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Spoonamore on Ohio setup: Interview with Dick Russell, August 21, 2009.
26
Bush/Rove/Blackwell meeting: “Are Rove’s Missing E-mails the Smoking Guns of the Stolen 2004 Election?”, by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press, April 25, 2007.
27
Connell managing: Mark Crispin Miller on Democracy Now!, www.truthout.org, December 25, 2008.
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Triad: “Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed,” on www.michaelmoore.com, December 2004.
29
Connell admission: Court deposition, 2008.
30
Conyers letter: “Ballot Scamming,” www.americanfreepress.net.
31
Connell background: “Who is Michael Connell? Why He Should be Investigated by Congress,” document prepared for House Judiciary Committee, provided Dick Russell, 2009.
32
Spoonamore on Connell: Russell interview.
33
Roy Cales: “Who is Roy Cales and What’s his Connection to Mike Connell?”, epluribusmedia.net, August 6, 2008.
34
Cales resignation: “Arrest of Florida CIO Prompts Resignation,” Washington Technology, September 4, 2001.
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Connell and Ohio computers: House Judiciary Committee document.
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Rove and Connell subpoena: “Cyber Security Expert Says KingPin Attack Benefited Bush.”
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Pre-election predictions: “Obama Hasn’t Closed the Sale,” by Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2008; www.rove.com/election, November 2008.
38
Spoonamore on election counter-hacking ’08: interview with Russell.
39
Connell plane crash: “The Suspicious, Disturbing Death of Election Rigger Michael Connell,” by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, December 21, 2008.
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Connell canceling flights: www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/23.
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Arnebeck on Connell’s death: interview with Dick Russell, August 21, 2009.
Chapter Twelve
1
John Farmer book: The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11, 2009.
2
Charles Lewis on 9/11 and LAX: interview with Dick Russell, July 2, 2009. See also: “What I Heard LAX Security Officials Say During the 9/11 Attacks,” at www.911truth.org.
3
Fighter jet intercepts: Loose Change, documentary about 9/11, 2007 version.
4
Defense Secretary approval: http://911review.com/means/standdown.html.
5
Mineta story and Cheney: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, by David Ray Griffin, Olive Branch Press, 2008, pp. 91-94.
6
Barry Jennings on explosions: “Summary of Evidence of Controlled Demolition at World Trade Center,” by David R. Wayne and Greg Garrison, November 25, 2008.
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Tower design and aircraft statistics: Loose Change.
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NIST report and molten metal: Ibid.
9
Nano-thermite report: Press release from Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, April 21, 2009, quoting Harrit on Danish TV2 News. Asked why he thought this was responsible for the buildings’ collapse, Harrit said: “Well, it’s an explosive. Why else would it be out there?”
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Gage on building collapses: www.ae911truth.org/.
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Steel debris shipped: Loose Change.
12
Lewis on missile hitting Pentagon: Russell interview.
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Location of strike: Loose Change.
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Pentagon attack: Both Wittenberg and Stubblebine are interviewed in the Zero documentary, viewable online.
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Stubblebine on Pentagon: www.youtube.com. video interview
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Lack of damage and debris: Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, pp. 63-64.
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Colonel Nelson on Pentagon crash: E-mail communication with coauthor Dick Russell.
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Hanjour experience and maneuver: Griffin, ibid.
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Disappearance of financial information: Arlington County After Action Report.
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Operations and budget information: Griffin book.
21
Olson calls: Griffin, pp. 60-61.
22
Wittenberg on Flight 77: Zero.
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Operation Northwoods: www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html. quoting from Body of Secrets, by James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p. 82 and following.
24
Charles Lewis on Pennsylvania plane: Russell interview.
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Pennsylvania crash site: Loose Change, including footage from CNN.
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Voice recorder, mayor’s comment, jets scrambled: Loose Change.
27
Bush, Rumsfeld, and Rice denials: The New Pearl Harbor, p. 134.
28
Bush intelligence briefing: Declassified April 2004, viewable online.
29
Rice warned by Tenet: “Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice,” Washington Post, October 1, 2006, p. A17.
30
Cofer Black: Ibid.
31
Rice response: “Rice: No Memory of CIA Warning of Attack,” Associated Press, October 2, 2006.
32
Israel warning: “What did Israel know In advance of the 9/11 Attacks?”, By Christopher Ketcham, Counterpunch, 2007 Vol. 14, Nos. 3 and 4. The story first appeared in the British Sunday Telegraph (September 16, 2001).
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French warning: “September 11 01: The French Knew Much About It,” by Guillaume Dasquie, Le Monde, April 16, 2004.
34
Susan Lindauer warning: “Susan Lindauer Reveals Facts about 9/11 Warning,” by Michael Collins, March 3, 2009. Also, “911 Prediction Revealed at Lindauer Hearing in NYC,” by Michael Collins, June 19, 2008, www.scoop.co.nz.
