Exactly 1000 days after hijacked airliners crashed
into the World Trade Center the American people finally heard
public testimony, during the final hearings of the 9/11 Commission last week in
Washington, D.C., about the plot that took nearly 3000 lives
It wasn’t worth the wait.
“9/11: the Plot” was the subject of
a day-long hearing on what were supposed to be the specifics of the conspiracy.
But the distortions, inaccuracies, omissions, and
evasions offered during the session suggests that the real 9/11
plot involves efforts by the FBI to keep the American people in the dark,
for whatever reason, about the facts of the attack.
Still, the trickle of new evidence released
seemingly cleared up several questions and conspiracy theories some found
compelling: the notion that there weren’t any Arab hijackers on the planes, and
the suspicion of a NORAD stand-down which allowed the attack to succeed.
The man who was and was not there
For the first time, for example, tapes were
released of Mohamed Atta’s voice commandeering a cockpit microphone and sternly ordering
passengers to avoid doing anything stupid; no doubt something of an
embarrassment to aficionados of “The Theory of Remote Control.”
(That
is Atta’s voice, we believe. We vividly remember Amanda Keller
mimicking his accent for us one time, because it had left us puzzled, and
unable to place it. When we heard the tape at the 9/11 commission hearings we
instantly recognized it was Atta; he sounded EXACTLY the way Amanda had mimicked
him sounding.)
Also, the confusion and panic evident in
the voices of FAA controllers offers an understandable
rationale--bureaucratic incompetence--for what some saw as a “NORAD stand-down.”
Newsflash: We may not be getting everything we
thought we were, defense-wise, for the money.
But the testimony also created a major new
mystery: Why doesn't the
account given by FBI and staff investigators about the final days of the terrorist
conspiracy match what's already on the public record?
In the face of this monumental and
surreal absurdity, the MadCowMorningNews'
two-year investigation is, sadly, beginning to look
like the only game in town.
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