Over 200 reporters, according to Bernstein, had signed secrecy agreements with the CIA. There were a number of individuals who did really work to put stories in that they wanted, to publish stuff they wanted. I believe that's what they were saying about Joe Alsop and Stewart Alsop, that they were essentially assets of the CIA, which means they would put out CIA line. Not because they were literal employees, but because they were friends with people in the CIA."]
The old saying; “Once a company man, always a company man” applies here. Bill Christison is a former senior official of the CIA. He was a National Intelligence Officer and the Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis before his retirement in 1979. He has written an article entitled;
‘Stop Belittling the Theories About September 11’.
The dead giveaway of something “Rotten in Denmark”, is the lack of any mention of Israel in this article, other than the opening statement that refers to the Lebanon invasion and U.S. involvement in the Middle East, as if they were two separate occurrences without any relationship to the 911 terror attacks.
["However horrendous the crimes of two of the world’s great liars and terrorists in Gaza and Lebanon, it is imperative that we not let the deeds of Ehud Olmert and George W. Bush distract us from another recent event."]
The event he is talking about is the C-SPAN rebroadcast of a panel discussion, held originally in late June, sponsored by an organization called the American Scholars’ Symposium to discuss what really happened on September 11, 2001.
Anyone familiar with this group knows they lay blame of 911 on "Rich, White guys with ties to 'Big Oil' in the Bush administration". The self-proclaimed leader of the 911 "truth" movement, Alex Jones, even goes as far to dogmatically claim, 'Israel could not have pulled off the 911 attacks...believe me, I've done the research'. Of course no evidence of research is forthcoming, we are expected to take Mr. Jones on his word and believe as one does with a faith based religion.
Now we are told by Mr. Christison, to stop "Belittling" these theories concocted by people like Jones and Co., even though all of them ignore the compelling evidence that implicates Israel as the main culprit behind the 911 terror attacks. 911 was the event that changed the U.S. forever. We became a partner with Israel in the "War on Terror" instead of a neutral party that played the part of negotiator in Middle Eastern affairs. As a result of 911 we merged all law enforcement under the Dept of Homeland Security, appointing Michael Chertoff, dual citizen with Israel, as the Tsar of this Department.
Without 911, we would not have airport security scanning our shampoo bottles, underwear and shoes. We would not have our phones tapped and email monitored. We would not have our young boys and girls dying in Iraq and we would not be in the Middle East gearing up for World War 3, while our government treats every little old lady from Pasadena as a potential terrorist threat.
Christison points out the two popular 911 theories:
1.) An airplane did not hit the Pentagon.
2.) The Twin Towers did not collapse from the impact of the hijacked airplanes.
He then goes on to say:
[“If the judgments made on Points ONE and TWO above are correct, they raise many “Who done it” questions and strongly suggest that some unnamed persons or groups either inside or with ties to the government were actively creating a “Pearl Harbor” event, most likely to gain public support for the aggressive foreign policies that followed -- policies that would, first, “transform” the entire Middle East, and second, expand U.S. global domination.”]
This excerpt from Christison’s article submits the question of “Who done it?”, as if it were some far off fantasy with no hard evidence available to answer the query. In any criminal investigation it is not necessary to satisfy the ballistic evidence to move on to the evidence that shows “Who done it?”.
The $64,000.00 question of “Who done it?“ is found in the brainchild of Richard Perle and Benjamin Netanyahu…”A Clean Break”, the founding document of PNAC.
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
Commonly referred to as the "Clean Break" report, was prepared in 1996 by a study group led by Richard Perle. The other participants were James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr, Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, Jonathan Torop, David Wurmser and Meyrav Wurmser
The report was prepared as a proposed new policy for the government of Israel, and presented to then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July of 1996.
The principle recommendations were:
- A repudiation of the concept of "Land for Peace," which was the basis for the Oslo Accords.
- Armed incursions into Palestinian areas under the rubric of the "right of hot pursuit".
- Armed incursions into Lebanon, and possible strikes against Syria and Iran.
- The removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.
- A repudiation of the tenets of Labor Zionism and a change to Economic liberalism.
The authors of the report are all prominent Neoconservatives that have strong ties to the Likkud party of Israel. They are also rabidly Zionist with dual citizenship to Israel as part of the Jewish Diaspora. It would not be considered hyperbole to say that Perle and Co., are agents for Israel, working on it’s behalf here and abroad.
