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Raster

(20,998 posts)
34. A Trip Down Memory Lane
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 12:43 PM
Sep 2014

An Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice
Re: 9-11 investigation and Commission testimony ... You knew. You kept silent. They died.

by Catherine Austin Fitts
Former Assistant Secretary of Housing, Bush I


Hon. Condoleezza Rice
National Security Advisor
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

April 9, 2004

Dear Ms. Rice:

I am writing to communicate four points regarding your testimony yesterday under oath before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.

Point #1: You are a liar.

Attorney General Ashcroft sits on the National Security Council. Warned by his FBI security detail, the head of law enforcement for the United States knew to avoid commercial airlines on September 11, 2001.

It was your job as National Security Advisor to make sure that the people who flew on American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, United Airlines Flight 93 and American Airlines Flight 77 had the benefit of the same warnings as those they paid to protect us.

You knew. You kept silent. They died.

You had numerous warnings of the risks of 9-11 – sufficient to let the American people know and use their best judgment as to how to protect themselves from a possible attack. It was your job as National Security Advisor to make sure that the people in the South Tower of the World Trade Center had the knowledge they needed to evacuate their building upon seeing the North Tower hit by a plane.

You knew. You kept silent. They died.

Point #2: Your motives are transparent.

The World Trade Center is in the heart of New York City – one of the great financial capitals of the world. The Pentagon is in the heart of Washington -- the appropriation and accounting capital for the US federal budget and credit and the US Treasury – the largest issuer of securities in the world.

Unlike many other terrorist attacks, these attacks killed people whose family, friends and neighbors understand how these financial systems work. Victim families, friends and the residents of the communities directly harmed can calculate who made money on 9-11 profiteering. They can trace the flow of money into the 2004 Presidential campaign coffers from the profits your supporters made as a result of 9-11 profiteering. They can calculate how 9-11 profiteering connects to the financing and silence of corporate media.

Those personally impacted and the global researchers they network with have the intellectual power and personal courage to ask and answer, “Cui Bono?” (Who Benefits?) They understand that your success as National Security Advisor is as a direct result of your failure to stop 9-11. They can see how your lies about 9-11 made money for the investment syndicate that put you in power and for the buyers of US Treasury securities who are so richly paid to finance the US military, intelligence and enforcement apparatus and the defense contractors and oil interests it serves.

All the campaign ads in the world can not now convince the American people that you have their best interests at heart.

Point #3: You are going down.

The richest and most powerful people in the world pay for performance. They pay you to make the US governmental apparatus look legitimate while they use it to centralize economic and political power. That means they need liars who are better at lying than you.

The myth that you had no idea that Americans deserved to be warned about the risks of flying or planes being used as weapons is now in the dust heap with the notion that the United States attacked Iraq and our soldiers are dying to protect us from Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Your lies of 9-11 – like your lies about the Iraqi war – have been profitable for the military-banking complex you represent. These lies, however, have not misled the crowd. The American people and global citizens are looking for the truth. We demand the changes that will give meaning and honor to those who died on 9-11 and in the ensuing wars. We demand an end to further bloodshed. We demand a refund of all that you and your backers have stolen from those of us who remain alive.

Point #4: You are guilty of criminal gross negligence.

If you want to catch a terrorist today, you need look no further than your own mirror.

Many Americans gather this weekend to give thanks that Jesus died for our sins and gave us the covenant of grace. In the spirit of our Lord's crucifixion and resurrection, may God have mercy on your soul.


Sincerely Yours,

Catherine Austin Fitts
Former Assistant Secretary of Housing, Bush I
President
Solari, Inc.
PO Box 157
Hickory Valley, TN 38042
731.764.2515
catherine@solari.com



Letter Submitted:

White House Webmail: https://sawho14.eop.gov/PERSdata/intro.htm
E-mail cc to:
President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov;
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov;
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comments: 202-456-1111
Tel: 202-456-1414

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
301 7th Street, SW
Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407
(202) 331-4060
info@9-11Commission.gov

Background Articles:

Ashcroft Flying High
CBS News
Washington DC, July 26, 2001
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

A Historical Whitewash?
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Insight Magazine, November 24, 2003
http://www.insightmag.com/news/565658.html

If the World Was Talking, Why Didn't We Listen?
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Insight Magazine, November 24, 2003
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=565664

9-11 Profiteering
by Catherine Austin Fitts
Scoop Media, March 22, 2004
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00244.htm

A Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal
by Catherine Austin Fitts
Scoop Media, October 6, 2003
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0310/S00038.htm

