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Limited Hang Outs
incompetence theories, intelligence failures and avoiding the real crimes

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• a political map - limited hang outs for other major issues

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."
-- Noam Chomsky

From the Nixon tapes

Nixon "Do you think we want to go this route now? Let it hang out?"
John Dean "Well, it isn't really that."
Haldeman "It's a limited hang-out."
Ehrlichman "It's a modified, limited, hang-out."

9/11 failure analogies

The claim that 9/11 was a "failure" is similar to

• claiming that the Reichstag Fire was a result of a failure of police activities against the Communists
• asking J. Edgar Hoover for an investigation to determine how James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King, Jr. (even though the King family says that Ray didn't do it and that the federal government organized it)
• or stating that better FBI action could have kept Lee Harvey Oswald from firing the "Magic Bullet" at President Kennedy (even though the truth was that he was indeed "just a patsy" and did not fire any shots)

9/11 was not an failure of intelligence or incompetence in the Air Force's defense of New York and Washington. The only "intelligence failure" is among the media and much of the public that avoids looking at the official, deliberate policies that facilitated the crime.

This strategy is not limited to 9/11. The computerized ballot machine issue is also dominated by people who have decided that a nice-sounding but totally ineffectual strategy is the way to solve the problem (although this certainly wasn't decided in any participatory way).

The day the "capture of Saddam" was announced to the media, at least one peace group sent out a press release stating that Bush still hasn't found the perpetrators of 9/11 (and therefore the capture of Saddam Hussein wasn't a big deal). This is an unintentional support for the coverup, since Bush and Cheney see perpetrators every time they look in a mirror.

from Michael Ruppert, Crossing the Rubicon, p. 11

The intelligence/criminal wall

One of the hottest themes in the well≠watched hearings of the so-called independent 9/11 commission in April of 2004 was that there was an alleged wall between law enforcement activities at the FBI and other agencies and the intelligence side of the FBI and the CIA which prohibited the sharing of information that might have prevented the attacks. This theme was sung like choir practice by virtually every witness who testified during the week from Condoleezza Rice, to Janet Reno, to John Ashcroft, to Louis Freeh, to Robert Mueller.

How does that reconcile with the following statement from a RAND Corporation study on terrorism from 2001? The RAND Corporation was formed as a think tank by the CIA and the US Air Force in the 1950s.

Finally, it is important to note that efforts to prevent or disrupt terrorist action frequently are successful, and these activities have reduced the number of terrorist incidents that would have occurred in the absence of these activities:

Disruption of terrorist events by working with foreign intelligence and law enforcement services has proved profitable; U.S. intelligence agencies prevented Osama bin Laden's organization from carrying out at least seven vehicle bomb attacks on U.S. facilities since August 1998 (Kelly, 1999, p.1A), and U.S. intelligence has conducted successful disruption operations in as many as 10 countries in the six months up to March 1999 (Associated Press, 1999).

In actual operations and special events, agencies generally coordinated their activities. For example, we examined several overseas counterterrorist operations and found that agencies generally followed the draft interagency International Guidelines. DoD, the FBI, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) performed their respective roles in military planning, law enforcement and intelligence gathering under the oversight of the State Department (e.g., the ambassador). Minor interagency tensions or conflicts during these operations were resolved and did not appear to have posed risk to the mission.

In a similar vein, FBI data on terrorism in the United States suggest a reasonably high degree of success in terrorism prevention activities at home -- only a small annual number of actual terrorist incidents occurred in recent years, and more preventions of terrorist incidents than actual incidents. [emphases added]
-- Eric V. Larson and John E. Peters, Preparing the U.S. Army for Homeland Security, MR-1251/A, ISBN: 0-8330-2919-3, MR-1251/A © 2001, pp. 52, 67, 68. www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1251/.

