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Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:35 PM

Hidden war games on 911 revealed by Representative McKinney leaving

Rumsfeld shaken

 

 

Cynthia Mckinney Shakes Rumsfeld and Myers Over 9/11 Wargames

Open Letter to Richard A. Clarke regarding War Games, 9/11 Timeline and

Myers/Rumsfeld Testimony

 

 

" Mr. Chairman, I have a question "

 

On-the-Record:

Representative Cynthia McKinney Rocks

Rumsfeld on War Games

 

By

Michael Kane

 

© Copyright 2005, From The Wilderness Publications, www.fromthewilderness.com.

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[Phones started ringing early on the morning of February 16th. Representative

Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, newly returned to Capitol Hill for her sixth term

as a member of Congress was, within minutes, going into a House hearing on the

Defense Appropriations bill and she was going in loaded for bear. or goose,

depending on one's viewpoint. She asked me how quickly I could email select

documents establishing that as many as five wargames were simultaneously

underway on the morning of Sept. 11th, 2001.

 

Hurriedly I made contact with her staff and forwarded a number of PDF files so

that when her time came and on national television, McKinney could finally, in a

public forum, hold those responsible for 9/11 accountable with the proof in her

hands and demand an answer. These were the same files I had acquired during my

research for Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End

of the Age of Oil. McKinney was to be well-armed with assistance from other

tenacious 9/11 researchers and there would be no escape.

 

Unless it came time for lunch.

 

Having lost her seniority after a successful 2002 Israeli-funded and Republican

Party-managed campaign to unseat her, McKinney's chance to question Secretary of

Defense Don Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Richard Myers was pushed

aside until the hearings were about to be closed. It appears the bears knew what

was coming and had neatly dodged a bullet.

 

Not quite.

 

Although the American people were deprived of an on-the-record answer about who

was running the wargames which paralyzed official response on 9/11, Cynthia

McKinney let it be known (on the record) that we knew and would not forget. As

she found a way to get her question on the record, she gave us all a priceless

Kodak moment: one that ranks right up there with the reaction I evoked in public

from then CIA Director John Deutch in 1996.

 

The point here is not that 9/11 is suddenly back on the table, somehow available

for resolution and justice. It's a long way from a question from a junior member

of the minority party asking a question to an impeachment, conviction and

imprisonment. The election is still over. The compromised Keane Commission has

still closed its doors. No further investigations or legal proceedings are

pending. The media has still moved on and the court system and congress are

still willfully impotent.

 

But courage endures. And as long as there is someone like Cynthia McKinney on

Capitol Hill there will be moments - wonderful moments like the one captured on

the attached video - which prove that we have not gone away or forgotten and

that we still have the will to speak.

 

For those of us who spent years investigating 9/11, the research and evidence we

have compiled will always be within arm's reach, awaiting these golden moments.

As new threats and challenges overtake us and demand our focus in " the now " we

stand ready to jump on any miracle that presents us with an opportunity to

remind the world that murderers still walk free, still in power. Like blades of

grass growing steadfastly up through the sidewalk we will never surrender our

ability to speak truth to power.

 

God bless Cynthia McKinney. - MCR]

 

March 1, 2005, PST 1200 (FTW): On February 16, 2005, Congresswoman Cynthia

McKinney asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint

Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers the same question this reporter asked

General Ralph " Ed " Eberhart at the final 9/11 commission hearing:

 

What about the war games?

 

The Full House Armed Services Committee met to receive testimony on the Fiscal

Year 2006 National Defense Authorization budget request from the Department of

Defense. As the meeting wound down to its expected end, Secretary Rumsfeld

prepared to leave. Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), who chaired the hearing,

asked the Secretary to commit to a breakfast with Representatives who had not

yet asked their questions. Secretary Rumsfeld happily agreed to do so.

 

At that moment Cynthia McKinney made sure to get the following vital question

into the Congressional Record.

 

Transcript, February 16, Rumsfeld and Myers questioned by Cynthia McKinney:

 

Cynthia McKinney: Mr. Chairman, I have a question.

 

Duncan Hunter: The Gentle-lady is recognized.

 

McKinney: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Would that breakfast with the Secretary be

open to the public?

 

Hunter: Well, if you want to bring all the omelets it might be, but ah -

 

McKinney: Well Mr. Chairman, the problem is - and I appreciate your adherence to

the five-minute rule - however there are many of us who have important questions

and my question in particular is about the four war games that were taking place

on September 11th and how they may have impaired our ability to respond to those

attacks.

 

Mr. Hunter: Well let me say the gentle lady...

 

[cross talk]

 

McKinney: I would like that question to be answered in public Mr. Chairman.

 

Hunter: Let me say to the gentle lady we're going to have other opportunities to

have the Secretary in front of us and what we will do beyond having questions,

if you want a question for the record, be able to put that to the record and

have the answer on the record, but additionally at the next event where the

Secretary testifies - we'll try to make sure that happens - we will start with

the folks who did not get their question answered so you will have an

opportunity.

 

McKinney: Thank you so much Mr. Chairman, and I hope the record is still open so

that even that portion of my comment will be on this record.

 

Hunter: It will be so ordered.

 

McKinney: Thank you Mr. Chairman.

 

-- end of transcript

 

At this point Representative Skelton (D-MO) asked a visibly flustered Donald

Rumsfeld if in the future a classified briefing could occur on the

recommendations given by General Luck and his team to the Secretary.

 

This helped to bury McKinney's question (and by necessity, the process

continues: DoD has posted a peculiar " transcript " of the meeting's final

moments, from which Representative McKinney's question has been thoroughly

deleted), giving Rumsfeld a way to divert attention from the issue she had

skillfully placed on the record. Rumsfeld responded to Skelton's question

without addressing McKinney's at all. The only response to her question came in

the form of both Rumsfeld and Myers' rapid hand movements and off-microphone

murmurs. The issue seemed to knock Rumsfeld off-balance, affecting him as it had

affected Ralph " Ed " Eberhart at the final 9/11 Commission hearing.

 

It's unlikely that " No comment " will be an acceptable reply to Representative

McKinney's question. Eberhart got away with that when responding to this

reporter, and has since retired from his post heading both NORTHERN COMMAND and

NORAD. His retirement came immediately after the 2004 presidential election. It

appears " no comment " will be his final word on the matter, but that will not be

the case for Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers.

 

Who was in charge of coordinating the multiple war games running on 9/11?

Crossing the Rubicon has already answered this question in spades. But maybe,

just maybe, with her return to Capitol Hill Cynthia McKinney has kept alive a

flicker of hope that the crimes of 9/11 may yet shake up the US government.

 

The courage and directness of this fearless woman never cease to amaze us. She

has let it be known that she will be a perpetual thorn in the side of the

administration for at least the next two years.