[LEMONS] 1.02.2002
There is no question we had what looked like the biggest failure of the intelligence community since Pearl Harbor but what we are learning now is it wasn’t a failure, it was a directive. Now I am not part of the conspiracy nut crowd that believes George Bush came up with a plan for an attack on the United States to save his popularity. There is no evidence of that. That is completely outside of any evidence I have seen. But what we find is something that, in a way, where the effect is just the same – and it’s chilling. Which is that they blinded the intelligence agencies and said you cannot look at the Saudis. Now the question is why . . .
This captures my sentiments pretty well. I do not, and cannot, believe that any President of the United States--even an illegitimate one who came into office via election fraud and cronyism--could have any foreknowledge of such a devastating attack. However, several months ago, in running down an urban myth sent to me via email, I found it peculiar that when I did a lexis search for bin Laden, the first references I found were to:
1) A 1987 San Antonio Business Journal article about a pilot for the Bushes and other elite Texans who made his connections with them after ferrying Sheik Salom bin Laden around Europe for several years.
2) A 1990 Washington Post article on US arms trade with Saudi, and the bin Laden family's connection.
3) A 1992 Houston Chronicle article on a Federal investigation into James R. Bath, who represented the bin Laden family in the United States, and owned a five percent interest in Arbusto, Dubya's oil bidness.
Now, I don't for a second think that Dubya is connected to September 11. And I think that conspiracy theories to the contrary are reckless and irresponsible. But I do think he has, in a very direct matter yet probably unwittingly (as if he were capable of wittingly accomplishing anything), assisted in financing terrorism. the two families are too close, and there are entirely too many financial connections, for Bush to not have indirectly sent money to OBL.
Happy New Year.
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