Distribution via the Unanswered Questions Wire As I write this the House is appears to be about to pass a bill that grants the surveillance powers sought by an Administration that violated the law when it began spying operations shortly after 9/11.
Open Letter to Members of the Press
As I write this the House is appears to be about to pass a bill that grants the surveillance powers sought by an Administration that violated the law when it began spying operations shortly after 9/11. The evidence here suggests that the NSA began tapping into millions of phone conversation and emails beginning in late 2002 or early 2003 illegally, in violation of the Constitution The evidence is quite compelling and a class action suit against the AT&T is now moving ahead in the 9th District. The lawsuit against AT&T and Verizon and the evidence outlined in these two articles and the documents at the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation have not been covered adequately by your network or media outlet in the wake of recent ‘clarifications’ by Gonzales regarding “other intelligence activities” at issue at the time of his hospital bedside visit to then AG Ashcroft in 2004. This brings shame on you and the entire fifth estate. Hopefully you will remedy this in the wake of the passage of this new FISA Bill and after full review of the Kyle F. Hence 9/11 CitizensWatch See also:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/23/internet_expert/index1.html And the linked article in PDF form here:
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/exhibit1117.pdf The full case for illegal spying is laid out here:
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/ http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/21/att_nsa/index.html ************* STANDARD DISCLAIMER FROM UQ.ORG: UnansweredQuestions.org does not necessarily endorse the views expressed in the above article. We present this in the interests of research -for the relevant information we believe it contains. We hope that the reader finds in it inspiration to work with us further, in helping to build bridges between our various investigative communities, towards a greater, common understanding of the unanswered questions which now lie before us.
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Tired of all the Lies
Why and who has the authority to screen the media from TV News and Newspapers. Are we only allowed to see, hear and read what our present government will allow? It is time for the Republican Administration to wake up and see where this government is leading us. This also applies to the Democrats who are in office today letting George Bush have his way. Why are the American people afraid to speak out against this administration? Why are there too many unanswered questions on the 9-11 so called terrorist attack? Why did it take George Bush 411 days to appoint a chairman to the commission to lead the investigation for the so called 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon? Was this to allow time for all the destruction to be removed before an investigation would be allowed? He first appointed Henry Kissinger to this job and Kissinger quit the job after a couple of weeks because he would not reveal his involvement with the Arab Nations. Bush then appointed another one of his men to this job. When the Titanic sank it only took 6 days to start an investigation, when Pearl Harbor was attacked only 9 days, when John F. Kennedy was killed 7 days. Why 40 million dollars were spent investigating Bill Clinton’s sex life and only $600,000 spent investigating the Twin Towers collapse? Never before in history has a steel building been taken down as a result of a fire. Why 3 in one day now? Did buildings just collapse from fire or from demolitions? A high rise building in Spain burned all night in 2005 and the steel frame structure remained standing, never collapsed. It supported the weight of a large crane on the top of the building after the fire. The fuel from the plane burned off the Twin Towers after a few minutes leaving a big black hole showing in the building. There were only a few isolated fires burning in the building after the fuel burned off leaving black smoke which means cool oxygen poor fire, not hot flames. The North Tower was hit first and stood for 1 hour and 37 minutes, while the South Tower only stood for 57 minutes and collapsed before the north Tower did. The Commission stated the combination of plane crash and fire caused from fuel caused buildings to collapse, which is a lie. A lie is something this administration knows how to do and does it frequently to the public. Nothing in these building could have made the fires get hotter after the fuel burned off. These buildings had 47 steel columns formed from 4 inch steel as a core for the buildings; also it had 236 exterior columns around the outside frame. The core was designed so it would not have a chimney effect in case of a fire. These two towers had 110 stories consisting of 200,000 tons of steel, 425,000 square yards of concrete, 103 elevators, 43,600 windows, 60 tons of cooling equipment, and one had a 360 TV antenna on the top of it. These buildings could withstand winds of 140 miles per hour and would sway with the wind. They also swayed with the blast from the plane crash. The people who designed the buildings said they did not consider a fire from the fuel in the plane when designing the buildings. Can you believe all these lies that are being told one after another? Firemen stated they could feel explosions going off on the floors below them in their feet. On films you can see explosions blowing out the side of the buildings below the fires as the buildings collapsed. Why was smoke seen coming from the bottom of the building before the towers collapsed? 