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Greens question prior knowledge Fwd: Fw: [dcstatehoodgreennews] GREEN PARTY RELEASE Demand independent probe of W
> GREENS DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION INTO BUSH'S PRIOR
> KNOWLEDGE OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS
>
> Probe must be independent of Congress and the White
> House, say Green candidates
>
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> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green candidates and other members
> of the Green Party of the United States repeated the
> call for Congress to authorize an independent
> investigation into the attacks on September 11, in the
> wake of revelations that the Bush Administration
> failed to inform Americans about indications that
> Osama bin Laden was behind a plan to highjack
> airlines.
>
> "The government of the United States owes this to the
> American people, and especially to the victims and
> their relatives," said Ted Glick, New Jersey Green
> Party candidate for the U.S. Senate. "It should be an
> independent investigation, with broad subpoena power
> and access to classified information, conducted by a
> body of citizens outside of Congress and the Ashcroft
> Justice Department."
>
> "While the White House tries to downplay the news,
> it's becoming clear that this is even more gravely
> serious than the Enron debacle, which Congress refused
> to investigate as a political scandal and only as
> corporate malfeasance. An investigation needs to be
> directed by those whose only interest is in finding
> the truth, and who have the courage and resolve to
> seek the truth regardless of political or criminal
> implications. Relatives of the victims should play a
> major role in the committee overseeing the
> investigation."
>
> Other candidates seeking their states' Green Party
> nomination, including Stanley Aronowitz (for Governor
> of New York) and Charles Pillsbury (for Congress,
> Connecticut 3rd District), have also called for an
> independent investigation. Like millions of other
> Americans and many of the mainstream media, Greens are
> asking hard questions:
>
> *** Why did the Bush Administration fail for nine
> months after September 11th to disclose its knowledge
> of intelligence warnings from as early as May, 2001?
> Did top Republicans and Democrats, including Rep.
> Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca), in the House and Senate
> Intelligence Committees also conceal such knowledge?
> Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Al) has admitted that they had
> received the same classified information as the
> President.
>
> *** Why did President Bush and Vice President Cheney,
> the latter repeatedly, contact Senate Majority Leader
> Tom Daschle to urge the Senate not to conduct a full
> investigation into September 11?
>
> *** Will apologies be paid to Rep. Cynthia McKinney
> (D-Ca), after the harsh criticism and derision she
> received from Trent Lott (R-Ms), Zell Miller (D-Ga),
> and others last month for demanding an investigation
> into possible White House foreknowledge of the
> attacks?
>
> *** If suspicions of an attack came in part from
> intelligence warnings about questionable enrollments
> in flight training schools (August 6, 2001 secret memo
> to the President, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in
> U.S."), why does the White House say it expected a
> conventional hijacking? Since when are years of pilot
> training part of the preparation for what Press
> Secretary Ari Fleischer called a "traditional"
> hijacking?
>
> *** Did insider trading occur on Wall Street based on
> knowledge of an impending attack? Did U.S.
> intelligence, which tracks trading patterns, detect
> the jump in United Airlines put options (90 times
> above normal) between September 6 and 10, 2001, and
> 285 times higher than average on September 7; or the
> jump in American Airlines put options (60 times above
> normal) on September 10? (Put options are leveraged
> bets that a stock's price will fall.) This was
> reported on CBS News on September 26, 2001; no similar
> trading patterns occurred for other airlines.
>
> *** "The Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped using
> ordinary commercial jets in early summer after an
> internal security warning." (The Independent, May 17,
> 2001) Why did the FBI advise Ashcroft, as later
> reported by CBS News on July 26, 2001, to avoid
> commercial flights for the remainder of his term? Did
> it occur to Ashcroft (and Bush) to ask what the threat
> was? Should other Americans have been warned?
>
> *** Did plans for the trans-Afghanistan pipeline to
> transport oil from Turkmenistan motivate Bush to block
> intelligence gathering on al Qaeda in early and mid
> 2001? According to CNN, this obstruction drove FBI
> Deputy Director John O'Neill to resign two weeks
> before September 11. (After leaving the FBI, O'Neill
> became security director at the World Trade Center,
> where he died on September 11.) The revival of
> pipeline plans after September 11 was denied by the
> White House in late 2001, but confirmed in a February
> 8, 2002 joint declaration by Afghan interim Prime
> Minister Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Gen.
> Pervez Musharraf, and more recently by World Bank
> chief James Wolfensohn. What kind of influence did
> oil interests have over Bush intelligence policy
> before and after September 11?
>
> *** What elementary precautions could airlines, the
> FAA, and the U.S. military have taken to improve
> security on commercial flights and at major landmarks
> known to be vulnerable? Why didn't U.S. intelligence
> agencies compile, compare, and analyse numerous
> intelligence reports, such as the e-mail from a
> Minneapolis FBI agent suggesting that Zaccarias
> Moussaoui might fly a jumbo jet into the World Trade
> Center? Could the attacks have been prevented?
>
>
> MORE INFORMATION
>
> The Green Party of the United States http://gpus.org
> http://www.greenpartyus.org
> National office: 1314 18th Street, NW
> Washington, DC 20036
> 202-296-7755, 866-41GREEN
>
> Index of Green Party candidates in 2002
> http://www.greens.org/elections
>
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> Forwarded by the D.C. Statehood Green Party
> http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org
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