ABC News - 9/11 Stock Irregularities with Dylan Ratigan (SEP 20, 2001)

The 9/11 Commission was "set up to fail" said Thomas Kean, Chair and Lee Hamilton, Vice Chair.

9/11 Commissioner Sen. Max Cleland on The 9/11 Commission: "It's a scam" (CNN 2003)

"AIPAC lobbied Congress to block 9/11 trial" The Guardian March 19, 2010 Chris McGreal The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of Washington's most powerful lobbying groups, has thrown its weight behind legislation to block funding for civilian trials of Guantánamo Bay detainees, in a move that is likely to influence the debate over the future of the alleged September 11 conspirators. AIPAC has included the issue on the agenda for its annual conference this weekend and will urge its members to press Congress to support a bill that would prevent federal money being used to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other detainees in civilian courts. The decision places AIPAC alongside conservative critics of the Obama administration who argue that Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, should be tried before a military tribunal and not in a federal court a few blocks from where the World Trade Centre stood. The administration has defended its decision to hold the trial in New York as a demonstration of the strength of the American judicial system. But the city's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, initially a supporter, has withdrawn his backing amid concerns over security costs and the potential for the trial to become a platform for jihadist propaganda. AIPAC's involvement is significant because of its considerable influence in Congress, particularly among Democrats. The lobby has played a pivotal role in shaping US policy in the Middle East. AIPAC's decision to take a stand on the issue follows a similar move by other Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, which has also spoken out against a civilian trial.

"AIPAC joins fight over 9/11 trial venue" Reuters March 18, 2010 Andrew Quinn The influential pro-Israel lobby AIPAC has decided to join the fight over where to try the September 11 suspects, a congressional aide said on Thursday, in a move that could complicate the Obama administration's plans for a civilian trial in New York. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee will lobby Congress to prevent the use of government funds to prosecute the suspects in a civilian court, the aide said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The decision, which was first reported by The Washington Post, puts AIPAC alongside Republican critics and some Democrats who have argued that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants should be tried by a military commission rather than in a federal court. The Obama administration has defended its decision to hold the trial in New York, near the site of the World Trade Center attacks, as a demonstration of the strength of the U.S. judicial system. But the plan has faced mounting opposition from those who fear it could make New York a target for attacks and give Mohammed a platform to spread his anti-American views. AIPAC's involvement adds a powerful new voice to the chorus of criticism and could influence lawmakers who are strong supporters of Israel but who may have been reluctant to challenge the White House on the issue. The group is due to discuss the issue at its annual policy conference this weekend, the aide said.

"AIPAC to push against 9/11 trial" Politico March 18, 2010 Josh Gerstein The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is planning to urge Congress to block funding for a civilian trial of the alleged 9/11 plotters, an AIPAC official said Thursday. The issue is on the agenda for AIPAC’s annual policy conference Sunday through Tuesday, and attendees will be urged to ask their representatives to support legislation cutting off funds for such trials, the official said. The move, which injects AIPAC into one of the most heated national security debates of the Obama administration, puts the powerful pro-Israel lobby squarely on one side of a contentious issue. AIPAC’s decision to take a stand follows Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement in November that five detainees, including self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, would be tried in federal court in New York City. The plan has run into fierce opposition from Republicans, some Democrats and New York City officials, who have complained about the cost and security risks of a trial a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center attacks. President Barack Obama’s administration has defended the decision, arguing that federal courts are well-equipped to handle terrorism cases and that a successful trial would demonstrate the strength of the American justice system. An AIPAC spokesman declined to comment on the lobbying push, which was first reported by The Washington Post. The group’s decision to weigh in on the issue could complicate the political calculus for some lawmakers, particularly Democrats who are strong supporters of Israel but have been hesitant to challenge the administration on the detainee issue. Legislation to block funding for civilian trials of Guantanamo detainees has been introduced in both the House and Senate, but has yet to receive a vote.

