"The match is about to begin" and "Tomorrow is zero hour."

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"The match is about to begin" and "Tomorrow is zero hour."

By 7:30 in the morning on that June day in 2002 when Cheney called Graham, the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate and House Intelligence committees met in a secure room in the Capitol. They discussed how to prevent fallout from the administration's threat that they could not be trusted with classified information. Present at the meeting were Graham, Goss, Shelby, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, then the ranking Democrat on the House panel. Senior aides were excluded.

The four lawmakers emerged from their meeting and told their staffs that they had decided to take the unprecedented step of requesting the Justice Department to conduct a criminal inquiry into whether they, any other members of their committees, or their aides were responsible for leaking the NSA intercepts to the media.

A key participant in the events recalled in an interview: "It was a hastily made decision, made out of a sense of panic... and by people with bleary eyes."

Another person involved recalled: "There was a real concern that any meaningful oversight by Congress was very much at stake. The political dynamic back then -- not that long after September 11 -- was completely different. They took Cheney's threats very seriously."

Graham said, "Looking back at it, I think we were clearly set up by Dick Cheney and the White House. They wanted to shut us down. And they wanted to shut down a legitimate congressional inquiry that might raise questions in part about whether their own people had aggressively pursued Al Qaeda in the days prior to the September 11 attacks. The vice president attempted to manipulate the situation, and he attempted to manipulate us." Graham added: "But if his goal was to get us to back off, he was unsuccessful."

Graham said that Goss shared his concerns. In 2003, according to Graham, he speculated to Goss that the White House had set them up in an effort to sabotage the joint September 11 congressional inquiry. Graham says that Goss responded: "I often wondered that myself."

ON RECORD: U.S. Senator & CIA Chief Implicate Cheney in 9/11 Cover-up!! Look!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=220174&mesg_id=220174

224209, here is an article about Graham & Glass..thanks OMMMMMMMMM!!
Posted by flyarm on Fri Feb-16-07 12:43 AM

from my files..from Paul Thompson's timeline...fly

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&startpos=1000#a0801glass

Early August 2001: Government Informant Warns Congressmen of Plan to Attack the WTC
Randy Glass. Randy Glass, a former con artist turned government informant, later will claim that he contacts the staff of Senator Bob Graham and Representative Robert Wexler at this time and warns them of a plan to attack the WTC, but his warnings are ignored. Glass also tells the media at this time that his recently concluded informant work has �far greater ramifications than have so far been revealed,� and, �potentially, thousands of lives at risk.� Glass was a key informant in a sting operation involving ISI agents who were illegally trying to purchase sophisticated US military weaponry in return for cash and heroin. He later claims that in July 1999, one ISI agent named Rajaa Gulum Abbas pointed to the WTC and said, �Those towers are coming down.� Most details apparently remain sealed. For instance Glass will claim that his sealed sentencing document dated June 15, 2001, lists threats against the WTC and Americans. Florida State Senator Ron Klein, who had dealings with Glass before 9/11, later will say he is surprised it took so many months for the US to listen to Glass: �Shame on us.� Klein will recall getting a warning from Glass, though he cannot recall if it mentions the WTC specifically. He will say he was told US intelligence agencies would look into it. Senator Graham later will acknowledge that his office had contact with Glass before 9/11, and was told about a WTC attack: �I was concerned about that and a dozen other pieces of information which emanated from the summer of 2001.� However, Graham will say that he personally was unaware of Glass�s information until after 9/11. In October 2002, Glass will testify under oath before a private session of the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry, stating, �I told I have specific evidence, and I can document it.�
Entity Tags: Randy Glass, Ron Klein, Bob Graham, Pakistan Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Robert Wexler, Rajaa Gulum Abbas, World Trade Center
Category Tags: Warning Signs, Randy Glass/ Diamondback

more:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&projects_and_programs=randyGlass

Spring 1999: New Jersey HMO Is Possibly Funding al-QaedaRandy Glass is a con artist turned government informant participating in a sting called Operation Diamondback. He discusses an illegal weapons deal with an Egyptian-American named Mohamed el Amir. In wiretapped conversations, Mohamed discusses the need to get false papers to disguise a shipment of illegal weapons. His brother, Dr. Magdy el Amir, has been a wealthy neurologist in Jersey City for the past twenty years. Two other weapons dealers later convicted in a sting operation involving Glass also lived in Jersey City, and both el Amirs admit knowing one of them, Diaa Mohsen. Mohsen has been paid at least once by Dr. el Amir. In 1998, Congressman Ben Gilman was given a foreign intelligence report suggesting that Dr. el Amir owns an HMO that is secretly funded by bin Laden, and that money is being skimmed from the HMO to fund al-Qaeda activities. The state of New Jersey later buys the HMO and determines that $15 million were unaccounted for and much of that has been diverted into hard-to-trace offshore bank accounts. However, investigators working with Glass are never given the report about Dr. el Amir. Neither el Amir has been charged with any crime. Mohamed now lives in Egypt and Magdy continues to practice medicine in New Jersey. Glass�s sting, which began in late 1998, will uncover many interesting leads before ending in June 2001.
Entity Tags: Magdy el Amir, Osama bin Laden, Diaa Mohsen, Randy Glass, Mohamed el Amir, Operation Diamondback
Category Tags: Pakistani ISI, Randy Glass/ Diamondback, Terrorism Financing

more:

video...

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=glass-graham_video_wmv

New documentary, 9/11 Press for Truth, based on the Complete 911 Timeline.
View Trailer | Purchase 9/11 Press for Truth DVD
A fascinating video relating to an important unheeded warning of the 9/11 attacks was shown on WPTV, an NBC TV station in Florida on October 7, 2002. This video has been overlooked and forgotten until now.

What did Senator Bob Graham (left) and US intelligence know about the warning from Randy Glass (right) before 9/11?
In this video, Randy Glass, a private US citizen working as an undercover agent in a government sting operation, discusses how he learned about a threat to the World Trade Center and tried to warn various officials in government before 9/11. Florida State Senator Ron Klein and US Senator Bob Graham admit being given a warning by Randy Glass in the months before 9/11. What was the warning, who else knew about it, and why wasn�t it acted upon?

Though the video doesn�t discuss it, the sting operation Glass was part of recorded agents working for Pakistan�s secret service, the ISI, say on more than one occasion before 9/11 that the World Trade Center was �coming down.�

For more information about Glass, ready the Randy Glass timeline

thanks for bringing that up OMMmmSWEETOMMM!!..we have been at this since the get go haven't we??????!!!!!!!!!!!

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