Reply #156: Update: I'm just gonna say it. [View All]

[sofa king]

At the urging of one of our readers I've decided to stop messing around and just tell you what I've heard. Note that this is not what I know, this is just what I heard, in a drunken conversation in a bar here in Arlington. I'm genuinely concerned that someone else is going to come after me to find out exactly what I know, but things aren't looking so good for me anyway these days so maybe this is the last decent thing I can do.

I was told that the attacks on the Pentagon managed to take out the entire Department of Defense counterterrorism unit. All of them--the general in charge, his senior staff, all of their paperwork, and most of their electronic records.

That's it. That's all of it.

But what really freaks me out is how much it explains, and potentially explains. Some readers here have puzzled over why the pilot who hit the Pentagon set up such an unusual approach. If what I heard is true, the answer is because the pilot was specifically trying to hit the outer ring of a particular section of the building.

If other rumors about WTC-7 holding counterterrorism units of the FBI, CIA, and INS are true as well, what we have is the complete destruction of America's ability to track down the people who perpetrated the attacks.

How in the hell could twenty illegal immigrants have known this when the rest of us still don't? That's what sold me on the idea that the attacks were facilitated by people within the U.S. government. That's why I keep coming back to Jack Abramoff and that mysterious now-forgotten visit by four of the hijackers to his cruise ship on September 5, 2001. Abramoff was the perfect guy to communicate between Mossad, the White House, and the terrorists, and sure as shit, there he was right in the middle of it. The FBI walked off with his surveillance tapes and they've never been seen again.

They say that evidence is the foundation of all cases, but motive is what wins those cases. Here, the motive is so alarmingly obvious to me that it's difficult to think of anything else. With the destruction of the old counterterror system, Donald Rumsfeld was able to create an entirely new one, beholden only to him, hidden behind the folds of the DoD and its contractors, with access to two trillion "missing" dollars within DoD, and perfectly positioned to do it again, whenever they wish.

So there it is. I really hope someone gets out there and tries to verify this story, because I think it's a key piece in the puzzle. Good luck--to all of us.