bsmurph83
02-10-2009, 02:31 PM
Tarpley writes of how a REAL Presidential address might have gone on the night of Sep 11:
My fellow citizens:
Today our country and our political system have been targeted by large-scale acts of
terrorism. These are monstrous crimes against humanity, and they will not go
unpunished. We send our solidarity to the brave firemen, policemen, military people, and
office workers who have borne the brunt of this assault. We promise an equitable and
equal compensation for the human losses of this day. Insistent and irresponsible voices
have been raised in my own White House and in the intelligence agencies, and have
inspired media reports attributing these attacks to Arab or Islamic terrorists of the al
Qaeda Bin Laden organization. But this is no time for snap decisions or a rush to
judgment when we are dealing with the present and future peace of the world. It is true
that we have bitter enemies around the world, but the capabilities displayed today appear
to go far beyond the technical and physical means available to al Qaeda. We must also
recall that, under the reckless and irresponsible policies of my predecessors, the CIA had
been one of the main sponsors of Bin Laden and al Qaeda. If we think back to the attack
on the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, we remember that media voices
attempted in the first hours to attribute that tragedy to the Arab world. Although I am
convinced that we still do not know the full story of Oklahoma City, it is clear that the
Arab world was not involved.
There are too many unanswered questions at this point. How were the terrorists who
seem to have been involved allowed to enter the United States and operate freely in this
country? Why was there no air defense over a period of one hour and fifteen minutes? I
have ordered an immediate inquiry into this question, and in the meantime I have
accepted the resignations of Gen. Myers of the Air Force, the deputy chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and of Gen. Bernhard of NORAD, whose agency failed the people
today. There is also evident reason to believe that the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and the
Immigration and Naturalization Service have not performed satisfactorily, based on the
fragmentary accounts available so far. I have therefore accepted the resignations of the
leaders of those agencies, and of their principal deputies. I have furthermore accepted
the resignation of the Secretary of Defense and his deputy, the Attorney General, the
Secretary of Transportation, and of my National Security Adviser, since it is evident to
me that they could not continue to serve the nation effectively because of the immense
tragedy which has occurred on their watch. We rightly demand accountability from
teachers, from railroad engineers, and from physicians. We therefore have all the more
reason to demand accountability and responsibility from those who have been entrusted
with the management of the executive departments, several of which have not served us
well today.
Another question involves the collapse of the World Trade Center towers many minutes
after they had been impacted by the airplanes. These events, as you know, represent an
absolute anomaly in the history of skyscrapers. In particular, there is no explanation
whatsoever for the collapse of building seven at five o’clock in the afternoon.
Accordingly, and consistent with our urgent measures to save any victims remaining in
the rubble, I am ordering the Seventh Mountain Division of Fort Drum, New York, to
seize control of the site of the World Trade Center, cordoning it off as a crime scene and
taking immediate measures for preserving the evidence we must have to determine what
really happened. Not one scrap of metal will be removed before a full forensic survey has
been carried out. Contrary to media accounts, we have not been able to identify the flying
object which apparently hit the Pentagon, although it seems likely that it was not a
Boeing 757, and thus could hardly have been United flight 73. As for the tragedy over
Shanksville, we are investigating whether this aircraft was shot down by our own forces,
and why. All crash sites are being secured by military units, acting under my direct
orders, whose loyalty to the Constitution is beyond question.
The overriding question is whether the criminals who acted today enjoyed support or
collaboration from within our own country and even within our own government. I have
created a special unit of federal investigators which will act under my direct orders and
which will report to me and to me alone. The first task of that unit will be to determine
why there was no air defense, in violation of the standard operating procedures of
NORAD and the FAA. Another task will be to examine the entire roster of FBI and CIA
double agents presently infiltrating terrorist groups and how they are managed, with a
view to identifying possible factors of collusion. Another task will be to determine why
our watch list procedures and other forms of vigilance were not effective in screening the
criminals out.
As far as the FBI is concerned, I urge the Congress to join me in breaking up this
tragically dysfunctional agency. After Ruby Ridge, Waco, the FBI crime lab, Wen Ho
Lee, the Atlanta Olympics and Richard Jewel, the withheld documents in the McVeigh
case, we now have September 11, 2001. The FBI has never recovered from the corruption
and mismanagement instilled during the fifty year reign of J. Edgar Hoover, a man whom
we know today to have been unfit for public office. The FBI has many dedicated public
servants, but they are trapped today in a structure of incompetence, corruption, and
worse. Accordingly, I am placing the FBI into receivership by executive order with
immediate effect; this agency will operate for the time being under the direction of my
special assistant for internal security.
In determining the full scope of what happened today, I need the help of all our citizens.
