i first met her and then her next speaker on his last visit to toronto which was a couple of years ago he laid out his roadmap for understanding world events and offered an important perspective of nine eleven that completely changed my way of thinking about many of the players and events since then he is the publisher and editor from the wilderness one of the most important alternative news sources on the web we are please welcome from los angeles california michael well it sounds like there's a lot more people out there than then we've got i see a lot of very suspicious faces to keep turning up everywhere so maybe we're part of some kind of conspiracy i hope for part of one that successful a lot has been going on most of you don't know that i just flew in from germany less than forty eight hours ago i spent a week there on first of all attending a conference pardon me while i try to do two things thank god i'm not showing gum set up the slide show on a second look at this right place slideshow there we go attending the third annual conference of the association for the study of peak oil and i close close with a with a few remarks from that tonight after i get finished talking about what i'm talking about i have told some of you today that i will say something very special  this face to inquiry which is some completely new research information which will completely change everyone's conception of how they view the lack of fighter response on september eleventh i have found out how they did it and there is a model which which is surprisingly similar here joe i think jamie hecht wherever you are is assistant managing editor of my newsletter become a great friend he's also editing my book which i'm pleased to announce will be out this summer but he pointed out something to me that was very obvious and i said a big aha for those of you who have followed the john f kennedy assassination one of the biggest mysteries that was  always present in analyzing that case was how the active the loyal law enforcement officers in the federal government the f b i were paralyzed and i think three of the best researchers on the j case would include mark lane peter dale scott and john newman peter is a mentor of mine peter's been a very dear friend for a long time but the answers came back and john newman pretty much put it all together that by sending a fake oz wall to the soviet consulate or embassy in mexico city raised the specter among loyal f b i agents that perhaps the wall was an agent of the soviet government therefore if anything tried to unravel or really pursue the j f k case what was  the other end of that chain was a thermonuclear war and it was a great way to paralyze the loyal law enforcement community into sitting back and letting the warren commission implant them bed and cement the legend of the j f k assassination what i'm going to show you tonight is the equivalent of the mexico city analogy with respect to the fighters and their lack of response on nine eleven i assume that almost everybody here understands that we have a major problem with what happened with the air force on nine eleven it's like there's nobody here who doesn't get that right that's the probably the single biggest question and that's sixty seven times in the calendar year prior to june first that's a very important date of two thousand and one fighter aircraft under the command of north american aerospace defense command scrambled routinely whenever a commercial aircraft that's either an airliner or general aviation airplane went off course failed to respond to a radio request from the air traffic controller failed to issue a squawk or transponder code on request or you know any four separate circumstances if two or more existed the f a a regulations were explicitly clear that the air traffic controller was to assume that an emergency existed and immediately notify the f a a the norad and request fighters to be scrambled and everybody remembers the case of payne stewart where planes were flying beside his  disabled or his ghost ship lear jet within minutes of missing a turn and failing to respond to a radio request yet on september the eleventh after it was known that four simultaneous hijackings occurred fighters did not respond and some cases were as long as fifteen minutes and longer that's an inexplicable chain of events the assumption that had been made throughout the research community was that somewhere somebody had issued one single order telling the fighter pilots not to scramble that never sat with me and we're going to talk about why in a second but first of all i want to talk briefly about how from the wilderness has researched much of nine eleven and why our stuff has been widely received from the wilderness as you that those of you who've been following following us know broke the first stories after nine eleven on the numerous intelligence briefings received warnings received by the bush administration which when taken together specifically said that hijacked airliners were going to be crashed into the world trade center on the week of september the eleventh september the ninth that the airports of new york and boston would probably be involved and ultimately when you examine the insider trading that the airliners involved would be united and american that's pretty specific but the bush administration claims no advance knowledge we broke major stories on insider trading on the financial markets on scrambled fighters we were we did not break the first stories on that i can't take credit for that other people were quick to bring those to our attention but we followed up numerous stories about how the hijackers were allowed to  roam free and stories about plans to seize oil fields we were there one of the first or as we broke this was it on the advance warnings received and we broke a story provided to us by a former cia case officer named born he's an african american was served as a case officer for twenty six years in cia counterterrorism this is a story from is the best which i had translated and you see the portion in black was edited out of the as vestey a website the story was published september the