Man this is going to take me for-fucking-ever!
The indepedent inquiry into the attacks began
18 months after 9/11. The 9/11 commission wouldn't have been formed if it wasn't for the pressure by victims' relatives. They started off with as little as 3 million dollar budget whereas the investigaion into the Columbia shuttle crash started within weeks and a 50 million dollar budget. The commission would later request for 11 million dollars for extra funding, a request only to be rejected by the bush administration, then later decided to contribute 2 million dollars less than the asking amount.
The Able Danger data mining, an army intelligence program, was created in 1999 to gather and compile information on the al Qaeda network, including the hijackers' activites in the US as well as Osama bin Laden's prior to the attacks, yet the commission ignored it completely.
Here are some of the proofs of the investigation stonewalling and the coverup by the bush administration
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DISPLAYING ABSTRACT -Congressional deal to create independent commission to probe Sept 11 terrorist attacks is stalled, with Democrats, some Republicans and families of attack victims charging Bush administration undermines idea it only reluctantly embraced; administration officials and Congressional Republicans say they want commission structured to produce bipartisan result; almost completed deal was suddenly undone in Oct after Rep Porter J Goss, Republican involved in talks, got call from Vice Pres Dick Cheney; impasse shows how sensitive issue of intelligence lapses before Sept 11 remains for Bush.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstra...A80994DA404482
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration and the nation's intelligence agencies are blocking the release of sensitive information about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, delaying publication of a 900-page congressional report on how the terrorist assault happened.
http://web.archive.org/web/200306032...ld/5792329.htm
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One member's attempt to review confidential transcripts exposed a rift yesterday within the independent commission examining the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Timothy J. Roemer, a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, criticized the panel's leaders for not demanding immediate and total access to documents compiled during a congressional inquiry on the terrorist attacks.
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Roemer, a former Democratic House member from Indiana, tried to review the transcripts of the joint hearings held last year by the House and Senate intelligence committees. He learned that he had no permission to see them, even though he had served on the joint committee hearings and had, therefore, read the material before.
Roemer called the experience outrageous. He noted that the commission, by law, must build upon the work of the congressional inquiry, which found that organizational problems and human failings had prevented U.S. intelligence agencies from unraveling the Sept. 11 plot.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...9091-2003Apr25
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A status report released by the 9/11 Commission shows that various government agencies are not cooperating fully with the investigation. Neither the CIA nor the Justice Department have provided all requested documents. Lack of cooperation on the part of the Department of Defense "[is] becoming particularly serious," and the commission has received no responses whatsoever to requests related to national air defenses. The FBI, State Department, and Transportation Department receive generally positive reviews.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september1...994933,00.html
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Just before resigning, [Max] Cleland [member of 9/11 Commission] called the Bush administration's attempts to stonewall and "slow walk" the commission a "national scandal." He criticized the commission for cutting a deal with the White House that compromised their access to information, and said, "I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that. This is serious."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/21/cleland/
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WASHINGTON -- Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that relationship, Senator Bob Graham wrote in a book to be released Tuesday.
The discovery of the financial backing of the two hijackers "would draw a direct line between the terrorists and the government of Saudi Arabia, and trigger an attempted coverup by the Bush administration," the Florida Democrat wrote.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...ays _in_book/
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It's no secret that Saudi Arabia is the epicenter of terrorism funding yet they are in cooperation with the US in the fight against global terrorism. A bit ironic, you think? The US had recently sold 6 billion dollars worth of machinery weapons and arms to the Saudis.
Check out this preview of 9/11 Press for Truth
"Henry Kissinger vs the 9/11 families"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcxjJDlbnC4
Henry Kissinger is a known war criminal who helped orchestrate the bombing of south asia from 1967-1971. Google "trial of henry kissinger amazon" or read this Salon article. He was also a consultant for Unocal and was involved with plans to build pipelines in Afghanistan. He lasted only one month as the head of 9/11 independent inquiry team before stepping down due to conflicts of business interest. Thomas Kean, Bush's whipping boy, would later replace his position.
I'm gonna stop here and maybe continue when I feel like it