If you know something important about what happened today, I want to hear it. Call the
White House and talk with one of my staff, who are mobilized to take your calls. If you
see anyone, including especially federal agents, attempting to tamper with evidence, or if
a federal agent attempts to intimidate you into saying you saw or heard something you
did not see, I want to know about that, too.
I am also determined to find out if foreign intelligence agencies or foreign citizens were
involved in today’s events. I am appointing myself as temporary Director of the CIA, and
in that capacity I will undertake a comprehensive review of foreign operations on
American soil. No foreign agency will be exempted, and I promise you a full initial
progress report.
In addition to the immediate investigations I have mentioned so far, I am also
empanelling a board of inquiry to study today’s events and offer a second opinion on
what may have gone wrong. I am asking Senator Byrd to be the chairman of this body,
and Lawrence Walsh, a Republican, the former Iran-contra prosecutor, to be the vice
chairman. I have invited former Secretary of the Treasury O’Neill, former President
Carter, General Zinni, former Governor Ryan of Illinois to serve. I am also actively
soliciting participation by outsiders and academics who have been critics of our
government policies of recent years. I am inviting Susan Sontag, Eric Foner, Noam
Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Howard Zinn, and Seymour Hersh to become members of
the board of inquiry. Let them play the devil’s advocates, if they will, so long as we
obtain truth and justice. They will all receive the necessary security clearances directly
from me personally, if necessary. I will personally supervise the rapid declassification of
documents as recommended by the board of inquiry in order to educate the public about
the board’s findings. We all remember the failure of the Warren Commission; that failure
will not be repeated during my presidency.
I recall the words of President Eisenhower in the wake of the Kennedy assassination: the
American people, he commented will not be stampeded. I ask you to support your
government and its constitutional institutions, and not to give way to the voices of hatred,
fear, aggression, and paranoia. I promise that swift justice will be rendered for those
who have struck us today, no matter who they turn out to be.
These dastardly attacks will not force this great nation off course; they will not force us
to become something we are not. We will remain ourselves. We will go forward in the
great American tradition of the Monroe Doctrine, the Good Neighbor Policy, the Bretton
Woods system, the Marshall Plan, and the Four Freedoms of the Atlantic Charter,
starting with the freedom from fear.
Further attacks cannot be ruled out in the coming days and weeks. Because of the office I
hold, and because of the constitutional responsibilities I must meet, I ask for your support
– no matter what may happen during the coming days and weeks.
Good night.
(Source: Synthetic Terror - Tarpley)
My fellow citizens:
Today our country and our political system have been targeted by large-scale acts of
terrorism. These are monstrous crimes against humanity, and they will not go
unpunished. We send our solidarity to the brave firemen, policemen, military people, and
office workers who have borne the brunt of this assault. We promise an equitable and
equal compensation for the human losses of this day. Insistent and irresponsible voices
have been raised in my own White House and in the intelligence agencies, and have
inspired media reports attributing these attacks to Arab or Islamic terrorists of the al
Qaeda Bin Laden organization. But this is no time for snap decisions or a rush to
judgment when we are dealing with the present and future peace of the world. It is true
that we have bitter enemies around the world, but the capabilities displayed today appear
to go far beyond the technical and physical means available to al Qaeda. We must also
recall that, under the reckless and irresponsible policies of my predecessors, the CIA had
been one of the main sponsors of Bin Laden and al Qaeda. If we think back to the attack
on the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, we remember that media voices
attempted in the first hours to attribute that tragedy to the Arab world. Although I am
convinced that we still do not know the full story of Oklahoma City, it is clear that the
Arab world was not involved.
There are too many unanswered questions at this point. How were the terrorists who
seem to have been involved allowed to enter the United States and operate freely in this
country? Why was there no air defense over a period of one hour and fifteen minutes? I
have ordered an immediate inquiry into this question, and in the meantime I have
accepted the resignations of Gen. Myers of the Air Force, the deputy chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and of Gen. Bernhard of NORAD, whose agency failed the people
today. There is also evident reason to believe that the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and the
Immigration and Naturalization Service have not performed satisfactorily, based on the
fragmentary accounts available so far. I have therefore accepted the resignations of the
leaders of those agencies, and of their principal deputies. I have furthermore accepted
the resignation of the Secretary of Defense and his deputy, the Attorney General, the
Secretary of Transportation, and of my National Security Adviser, since it is evident to
me that they could not continue to serve the nation effectively because of the immense
tragedy which has occurred on their watch. We rightly demand accountability from
teachers, from railroad engineers, and from physicians. We therefore have all the more
reason to demand accountability and responsibility from those who have been entrusted
with the management of the executive departments, several of which have not served us
well today.
