The 9/11 attacks gave the US a huge opportunity to embark on a new era of global unity and partnership.

Instead, the tragedy was exploited – not only to erode Americans’ civil liberties, but to engage in endless militarism based on imperial bloodlust.

The US government tortured, bombed, invaded, occupied and destabilized entire nations that had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed no threat to this country. Incredibly, the countries that most likely did play an operational role remain the US’ strongest allies in the Middle East.

The Bush administration claimed the attacks were simply a failure of imagination, when in fact hijacking planes and crashing them into government buildings was a known tactic of terror.

Officials also turned a blind eye to an innumerable amount of warnings. From Morocco to Russia, dozens of foreign intelligence agencies warned the US of an imminent terrorist attack in the months prior to 9/11. The infamous August 6th Presidential Daily Briefing, in which Bush was warned of a 9/11 style plot, was just the tip of the iceberg. According to The New York Times, even more ‘shocking’ classified briefs were delivered to the highest echelons of the intelligence community.

Other lingering questions include why Pakistani ISI’s General Mahmoud Ahmed was having breakfast with lawmakers in DC on the morning of 9/11 after ordering Omar Sheik to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the lead 9/11 hijacker. This, along with evidence of Saudi royal backing, calls into question why the 9/11 Commission Report concluded that the source of funding for the attacks is “of little practical significance.”

Despite the group’s casual disregard to investigate foreign governments that helped finance the operation, a document that could expose the subject is called The Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After The Terrorist Attacks of 9/11 – except 28 pages of it, entitled ‘Potential Sources of Foreign Support for the September 11 Hijackers,’ were redacted by the Bush administration and remain classified to this day.

Amazingly, simply bringing up any of these inconsistencies paints you as a lunatic in the mainstream media, which lumps any and all questions about 9/11 as baseless conspiracy theories. No matter how out there some of those theories indeed are, they shouldn’t delegitimize the facts.

Based on the historical record, here’s the best case scenario: Hundreds of warnings were ignored, no one was fired because of it and countless have died as a result.

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Warnings Ignored, US Ally Funding, Bush Admin Lies & Redacted Truths

Coverage includes an exclusive interview with Brian McGlinchey, spokesperson for 28pages.org, former FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley about the agency being blocked from investigating Zacharias Moussaoui, AKA the ’20th Hijacker,’ RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky at Ground Zero’s crass 9/11 gift shop.

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I also went on Off the Grid with Jesse Ventura to talk about being ostracized for questioning the official 9/11 narrative as well as my trip to Guantanamo Bay.

Abby Martin Goes Off the Grid with Jesse Ventura

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