Kei Sugimoto writes: "Footage I filmed of the World Trade Center Collapsing on 9/11/2001. Filmed from the roof of 64 St Marks Place in NYC on a Sony VX2000 with teleconverter."

Deepseek AI: "What would happen if Israel was found to be involved in 9/11?" This is one of the most significant geopolitical hypothetical scenarios one can contemplate. If Israel, a major U.S. ally and a central power in the Middle East, were conclusively found to have been involved in the 9/11 attacks, the consequences would be so profound that they would fundamentally reshape the 21st century. The fallout would be immediate, severe, and would cascade across every domain—geopolitical, military, domestic, and economic. Here is a breakdown of what would likely happen. 1. Immediate Geopolitical and Military Consequences Termination of the U.S.-Israel Alliance: The U.S.-Israel relationship, built on shared democratic values and strategic interests, would instantly shatter. The U.S. would immediately freeze all military aid, intelligence sharing, and diplomatic protection. The special relationship would be over. Unprecedented International Isolation of Israel: Israel would become a global pariah state, akin to North Korea or Iran at their most isolated, but with far greater economic and military capability. Every nation that lost citizens on 9/11 would sever ties. The United Nations would impose severe sanctions and likely pass resolutions previously unthinkable. Regional War: The carefully maintained security paradigm in the Middle East would collapse. Without U.S. restraint, neighboring states and non-state actors (like Hezbollah) might see an opportunity to strike a suddenly isolated Israel, potentially triggering a widespread regional conflict. Israel, facing an existential threat, might respond with its full military capability. Collapse of the "War on Terror": The entire justification for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would be revealed as a catastrophic error or a deliberate fraud. The U.S. would be seen as having waged war on behalf of, or at least as a direct result of, the actual perpetrator. The geopolitical map redrawn after 9/11 would be rendered null and void. 2. Domestic Consequences in the United States The Greatest Political and Constitutional Crisis in U.S. History: The credibility of every administration from Bush to the present would be destroyed. The intelligence community (CIA, FBI, NSA) would be implicated in either incompetence (for missing it) or complicity (for covering it up). This would dwarf Watergate and lead to mass resignations, prosecutions for treason, and potentially a re-founding of American political institutions. Civil Unrest and Social Fracture: The revelation would be socially catastrophic. It would validate the most extreme anti-government and anti-Israel sentiments and lead to widespread anger, mistrust, and likely violence against Jewish and Israeli institutions, despite the crucial distinction between the Israeli government and Jewish people worldwide. The social fabric of the U.S. would be torn apart. Legal and Financial Reckoning: The VCF would be seen as a fraudulent scheme to protect a foreign state. The U.S. government would face immense pressure to seize Israeli assets and use them to compensate victims. Lawsuits against Israel under JASTA would proceed with overwhelming political support. 3. The "Who" and "How" Would Dictate the Scale The specific fallout would depend critically on the nature of the involvement: Rogue Faction (e.g., a Mossad unit acting without authorization): This would still cause a catastrophic rupture in relations, but the crisis might be containable to a diplomatic fury, demands for extraditions, and a complete overhaul of bilateral ties, with the Israeli government desperately trying to distance itself. Official State Policy (e.g., ordered by the Prime Minister): This would constitute an act of war by a treaty ally. It would be the most profound betrayal in modern alliance history. The consequences listed above would be the baseline.