twelfth and it says very clearly that russian intelligence sources had briefed washington at the highest levels and by delivering some of the names of the alleged hijackers but they knew exactly what the attacks were going to be on the briefings were sent from moscow to cia headquarters we had the original copy of the story in russian saved on our website this is stuff the administration do not we have pursuing the techniques that any detective and i'm a former l a p d detective would pursue in investigating a homicide or investigating any conspiracy case the first criticisms that were hurled at from the world and us was and they're still out there floating around as i oh my god you couldn't have had such a conspiracy because tens of thousands of people would have known you can't keep a secret like that in fact richard clarke acting as a clone of david corn of the nation in his book said much the same thing  was lying through his teeth bless you that wasn't richard clarke was it ok that's ok in fact and i have twenty six years of investigating covert operations i have interviewed met and know many former cia case officers i would admit to knowing a current one not for my sake but for theirs i of course lost my l a p d career because i was trying that they were trying to recruit me into one my whole family came from the intelligence community my mother had been a cryptanalyst for the army security agency and our secretary of state cordell hull during the second world war my father had been an air force officer who went to work for martin titan three c which went up all the cia's keyhole spy satellites his relatives were career at langley i was an only child and that unfortunately is the family i was brought into but my methodology has been pretty straightforward that of an investigator some people call me inspector close though some people call me colombo and i like to interrogate like colombo but what's clear to understand with regard to covert operations is that it is not necessary for thousands of people to know they have compartmentalization what is necessary is to have certain very key people in very key places involved who have enough knowledge to execute the mission but also to be part of the criminal conspiracy one of whom one of those whom i have identified on the board up there is supervisory special agent dave frasca who was the agent in charge of the radical fundamentalist unit of the f b i this will be discussed in detail in my book all footnoted i have more than a thousand footnotes in my book something else i have done which none of the other nine eleven authors thus far have done as i have gone out and conducted interviews i have confronted people and put them on the record on tape recorders them and gotten their responses couldn't get a hold of fresca but i got some good stuff about it personally but i got some stuff about him david frasca as the head of the radical fundamentalist unit in charge of prosecuting  osama bin laden among others see a single handedly quiet five separate investigations each of which could have prevented the attacks of nine eleven briefly he was the agent who delivered orders from the white house according to in early two thousand and one to seize the investigation of two of osama bin laden's relatives outside of washington and omar they were living in falls church which is right outside cia headquarters f b i ordered punished to chicago agent special agent robert wright and some of you may have seen his tearful press conference at the national press club where he apologized to the families of nine eleven he had penetrated al qaeda financing in chicago and the supervisory special at the with the  radical fundamentalist unit had taken away his computers ordered him to stop the investigation transferred into the basement put his desk under a leaky pipe taken away his car threatened him made him work odd hours and he is suing the f b i currently de fresca headed that unit we come down a little bit further we all remember the the phoenix memo from special agent ken williams hey it's very funny we have all these al qaeda guys out here who are taking firing range practice and they're all studying flight lessons and we think this is very suspicious and we should probably check flight schools all over the country the head of the radical fundamentalist unit day for ask is the guy who stuff the memo in a drawer and didn't pass it on to other field offices when they could have found if that's the case all the rest of the hijackers  and denied what they called fiza or faiza warrants for the foreign intelligence surveillance act warrants to search and to interrogate him and rallies memorandum if you haven't read it is full of words like deliberately suppressed harassed intimidated threatened these are not words of describing incompetence these are were described words describing willful malicious actions and finally one of my favorites of all time the f so so well and according to the press stories one day an agent walked in and said oh we got one e mail from this innocent person mary smith in denver and he was so outraged at the violation of the constitution that he destroyed all the thousands qaeda e mails that's what the press story said anybody who's ever worked in law enforcement knows that if i'm seizing or taking evidence as a result of a search warrant you can't destroy anything until the judge gives you permission that's a violation of frescoes unit was the one that destroyed the e mails one supervisory special agent who was in fact promoted shortly after nine eleven i would call him a suspect maybe i can get the colombia look here it's kind of a wrinkle up my coat let's look at the fighters on nine eleven let's look at one quote from a wonderful guy a wonderful ally in the nine eleven movement former british environmental minister michael  wrote the first hijacking was suspected of gotten later than eight twenty am and the last hijacked aircraft crashed in pennsylvania ten o six am not a single fighter plane was scrambled to investigate from the u s andrews air force base just ten miles from washington d c until after the third plane had hit the