9/11


USA

Officials able to eavesdrop on private conversations between 9/11 suspects and their lawyers in court: expert witness


Raw Story
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:09 UTC
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The United States was capable of eavesdropping on what were thought to be private conversations in court between the suspected plotters of 9/11 and their lawyers, a witness testified Tuesday.

Maurice Elkins, director of courtroom technology at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay on the southeastern tip of Cuba, said 32 microphones had monitored such legal hearings, until changes were made on Monday.

Even whispered conversations, spoken in "a very, very low tone," could be picked up on an unfiltered audio feed being handled by a government agency, he said, confirming defense lawyers' worst fears.

Their contention that client-attorney privilege could have been breached by such arrangements dominated the second day of the latest pre-trial hearing.

Elkins's admission came during questioning from James Connell, the attorney for one of the five men accused of orchestrating the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and led to US-backed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The unfiltered circuit was controlled by computer software that recorded everything said in court, Elkins said, unlike the "filtered circuit" relied on by journalists who cover the proceedings from behind a glass screen.
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USA

Ex-Gitmo prosecutor slams drone policy: 'Since 9/11 we've been the constrained and the cowardly'

Arturo Garcia
Raw Story
Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:45 UTC
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A former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Bay prison facility sounded off on both President Barack Obama's administration's use of drone strikes and the apparent acceptance of the practice by the American people.

"We used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave," Col. Morris Davis told Current TV host Cenk Uygur on Friday. "Since 9/11, we've been the constrained and the cowardly."

Uygur mentioned that an unidentified "recent poll" showed that the practice of using drones to target suspected "imminent threats" has actually been met with support.

"The American people say, 'Ehhh, well if the government calls them suspected terrorists, well then we agree that we should drone stroke them,'" Uygur said. "What's happening with the American people where we seem to be, you know, killing democracy to thunderous applause?"
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Whistle

9/11 researcher found dead: Wrote book implicating Bush administration in the 9/11 attacks


Before It's News
Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:34 UTC
Phillip Marshall wrote about conspiracy. Was he a victim of one? '9/11 Truther' Phillip Marshall and his entire family were recently found dead of gunshot wounds in what authorities are calling a murder suicide. Marshall was a former airline pilot and a '9/11 Conspiracy Theorist' and book writer who believed that the Bush administration, with cooperation from Saudi intelligence, had committed the 'false flag' terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. Marshall was also a former CIA and DEA pilot during the Iran/Contra Scandal.

Marshall lived in fear for his life while writing his 9/11 Truther book implicating the United States government and George W. Bush in the 'false flag' attacks. Has the US government begun an all out assault on whistle blowers and so-called truthers? That would certainly put at least 50% of Beforeitsnews readers and reporters/contributors in jeapardy of a drone strike or 'accident' for merely seeking truth. The excellent videos below share that many Americans believe that this was another HIT upon a man who knew too much and was willing to share his information with the world. Why'd THEY kill his family, and dog, too? Was that REALLY NECESSARY George Bush?

The story below is from The Mail Online and The Santa Barbara View.

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Murder suicide: Philip Marshall is accused of shooting his children Alex, right, and Macaila Marshall, left, before turning the gun on himself
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Yoda

Military judge orders government to stop censoring 9/11 hearings


Raw Story
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:35 UTC
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© AFP PhotoCourtroom drawing shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
A military judge ordered the US government Thursday to stop censoring September 11 pre-trial hearings from outside his courtroom.

Judge James Pohl said the government must "disconnect the outside feed or ability to suspend the broadcast" from outside his court.

Proceedings are heard in the press room, and in a room where human rights groups and victims families sit, with a 40 second delay. This is done so that a security officer sitting next to the judge can block anything deemed classified.

The ruling means classified information could still be blocked, but only by order of the judge and not from outside the courtroom.
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Footprints

9/11 suspects' lawyers demand CIA 'black sites' to be preserved as evidence


RT.com
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:20 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star / Pool
Self-confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other defenders claim they were tortured in Guantanamo, prompting their lawyers to call for the preservation of the CIA secret prisons to use them as evidence.

The pretrial hearing for the suspected terrorist conspirators began Monday. Facing the death penalty for their involvement in the deadly attacks that killed 2,976 people on September 11, 2011, the five prisoners are making a last-ditch attempt to reduce sentence by describing their torture experiences at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base.