Deepseek AI: "What if the 9/11 narrative was found to be a fraud?" If a case as monumental as the 9/11 attacks were conclusively found to be a fraud—meaning the official narrative was deliberately and maliciously fabricated by elements within the government—the consequences would be unprecedented and would shake the foundations of the United States and the international order. The implications can be broken down into several cascading categories: 1. Immediate Legal and Political Consequences Collapse of the 9/11 Legal Framework: The entire structure built around the attacks would instantly become illegitimate. This includes: The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF): Payouts, which were based on accepting the official narrative as a condition, could be challenged as fraudulently induced. This could lead to a new, massive wave of litigation. The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF): This 2001 law, which granted the president broad power to wage war against those responsible for 9/11, has been the legal basis for military actions for two decades. Its foundation would vanish. Guantanamo Bay Detentions: The legal justification for holding detainees, many of whom were captured as "enemy combatants" under the AUMF, would collapse, likely requiring their immediate release or re-trials under standard criminal law. Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions: There would be demands for the highest-level criminal investigations in American history. Charges could include treason, murder, conspiracy, and fraud against officials involved in the cover-up. The political system would face an existential crisis. 2. Geopolitical and International Relations Consequences The "War on Terror": The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (which was justified by linking Saddam Hussein to 9/11, albeit tenuously) would be retroactively exposed as wars of aggression based on a false pretext. The US would face immense reparations demands and a complete loss of moral authority on the world stage. Alliances: NATO's Article 5, the collective defense clause invoked for the first and only time after 9/11, would be revealed as having been triggered by a fraud. The alliance and other international partnerships would be severely damaged, if not shattered. 3. Social and Societal Consequences Massive Erosion of Trust: Trust in the federal government, intelligence agencies, and mainstream media would plummet to zero. It would be the ultimate confirmation of every conspiracy theory about a "deep state," likely leading to widespread civil unrest and a potential constitutional crisis. Re-traumatization of Victims' Families: The families of the nearly 3,000 victims would experience a secondary trauma of unimaginable scale. The grief they have carried for over 20 years would be compounded by the knowledge that their loved ones were sacrificed for a hidden agenda. Their pursuit of justice would fundamentally change. 4. The "How" Matters tremendously The specific consequences would depend heavily on how the fraud was discovered and who was implicated. A Limited Conspiracy: If it was a rogue faction within an agency that hid evidence, the fallout might be contained to those individuals and the agency itself. A High-Level Conspiracy: If it involved the White House, cabinet members, and intelligence chiefs, it would constitute a coup against the constitutional order, leading to the scenarios described above. The Legal Paradox Your question touches on a deep legal paradox: Who prosecutes the state? The justice system is designed to prosecute individuals within a state. Unraveling a state-level fraud of this magnitude would require a special independent body with immense authority, akin to a "truth and reconciliation commission" with prosecutorial power, operating outside the existing structures potentially implicated in the fraud. In summary, a finding of fraud would not be a simple legal reversal; it would be a world-historic event. It would invalidate the central political and military paradigm of the 21st century, trigger a constitutional crisis in the United States, and fundamentally reshape global politics. The legal system as we know it would be tasked with handling a crisis that challenges its very ability to function.