110 stories collapsed and fell straight down in 9 seconds, no pause when a floor fell on a lower floor, giving this an effect like dominoes falling over on each other. If you dropped a bowling ball from the top of the North Tower it would only take 8 to 10 seconds to hit the ground free falling. The plane fuel {kerosene}will not heat a ½ inch plate hot enough to melt without the mixing with another element like compressed air, oxygen, nitrogen or some other source. Fuel oil has to have pressurized steam in order to heat anything to a melting point. Take 5 gallons or 500 gallons of kerosene or gasoline and pour a small amount on a 1/2 inch steel plate and keep the fire burning until you run out of fuel and you still not have melted the steel plate. I worked around furnaces in the local steel mill for several years. I know a little about the melting point of steel. I also know a little about the explosive power of gasoline. This I learned the hard way. I stayed in the hospital 3 days and walked on crutches for 5 weeks because of this careless incident. Firefighters claimed to have heard bombs going off, boom, boom, boom, from top to bottom of the tower like a controlled demolition. It was one year before the tapes of the firefighters in the buildings were released and on them were voices of firefighters stating that explosions were going off in several different places. All the carpet, computers, concrete, everything was turned into a powder or dust, the only piece of anything that was found was a small piece from phone dialer. Why were power-down and evacuation drills scheduled a week before the planes hit the towers? Was this to give the demolition men time to set their charges to demolish the building? Why one floor was completely vacated and doors locked to keep everyone off this floor? People working in this building could hear sounds like jackhammers and other noises coming from this floor, but no one knew what was going on. The only way possible for these buildings to fall straight down the way they did was by some careful planning by demolition experts. Could the smoke coming from the bottom of these building be from explosives planted by these people? Why was molten steel seen pouring from the upper floors of the tower before it collapsed to dust? The fire from the plane fuel could not have caused this. Thermite with sulfur heats to 4500 degrees in seconds and is used in the demolition of buildings. These buildings had five stories under-ground for support. Molten steel was seen by the men who were working with heavy equipment in the bottoms of the buildings 21 days after these buildings collapsed. These steel beams after falling were almost in uniform lengths of 30 feet making it easy to clean up and haul off. This had to be the work of pre positioned explosives. It was almost like they had trucks waiting to load the steel beams and haul them to ships waiting to take them overseas. Never was time given for an inspection to take place. Some of Ben Laden’ people were in the United States before the 9-11 event, but Bush made sure they were flown out of this country, even though there was a restriction on this. The Bush and Ben Laden families have been friends for years and often had dinner together. Some pictures in the news show that some of the beams had been cut at a 45 degree angle so they would start to slide apart easily. Only a few pictures were shown and the beams were moved out quickly. Did the Air Force go AWOL on this day? No planes were intercepted that day even though the planes flew wildly off course and also flew into restricted air zones. Are the people in our government incompetent or just plain fools? Why did George Bush keep reading the book “The Goat” for 7 minutes after he was told about the plane striking the tower? He was sitting in the classroom looking like the hound dog that had sucked the last egg. He sure had a look of guilt about him to me, as if he knew exactly what was going to happen. Conflicting and overlapping war exercises for the Air Force were going on at this time. Who planned the war exercises for this day? Perhaps this was carefully planned by someone like Cheney to confuse the air traffic controllers. Why were these war exercises by the Air Force not mentioned by the news media? This attack was well planned, they needed another Pearl Harbor in order to get the sympathy of the American people and make fools of them. These pilots were not good pilots, so flying above the clouds, how did they manage to locate the Twin Towers and the Pentagon without help from the air controllers? The government claim to know who these men are that flew into the towers. If there were 19 men aboard a plane during the crash, how do they know the whereabouts of 9 of the men today, and what kind of work they are doing? Not