Representative Cynthia McKinney Rocks Rumsfeld on 911 War Games

[cthrumatrix]

"Mr. Chairman, I have a question"

On-the-Record:
Representative Cynthia McKinney Rocks
Rumsfeld on War Games

By
Michael Kane

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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.

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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030105_mckinney_question.shtml#1

a must read....and watch the video

[indepat]

1. Taken holistically, the events surrounding 9-11are inconceivable, but

by far most Americans don't seem the least bit curious.

[indepat]

2. Incomprehensible would be a more descriptive term.

[Al-CIAda]

3. What the Government is Still Hiding

Peter Lance, Author, "Cover Up": What the Government is Still Hiding
Air America Interview on 'The Majority Report'
mp3-
http://airamericaplace.com/upload/clip/clip%20mr%20plance%20090704.mp3
Mafia connections, 9/11 Terror Drills ON 9/11...Non-response of NORAD ...Kean complicity, Donald Rumsfeld, etc..

[cthrumatrix]

4. wow...what an interview 911 committee and FBI exposed !!!!!!!!

[seemslikeadream]

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

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...



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.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030105_mckinney_question.shtml#1

[Frederik]

6. Beautiful!

She rocks!!! Rusmfeld shat his pants! The video is a must-see.

[Al-CIAda]

7. bump

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. I love McKinney's fearless tanacity! but in the end her questions were NOT

"on the record" as Thomas had said they would be....or did i misread FTW?

"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),...."

[Boo Boo]

9. I think that just refers to the

DOD transcript of the meeting. Hunter seems to have stated that her remarks would be included in the Congressional record.