By Susan Lindauer,
9/11 Whistleblower and Former U.S.
Asset covering Iraq and Libya
9/11 denialists like to swear smugly that the official 9/11
story must be true, because the government could never keep such an
important secret without getting caught.
Somebody would spill the beans, right? In fact, a number of us
tried. Media watchers should savvy up, as the air waves get blitzed this
weekend with 9/11 memorials. If the corporate media had done its job as a
watch dog, the world would have got an earful reliable intelligence
sources debunking the official 9/11 story.
Unhappily, the corporate media has been a co-conspirator in the
9/11 Cover Up from day one. They have actively abetted the government
with its dirty
work.
Say a truth teller got arrested on the Patriot Act—like me— and locked
in prison on a military base, while the public debate raged over 9/11
and Iraq without access to knowledgeable sources. The government could
rely on corporate media to squash the story, while the Justice
Department fought my demands for a trial, playing every dirty trick in
the book to stop a New York jury from hearing testimony about 9/11 and
Iraq.
However the Patriot Act by itself was not enough to silence facts
about the command failure before 9/11 or Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence.
Over and over, friends and colleagues reached out to the corporate
media, delivering independent confirmations about my 9/11 warnings, the
Iraqi peace framework and my work on the Lockerbie case, which proved my
status as an Asset. Supporters pleaded for the media’s help to expose
the government’s manipulations, so I could get my day in court, and
bring that truth to the people.
Over and over again, the corporate media in New York itself mounted a wall of silence to buttress America’s leaders.
Most New Yorkers and New Jersey residents would be appalled to
discover that the worst media whore in the 9/11 Cover Up turned out to
be the New York Times.
By May, 2004, the New York Times received no fewer than four
confirmations of our Intelligence team’s 9/11 warnings to U.S. Attorney
General John Ashcroft and the Office of Counter-Terrorism at the Justice
Department. Confirmation was made six months before release of the 9/11
Commission
report,
when public discussion could have impacted the findings. Most
importantly, a discourse of the facts about 9/11 would have educated
voters before the November 2004 elections, holding leaders in Washington
accountable to the people. For this reason, I offered to waive my Fifth
Amendment rights under indictment, so the 9/11 Commission could take my
testimony under oath.
Most critically, the New York Times gained two of those all
important confirmations about the 9/11 warnings from the CIA and the
Defense Intelligence Agency. Both of my handlers, Dr. Richard Fuisz and
Paul Hoven men freely volunteered our 9/11 warnings and the Iraqi Peace
option to the New York Times. They also explained my work as a U.S.
intelligence Asset engaged in the Lockerbie negotiations with Libya, and
my role spearheading talks to resume weapons inspections with Iraqi
Ambassador Dr. Saeed Hasan. The journalist, David Samuels, called me
excitedly, after the interviews.
You read that correctly. The CIA and Defense Intelligence
Agency both gave information about the 9/11 warnings to the New York
Times, expecting the newspaper to alert its readers of the command
negligence before the attack. The New York Times’ readership was most
personally impacted by the tragedy, after all. They made an effort to
inspire discussion while the 9/11 Commission was hearing testimony. The
New York Times acquired two more confirmations of our 9/11 warnings
from Dr. Parke Godfrey, a highly respected computer science professor of
York University in Toronto, and my brother, John Lindauer of Los
Angeles.
That took guts for the Intelligence Community. By this time,
writing was on the wall that Republican Leaders would punish anyone who
spoke against them.
One would expect the New York Times to rush to press with such a
hot story. Think about it: a long-time U.S. Intelligence Asset, second
cousin to President Bush’s Chief of Staff, Andrew Card warns about 9/11
and has full knowledge of Iraq’s cooperation with the 9/11
Investigation— then gets arrested on the Patriot Act, after requesting
to testify before Congress.
Wasn’t that newsworthy? Not according to the editors of the New
York Times. Instead of objectively reporting independent confirmations
of the 9/11 warnings and properly identifying me as an Asset, the New
York Times engaged in gross public fraud. They abetted the government in
concealing information of critical significance to the paper’s home
town. They manipulated the people of New York City into believing the
CIA gave no advance warnings of 9/11 at all. While the American public
screamed for impeachment, the New York Times blocked information that
showed President Bush and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez engaged in
active public deception. The people were left believing the government
had simply made mistakes before 9/11 and the Iraq War.
In other words, the New York Times acted like an old whore,
clinging to GOP leaders like a last client, seeking assurances of her
waning attractiveness to the public.
When one of Washington’s most stellar attorneys, Brian Shaughnessy,
forced the Court to grant my request for a single, pre-trial
hearing—four years after my arrest— Parke Godfrey delivered shocking
testimony about my 9/11 warnings less than a thousand feet from where
the World Trade Center once graced the New York skyline.