Another question involves the collapse of the World Trade Center towers many minutes
after they had been impacted by the airplanes. These events, as you know, represent an
absolute anomaly in the history of skyscrapers. In particular, there is no explanation
whatsoever for the collapse of building seven at five o’clock in the afternoon.
Accordingly, and consistent with our urgent measures to save any victims remaining in
the rubble, I am ordering the Seventh Mountain Division of Fort Drum, New York, to
seize control of the site of the World Trade Center, cordoning it off as a crime scene and
taking immediate measures for preserving the evidence we must have to determine what
really happened. Not one scrap of metal will be removed before a full forensic survey has
been carried out. Contrary to media accounts, we have not been able to identify the flying
object which apparently hit the Pentagon, although it seems likely that it was not a
Boeing 757, and thus could hardly have been United flight 73. As for the tragedy over
Shanksville, we are investigating whether this aircraft was shot down by our own forces,
and why. All crash sites are being secured by military units, acting under my direct
orders, whose loyalty to the Constitution is beyond question.
The overriding question is whether the criminals who acted today enjoyed support or
collaboration from within our own country and even within our own government. I have
created a special unit of federal investigators which will act under my direct orders and
which will report to me and to me alone. The first task of that unit will be to determine
why there was no air defense, in violation of the standard operating procedures of
NORAD and the FAA. Another task will be to examine the entire roster of FBI and CIA
double agents presently infiltrating terrorist groups and how they are managed, with a
view to identifying possible factors of collusion. Another task will be to determine why
our watch list procedures and other forms of vigilance were not effective in screening the
criminals out.
As far as the FBI is concerned, I urge the Congress to join me in breaking up this
tragically dysfunctional agency. After Ruby Ridge, Waco, the FBI crime lab, Wen Ho
Lee, the Atlanta Olympics and Richard Jewel, the withheld documents in the McVeigh
case, we now have September 11, 2001. The FBI has never recovered from the corruption
and mismanagement instilled during the fifty year reign of J. Edgar Hoover, a man whom
we know today to have been unfit for public office. The FBI has many dedicated public
servants, but they are trapped today in a structure of incompetence, corruption, and
worse. Accordingly, I am placing the FBI into receivership by executive order with
immediate effect; this agency will operate for the time being under the direction of my
special assistant for internal security.
In determining the full scope of what happened today, I need the help of all our citizens.
If you know something important about what happened today, I want to hear it. Call the
White House and talk with one of my staff, who are mobilized to take your calls. If you
see anyone, including especially federal agents, attempting to tamper with evidence, or if
a federal agent attempts to intimidate you into saying you saw or heard something you
did not see, I want to know about that, too.
I am also determined to find out if foreign intelligence agencies or foreign citizens were
involved in today’s events. I am appointing myself as temporary Director of the CIA, and
in that capacity I will undertake a comprehensive review of foreign operations on
American soil. No foreign agency will be exempted, and I promise you a full initial
progress report.
In addition to the immediate investigations I have mentioned so far, I am also
empanelling a board of inquiry to study today’s events and offer a second opinion on
what may have gone wrong. I am asking Senator Byrd to be the chairman of this body,
and Lawrence Walsh, a Republican, the former Iran-contra prosecutor, to be the vice
chairman. I have invited former Secretary of the Treasury O’Neill, former President
Carter, General Zinni, former Governor Ryan of Illinois to serve. I am also actively
soliciting participation by outsiders and academics who have been critics of our
government policies of recent years. I am inviting Susan Sontag, Eric Foner, Noam
Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Howard Zinn, and Seymour Hersh to become members of
the board of inquiry. Let them play the devil’s advocates, if they will, so long as we
obtain truth and justice. They will all receive the necessary security clearances directly
from me personally, if necessary. I will personally supervise the rapid declassification of
documents as recommended by the board of inquiry in order to educate the public about
the board’s findings. We all remember the failure of the Warren Commission; that failure
will not be repeated during my presidency.
I recall the words of President Eisenhower in the wake of the Kennedy assassination: the
American people, he commented will not be stampeded. I ask you to support your
government and its constitutional institutions, and not to give way to the voices of hatred,
fear, aggression, and paranoia. I promise that swift justice will be rendered for those
who have struck us today, no matter who they turn out to be.
These dastardly attacks will not force this great nation off course; they will not force us
to become something we are not. We will remain ourselves. We will go forward in the
great American tradition of the Monroe Doctrine, the Good Neighbor Policy, the Bretton
Woods system, the Marshall Plan, and the Four Freedoms of the Atlantic Charter,
starting with the freedom from fear.
Further attacks cannot be ruled out in the coming days and weeks. Because of the office I
hold, and because of the constitutional responsibilities I must meet, I ask for your support
– no matter what may happen during the coming days and weeks.
Good night.
(Source: Synthetic Terror - Tarpley)