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38 Evidence left behind: Loose Change.
39 Atta’s movements: Zero.
40 CIA and hijackers: cited in Scott, from The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright.
41 Background on terrorists/CIA and visas: Zero.
42 Edmonds bombshell: As a guest on Mike Malloy radio show.
43 Edmonds on bin Laden and U.S.: “Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11,” July 31, 2009, www.dailykos.com.
44 Chartered planes: “FBI’s 9/11 Saudi Flight Documents Released,” by Matt Renner, June 22, 2007, www.truthout.org.
45 Ahmad wire transfer to Atta: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, p. 222.
46 Graham book: Intelligence Matters, published 2004, cited in The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, pp. 224-5.
47 U.S. and Saudis: One of Bush’s brothers, Marvin, was on the board of a company called Securacom (since renamed Stratesec). Its board chairman is Wirt D. Walker III, who happens to be a cousin of both Marvin and W. Securacom provided security for both the World Trade Center and the Dulles International Airport, where Flight 77 originated before supposedly crashing into the Pentagon. Stratesec has both Kuwaiti and Saudi investors, and W’s uncle Jonathan is a board member of the Riggs bank. “Saudi Princess Haifa al Faisal, the wife of Saudi Ambassador to the US Prince Bandar, used a Riggs account to funnel money to Omar al Bayoumi and Osama Basnan, two Saudi students in California associated with two of the 911 hijackers.” (Wayne Madsen article, “Marvin Bush Employee’s Mysterious Death,” www.democraticunderground.com.)
48 Shaffer on Able Danger: Interview with Dick Russell, September 19, 2009.
49 Able Danger’s discoveries: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, pp. 179-80.
50 Colonel Shaffer: Ibid, p. 180.
51 Attempts to tell story: Ibid., pp. 181- 185.
52 Griffin quote: Ibid., p. 195.
53 Clarke on Iraq: Washington Post op-ed, May 31, 2009.
54 Zelikow and 9/11 Commission: The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, pp. 238-9, citing Philip Shenon’s 2008 book The Commission.
55 Zelikow and report on “catastrophic terrorism”: The New Pearl Harbor, p. 243.
56 Zelikow and Iraq: Ibid., p. 245.
57 Zelikow and Rove: “NYT’s Reporter Claims Rove Influenced 9/11 Commission Report,” by Max Holland, Washington Decoded, January 30, 2008, www.truthout.org.
58 Clarke on Zelikow: Ibid., p. 248, citing Shenon book.
59 Government minders: “Newly Released Memo: Government ‘Minders’ at 9/11 Commission interviews ‘Intimidated’ Witnesses,” May 1, 2009, www.opednews.com.
60 Washington Post on commission: Cited in “The 9/11 Commission Rejects own Report as Based on Government Lies,” http://www.salem-news.com/araticles/september112009/911_truth_9-11-09. php.
61 Kean/Hamilton on CIA obstruction: “Stonewalled by the CIA,” by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton, New York Times, January 2, 2008.
Chapter Thirteen
1 Roosevelt quote: Forum, February 1895. Mem. Ed. XV, 10; Nat. Ed. XIII, 9.
2 “perverse set of incentives”: “Former Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to Bankers,” by Joshua Holland and Nomi Prins, www.alternet.org, October 30, 2009.
3 AIG employees & assets: “The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008,” Multinational Monitor, Nov.-Dec., 2008.
4 AIG intelligence background: “The Secret (Insurance) Agent Men,” Los Angeles Times, September 22, 2000. See also, The Shadow Warriors: OSS and the Origins of the CIA, by Bradley F. Smith, Basic Books, 1983.
5 AIG and Helliwell: The War Conspiracy, by Peter Dale Scott, Bobbs-Merrill, 1972.
6 Barbados company: See www.fromthewilderness.com, report by Michael Rupert.
7 AIG and aircraft: “Deep Politics of AIG: OSS, CIA, Drug Money Laundering,” at www.ronpaulforums.com.
8 AIG recent history: “AIG is a ‘special case,’” by Wayne Madsen, September 23, 2008, http://onlinejournal.com.
9 AIG in Asia: L.A. Times article, op.cit.
10 Greenberg and CIA: Madsen article.
11 Goldman Sachs’s formula: “The Great American Bubble Machine,” by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, July 9-23, 2009.
12 Creation of Federal Reserve: The Journey to Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin, American Media