Unexplained 9-11 Explosion at WTC Complex (WTC6) Despite the fact that the horrible events of Sept. 11 occurred in broad daylight and were widely photographed, significant aspects of the attacks have been completely suppressed by a media blackout. Exclusive to American Free Press By Christopher Bollyn A massive explosion, witnessed by millions of television viewers on CNN, evidently devastated World Trade Center 6, the eight-story U.S. Customs building, although no national newspaper, other than American Free Press, has written a word about it. Before the smoke had cleared from around the stricken South Tower, a mysterious explosion shot 550 feet into the air above the U.S. Customs House at WTC 6. The unexplained blast occurred between the burning North Tower and the 47-story Salomon Brothers Building, known as WTC 7, immediately after United Airlines Flight 175 smashed into the South Tower, at about 9:03 a.m. The explosion at WTC 6 was shown afterward on CNN. But because it was not broadcast as it happened there has been some confusion about when it actually occurred. The large amount of smoke seen cascading around the South Tower in the video led some observers to mistake the blast for a dust cloud from the subsequent collapse of the tower. TIMING CONFIRMED American Free Press contacted CNN to determine exactly when the footage was filmed. CNN’s Public Affairs Department confirmed that the explosion shown in the footage occurred immediately after the second plane had crashed into the South Tower. When asked if the footage was taken at 9:04 a.m., the CNN archivist said “that’s correct.” When asked if CNN could offer any explanation about what might have caused the blast that soared higher than the 47-story WTC 7 in the foreground, the archivist said: “We can’t figure it out.” The affected space between WTC 7 and the North Tower was occupied by the Customs House building, also known as WTC 6. The building housed the offices of 760 employees of the Customs Service, a part of Treasury. Other federal agencies had offices in the building, including the Departments of Commerce, Agriculture, Labor, and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. They did not return calls to AFP about the matter. A spokesman for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which had an office with four employees on the sixth floor of the Customs House, confirmed the time of the explosion and told AFP that the employees had survived and been relocated. One private company, Eastco Building Services, Inc., reportedly leased space in the building. Some 800 workers from WTC 6 were safely evacuated within 12 minutes of the first plane hitting the North Tower at about 8:46 a.m., according to a Sept. 18 Washington Post article by Stephen Barr. The Barr piece is the only known article published about WTC 6. However, Barr failed to mention the explosion that apparently devastated the building just minutes after the workers had escaped with their lives. AVOIDING THE SUBJECT Although the Customs House apparently exploded at 9:04 a.m., the government-sponsored investigation was steered away from looking into what had actually happened. The Federal Emergency Management Agency funded an investigation by the American Society of Civil Engineers. However, investigators were reportedly blocked from the building by an order from the New York City’s Department. of Design and Construction . Kenneth Holden is commissioner of the DDC, having been appointed by the former mayor, Rudolph Giuliani on Dec. 7, 1999. Regarding the investigation of WTC 4, 5, and 6, FEMA’s “Building Performance” report says, “WTC 5 was the only building accessible for observation.” But, it adds, “the observations, findings, and recommendations are assumed to be applicable to all three buildings.” A spokesman for FEMA told AFP that because the building was considered by DDC to be “very dangerous,” there was “no data collection” from WTC 6. Dr. Gene Corley, one of the engineers who led the investigation, told AFP that concerns about loose gold bullion and cash prevented investigators from entering WTC 4. The FEMA report says, “The buildings [4,5,6] responded as expected to the impact loadings.” Although the report says, “most of the central part of WTC 6 suffered collapse on all floors,” it adds, “damage was consistent with the observed impact load.” The Customs House had a huge crater in its center. Corley told AFP that he had not seen the CNN photos before and called them “interesting.” Corley, like other experts, thought the damage at WTC 6 was caused by the collapse of the North Tower. However, not one of the experts could recall seeing the CNN footage before. A spokesman for the Customs Service told AFP, “It did not blow up. When the tower collapsed it caved in.” Corley said he had not seen the photos of the extremely high-speed missile-like object seen streaking toward WTC 6 from behind the North Tower as the second plane hit the South Tower. He noted that parts of the plane’s landing gear and an engine passed through the South Tower, and landed several blocks away. These objects, however, had a distinctly different trajectory from the streaking missile-like object. Another investigator, Jonathan Barnett, told AFP, “The debris from Tower 2 hit Building 5, not 6.” #911receipts

