Reply #159: One of the big forgotten lies of 9/11: brought to you by Karl Rove.

[robertpaulsen]

White House lied about threat to Air Force One
By Jerry White
28 September 2001


In a further column in the New York Times on September 13, entitled “Inside the Bunker,” Safire described a conversation with an unnamed “high White House official,” who told him, “A threatening message received by the Secret Service was relayed to the agents with the president that ‘Air Force One is next.’” Safire continued: “According to the high official, American code words were used showing a knowledge of procedures that made the threat credible.”

Safire reported that this information was confirmed by Rove, who told him Bush had wanted to return to Washington but the Secret Service “informed him that the threat contained language that was evidence that the terrorists had knowledge of his procedures and whereabouts.”

Two weeks after these astonishing claims, the administration has all but admitted it concocted the entire story. CBS Evening News reported September 25 that the call “simply never happened.”

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One thing is clear: the government lied to the people of America and the world. Either it lied on September 12 when it issued the story of the threat to Air Force One, or it lied two weeks later when it retracted the story. The millions of people who are being told they must accept unbridled militarism and the gutting of their democratic rights in the name of a holy war against terrorism must draw the appropriate conclusions from this indisputable fact.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/sep2001/bush-s28.shtml



So, which lie do you think is actually the truth? Taking into account the "coincidence" that these 19 hijackers just happened to pick a date to attack at the same time Operation Vigilant Warrior and other similar wargame exercises were being conducted involving the hijacking of airline jets, I'd have to go with the first.



Any guesses as to who Safire's unnamed "high White House official" could possibly be? :)