Mohammed previously accused the US government of killing millions of people and employing inhumane torture procedures "under the name of national security." Attorneys representing the defendants are now calling for the judge to demand the preservation of the CIA "black sites" to use as evidence in the case against the US government. If the attorneys are able to prove that any of the evidence against the conspirators was obtained through torture, then this evidence may be excluded during the trial and lead to reduced sentences.
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Network

Homeland Security's Napolitano invokes 9/11 to push for Internet control


RT.com
Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:21 UTC
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© Reuters / Baz RatnerU.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
In an attempt to scare the public with a looming cyber attack on US infrastructure, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is once again pushing Congress to pass legislation allowing the government to have greater control over the Internet.

Napolitano issued the warnings Thursday, claiming that inaction could result in a "cyber 9/11" attack that could knock out water, electricity and gas, causing destruction similar to that left behind by Hurricane Sandy.

Napolitano said that in order to prevent such an attack, Congress must pass legislation that gives the US government greater access to the Internet and cybersecurity information from the private sector. Such a bill, known as CISPA or Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, was already introduced last year, but failed to pass in Congress due to concerns expressed by businesses and privacy advocates.

"We shouldn't wait until there is a 9/11 in the cyber world. There are things we can and should be doing right now that, if not prevent, would mitigate the extent of the damage," Napolitano said in a speech at the Wilson Center, a Washington, DC think tank.
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Half-Jewish, half-Arab woman sues FBI, TSA, Frontier Airlines over 9/11 strip search

Rym Momtaz
ABC News
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:38 UTC
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© Courtesy Shoshana Hebshi/AP PhotoShoshana Hebshi of Sylvania, Ohio, is shown in this Sept. 13, 2011 photo
A half-Jewish, half-Arab Ohio woman is suing Frontier Airlines, the FBI, TSA and other government agencies after she says was removed at gunpoint from a flight on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, strip-searched and jailed because of her ethnicity.

"I know now that my only crime on that day was an ethnic name and arbitrary seat assignment," said Shoshana Hebshi, a 36-year-old freelance journalist born in California to a Jewish mother and a Saudi father, said at a press conference Tuesday.

In her lawsuit, filed by the ACLU in Detroit federal court Tuesday, Hebshi alleges she was removed at gunpoint from a Denver to Detroit flight on Sept. 11, 2011, when passengers and flight crew became suspicious after two men of South-Asian descent seated next to her made several trips to the bathroom during the flight.

"As officers boarded the plane," said Hebshi at the press conference, "we were ordered to put our heads down and our arms in front of us. I wondered if there was a fugitive on board. I had no idea they were coming for me. ... I was completely shocked and panicked."
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Bad Guys

The frog has boiled: Pentagon says protests are acts of "Low-level terrorism"

M. Frank Drover
The Daily Sheeple
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00 UTC
First, the government responds to the September 11th attack by passing the Patriot Act, which is purportedly designed to protect us from foreign terrorists. Most of America cheers it on, never realizing that within the act is a broad definition for something categorized as domestic terrorism, or "activities that appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion."

Second, they pass the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows them, under the definitions for domestic terrorism set forth by the Patriot Act, to detain someone without trial and forever if they appear to be subverting the newly established status quo.

Third, they declare all federal property, or property being used for political events where Secret Service protection is present, as "events of national significance" through the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act. Undesirable demonstrators operating counter to the official narrative in these areas are herded into court approved free speech zones.
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Question

Dr. Judy Wood: Where did the World Trade Center go on 9/11?


One Step Beyond
Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:37 UTC
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Arrow Up

Martin Sheen and Woody Harrelson set for 9/11 'truther' film September Morn

Rory Carroll
The Guardian, UK
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:19 UTC
Film's advance publicity says: 'We the people demand an independent investigation into the tragic events of 9/11'
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© ReutersManhattan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Hollywood is to court controversy with a film that will challenge the official version of the events of 9/11, a previously taboo topic for the industry mainstream. Martin Sheen, Woody Harrelson and Ed Asner, who have all supported conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks, have signed up to the movie, which is entitled September Morn.

Styling itself as a drama in the tradition of Twelve Angry Men, the film's advance publicity note hints at a cover-up, saying: "We the people demand that the government revisit and initiates a thorough and independent investigation to the tragic events of 911."

Details of the film, which is to be directed by BJ Davis and written by Howard Cohen, are expected to be revealed at an American Film Market conference in Los Angeles next week, Deadline.com reported.

The production has been set up by Fleur de Lis Film Studios, which has also made the documentary A Noble Lie, about the Oklahoma City bombing, and Operation: Dark Heart, a feature based on an intelligence agent's memoirs.

Until now Hollywood has steered clear of claims that the Bush administration, or other elements in the government, may have been behind the 9/11 attacks, in which hijacked passenger planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennslyvania. The fourth plane was apparently en route to the Capitol.
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