After 25 years, 9/11 whistleblower has new questions

9/11 whistleblower Coleen Rowley on continuing perpetual war propaganda.

Rowley is a former FBI special agent and division counsel. She wrote a May 2002 memo to the FBI’s then director, Robert Mueller, exposing some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 conduct. Later in 2002, she was named a ‘Person of the Year’ by Time magazine.

The magazine reported: Coleen Rowley is the FBI staff attorney who caused a sensation in May 2002 with a memo to FBI Director Mueller about how the Bureau brushed off pleas from her Minneapolis, Minnesota field office that Zacharias Musari, later indicted as a Sept. 11 co-conspirator, was a man who must be investigated. They blew her off.

This week, Rowley told the Institute for Public Accuracy, “The bad news is that the neocon war propaganda initially worked well, fooling 70% of 9/11 traumatized Americans that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was responsible for the 9-11 attacks when the truth was precisely the opposite.

“Iraq was an actual enemy of bin Laden’s al-Qaeda. The good news is that 25 years later, the warmongers deceitful manipulation of public opinion in the U.S. to wage wars for Israel seems to finally have lost its effectiveness. It’s proven much harder, if not impossible, to sell this final U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, especially given the last three years of widespread reporting of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and which also includes international judicial and human rights findings of Israel’s commission of genocide.

“More and more direct blowback. most visibly the rising costs of gas and other consumer goods due to U.S.-Israeli wars, have opened the eyes of more and more Americans, finally, and Europeans who previously were lulled into these 25 years of perpetual war.”

In 2023, Rowley told the Institute for Public Accuracy, “Already on the day of Sept. 11, 2001, some of us insiders knew some agonizing truth that the horrible, terrible terrorist attacks of that day could have been easily prevented if FBI
headquarters had just read, shared and acted on the memos addressed to officials there.

“But I didn’t know the half of it that day. that other agencies like the CIA actually knew much more as their agents had been monitoring the meetings and developments of key al-Qaeda figures for a couple of years prior, but were keeping that intelligence secret even from other counterterrorism agencies.

“Most importantly, the CIA hid the fact from the FBI until it was too late that they knew al-Qaeda terrorists, who would become 9/11 aircraft hijackers and suicide pilots, were already in the country. Along with all the prior info they kept secret, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet had been briefed with a ‘Fundamentalist Learns to Fly’ PowerPoint weeks before the attacks.

“He later said he could not explain why as head of all U.S. national security intelligence, he still took no action.

“Even worse, instead of coming to grips with this truth that would have enabled speedy solutions to these relatively easy-to-fix administrative problems / flubs that mostly involved lack of information sharing—what the 9-11 Commission termed failure to connect the dots—massive cover-ups ensued after 9-11.

“Nearly all U.S. political figures and other officials in Washington would bury the truth, fight accountability, and even lie in order to institute their predetermined agendas, long planned to commence after a ‘new Pearl Harbor’ pretext.

“So without dissent and no truth, the misbegotten, counterproductive global war on terrorism was immediately launched that served as fig leaf for actual successive wars on Mideastern countries, beginning with Afghanistan and Iraq, bloody wars that would take the lives of millions but had no chance of reducing terrorism or spreading democracy, wars that would destabilize the entire region, vastly increase extremist massacres, and sprout new terrorist groups like hydras,
but would fill the coffers of the military-industrial complex’s war profiteers.”

From the Institute for Public Accuracy, accuracy.org. Read by Robin Bloomgarden for KEPW Whole Community News.