Essays Mike Levine of Expert Witness Radio with Mike Levine

Essays by Mike Levine of the Expert Witness Radio show with Mike Levine and Kristina Borjesson

THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR - 2002
How New York Times "Shills" Help Keep Us at 9/11
by Michael Levine

   On Sunday, September 8, 2002, the New York Times in a front page article entitled "Feeling Secure, U.S. Failed to Grasp bin Laden Threat," by Patrick E. Tyler, did its absolute best to keep America and, by proxy, the rest of the world, as vulnerable to terrorist attacks as we were on September 10th, 2001.

   Being a trained criminal investigator accustomed to presenting my conspiracy cases before grand juries and courts, what I am going to do is present this article in the form of an investigative report typical of the type I was trained to prepare during my years with the Department of Justice, formally, accusing the New York Times of violation of Title 18, 2001, False Official Statement; a crime for which I have sent many to jail - Ironically for lies immeasurabily less damaging to America than those published in this front-page article.

   Translated, this means that, before I get into the specifics of this smoking-gun shill piece, why - as viewed through the lens of my training and experience - it is mainly composed of distortions and outright lies and the potential damage it will do to our national security, I will first set forth a little factual background that those unafraid of allowing hard facts to cloud their media-shaped opinions, might want to check out for themselves.

Predicting September 11th    In Novemeber, 1998, I put together a panel of four federal agents who had seved a collective total of 102 years with CIA, FBI, DEA, Customs and Treasury Intelligence. In three on-air broadcasts of one-hour each, (heard on WBAI in NYC and The Roy Tuckan Show, KPFK in Los Angeles) we predicted 9/11... and it was too, too easy.

   Human Intelligence and covert operations experts with field experience, saw the tragedy of 9/11 coming for decades. We knew that the real culprit behind the Keystone Kops FBI and CIA was a mainstream media that was easily manipulated into shilling the American people and congress into believing these self-important clowns could actually protect us from even the most bumbling of terror plots.

   The recording is entitled "FIRST WARNING" and may be found on my web site http://www.expertwitnessradio.org

   If you don´t have the time or will to listen to this recording, or are the typical ditto head, who dismisses hard evidence without checking it out because some talking head who probably has as much real life experience in the field as your grandmother said he/she disagrees, then I urge you to stop reading and return your head to your favorite hole in the ground, because the next big one is coming and both you and mainstream media are determined to stay at September 10th until it does.

   And I do not want to be right again.

Smoking Gun Tapes of FBI/CIA Ineptitude    In my quest to present to my "grand jury" of listeners and readers smoking gun, court-quality proof that both the FBI and CIA had hard evidence and informants to have stopped this terrorist act as early as 1993 and then both botched it in the most amateurish manner imaginable, we obtained the actual, secretly recorded phone call of an FBI agent firing informant Emad Salim after he had successfully infiltrated the terror group that would go on to attack the Word Trade Center twice, because the Famous But Incompetents (as DEA and other law enforcement agencies call them) did not trust him enough to pay him a $500 a week salary.

   Here again, if you are interested at all in the security of this nation and the quality of those we are paying to protect us, you must listen to this recorded conversation yourself. Don´t let others interpret it for you. Have a mind of your own, before you lose your head altogether. (The recording, "FINAL WARNING" aired on WBAI in NYC and by the ever courageous Roy Tuckman of KPFK in Los Angeles is available for your listening on the web site).

   If this is not enough, court-quality proof of our thesis that, you had been and are being lied to through an easily manipulated, shill media, determined to con you into the belief that our national security is in good hands, I've got more.

   In August, 2002, I learned of another FBI/CIA informant who had infiltrated the bin Laden organization and actually trained in Afghanistan and fought Jihad; another credible man who mainstream media was avoiding. In fact, it was a retired CIA operative who told me that "Aukai Collins is the real thing" just moments after Collins approached me at a large conference given in New York City, by Emmanuel Goldstein, the host of Off The Hook.

   During the 2 hours of interview that I urge you to listen to (soon to be available on video), Aukai Collins tells of furnishing the FBI and CIA with the identities of some of the actual terrorists of 9/11 whom were at the moment training at flight schools in Arizona and how the information was ignored. The interviews and video are titled "My Jihad."

   Now to the Details section of my prosecution report; the specifics of the Times´ latest shill piece.

   Continuing in the format of an investigative report prepared for a district attorney or court, I will first set forth the precise statement as excerpted from the Sunday piece, followed by a citation of hard evidence indicating it to be false and/or intentionally distorted.

