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9/11 Richard Clarke: The CIA Tried To Recruit The 'Hijackers' As Al-Qaeda Agents Before 9/11

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Beware not everything in this story is verifiably accurate, there is CIA diversion woven into it. The hijackers are BUNK, they were recruited by the CIA and their identities used to stage fake hijackers that had never flown a jet. Beware diversionary stories from the people that did 9/11. The key here is the CIA DID make contact with the people later accused, and many were identity theft and forgery victims still alive. The CIA also recruits Al-Qaeda operatives rather than arrest them also, patsys and provacatuers. An Explosive New 9/11 Charge .... In a new documentary, former national-security aide and 9/11 insider Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers—then covered it up. Philip Shenon on George Tenet's denial. With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks only a month away, former CIA Director George Tenet and two former top aides are fighting back hard against allegations that they engaged in a massive cover-up in 2000 and 2001 to hide intelligence from the White House and the FBI that might have prevented the attacks. The source of the explosive, unproved allegations is a man who once considered Tenet a close friend: former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, who makes the charges against Tenet and the CIA in an interview for a radio documentary timed to the 10th anniversary next month. Portions of the Clarke interview were made available to The Daily Beast by the producers of the documentary. In the interview for the documentary, Clarke offers an incendiary theory that, if true, would rewrite the history of the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that the CIA intentionally withheld information from the White House and FBI in 2000 and 2001 that two Saudi-born terrorists were on U.S. soil—terrorists who went on to become suicide hijackers on 9/11. Clarke speculates (makes up diversion) —and readily admits he cannot prove—that the CIA withheld the information because the agency had been trying to recruit the terrorists, while they were living in Southern California under their own names, to work as CIA agents inside Al Qaeda. After the recruitment effort went sour, senior CIA officers continued to withhold the information from the White House for fear they would be accused of "malfeasance and misfeasance," Clarke suggests.
Clarke says it is fair to conclude "there was a high-level decision in the CIA ordering people not to share information." Asked who would have made the order, Clarke replies, "I would think it would have been made by the director," referring to Tenet. Clarke said that if his theory is correct, Tenet and others would never admit to the truth today "even if you waterboarded them." Waterboard clarke and see what he squeels. Clarke's theory addresses a central, enduring mystery about the 9/11 attacks— why the CIA failed for so long to tell the White House and senior officials at the FBI that the agency was aware that two Al Qaeda terrorists had arrived in the United States in January 2000, just days after attending a terrorist summit meeting in Malaysia that the CIA had secretly monitored. In a written response prepared last week in advance of the broadcast, Tenet says that his partner in lies Clarke, who famously went public in 2004 to blow the whistle on the Bush White House over intelligence failures before 9/11, has "suddenly invented baseless allegations which are belied by the record and unworthy of serious consideration." The CIA insisted to the 9/11 Commission and other government investigations that the agency never knew the exact whereabouts of the two hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, inside the U.S.—let alone try to recruit them as spies. Agency officials said the CIA's delay in sharing information about the two terrorists was a grave failure, but maintained there was no suggestion of deception by CIA brass. Tenet has said he was not informed before 9/11 about Hazmi and Mihdhar's travel to the U.S., although the intelligence was widely shared at lower levels of the CIA. The 9/11 Criminal Commission investigated widespread rumors in the intelligence community that the CIA tried to recruit the two terrorists—Clarke was not the first to suggest it—but the investigation revealed no evidence to support the rumors. The commission said in its final report that "it appears that no one informed higher levels of management in either the FBI or CIA" about the two terrorists.


But in his interview, Clarke said his seemingly unlikely, even wild scenario—a bungled CIA terrorist-recruitment effort and a subsequent cover-up—was "the only conceivable reason that I've been able to come up with" to explain why he and others at the White House were told nothing about the two terrorists until the day of the attacks.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/11/september-11th-anniversary-r...

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  • FBI knew it

    And they say they had willed to lie to their higher ups ...

    who were not saved back then

    and some were reportedly gay.... and some were like leftist lawyers.

  • fbi buffalo ny office knew that terrorists overseas had attached & were reacting ... Also domestic soil USA terrorists were reacting (like Waco, TX cult uprising) and they were reacting to the bad treatment of a HUD employee who had been diagnosed as having flashbacks from childhood abuse incident ...like head hit & knocked out, then went to church to get help and they all did not respond with prayer ...but waited until her birthday 9 months away and during a church seminar (Kadafi drugged@work

  • @edup12

    No mention of that on the media. Can that be verified? Serious implications if that is true!

  • @piemuo88

    I would like to know why none of the 4000 american jews who works at WTC did not go to work precisely on 9/11.

  • where is larry silverstein among the hijackers?

  • people stole my hologram360 whiped my memorey, and used it for evil I am mad as fuck, I never wanted to kill anyone, but then imax tryed to kill me.

  • imax3d is the cia we heard what the cia beckers and lowmans from imax were thinking the cia was good people till they got tricked by the hologram360 that i invented they used mind control chips made robots fly into the twin towers

  • @DeborahsSong Right ON ! 

  • @GalaticSpaceHero We've already "dismantled" the Constitution in some ways. Try getting a lawyer if your Civil Rights are violated, or if your kid is trafficked to the mob/CIA. They have dismantled the means by which to enforce it. In other words, they are making it only for the rich to enforce it because only they will be able to afford lawyers.

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