dead men. More lies. Building 7 was not hit by a plane, but collapsed straight down the same as the Twin Towers. It only took 6 seconds for this building to collapse and it would be the third steel building in history to collapse from a fire. This building was 47 stories high and only had two relative small fires. Silverstein owned these 5 buildings and had them insured for over 4.6 billion dollars. Building 7 only had a few small fires that should have been easily taken care of by the sprinkler system, but after a few hours Silverstein decided to “Pull It,” in other words bring it down to the ground. There is no way possible that demolition men would have time to set their charges in this length of time. It would take several days to accomplish this, so the explosives had to be preset before the planes hit the towers. Again why was smoke seen coming from the bottom of the building? People will believe people of authority, but what if they are lying? The flight that crashed near Pittsburg is another lie. The sheriff of that county said they were among the first to arrive at the scene. There was no sign of a plane crash, only a black crater in the ground. No signs of any parts of a plane anywhere, also said it looked as if there had been a fire in the hole in the ground. Rumsfeld stated in a speech to US troops in Iraq (24 December 2004) that United Airlines Flight 93 was “shot down” on 9/11: so easy to lie to the American public. Plane was shot down but there is no plane there, the ghost plane. Remember the plane that crashed in Green Pastures when I was a kid. Parts of the plane was scattered for several hundred yards and you knew that a plane had crashed here. Where is this plane and the people aboard it? Perhaps it is the bottom of the ocean somewhere. What about flight 77 and the 757 plane that we were told hit the Pentagon? Out of the 4 planes that were hi-jacked only 2 are really accounted for and the other 2 are just lies and no sign of the planes. Just how big a fool does the news media take the American people for? A 757 plane with approximately 8600 gallons of fuel aboard, weighting 334,000 pounds, flying just above car top level and not being seen or heard, crashed into the Pentagon leaving a hole in building about 16 feet in diameter. The upper floors were still intact and had glass still in the windows. This plane is 155feet and 3 inches long, with a wing span of 124 feet and 10 inches, a tail that is 44 feet and 6 inches high, with 2 motors approximately 9 feet in diameter crashes into a building and leaves a hole only 16 feet in diameter. Cordite and jet fuel have a distinct smell and several people smelled this after the plane hit the pentagon. There were also sounds of a second explosion at the pentagon. I say plane just for convenience. After crashing there were no signs of any parts of the plane inside or outside the building, no wings, tail, wheels, motors, nothing anywhere resembling anything about a plane. It was about 20 minutes before the roof fell in after the plane hit the building. The tail, as tall as it is, would have taken out a couple of stories of the building if it had hit the Pentagon, also the wings with a span o 124 feet could not fit in a 16 foot hole, yet there were no wings outside or inside of the Pentagon. Search dogs were taken in and no evidence of any bodies or blood was found by the dogs. Why was white markings seen by camera on satellite 4 days before plane hit the pentagon at the exact spot where the white markings were seen. Would you believe me if I told you this was a ghost plane. No. I am sure you would not, but if Bush told you the same thing on National TV you would believe him. Yet, I am not a liar and if he opens his mouth a lie would come out before the truth. The Pentagon is surrounded by cameras outside and also in the halls, yet only one camera was working at this time and it did not show a 757 hitting the Pentagon. A filling station across the street had a camera on the top of the building and the Secret Service men took control of this camera a few minutes after the crash. Could this have been a missile “Bunker Buster”? Support columns were still in force and were not taken out by the collision of the plane. Plane must have been coated with some of grandma’s salve to fit in a 16 foot hole and not leave any incriminating evidence. Something unusual and very big was attached to bottom of one plane that hit the towers and a bright flash was seen just before the plane made contact with the building. This flash was recorded on both planes just before they made contact with the buildings. I am very doubtful if there was anyone aboard these planes. Perhaps the planes were switched somewhere and the planes that hit the towers were radio controlled. We will probably never know where the planes with passengers are today. Like I said before, they are probably somewhere on the bottom of the ocean floor, never to be found. George Bush began planning the war as soon as he took over the president’s office. On March 17, 2003 Bush declared war on Iraq. In his speech he spoke directly to the Iraq people telling them to listen carefully, “Do not destroy oil wells.” In Bush’s business oil is thicker than blood. I believe there should be a thorough investigation of the 9-11 event and if any members