N.Y. Times article, excerpt #1    Since last Sept. 11, the authorities have disclosed how the hijackers trained at American flight schools; one suspected conspirator was arrested a month before the attacks for his erratic statements and terrorist links in France.

Evidence of false and/or intentionally distorted statements in excerpt #1:
   The hijacker, whose name, by now, we all know is Zacarias Moussaoui, has been left unnamed. In my opinion as a federal investigator, the omission was intentional in that (as the evidence will show) it made the rest of the distortion easier for an inattentive public to digest.

   The truth was that Moussaoui was not arrested for "erratic statements" he was arrested as he was actually training to fly a jumbo jet, because, as his flight instructor said, he was "only interested in learning to turn right and left, not in landings and takeoffs."

   The article intimates that Moussaoui was arrested by the FBI, which is also entirely untrue. Numerous poorly distributed press reports, including a smattering of mainstream articles indicate clearly that Moussaoui was arrested for immigrations violations by the Department of Immigrations.

   In fact, talk about media bullshoot! Prize winning Newsweek journalist Elaine Shannon even wrote that her top level FBI sources told her that there was "no evidence whatsoever" linking Moussaoui to the 9/11 tragedy. Of course, this shill piece was written a week before the FBI discovered that he was the "twentieth hijacker."

   Maybe we ought to indict Newsweek also. What do you think?

   The facts that this latest Times article is clearly attempting to distort and cover-up, as the totality of the evidence will prove during trial, is that, while the man Moussaoui was incarcerated, the FBI made no attempt whatsoever to speak directly to the man during the full month he was incarcerated prior to 9/11. This in spite of French police notifying US Immigrations that Moussaoui had general ties to Bin Laden and specific ties to a terrorist group that had been "planning to hijack airliners and run them into the Eiffel Tower."

   Thus, the statement that he was arrested because of his ties to terrorists is, also, completely false. The fact is, as the court records are beginning to reveal, the FBI not only neglected to speak directly to this illegal alien, terrorist, wannabe jumbo jet pilot, but took no action whatsoever to investigate him.

N.Y. Times article, excerpt #2    an alert FBI agent with [stationed in] Arizona theorized that what occurred on September 11 could occur, but this premonition never reached the White House Terrorism Chief, Richard A. Clark

Evidence of false and/or intentionally distorted statements in excerpt #2:
   Part of my job when I served with the Department of Justice was as an Inspector of Operations. In that capacity, if this "alert FBI agent" told me that he had failed to take immediate action when he had a man in jail, who was an illegal alien, a suspected terrorist with links to bin Laden and previous plans to hijack planes and use them as missiles against buildings and that at the time of his arrest he had been learning to fly jumbo jets, but was not interested in landings and takeoffs, and that this alert FBI agents reason for taking no action whatsoever, was that he was "waiting for a decision from the White House," I would immediately recommend that the man be fired and possibly prosecuted and that his sanity be examined.

   I would recommend criminal prosecution for any of his superiors who were aware of this criminally moronic failure unequalled in the annals of law enforcement history and who did nothing. I would consider their failure to act both treasonous and a violation of their oath to protect the people who pay their salaries.

   To understand just how absurd this N.Y. Times explanation is, just ask yourself the question: "If a New York City detective had the same information, would he wait for the Mayor´s office to decide his next move?"

   Perhaps this is why the NYPD has sent its anti-terrorist detectives to Israel for training instead of the FBI academy.

N.Y. Times article, excerpt #3    an extraordinary confluence of American instincts appears in hindsight to have dulled the nation's readiness, chief among them the complacency Americans shared about the security of their continent

Evidence of false and/or intentionally distorted statements in excerpt #3:
   The Times left out of the equation a powerful truth that was covered directly in the "FINAL WARNING" shows aired in 1998, predicting 9/11: that there exists an impressive body of evidence indicating that mainstream media shilling was, and continues to be, responsible for that complacency. And that the complacency alluded to here was not of the fault of the American people, but of the media that shilled us (with reports like this one) into that complacency, and a congress that refused to take action in spite of well documented knowledge of the extraordinary, decades-long ineptitude of both FBI and CIA.    For much more hard, court-qualified evidence of this, via the first-hand testimony of journalists, read "Into the Buzzsaw", edited by Kristina Borjesson. The book can be ordered through the Web site. My God, you owe it to yourselves and your families.