Perle, Feith, and David Wurmser assumed important positions in the administration of President George W. Bush. The similarities between the proposed actions in the Clean Break document, and the subsequent 2003 invasion of Iraq and 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict are evident.
Why no mention of the White paper, “A Clean Break” in the Christison article? "Clean Break" is a paper written by Benjamin Netanyahu with Richard Perle and a few other Likkud Jews from the U.S.. In light of the events today, the invasion of Lebanon by Israel and threats of sanctions against Iran and Syria by the U.S., doesn’t this at least put Israel in the category of “Persons Of Interest” with re to any 911 investigation?
RAD
When PNAC was founded, a group of neo-cons wrote a spin-off paper elaborating on “Clean Break”. It was entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” or RAD. The title implies that agents of Israel, (Perle and co.) got together and wrote a policy paper that was concerned only with America’s future security and establishment as the preeminent world power. A PAX Americana if you will. They even got Dick Cheney to participate to give it a more “American” look and less of an “Israeli” front group image.
The paper “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” is the only paper that is discussed in great detail by 911 researchers. In fact, Christison alludes to it in his article with the abovementioned “Pearl Harbor” comment;
["Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."]
{-- from "Rebuilding America's Defenses"}
Perle’s PNAC authored a Project Paper entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses", which laid out an extensive plan for US global domination, beginning with invading and occupying the Middle East.
PNAC has been pushing for regime change in Iraq since 1997, and their members include Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, Richard Perle and many others close to the Bush administration. With the start of the Bush presidency, many PNAC members were installed in various positions in Bush's cabinet, and the push for war began -- a push for war based on false evidence at best and fabricated lies at worst.
RAD is a paper that is a spin-off of the original, or founding document for PNAC, “Clean Break”. “A Clean Break” implicates Israel, RAD implicates Cheney and the American neo-cons. This is the preferred "conspiracy theory", as it is Politically Correct.
It doesn’t implicate Israel and therefore is not “anti-Semitic”.
[Webster Tarpley, summarized his own views on the events of 9/11. He emphasized that “neocon fascist madmen” had perpetrated the 9/11 “myth.” He went on to say, “The most important thing is that the 9/11 myth is the premise and the root of the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War and the coming attack on Iran. ... We must ... deprive [the myth’s perpetrators] of the ability to stampede and manipulate hundreds of millions of people [with their] ... cynically planned terrorist events.” ]
“Neocon fascist madmen”? Perle, Wolfowitz, Wurmser, Feith, and Netanyahu?…He could have just said Jews, or Israelis, but that would be too obvious (anti-Semitic). We wouldn’t want to devise a Conspiracy Theory that people could understand without much effort. We have to get the people to buy the books and videos and keep up with the soap opera known as the “911 Truth Movement”. This is what is commonly known as putting the “Con” in Conspiracy.
The evidence implicating Israel is abundant. We have the plan (Clean Break) for the Middle East war, written in advance, calling for American military to implement Israeli domination of the Middle East.
We have the spin off document (RAD) calling for a “new Pearl Harbor” to get Americans behind an invasion of the Middle East that would make Israel the preeminant power in that region with the help of the American military. Americans, believing the government's spin would seek to avenge the deaths of 911, by supporting military action in the Middle East to fight the "War On Terror".
I think we can all agree that 911 was our “new Pearl Harbor” and many of the goals found in "Clean Break" and "RAD" have been accomplished as the authors intended.
We have Benjamin Netanyahu’s prints all over the “Clean Break” document as the original sponsor. This clearly implicates Israel, as the prime mover behind the invasion of Iraq by the U.S., with the most to gain from this military operation. Thus, Israel had a vested interest in the success of the Twin Tower attacks, as this would be the catalyst for American involvement in the Israeli plan for Middle East domination or "Securing The Realm".
Likkud Jews created PNAC and were placed in Bush’ cabinet to write foreign policy. Agents of Israel in the Bush cabinet wrote in "Clean Break":
["…removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq" was an "important Israeli strategic objective in its own right as a means of foiling Syria's regional ambitions…
The Israeli designs would only be feasible if the United States provided the muscle and the resources.”]
Bill Christison apparently wants you to “ Stop Belittling the Theories About September 11”, but by all means don’t use the “J” word when discussing these theories. The theory which names Israel and the Jews as the “perps”, seems to be the only theory that all 911 “Truth movementeers” agree should be “Belittled” and ignored.
But what would you expect from a company man?
Peter Schaenk
September 6, 2006
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