Yet again, New York Times reporter, Alan Feuer, fraudulently and
libelously invented a phony lead sentence: “She stuck her tongue out at
the prosecutor.” And the New York Times parroted the Justice
Department’s line that “half a dozen psychiatrists” had declared me
incompetent to stand trial—a blatant deception. Ignoring a morning’s
worth of testimony, Feuer suggested that I was a “religious maniac,”
something hysterically funny to everyone who knows me. There’s no
reality contact in the one and only psychiatric report that postulated
such claims. (That single evaluation was presented by the Justice
Department’s psychiatrist and tossed by the Bureau of Prisons in the
first hour of my arrival at Carswell).
If the New York Times had scratched the surface in its reporting,
journalists would have recognized the Justice Department was running
what’s called “a psy-op” designed to hide a major government deceptions
from voters. A quick examination of the record would have revealed that
half a dozen psychiatrists had challenged the Justice Department, and
declared me fully competent in all areas of life. Even psychiatrists at
Carswell Prison acknowledged I suffered “no evidence of hallucinations,”
“no depression.” They said I socialized well, posed “zero behavioral
problems.” Weekly reports stated consistently that I was “cooperative,
smiling, with good eye contact.”
Notably, psychiatrists at Carswell Prison ruled out delusional
disorder, citing first-hand observation, witness interviews, and
diagnostic testing.
The slightest attention to witness testimonials would have exposed
the whole public fraud. Yet the New York media carefully ignored
evidentiary testimony that exposed the 9/11 warnings and denied symptoms
of mental instability. While my attorney, Brian Shaughnessy, protested
for my right to a trial, the New York media assured the public that the
Court finding was “gift wrapped for my defense.”
Casting journalists as “controlled opposition–” might be overly
generous given these circumstances, since it implies they have any
backbone at all. Alas, most of them don’t. They whine for pity for their
low ratings. Then they let government officials write their news
scripts in exchange for political access.
Hey, it’s a tough job defending the official story of 9/11. You
have to overcome janitorial crews, fire fighters and emergency rescue
teams who all reported hearing explosions pop through the towers. They
had to ignore damage to the front lobby— windows that exploded before
the first plane hit the building.
You have to ignore what your own eyes see—a neat, clean controlled
demolition of the Towers, which dropped free-fall into a pile of
thermatic dust— and fires that burned under the Towers until December,
months after jet fuel would have gasped its last flame.
Airplanes crashed into the Towers that day, sure enough. However I
can testify myself the U.S. had significant advance warnings about the
airplane hijackings, back to April and May, 2001. The decision to go to
War with Iraq, in the aftermath of the terrorist strike, was already
made “at the highest levels of government above the CIA Director and
Secretary of State.” I know that firsthand, because I was instructed to
deliver that message, precisely worded, to Iraqi diplomats, and to
demand “any fragment of actionable intelligence that would pinpoint the
attack.” And I did so.
Iraq had no intelligence. However, the CIA’s advance knowledge of
the conspiracy and advance threats against Iraq created powerful
motivation and opportunity for a separate orphan team, domestic or
foreign, to wire the Towers with military grade explosives.
The New York media never investigated reports that security cameras
in the parking garage had photographed mysterious trucks/vans arriving
at the World Trade Center at about 3 a.m and departing at 5 a.m, before
Type AAA personalities arrived to start their days on Wall Street. The
vans were different than the janitorial trucks, in make, model and
decal. They arrived at the World Trade Center from August 23 to
September 3.
Those are important missing pieces of how the 9/11 tragedy
unfolded. Myself, I have concluded that airplane hijackings were used as
a public cover for a controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and
Building 7. From that point, it’s up to explosives experts to determine
the of sorts materials applied to the detonation.
I won my freedom when the blogs and alternative radio took up my
cause. In a practical sense, 9/11 marked the changing of the media
guard. And it proved the internet boasts some fine journalists of its
own, like Michael Collins and radio host Bob Tuskin at The Intel Hub.
No thanks to the government’s top dogs at the New York Times. But
perhaps that’s not fair. A dog would have shown more loyalty to the
people of Manhattan and New Jersey.
##END###
9/11 Whistleblower, Susan Lindauer was a U.S. Intelligence Asset
covering Iraq and Libya at the United Nations from 1995 to 2003. She is
the author of
Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq. Her five year indictment on the Patriot Act ended without a Trial five days before President Obama’s inauguration.
From Wikipedia:
Lindauer was arrested on Thursday, 11 March 2004 in
Takoma Park, Maryland
and charged with "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign
government". The indictment alleged that she accepted US$10,000 from
Iraqi intelligence services in 2002. Lindauer denies receiving the
money, but admits taking a trip to Baghdad.
[1] She was released on
bond on March 13, 2004, to attend an arraignment the following week.
[2] In 2005 she was incarcerated in
Carswell Air Force Base in
Fort Worth, Texas, for
psychological evaluation then moved to the
Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
[10]
In 2006, she was released from prison after
Michael B. Mukasey ruled that Lindauer was unfit to stand trial and could not be forced to take
antipsychotic medication to make her competent to stand trial.
In 2008,
Loretta A. Preska of the Federal District Court in
New York City reaffirmed that Lindauer was mentally unfit to stand trial.
[4][11]
On
January
16, 2009, the government decided to not go ahead with the prosecution
saying "prosecuting Lindauer would no longer be in the interests of
justice."
[3][12]