from www.oilempire.us/ballot.html

California demands paper back up for Touch Screen Machines - why this is not a solution
In mid-November 2003, the State of California demanded that counties have paper trails for touch screen voting machines. At first glance, this seems like a huge victory for grassroots pressure. However, this development is not a victory for democracy. First, the decision does not need to be implemented until 2006, meaning that Governor Schwarzenegger is now free to do to California's elections what Governor Jeb Bush did in Florida in 2000. Second, paper ballots are not what will actually be counted in these elections - the Diebold / Sequoia / ES&S machines will still determine the outcome. If there is a controversy, then paper ballots could be used to verify whether the machines were rigged or not. Unfortunately, few elections are close enough for automatic recounts, meaning that all the tamperers need to do is to rig the outcome enough so that the results appear legitimate. For example, the California "recall" race had Schwarzenegger comfortably over 50 percent, thus ensuring that no recount (or a second recall against him) would happen. And in many cases where the outcome has been disputed - such as the 2002 Governor race in Alabama - no recounts were done because of Republican obstinancy and Democratic meekness in the face of blatant vote fraud.
Therefore, paper trails are not a solution. Paper ballots, counted by hand - that is the only solution to vote fraud in America.

www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/121703_911_preventable.html
Mike Ruppert, From the Wilderness
DECEMBER 17, 2003
9/11 COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED, 9/11 CHAIR ADMITS

The modified limited hangout has arrived! (Admit part of the blame to hide the greater sin) -- Fresh on the heels of the reported capture of Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration, working through a Republican apparatchik heading a virtually useless and spineless commission investigating the attacks, has decided to try to turn the corner on 9/11. It was all just a big mistake that could have been prevented and the Bush administration is protecting screw-ups. That's what they want America and the world to believe. 9/11 was not an intelligence failure. It was an intelligence success. Everyone who sees this story is urged to react as strongly as possible with emails, calls and letters to CBS, the major press and the White House saying, "THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. IT DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AND WE WANT FULL DISCLOSURE."

www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/070103_beyond_bush_1.html

July 1, 2003 1600 PDT (FTW) -- Let's just suppose for a moment that George W. Bush was removed from the White House. Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Wolfowitz and Rove too. What would that leave us with? It would leave us stuck in hugely expensive, Vietnam-like guerrilla wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would leave us with the Patriot Act, Homeland Security and Total Information Awareness snooping into every detail of our lives. It would leave us with a government in violation of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments to the Constitution. It would leave us with a massive cover-up of US complicity in the attacks of 9/11 that, if fully admitted, would show not intelligence "failures" but intelligence crimes, approved and ordered by the most powerful people in the country. It would leave us with a government that now has the power to compel mass vaccinations on pain of imprisonment or fine, and with no legal ability to sue the vaccine makers who killed our friends or our children. It would leave us with two and half million unemployed; the largest budget deficits in history; more than $3.3 trillion missing from the Department of Defense; and state and local governments broke to the point of having to cut back essential services like sewers, police, and fire. It would leave us with a federal government that had hit the debt ceiling and was unable to borrow any more money. And we would still be facing a looming natural gas crisis of unimagined proportions, and living on a planet that is slowly realizing that it is running out of oil with no "Plan B". Our airports however, would be very safe, and shares of Halliburton, Lockheed and DynCorp would be paying excellent dividends.

www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/112203_failure_crime.html
Failure and Crime Are Not the Same: 9/11's Limited Hangouts
by Jamey Hecht, PhD

www.questionsquestions.net/documents2/controlledburn.html
9 June 2002
A Controlled Burn

For a number of weeks now the smart money has been betting that the whirlwind of admissions and apparently damaging leaks about 9/11 has not been an uncontrolled disaster for the Bush Administration but instead has been a managed attempt at a "controlled burn," which refers to the somewhat counter-intuitive firefighters' practice of lighting small blazes in the path of an advancing wildfire in order to stop it. The name of the game is to admit one kind of wrongdoing in order to obscure another that is worse -- in Watergate parlance, a "limited hangout." Obviously a major part of the Bush Administration's strategy in spinning their prior knowledge of 9/11 is to direct attention to failures down the rungs.

9/11 Evidence - Smoking Gun ... by Cheryl Seal
www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0206/S00071.htm
also at www.unknownnews.net/cdd052002.html
one of the best articles describing the evidence and the motivations, warnings, the curious nature of the Pentagon attack (on the mostly empty part of the building), the Bush administration's interference with the FBI investigation of al-Qaeda, and much more.

At the very least Bush allowed 9/11 to happen. But the evidence indicates his guilt involves more than just a huge intentional sin of omission – this now seems certain. ...
.... why would Bush admit to having been warned about 9/11 in the first place? In the corporate and political world, this admission is a strategy that has been used over and over by creeps who are guilty of huge crimes and know the heat is on. By confessing to a lesser charge, they try to draw the heat away from the main, more dangerous issue.