Where is the Money?
http://www.whereisthemoney.org

George W. Bush -- Hero! [View all] napkinz Sep 2014 OP
, blkmusclmachine Sep 2014 #1
Never forget. Cleita Sep 2014 #2
But but but malaise Sep 2014 #3
Seriously. Afghanistan wasn't Benghazi. Voice for Peace Sep 2014 #16
You understand malaise Sep 2014 #22
-- napkinz Sep 2014 #24
Bush Knew. Octafish Sep 2014 #4
bush* knew something was going to happen, just not when, and probably not exactly the what. Raster Sep 2014 #12
sums it up nicely. Voice for Peace Sep 2014 #19
While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard Octafish Sep 2014 #28
Before I retired I was in a carpool with some Rethugs and mentioned some of these details to them. kairos12 Sep 2014 #43
what if you SHOWED them a copy of the August 6 memo "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" napkinz Sep 2014 #53
Thanks, Octafish... ReRe Sep 2014 #21
Amy Goodman is TOPS! Octafish Sep 2014 #27
She's the only "Walter Kronkite"-grade broadcast journalist we've got now. n/t ReRe Sep 2014 #29
He was 'suicided' for malaise Sep 2014 #23
Mark Lombardi Knew. Octafish Sep 2014 #25
Yep. Mark was definitely unraveling the knots.... and he died for it. Raster Sep 2014 #26
Thanks, Octafish, as always. navarth Sep 2014 #49
... napkinz Sep 2014 #41
New NSA docs contradict Bush Administration 9-11 claims Octafish Sep 2014 #46
f*cking unbelievable what Bush and Republicans have gotten away with napkinz Sep 2014 #70
little-by-little and document release by document release the TRUTH will eventually come out... Raster Sep 2014 #81
Kick and Rec! zappaman Sep 2014 #5
Odd thing for you to Rec, zappaman... Octafish Sep 2014 #6
Nice smear, Brad. zappaman Sep 2014 #8
No smear. They're your own words. Octafish Sep 2014 #10
C'mon Brad you can do better than that! zappaman Sep 2014 #11
Cheney may well have planned to use a terrorist attack, which they had been warned about . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #14
yeah....that makes sense. zappaman Sep 2014 #15
Ashcroft Knew. Octafish Sep 2014 #7
lihop. not the village idiot of course. Doctor_J Sep 2014 #9
They very likely hoped there would be a highjacked airliner . . . another_liberal Sep 2014 #13
This has been my feeling all along. ladyVet Sep 2014 #72
Worst president ever!!!!!! Initech Sep 2014 #17
K & R. This would get a hide on Di. L0oniX Sep 2014 #18
And let us hope he is the last president from Texas awoke_in_2003 Sep 2014 #20
the sequel to My Pet Goat --> napkinz Sep 2014 #55
i just had to click on this thread orleans Sep 2014 #30
Please make this an OP, orleans! Octafish Sep 2014 #32
a moment of epiphany napkinz Sep 2014 #40
''We got a laugh out of it.'' Octafish Sep 2014 #44
jezus h christ. BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2014 #57
remember when as governor he joked about the execution of Karla Faye Tucker napkinz Sep 2014 #58
bush*'s "moment of clarity" was actually "oh, shit, what do I do now?" Raster Sep 2014 #33
fuckhead never had a "moment of clarity" in his pathetic life. n/t orleans Sep 2014 #75
... napkinz Sep 2014 #77
yep. but it goes beyond those times when he was drunk or snorting coke orleans Sep 2014 #78
excellent! thanks orleans napkinz Sep 2014 #80
28 pages Man from Pickens Sep 2014 #31
A Trip Down Memory Lane Raster Sep 2014 #34
have you heard the latest? talk of Condi Rice replacing Roger Goodell as NFL commissioner napkinz Sep 2014 #39
... napkinz Sep 2014 #82
Good compilation. INFURIATING. But good. calimary Sep 2014 #35
We should not be carrying forth his policies in Iraq. We should be prosecuting him. grahamhgreen Sep 2014 #36
k and r..lots of great comments here...thanks to all... Stuart G Sep 2014 #37
yea GummyBearz Sep 2014 #38
If I recall, he spent most of August 2001 vacation clearing brush and figuring out kairos12 Sep 2014 #42
TPTB will not allow a Republican to be required to account, no matter: how inept or illegal, indepat Sep 2014 #45
NEVER let them forget. navarth Sep 2014 #47
K&R secondwind Sep 2014 #48
They achieved all their goals by ignoring the warnings. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #50
K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Sep 2014 #51
Let me throw this into the mix: freshwest Sep 2014 #52
Good post, freshwest. Should be an OP. nt sheshe2 Sep 2014 #61
I wouldn't know what to call it, though... Since you're back, I'll post something... freshwest Sep 2014 #64
Thanks... sheshe2 Sep 2014 #66
Was expecting flames, nice to see your reply. I think you'll be heartened by the OP. freshwest Sep 2014 #67
The total ineptitude or ignorance MissDeeds Sep 2014 #54
ignored August 6 memo, lied us into war against Iraq, tanked the economy ... and they paid no price napkinz Sep 2014 #56
At BEST, criminal negligence of duty. Most likely, Treason. Octafish Sep 2014 #63
Exactly MissDeeds Sep 2014 #71
"And how does ignoring the August 6 memo get a pass?" napkinz Sep 2014 #73
some of us will NEVER forget! niyad Sep 2014 #59
kick x 1 million samsingh Sep 2014 #60
Sad reminder, napkinz ;( sheshe2 Sep 2014 #62
Kick Cha Sep 2014 #65
yeah heaven05 Sep 2014 #68
Protected and ongoing: Obama DOJ Asks Court to Grant Immunity to George W. Bush For Iraq War woo me with science Sep 2014 #69
damn! napkinz Sep 2014 #74
1% would agree, but they have all those assholes to do it for them. orpupilofnature57 Sep 2014 #76
... napkinz Sep 2014 #79
... napkinz Sep 2014 #83
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