Profiting From Disaster? WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2001 (AP) Quote U.S. investigators want to know whether Osama bin Laden was the ultimate "inside trader" — profiting from a tragedy he's suspected of masterminding to finance his operation. (CBS) Sources tell CBS News that the afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the U.S. stock options market. An extraordinary number of trades were betting that American Airlines stock price would fall. The trades are called "puts" and they involved at least 450,000 shares of American. But what raised the red flag is more than 80 percent of the orders were "puts", far outnumbering "call" options, those betting the stock would rise. Sources say they have never seen that kind of imbalance before, reports CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. Normally the numbers are fairly even. After the terrorist attacks, American Airline stock price did fall obviously by 39 percent, and according to sources, that translated into well over $5 million total profit for the person or persons who bet the stock would fall. Sources tell 60 Minutes that the initial options were bought through at least two brokerage firms including NFS, a subsidiary of Fidelity Brokerage, and TD Waterhouse, a discount firm. TD Waterhouse says they handled approximately 3 percent of the initial orders for "puts" on American Airline stock. The company says it has looked at the orders and has determined no evidence of any suspicious activity. At least one Wall Street firm reported their suspicions about this activity to the SEC shortly after the attack. The same thing happened with United Airlines on the Chicago Board Options Exchange four days before the attack. An extremely unbalanced number of trades betting United's stock price would fall — also transformed into huge profits when it did after the hijackings. "We can directly work backwards from a trade on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The trader is linked to a brokerage firm. The brokerage firm received the order to buy that 'put' option from either someone within a brokerage firm speculating, or from one of the customers," said Randall Dodd of the Economic Strategy Institute. U.S. investigators want to know whether Osama bin Laden was the ultimate "inside trader" — profiting from a tragedy he's suspected of masterminding to finance his operation. Authorities are also investigating possibly suspicious trading in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Japan. There's always the danger that the stock trail stops at the water's edge if the money came from banks in countries that don't cooperate with the United States. But insider trading is always motivated by greed, and a senior Wall Street executive noted it would be ironic if the terrorists' greed ended up providing one of the most promising leads investigators have. #911receipts

INSIDER TRADING APPARENTLY BASED ON FOREKNOWLEDGE OF 9/11 ATTACKS LONDON TIMES TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 2001 Stocks inquiry Millions of shares sold before disaster BY JAMES DORAN THE CIA has asked the City regulators in London to investigate suspicious sales of millions of shares before last Tuesday's attacks in America in the belief that the paper trail will lead to the terrorists. American authorities are investigating unusually large numbers of shares in airlines, insurance companies and arms manufacturers that were sold off in the days and weeks before the attacks. They believe that the sales were by people who knew about the impending disaster. The investigators are looking at so-called "short selling" transactions in several financial centres across the world involving shares that dropped dramatically after the attack. Short selling involves borrowing shares, selling them to a third party, then buying them back when the price falls. Large profits can be made if a share price falls significantly after it has been sold to the third party. The Financial Services Authority (FSA), the stock market watchdog, was drawn into the investigation because it has a transaction monitoring department that checks suspicious share movements. The FSA would not comment on its instructions from the CIA, but said that its team of specialists would do all they could to help the investigation. A spokesman said: "The financial authorities have great expertise in this field and could have a big part to play. It is something that is incumbent upon us all to look at to the best of our ability." Market regulators in Germany, Japan and the US received information of short selling of insurance company shares, airline stocks and shares in arms companies - all of which have fallen since the attack. Italian, French and Swiss regulators have also joined the investigation. Munich Re, Swiss Re and Axa, all insurance companies, are also helping the authorities with the inquiries as large numbers of their shares were short-sold before the attack. A spokesman for Axa, a French company, said: "We have informed the market regulators in Paris that there are concerns about short selling." Richard Crossley, an analyst at Teather & Greenwood, a City broker, said that he had tracked suspicious short selling and share dumping in a swath of stocks badly affected by the terrorist attacks. He said that on the Friday before the attacks, more than 10 million shares in Merrill Lynch, the US investment bank, were sold compared with 4 million on a normal day. He added that exceptionally high volumes of retail and leisure stocks had also caught his attention. "Before the attacks there was no pattern to this phenomenon," he said. "The shares that were sold were doing very well and someone was selling them in very large quantities with no real reason." Mr Crossley believes that someone with inside knowledge of the attacks could have been making money on its expected outcome for up to three weeks before the terrorists struck. "What is more awful than he should aim a stiletto blow at the heart of Western financial markets? But to profit from it. Words fail me," Mr Crossley said. #911receipts

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