http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/25/seymour-hersh-negroponte-iran-c...
Hersh: There has been some violence. So America, my country,
without telling Congress, using funds not appropriated, I don't
know where, by my sources believe much of the money obviously
came from Iraq where there is all kinds of piles of loose money,
pools of cash that could be used for covert operations.
All of this should be investigated by Congress, by the way,
and I trust it will be. In my talking to membership — members
there, they are very upset that they know nothing about this.
And they have great many suspicions.
We are simply in a situation where this president is
really taking his notion of executive privilege to the absolute
limit here, running covert operations, using money that was
not authorized by Congress, supporting groups indirectly that
are involved with the same people that did 9/11, and we should
be arresting these people rather than looking the other way…
He — that is one of the reasons, I was told. Negroponte also
was not in tune with Cheney. There was a lot of complaints about
him because he was seen as much of a stickler, too ethical for
some of the operations the Pentagon wants to run. (full transcript
below the fold)
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/25/seymour-hersh-negroponte-iran-c...
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I know that Sy Hersh is not a 911truther, as he eventually
means really the phony Al Qaida, but an interesting catch at
least.
Just remember, these stories related to 911 and missing money:
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National Commission on terrorists attacks upon the United StatesAppendix
A, page 144
.
Origin of the Funds
To date, the U.S. government has not been able to determine
the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks
…
Ultimately the question of the origin of the funds is of little
practical significance.
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Missing Trillions
Rumsfeld Buries Admission of Missing 2+ Trillion Dollars in
9/10/01 Press Conference
On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000
in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated:
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in
transactions." According to a report by the Inspector General,
the Pentagon cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends.
http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/trillions.html
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The Comptroller of the Pentagon at the time of the attack
was Dov Zakheim, who was appointed in May of 2001. Before becoming
the Pentagon's money-manager, he was an executive at System
Planning Corporation, a defense contractor specializing in electronic
warfare technologies including remote-controlled aircraft systems.
3 4 Zakheim is a member of the Project for a New American Century
and participated in the creation of its 2000 position paper
Rebuilding America's Defenses which called for "a New Pearl
Harbor." 5
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In a document called "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy,
Forces and Resources for a New Century" published by The American
Enterprise's "Project for a New American Century", System Planning
Corporation (SPC) International executive, Dov Zakheim, called
for "some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl
Harbor" being necessary to foster the frame of mind needed for
the American public to support a war in the Middle East that
would politically and culturally reshape the region. A respected
and established voice in the intelligence community, his views
were eagerly accepted, and Dov went from his position at Systems
Planning Corporation to become the Comptroller of the Pentagon
in May 2001.
Perhaps not so coincidentally, it was an SPC subsidiary, Tridata
Corporation, that oversaw the investigation after the terrorist
attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 [see their report,
as a PDF file, here].
SPC, according to their official website, specializes in many
areas of defense technology production and manufacture, including
a system developed by their Radar Physics Group called the Flight
Termination System, or FTS. This is a system used to destroy
target drones (craft that would be fired on by test aircraft
or weaponry) in the event of malfunction or "misses". This highly
sophisticated war-game technology allows the control of several
'drones' from a remote location, on varying frequencies, and
has a range of several hundred miles. This technology can be
used on many different types of aircraft, including large passenger
jets
http://www.nogw.com/download/2006_following_zakheim.pdf