N.Y. Times article, excerpt #4 there was also an innate resistance to the kind of domestic intelligence gathering that the authorities consider necessary for tracking suspected terrorists

Evidence of false and/or intentionally distorted statements in excerpt #4:
   This is one of the most obviously bullshoot statements I have ever seen produced by any media print outlet, not to mention the New York Times. In court, if this reporter had uttered these words the judge would have jailed him on the spot for contempt and I wouldn´t have to write this article.

   What the Times calls "Innate resistance," as any cop with a badge who has studied the facts knows, is the FBI and CIA´s pure, tragicomic ineptitude and inability to do the job they´re paid to do.

   But what I do herewith submit to the jury of listeners and readers, is that, what the use of this vague, bullshoot phrase does indicate, is the very intent of this front-page New York Times piece: to convince us that this Bozo of all failures was understandable and even acceptable.

   The rest of the Times article, continues for about 2,000 plus words of complete and utter mushroom feed, that would require another hundred excerpts of easily proven distortions and falsehoods, the sum total of which claims that the FBI and CIA did their jobs, it was the "system" that failed. In fact, in the mass of shill-jibber these mokes even use those precise words: The system was on yellow alert, but the system was flawed.

   As everyone who has ever carried a badge knows, and the media never seems to learn is that, in the past five decades, whenever the FBI and CIA bungle their jobs, their first and only reaction is to cover up their boobery and criminality by blaming it on the "system." Each of these agencies has extraordinary, taxpayer funded public information offices that fly into action to use the media to not only cover-up the bungling, but to actually convert failures to success.

   If you listen to "FIRST WARNING," you will actually hear CIA officer McGehee read from an inhouse CIA memo in which the CIA PIO actually brags about their ability to "use media connections and influence to convert intelligence failures to successes."

   I mean, talk about picking our pockets and bragging about it. The trouble is that, for the media and congress to continue to accept that hackneyed, absurd explanation, they have to overlook five decades of Congressional reports like the Church Committee´s report; Congressional ordered studies, like the Admiral Jeremiah report; the public statements of a couple of dozen federal agents with the courage to tell the truth, like FBI agent Coleen Rowley and CIA agent Ralph McGehee; all indicating that both the Famous But Incompetents and the Criminal Inept Agency could not coordinate a food shopping expedition, no less our defense against terrorism. They are simply too inept to function in any investigative system devised by man.

   In 1996, for example, Admiral Jeremiah - commissioned by our government to evaluate and analyze the reasons for CIA´s many failures, including its sophomoric attempts at overthrowing Sadaam Hussein after Desert Storm - reported that the entire agency was dysfunctional and had to be revamped from top to bottom. He said they were simply incapable of doing their job. The admiral´s comments had nothing to do with a "system" failure. Thanks to media shilling and a Congress with neither will nor scruples, nothing was done to address this report, and we continued headlong toward 9/11.

   Detailed discussions, by court-qualified experts, of the specifics of many of these reports and whistle-blowers referred to, can also be heard on many of the taped interviews on the archive section of the web site, as well as on "FIRST WARNING").

   In 2002, when Coleen Rowley came forward and said that FBI headquarters was regarded by the field agents as "moles for bin Laden," she was not referring to any damned system failure, she was talking plain and simple about the quality of her leadership. Anyone with any sense has got to know that.

   So ask yourself, how can it be that Coleen Rowley, now regarded and treated as a hero by Congress, is totally ignored by that same Congress in its deliberations to effect the needed changes that might really save America? And how is it that, only one brave woman, out of 25,000 FBI agents stepped forward in the wake of 9/11, to tell us what a joke that agency really is; a truth that is now more vital to our future protection than ever before in our history?

   The answer to both those questions can be found in a 1970s movie "Three Days of The Condor." In the movie, a CIA officer who knew too much about a too typical agency bizarro operation is targeted for death by the Criminal Inept Agency. The CIA guy in deep doo-doo, played by Robert Redford, manages to survive two hours of typically bungled attempts to kill him by his fellow Americans. His terrifying odyssey finally ends at the front door of a huge American newspaper (think New York Times). It´s broad daylight on a Monday morning, the streets are crowded, and there is nothing between Redford and America´s watchdog media but space. He crosses toward the front doors of the big building, moving with the courage and determination that made America; he is going to blow the damned whistle on the whole sordid operation.

   At the door, waiting for him is the sinister CIA chief, played by Cliff Robertson, who smiles knowingly and utters the final words of the movie: "What make you think they´ll print the story?"