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"As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted."  Former Senator Max Cleland, October, 2003.  

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1026-02.htm

Here is an archive of articles relating to indications of prior knowledge of the attacks.

Let's chase this rabbit into the ground here. They had a plan to go to war and when 9/11 happened that's what they did; they went to war. They pulled off their task force in Afghanistan, their Predator assets, and shifted them over to the war in Iraq. They took their eye off the 9/11 ball and transferred it to the Iraq ball. And that's a very strategic question that ultimately has got to be answered. I'm focused on 9/11 and the administration is not focused on it. They don't want to share information, and they didn't agree with the commission in the first place.  Former Senator Max Cleland.  (Cleland subsequently resigned from the Commission.)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/112303A.shtml

"Please explain why no one in any level of our government has yet been held accountable for the countless failures leading up to and on 9/11"
One of hundreds of questions presented by the Family Steering Committee to the 9/11 Commission but never asked, let alone answered.

"It has been almost three years since the terrorist attacks on September 11; during which time we, the people, have been placed under a constant threat of terror and asked to exercise vigilance in our daily lives. Your commission, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, was created by law to investigate "facts and circumstances related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001" and to "provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism", and has now issued its "9/11 Commission Report". You are now asking us to pledge our support for this report, its recommendations, and implementation of these recommendations, with our trust and backing, our tax money, our security, and our lives. Unfortunately, I find your report seriously flawed in its failure to address serious intelligence issues that I am aware of, which have been confirmed, and which as a witness to the commission, I made you aware of. Thus, I must assume that other serious issues that I am not aware of were in the same manner omitted from your report. These omissions cast doubt on the validity of your report and therefore on its conclusions and recommendations. Considering what is at stake, our national security, we are entitled to demand answers to unanswered questions, and to ask for clarification of issues that were ignored and/or omitted from the report."
Letter to 9/11 Commission from Sibel Edmonds, FBI Whistleblower.

"Also missing from the Commission’s definitive report was the testimony from national security whistleblowers who had tried to testify before the Commission, but where either not asked to testify or their testimony was only barely acknowledged, or worse yet, completely omitted from the record.

This list includes:

• Robert Wright, FBI Agent, whom the FBI refused to allow to testify, and the Commission did not subpoena him.

• John M. Cole, FBI Counterintelligence who had pertinent information with regard to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the 9/11 attacks. He notified the 9/11 Commission during its tenure but never received a response back from them.

• Coleen Rowley, FBI Division Council, the FBI commission did not interview her and chose instead to rely on transcripts from the Joint Senate House Intelligence Inquiry.

• Mike German, FBI Counterintelligence, in February, 2004 his name and contact information were provided to the Commission as a key witness, but they never called him to testify.

• Mark Burtons, Senior Analyst at NSA, he provided dozens of pages of information and testimony to the 9/11 Commission but was ignored, and was never invited to testify.

• Aris Ashar, Language Specialist at the FBI, he was refused twice by the Commission to testify but finally did testify however, his testimony was omitted from the final report.

This list is in no way complete, rather, it’s just a small sample of the legitimate witnesses or corroborators of valuable 9/11 information that they tried to provide to the Commission. But they were instead turned away."  Unofficial transcript of Lorie Van Auken’s statement at the July 22nd Congressional Briefing: The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later – A Citizens’ Response – Did They Get It Right?

Senior Military, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and Government Critics of 9/11 Commission Report.

"We didn't want to scare people."  Christie Todd Whitman, head of the EPA, answering charges that she deliberately withheld information about the toxicity of the air in New York City following the attacks.  Thousands of New Yorkers are now sick and dying as the result of this toxic air, which they were told was safe to breathe.

"We believe that one of the primary purposes of the Commission was to establish accountability; that to do so is essential to understanding the failures that led to 9/11, and to prescribe needed changes. However, the Commission in its report holds no one accountable, stating instead "our aim has not been to assign individual blame". That is to play the political game, and it shows that the goal of achieving unanimity overrode one of the primary purposes of this Commission's establishment. When calling for accountability, we are referring not to quasi-innocent mistakes caused by "lack of imagination" or brought about by ordinary "human error". Rather, we refer to intentional actions or inaction by individuals responsible for our national security, actions or inaction dictated by motives other than the security of the people of the United States.  The report deliberately ignores officials and civil servants who were, and still are, clearly negligent and/or derelict in their duties to the nation. If these individuals are protected rather than held accountable, the mindset that enabled 9/11 will persist, no matter how many layers of bureaucracy are added, and no matter how much money is poured into the agencies. Character counts.  Personal integrity, courage, and professionalism make the difference.  Only a commission bent on holding no one responsible and reaching unanimity could have missed that."
An open letter to Congress from 25 national security experts.

Coleen Rowley's memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller.

There are many reports that the U.S. Government had advance knowledge of the 9/11 terror attacks and either failed to respond to this knowledge or actually prevented this knowledge from being further developed.  Many believe that the allegations in these reports are extremely serious and require investigation.

The 9/11 Commission chose not to follow leads pointing to a connection between ringleader Mohammed Atta and the Pakistani Intelligence Service, ISI, which has ties to the CIA.  [more]

Questions from Karl Schwarz.

Critics of the official story point to problems with the government's explanation of why four hijacked airliners couldn't be intercepted.

"It is an unnoticed but startling truth that the basic narrative on the tragedy derives from the interrogations of key detainees whom the 9/11 commissioners were not allowed to interview. Nor were they permitted to even take testimony from the U.S. intelligence personnel who interrogated those prisoners.   When the truth and governmental transparency are arbitrarily trumped by the invocation of national security, the public is simply incapable of making informed decisions on the most crucial decisions we face — starting with whom we elect as our commander in chief."  Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times.

Condi Rice, 9/11 and Another Nest of Lies, By William Rivers Pitt