Rice's Big Lie Exposed
By 1994 Plane Incidents
From Dan Perez
4-8-4
KEAN: I've got a question now I'd like to ask you. It was given to me
by a number of members of the families.
Did you ever see or hear from the FBI, from the CIA, from any other
intelligence agency, any memos or discussions or anything else between
the time you got into office and 9-11 that talked about using planes
as bombs?
RICE: Let me address this question because it has been on the table.
I think that concern about what I might have known or we might have
known was provoked by some statements that I made in a press
conference. I was in a press conference to try and describe the August
6th memo, which I've talked about here in my opening remarks and which
I talked about with you in the private session.
And I said, at one point, that this was a historical memo, that it was
_ it was not based on new threat information. And I said, No one could
have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon _ I'm
paraphrasing now _ into the World Trade Center, using planes as a
missile.
As I said to you in the private session, I probably should have said,
I could not have imagined, because within two days, people started to
come to me and say, Oh, but there were these reports in 1998 and 1999.
The intelligence community did look at information about this.
To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Chairman, this kind of analysis about
the use of airplanes as weapons actually was never briefed to us.
I cannot tell you that there might not have been a report here or a
report there that reached somebody in our midst.
Part of the problem is _ and I think Sandy Berger made this point when
he was asked the same question _ that you have thousands of pieces of
information -- car bombs and this method and that method _ and you
have to depend to a certain degree on the intelligence agencies to
sort to tell you what is actually relevant, what is actually based on
sound sources, what is speculative.
RICE: And I can only assume or believe that perhaps the intelligence
agencies thought that the sourcing was speculative.
All that I can tell you is that it was not in the August 6th memo,
using planes as a weapon. And I do not remember any reports to us, a
kind of strategic warning, that planes might be used as weapons. In
fact, there were some reports done in '98 and '99. I was certainly not
aware of them at the time that I spoke. "
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If Rice couldn't have imagined planes being flown into buildings, why
did she call up San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown on the night of
September 10th and warn him not to fly the next day?
I guess she missed the hijacking of an Air France plane in 1994, which
was all over the media, where there were fears the plane would be
crashed into the Eiffel Tower in Paris or into buildings in New York
if the plane was allowed to come to the U.S.;
http://www.africast.com/article.php?newsID=9134&strRegion=North
"A radical group of Algerian insurgents who hijacked an Air France
plane in 1994 planned to blow up the aircraft over the Eiffel Tower
before their plot was foiled, a former top militant was quoted as
saying.
A commando of 10 insurgents planned to hijack a plane leaving Algiers
in December 1994, blowing it up over the French capital, Omar Chikhi,
a former leader of the Armed Islamic Group, said in an interview
published Saturday in El Youm newspaper.
The aircraft never reached Paris. The group hijacked the plane on
Christmas Eve 1994, killing three passengers, but the operation ended
in Marseille when a French intervention squad stormed the plane and
killed the hostage-takers."
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I guess she also missed the mass media news stories of the nutcase who
stole a Cessna plane on the night of September 11th, 1994, and flew
it(some say it was remote controlled) into the White House;
http://www.geocities.com/roboplanes/cessna.html
"According to the mainstream media, at about 2300 hrs on 11 September
1994, Frank Eugene Corder stole a single-engine Cessna 150L plane from
an airport north of Baltimore, then headed south to Washington, flying
over the National Zoological Park and down to the Mall, probably using
the Washington Monument as a beacon. As he neared the famed obelisk,
he banked a tight U-turn over the Ellipse, came in low over the White
House South Lawn, clipped a hedge, skidded across the green lawn that
girds the South Portico and crashed into a wall two stories below the
presidential bedroom."
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The only way Rice couldn't have imagined a "plane crashing into a
building" scenario is if she has no contact with the outside world and
is totally out of touch with reality.
http://wid.ap.org/transcripts/rice.html
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