of our government are found to be involved in this conspiracy they should be tried and if found guilty be sentenced to death. I believe that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, and several more people were all involved in this conspiracy. The reason we are having all the trouble in the world today is partly because in the early 1900 several of the richest men in this country had a meeting and proclaimed this world would be better off with a New World Order or a one world government and men like this are still pursuing this theory today. George Bush would like to be head of this organization. The American government has never provided proof that Ben Laden was the mastermind of this so called terrorist plot. 9-11 is the largest disaster that has ever happened in America, yet no one has been held accountable for this act, no one has been fired, no one locked up for the responsibility of 3000 murders. The Secret Service has closed several web-sites pertaining to 9-11 and searched the owners of the sites homes. This administration is turning America into a Police State where the people will have no freedoms or privacy. The American people deserve answers to some of these questions, not more secret organizations to lie to the American people. This for an example just happened the other day. Barry Bonds screened most of his calls Wednesday, but President Bush somehow managed to track him down. The commander in chief reached Bonds on a cell phone. “Nobody has my home number,” Bonds explained in the locker room later. If you think you still have some privacy in your homes, you are wrong and it will only get worse with people like we have in this administration. I hope that someday the news media will start publishing the facts and not just what they are allowed to now. A few people have already had micro chips inserted into their bodies and now the states are being forced to embed a micro chip into your drivers’ license by this administration, they claim for identification. Sometimes I am thankful that I am an old man and will not live long enough to see the future of this country if it keeps going in the directions it is heading today. I would also like to ask why Christian Organizations encourage people to vote for men of this caliber and still uphold them after all they have done, including robbing the Social Security system. Since President Bush took office in 2000, the federal government has borrowed more than $500 billion from the Social Security system. The President’s most recent budget projects that the federal government will borrow an additional $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years. This money will be used to pay for government expenditures that will included multiple rounds of tax cuts for the very wealthy. In his words, “there is no trust fund,” only “empty promises” that the government “cannot keep.” Now President Bush is saying that the Social Security trust funds won’t be paid back. The Bush tax cuts, in 2008 they will put some $100 billion into the pockets of the richest Americans. Bush seeks to make those tax cuts permanent while Democrats want to let tax reductions for the wealthiest expire The Bush budget strategy boils down to never-ending tax cuts for the rich, big increases for the Pentagon and spending cuts for everything else. The fact remains that Mr. Bush’s misguided war and his misguided tax cuts are what stand in the way of responsible, responsive budgeting. I do not believe these men are led by Christ but by Satan. I also ask these Christian Organizations, what would Christ do today if He were alive, take from the poor and give to the very rich? Our Judicial System was set up with a check and balance system so no one person would have absolute authority. To limit the power of one trying to overrun the other they placed the power in an executive, legislative, judicial and the individual to stop this from happening. Why are these people, who have the authority, not doing their job and letting this country be led by one person, of should I say two? Each is able to check and balance the other, yet they are just sitting back and letting our freedom and rights be destroyed. On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated: “According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.” After the 9-11 event on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, this news was forgotten quick time, not to be mentioned again. It is rumored that as much as $160 Billion in bullion was stored under the Trade Center. The sources said the gold was found in a delivery tunnel under 5 World Trade Center. “A ten-wheel lorry” was found in the tunnel - loaded with gold - and nobody there? Whoever was removing the gold was warned of the imminent collapse of the South Tower. Guarded by a small army of heavily armed federal agents, city policemen and firefighters they began the task of moving about 12 tons of gold and 30 million ounces of silver. The hoard was estimated to be worth at least $230 million. Why has there not been anything in the news about all the gold, silver and other precious metals stored beneath these buildings? The president retains his constitutional authority to do whatever it takes to protect the country, regardless of any action Congress takes. W.C. Watson