Monday, April 5, 2004

Heeeere's Condy! FEATURED ARTICLES - 'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes', UK Independent, - Amid Crisis Simulation, "We Were Suddenly 'No-Kidding' Under Attack", Newhouse News Service - 11 LINES OF INQUIRY INTO THE ODDITIES OF SEPT. 11, 9/11 Truth Alliance - Preparing For Condy Rice, By Joseph Ehrlich, Rense.com, - Condi's Credibility Gap, The Progress Report, QUOTE OF THE DAY "I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again." - - Bill O'Reilly  (on ABC's Good Morning America, 03-18-03) KNOW YOUR HISTORY - MARCH 1974 -- The World Trade Center, the tallest building in the world at 110 stories, opened in NYC. 1976 -- China: Tienanmen Square incident, popular demonstration of criticism of the Chinese regime in power in defiance of banning such criticism. 1992 -- Over 500,000 march in Washington, DC to support women's reproductive rights & equality. RHINO HERE: The shrub gang has finally agreed to let Condi Rice testify to the ongoing 9-11 Commission. She's set to appear this Thursday. Then sometime in the next few weeks, the shrub himself will testify, but according to a White House demand, he will only do so if he can have VP Dick Cheney at his side, and neither of them will testify under oath.  So gearing up for the coming sessions which will most assuredly be highlighted by some fancy lying, Rhino today provides a few pieces of information to help citizen viewers  decipher which lie is being told and how to know it's a lie. Get ready folks, this will be historic. 'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes' Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent By Andrew Buncombe, UK Independent, 4/2/04 A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened. She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie".  Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege"... MORE: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=507514 Amid Crisis Simulation, "We Were Suddenly 'No-Kidding' Under Attack" by Hart Seely, Newhouse News Service - January 25, 2002 On Sept. 11, as Americans watched horror rain upon New York and Washington, command teams at a little-known military outpost in Rome, N.Y., worked feverishly to restore safe skies and rouse a slumbering homeland defense. At the Northeast Air Defense Sector, radar operators who constantly scan the continent's boundaries suddenly faced a threat from within and a race they could not win. Four months after the terrorist attacks, there are still untold stories. This is one. 6 A.M.: WAR GAMES Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins figured it would be a long day. Sept. 11 was Day II of "Vigilant Guardian," an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide. The simulation would run all week, and Deskins, starting her 12-hour shift in the Operations Center as the NORAD unit's airborne control and warning officer, might find herself on the spot. Day I of the simulation had moved slowly. She hoped the exercise gathered steam. It made a long day go faster. 8:40 A.M.: REAL WORLD In the Ops Center, three rows of radar scopes face a high wall of wide-screen monitors. Supervisors pace behind technicians who peer at the instruments. Here it is always quiet, always dark, except for the green radar glow. MORE AT: http://www.unansweredquestions.net/timeline/2002/newhousenews012502.html Condi Rice is supposed to testify in public at the 911 commission this coming Tuesday. As citizens of the USA, Rhino believes we have an obligation to pressure our representatives, under whose authority the Commission is operating, to be sure the right questions are being asked.  What questions do you want asked in your behalf? Here are 2 links to questions which you might want asked, and a link to a list of the Commissioners & key Senators with phone numbers & emails.  Rhino sez, "Keep the pressure for the truth on." 11 LINES OF INQUIRY INTO THE ODDITIES OF SEPT. 11 9/11 Truth Alliance ...These are just a few of the questions that have caused people all around the world to doubt the official story of what really happened on Sept. 11th - and many to suspect that the U.S. government is covering up enormously embarrassing negligence, or even criminal complicity in the attacks... READ THEM AT:  http://www.unansweredquestions.org/alliance/questions.html Preparing For Condy Rice By Joseph Ehrlich, Rense.com, 3-31-4 For your interest and possible benefit, we quickly drafted questions within the parameters of a Commission Hearing that even if known should prove difficult for Dr. Rice to fashion an escape. After she testifies, we will review and see whether the Commission pursued these lines. READ THEM AT: http://www.rense.com/general50/condid.htm List of 9/11 Commissioners & Key Senators with Phone Numbers & Emails. http://www.bigeye.com/urgent.htm 7:25:04 AM    comment

RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE - Condi's Credibility Gap Send This To A Republican Condi's Credibility Gap By David J. Sirota , Christy Harvey & Judd Legum, The Progress Report, 3/29/04 Pre-9/11 Intelligence * CLAIM: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 5/16/02 * FACT: On August 6, 2001, the President personally "received a one-and-a-half page briefing advising him that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the US, and that the plot could include the hijacking of an American airplane." In July 2001, the Administration was also told that terrorists had explored using airplanes as missiles. [Source: NBC, 9/10/02; LA Times, 9/27/01] * CLAIM: In May 2002, Rice held a press conference to defend the Administration from new revelations that the President had been explicitly warned about an al Qaeda threat to airlines in August 2001. She "suggested that Bush had requested the briefing because of his keen concern about elevated terrorist threat levels that summer." [Source: Washington Post, 3/25/04] * FACT: According to the CIA, the briefing "was not requested by President Bush." As commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste disclosed, "the CIA informed the panel that the author of the briefing does not recall such a request from Bush and that the idea to compile the briefing came from within the CIA." [Source: Washington Post, 3/25/04] * CLAIM: "In June and July when the threat spikes were so high…we were at battle stations." - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 3/22/04 * FACT: "Documents indicate that before Sept. 11, Ashcroft did not give terrorism top billing in his strategic plans for the Justice Department, which includes the FBI. A draft of Ashcroft's 'Strategic Plan' from Aug. 9, 2001, does not put fighting terrorism as one of the department's seven goals, ranking it as a sub-goal beneath gun violence and drugs. By contrast, in April 2000, Ashcroft's predecessor, Janet Reno, called terrorism 'the most challenging threat in the criminal justice area.'" Meanwhile, the Bush Administration decided to terminate "a highly classified program to monitor Al Qaeda suspects in the United States." [Source: Washington Post, 3/22/04; Newsweek, 3/21/04]... READ IT ALL AT: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18262 "RHINO'S BLOG" is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. (rhino@kifaru.com) Feedback, and requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. SEARCH BLOG ARCHIVES / SURF RHINO'S LINKS, AT: http://www.rhinosblog.info RHINO'S OTHER WEB SITES: http://www.dreamcatchers.org (INDIGENOUS ASSISTANCE & INTERCULTURAL DIALOG) http://www.kifaru.com (NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 6:33:43 AM    comment

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