Intelligence Warnings
In evaluating warnings, two factors must be considered- is the information from a creditable source, and is the intelligence specific and actionable? In the following cases, both criteria are met- the sources are eminently reputable, and the information detailed/specific. It is clear that the appropriate government agencies where given numerous warnings about 9/11- specific in the type of action, location, and date/time. Why were these warnings not acted on or investigated prior to the attack? After the attack, why weren’t the claims investigated to find out why they weren’t investigated?
Summary:
1. David Schippers Warning to John Ashcroft’s Office
2. Drs Nicolson Warning to Pentagon
3. CIA Warning
4. Allies
5. Randy Glass
David Schippers Warning to John Ashcroft’s Office
Former lead counsel for the House, David Schippers, says he’d taken to John Ashcroft’s office specific warnings he’d learned from FBI agents in New York of an impending attack – even naming the proposed dates, names of the hijackers and the targets, and the fact that the investigations had been stymied and the agents threatened:
“There was going to be a massive attack in Washington... The targets were going to be Washington, the White House and the Capitol Building. And that they were going to use airliners to attack them… The original report that I got was that they had arranged for three attacks on the United States - one, they were going to take down an airline; two, they were going to attack a federal facility in the heartland of the United States; and the third one was going to be a massive attack in lower Manhattan.
Got a call from the office of the Speaker of the House, who happens to be an Illinois Republican, said we understand you've got some information, etc. I said, yes I do, I would really like to share it with somebody. I have at least two and maybe three witnesses that should be subpoenaed to come out there and testify in executive session and tell you what I was talking about. Ok. We'll get back to you. Never heard from them. Couple of days later, I got a call from the Senate Intelligence Committee. We hear that you've got information, etc. Yes, I have information and I'd be perfectly willing to bring it out to you. I'd be perfectly willing to have my witnesses go in there and testify but they have to be subpoenaed... Ok, we'll get back to you. That was last week, I still haven't heard from them... Strangely enough, the one group I haven't heard from is the FBI intelligence people.”[1]
So, why hasn’t Ashcroft’s claims been investigated? Why haven’t these agents been interviewed? If these claims are true, why did Ashcroft’s office disregard the warnings?
Drs Nicolson Warning to Pentagon
In August 2001, Drs. Garth Nicolson, Ph.D., and his wife Nancy Nicolson, Ph.D., among the world's most esteemed Mycoplasma researchers and Gulf War Syndrome investigators, reported to Pentagon officials that they had confirmed intelligence that on Sept. 11, 2001 a terrorist strike against the Pentagon would be made. Their sources included individuals in key intelligence positions, the mob, and one high level African diplomat. Their "information was passed on to the Director of Policy of the Department of Defense, the Inspector General of the US Army Medical Corps and the National Security Council," Dr. Nicolson wrote. "Unfortunately, it was ignored." [2]
So, once again, we have two warnings from contacts in the intelligence community and one from a North African head of state, which included specific site, date and source of the attacks, being disregarded. Once again, we have to ask why and by who?
Whereas the FBI’s jurisdiction is mainly the U.S., the CIA’s area of expertise is American interests abroad. With 9/11 just short weeks away, the CIA reportedly told the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department that Osama bin Laden might soon launch an attack within the US [3]. With overseas activity being their forte, their warnings should have been investigated with the highest priority! Yet there is no evidence it was, or even done so after the attacks.
In addition to the Nicholson’s warnings from an African diplomat, over the summer of 2001, Washington received many urgent, senior-level warnings from foreign intelligence agencies and governments - including those of Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Afghanistan and others - of impending terror attacks using hijacked aircraft [4].
FBI informant Randy Glass, working an undercover sting, was told by Pakistani intelligence operatives that the World Trade Center towers were coming down, and that his repeated warnings which continued until weeks before the attacks, including the mention of planes used as weapons, were ignored by federal authorities [5].
References:
[1] http://infowars.com/transcript_schippers.html
[2] http://www.globalresearch.org/view_article.php?aid=670727528
[3] Sunday Herald, 9/23/01 and 5/19/02
[4] http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...
[5] http://innworldreport.net/video/2004-07-02/glass.html
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/randyglass.html