pentagon at nine thirty eight why not there were standard f a a intercept procedures for hijacked aircraft before nine eleven between september two thousand and june two thousand and one correct myself there the u s military launched fighter aircraft on sixty seven occasions to chase suspicious aircraft associated press aug thirteenth two thousand and two it is a u s legal requirement that once an aircraft has moved significantly significantly off its flight plan fighter planes are sent up to investigate was this action simply the result of key people disregarding or being ignorant of the evidence no or could u s or security operations have been deliberately stood down on september eleventh no i'll tell you why in a minute if so why and on whose authority signed by michael meacher well there's the assumption somebody ordered them to stand now what if they were so confused and had been so deliberately confused that they couldn't respond i have identified and i owe a couple of thanks here and it's kind of an interesting thing i talked about it there's some researchers on nine eleven barbara honegger and nico hop to it talk about war games and most of us who have followed barbara honegger for some time find sometimes her analyses are a bit difficult to take where there was one war game exercise called vigilant guardian which was mentioned in the press after nine eleven and barbara wrote an analysis saying that somehow al qaeda had penetrated all of the us military plans the pentagon as a result of some mole in the defense department who had leaked them the information none of us thought that within the last few months however a few things have surfaced and again she pointed out some story so i give her credit for that but i took them a little bit further because i sensed that there was a real answer there that nobody was seeing and i and i found it first of all we have identified a number of wargame exercises that were taking place on september the eleventh let me tell you why this is important first and i'll backtrack anybody here there was somebody here earlier who wasn't that had been an air force pilot i don't know if he's still here my father was a back seater in f eighty nine d scorpions which were interceptors flown out of pres isle maine during the korean war his mission was to be up there to intercept any soviet bombers coming over the pole was in my family i know air force officers i know military officers especially junior and field grade officers who are men of honor sometimes they don't get the full picture but there is nothing in the world anywhere that would have prevented my father and his pilot from taking off to attack a hostile aircraft that was attacking the u s had they been able to find  order or no order as somebody had said stand down they wouldn't have stood down if they knew that plane was going to kill an american and you have to think that on september eleventh every fighter jock in the country although there were only eight that day and we'll get to why in a minute would have would have run over heaven and hell and moved moved anything to get to that aircraft be quiet because they train their whole life for just that one mission that's what they plan for so i wasn't buying that somebody to shoot them in order to stand down and let the attacks take place and that is not what happened four separate war games vigilant guardian we know this from multiple press sources including aviation news and you house news vigilant warrior you go to richard clarke's book page five he says very clearly his book against all enemies that he's in the white house situation room and he gets the acting chairman of the joint chiefs of staff richard myers who tells him that they're right in the middle of vigilant warrior that's going to be critical in the second so now we've got to war games and we come to northern guardian mentioned in the toronto star you say that's kind of interesting because guardian only appeared in the first edition of the story as part of the headline no i'm a journalist i've written for newspapers and what i gathered that to mean was that because the rest of the story was about northern vigilance was that an editor had excised a paragraph about northern guardian and forgotten to take it out of the headline because in the next printing of the story northern northern guardian was gone and all that remained was northern vigilance and then there was an unnamed plane into building exercise at the national reconnaissance office which is the highly secret cia spy satellite headquarters outside of dulles airport in washington d c now a couple of distinctions and military parlance t x stands for training exercise c p x stands for command post exercise meaning it's just a bunch of people in an office who are moving blocks around on a board there is no real active simulated warfare except for at the n r o case we find that there was a simulated evacuation but there was no aircraft involved in that then there is a field exercise in which you're actually playing the war game these distinctions are very important so here's what we find this just surfaced a couple of months ago where it came from i'll get to later or why it came up we'll get to later on june first of two thousand and one couple months before the attacks the procedure described eloquently by now fees from ed in his book war on freedom very much in place very well documented before nine eleven the one which resulted in fighters being scrambled sixty seven times automatically without thinking which and which actually had been in place since the one nine hundred sixty s was changed what was it changed it was changed to read and this is from a c j s i which is a joint chairman of the joint chiefs instruction and it says support  notified that that military assistance is needed in conjunction with an aircraft piracy hijacked emergency the dio didio deputy director of operations and m c c that's the national mil command center at the pentagon will one determine whether or not the assistance needed is a reasonably available from police or commercial sources we do not send the new york police department after hijacked