35
FBI list: Ibid.
36
Hijackers alive and well: Zero, Italian documentary about 9/11, viewable online.
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Bin Laden videos and lack of evidence: Loose Change.
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Evidence left behind: Loose Change.
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Atta’s movements: Zero.
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CIA and hijackers: cited in Scott, from The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright.
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Background on terrorists/CIA and visas: Zero.
42
Edmonds bombshell: As a guest on Mike Malloy radio show.
43
Edmonds on bin Laden and U.S.: “Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11,” July 31, 2009, www.dailykos.com.
44
Chartered planes: “FBI’s 9/11 Saudi Flight Documents Released,” by Matt Renner, June 22, 2007, www.truthout.org.
45
Ahmad wire transfer to Atta: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, p. 222.
46
Graham book: Intelligence Matters, published 2004, cited in The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, pp. 224-5.
47
U.S. and Saudis: One of Bush’s brothers, Marvin, was on the board of a company called Securacom (since renamed Stratesec). Its board chairman is Wirt D. Walker III, who happens to be a cousin of both Marvin and W. Securacom provided security for both the World Trade Center and the Dulles International Airport, where Flight 77 originated before supposedly crashing into the Pentagon. Stratesec has both Kuwaiti and Saudi investors, and W’s uncle Jonathan is a board member of the Riggs bank. “Saudi Princess Haifa al Faisal, the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the US Prince Bandar, used a Riggs account to funnel money to Omar al Bayoumi and Osama Basnan, two Saudi students in California associated with two of the 911 hijackers.” (Wayne Madsen article, “Marvin Bush Employee’s Mysterious Death,” www.demo
craticunderground.com.)
48
Shaffer on Able Danger: Interview with Dick Russell, September 19, 2009.
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Able Danger’s discoveries: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, pp. 179-80.
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Colonel Shaffer: Ibid, p. 180.
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Attempts to tell story: Ibid., pp. 181- 185.
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Griffin quote: Ibid., p. 195.
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Clarke on Iraq: Washington Post op-ed, May 31, 2009.
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Zelikow and 9/11 Commission: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, pp. 238-9, citing Philip Shenon’s 2008 book The Commission.
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Zelikow and report on “catastrophic terrorism”: The New Pearl Harbor, p. 243.
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Zelikow and Iraq: Ibid., p. 245.
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Zelikow and Rove: “NYT’s Reporter Claims Rove Influenced 9/11 Commission Report,” by Max Holland, Washington Decoded, January 30, 2008, www.truthout.org.
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Clarke on Zelikow: Ibid., p. 248, citing Shenon book.
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Government minders: “Newly Released Memo: Government ‘Minders’ at 9/11 Commission interviews ‘Intimidated’ Witnesses,” May 1, 2009, www.opednews.com.
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Washington Post on commission: Cited in “The 9/11 Commission Rejects own Report as Based on Government Lies,” http://www.salem-news.com/araticles/september112009/911_truth_9-11-09. php.
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Kean/Hamilton on CIA obstruction: “Stonewalled by the CIA,” by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, New York Times, January 2, 2008.
Chapter Thirteen
1
Roosevelt quote: Forum, February 1895. Mem. Ed. XV, 10; Nat. Ed. XIII, 9.
2
“perverse set of incentives”: “Former Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to Bankers,” by Joshua Holland and Nomi Prins, www.alternet.org, October 30, 2009.
3
AIG employees & assets: “The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008,” Multinational Monitor, Nov.-Dec., 2008.
4
AIG intelligence background: “The Secret (Insurance) Agent Men,” Los Angeles Times, September 22, 2000. See also, The Shadow Warriors: OSS and the Origins of the CIA, by Bradley F. Smith, Basic Books, 1983.
5
AIG and Helliwell: The War Conspiracy, by Peter Dale Scott, Bobbs-Merrill, 1972.
6
Barbados company: See www.fromthewilderness.com, report by Michael Rupert.
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AIG and aircraft: “Deep Politics of AIG: OSS, CIA, Drug Money Laundering,” at www.ronpaulforums.com.
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AIG recent history: “AIG is a ‘special case,’” by Wayne Madsen, September 23, 2008, http://onlinejournal.com.
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AIG in Asia: L.A. Times article, op.cit.
10
Greenberg and CIA: Madsen article.
11
Goldman Sachs’s formula: “The Great American Bubble Machine,” by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, July 9-23, 2009.
12
Creation of Federal Reserve: The Journey to Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin, American Media (24th printing, May 2009), p. 23. The meeting on Jekyll Island took place in November 1910.
13
JFK and Federal Reserve: “President John F. Kennedy, the Federal Reserve and Executive Order 11110,” by Cedric X, The Final Call, Vol. 15, No. 6, January 17, 1996.
