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- Insider notes from United Press International (UPI) for April
13
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There's a hole in the ranks of Team Bush. As Washington
pundits tripped all over themselves to praise national security
adviser Condoleezza Rice's appearance before the 9/11 Commission,
a veteran of the first Bush administration, Catherine Austin Fitts,
former assistant secretary of Housing, was sufficiently appalled
and saddened to pen an open letter to Rice the following day containing
four harsh accusations. The letter was sent via e-mail to President
George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the commission's
members. Excerpts of the letter follow: "Point #1: You are a liar.
Attorney General (John) 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 adviser 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."
Fitts points out that Rice's job was to ensure the workers in
the World Trade Center's South Tower had the necessary information
about how to evacuate the building after the collapse of the North
Tower. Fitts' second point labels Rice as having "transparent"
motives, noting New York is a world financial center, while Washington
houses the government's fiscal offices. "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." For her third point, Fitts observes simply, "You
are going down. The richest and most powerful people in the world
pay for performance. They pay you to make the U.S. 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." Fitts concludes with her fourth point, "You
are guilty of criminal gross negligence. If you want to catch
a terrorist today, you need look no further than your own mirror,"
adding, "may God have mercy on your soul."
Open Letter Also Printed In
- From
The Wilderness Publications, Apr 13, 2004
- Scoop Media, New Zealand, Apr 13, 2004
- Centre for Global Research, Apr 13, 2004
- truthout, Apr 13, 2004
- Lepszy
Swiat, Poland, Apr 13, 2004
- le
metropole cafe, Apr 10,
2004
- Conspiracy
Planet, Apr 13, 2004
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