14
Greenspan on Federal Reserve: “AIG A Gold Standard for Fiascoes,” by Rhonda Swan, March 20, 2009, Palm Beach Post.
15
Reagan era: “Reagan Did It,” by Paul Krugman, New York Times, June 1, 2009.
16
Glass-Steagall Act: “Shattering the Glass-Steagall Act,” by William Kaufman, September 19, 2008, www.counterpunch.org; “Wall Street’s Best Investment,” by Robert Weissman and James Donahue, Multinational Monitor, January-February 2009.
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“bar-room brawl”: L. William Seidman, a longtime Republican adviser.
18
Bush Administration and economy: “White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire,” New York Times, December 21, 2008.
19
“red flags” at SEC: “Report Details How Madoff’s Web Ensnared S.E.C.,” New York Times, September 3, 2009, citing a new report by the SEC’s inspector general.
20
SEC ignoring expert: “First the Swindle, Now the Whitewash,” by Eamonn Fingleton, CounterPunch, Sept. 16-30, 2009.
21
Company hotline: “SEC Alerted About Allen Stanford in 2003: Report,” February 27, 2009, www.reuters.com.
22
SEC and Madoff: “SEC’s Madoff Miss Fits Pattern Set With Piquot,” by Gary J. Aguirre, Bloomberg, February 2, 2009; “SEC Whislteblower Speaks on Madoff Fraud,” by Matt Renner, Dec. 22, 2009, www.truthout.org.
23
Spitzer investigation: Madsen article, op.cit.
24
Luxury spa retreat: “More pigs at the trough,” by Arianna Huffington, July 28, 2009, www.truthout.org.
25
Cassano’s unit: Market Ticker, by Karl Denninger, March 31, 2009.
26
Office of Thrift Supervision/housing market: “The Big Takeover,” by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, www.truthout.org, March 23, 2009.
27
Paulson and SEC: “Obama’s Top Econic Adviser is Greedy and Highly Compromised,” by Matt Taibbi, April 10, 2009, www.alternet.org.
28
Goldman “lending lust”: “It’s time to enshrine Hank Paulson as national hero,” by Matt Taibbi, June 8, 2009.
29
“strongest in decades”: Ibid.
30
Oil and commodities: Taibbi article, Rolling Stone.
31
Industry subsidies: “Former Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to Bankers,” Alternet, op.cit.
32
John Thain: Taibbi, “The Great American Bubble Machine” (area rug); “Why an A**Hole Is Always in Charge,” by Greg Palast, January 25, 2009.
33
Paulson-Blankfein calls: “Paulson’s Calls to Goldman Tested Ethics During Crisis,” New York Times, August 9, 2009.
34
Goldman check: “Former Wall Street Player,” Alternet.
35
Spitzer on “inside job”: “The Real AIG Scandal,” by Eliot Spitzer, March 18, 2009, www.slate.com.
36
$40 billion outstanding: “Why big US, Foreign Banks Got Billions from AIG Bailout,” by Greg Gordon and Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy newspaper, April 6, 2009, www.truthout.org.
37
AIG’s overseas paybacks: “AIG a gold standard for fiascoes,” by Rhonda Swan, op.cit.
38
AIG losses: Taibbi article.
39
AIG bonuses: Taibbi article, op.cit.
40
Cassano fired but salaried: Market Ticker, op.cit.
41
Total financial support in trillions: www.sigtarp.gov/reports/congress/2009/July2009_Quaraterly+Report+to+Congress.pdf (p. 134).
42
$1.1 trillion; quote: “The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold,” by Andy Kroll, May 26, 2009, originally at TomDispatch. com, www.truthout.org. Economist quoted is Dean Baker, who co-directs the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington.
43
Big banks: “Banks ‘Too Big to Fail’ Have Grown Even Bigger,” by David Cho, Washington Post, August 28, 2009.
44
Lewis/Cohan op-ed: “The Economy Is Still at the Brink,” New York Times, June 7, 2009.
45
Federal Reserve and economists: “Priceless: How the Federal Reserve Bought the Economics Profession,” by Ryan Grim, The Huffington Post, September 7, 2009.
46
Ron Paul and bill: www.ronpaul.com.
47
Federal Reserve:
“Dismantling the Temple: How to Fix the Federal Reserve,” by William Greider, The Nation, August 3-10, 2009. Greider is also author of the classic Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country.
48
Bonuses to execs: “Letting the Banking Rats out of the Bag,” by Robert Scheer, August 11, 2009, www.truthdig.com.
49
Goldman employee earnings: “A Year After a Cataclysm, Little Change on Wall St.,” by Alex Berenson, New York Times, September 12, 2009.
50
Goldman profit surge: “Goldman to Make Record Bonus Payout,” by Philip Inman, June 21, 2009, www.guardian.co.uk.
51
Liddy and Goldman: “AIG Chief Owns Significant Stake in Goldman,” New York Times Dealbook, April 17, 2009.