airliners just that's just so you know that if not the didio m c c will notify the appropriate unified command or norad to determine if the suitable assets are available and will forward the request to the secretary of defense for approval in accordance with dio d d three zero two five point one five paragraph deep point seven reference d suddenly thirty five years of successful military response to hijack an off course airliners is suddenly changed and that and the sole decision making authority is placed in the hands of donald rumsfeld to a suitable assets from unified command are not on the didio and i'm see will coordinate with the appropriate military service operations center to provide military assistance now as a detective i would say this is a clue again i keep coming across these nine eleven clues yes and  as anybody ever heard the old saying if it ain't broke don't fix it all right somebody was fixing something in advance of nine eleven but it didn't work remember i told you about how those pilots would never have stayed on the ground especially after eleven it hit the world trade center and they knew at that point that one seventy five had been hijacked seventy seven had been confirmed to be hijacked and it was only going to be a matter of minutes before they knew that ninety three was hijacked you can't tell an honorable air force officer not to scramble in that kind of an emergency and what happened on nine eleven was exactly that now if i were one of the guys planning nine eleven i would say well we have to do as many things as possible because you have to plan for all these contingencies so that some of these attacks will succeed and some will fail or let one happen stop the rest to quote mike freeland who i met as a result of coming to toronto almost three years ago general arnold who was a deputy commander of norad was a tyndall air force base his headquarters first air force on nine eleven in florida look at a quote he gets a call from colonel mars at northeast air defense sector i quote i told him to scramble we'll get clearances later arnold said his instinct to act first and get permission later were typical of us and canadian commanders that day that's an aviation week and space technology that was confirmed by a number of witnesses we come down here and now we look at the exercises but as i go so dick cheney or whoever put that plan into place probably knew that even though some guys would follow the orders there might be some who not and you don't conduct a covert operation that way so how else do you paralyze the system how else do you make sure that the fighters don't scramble well life started to find the answer as i found out what the war games were the first press stories after nine eleven said that vigilant guardian was an over the pole cold war exercise with soviet bombers flying over the pole and you know golly gee that is not what vigilant guardian was as i dissected we find here here's a deception vigilant guardian deception one confuse the name with other exercises norad also has confirmed it was running to mock drills on nine eleven and various radar sites and command centers in the united states and canada including air force bases in upstate new york florida washington and alaska one drill operation vigilant guardian began a week before september eleventh and reflected a cold war mindset participates participants practiced for an attack across the north pole by russian forces new jersey dot com the semper fi if norad confirmed to mock drills that's a lie a deliberately planted lie why because we find out that northern vigilance redeploys fighters now i just talked about vigilant guardian right don't get confused on the names now i'm on northern vigilance so i started calling norad i'm doing the peter funk you know i'm just trying to get this straight you know you've got this thing over here with this website where i found this quote northern vigilance the north american aerospace defense command shell deployed fighter aircraft as necessary to forward operating locations in alaska and northern canada to monitor a russian air force exercise in the russian arctic and north pacific ocean emphasis added my emphasis another clue you've got a lot of fighters who might scramble what's the best way to make sure that they aren't available on september i got it let's move all the ones out of the northeast sector in the central part of the u s to a training exercise in canada and alaska so they couldn't possibly get to the hijacked airplanes that's pretty good so that takes care of northern vigilance but here's more now we all as from the this is again from the toronto star nor just notice it's fitting that i do this here in toronto ok northern vigilance not catch this northern vigilance this is from december ninth two thousand and one just days after the attack northern vigilance planned months in advance involves deploying fighter jets to locations in alaska and northern canada part of the exercise is pure simulation but part is real world norad is keeping a close eye on the russians who have dispatched long range bombers to their own high north on a similar exercise the f a a has evidence of a hijacking and is asking for norad support this is not part of the exercise now here's a problem the northeast air defense sector is boston massachusetts and you know new york city and washington c that's a long way from the north pole isn't it's in a different air command how could you possibly confuse a hijacking with the north pole with an over the pole cold war exercise somebody is lying but then it says in a flash operation northern vigilance is called off quote catch this quote any simulated information what's known as an inject is purged from those screens what we are describing here is events at the northeast air defense sector after eleven and one seventy five have been hijacked and we have a story here confirming that we now have false radar blips inserted into the radar lots of other reports were starting to come in major general rick findley director of norad operations recalls and now you're not too sure quote if they're that clever to coordinate that kind of attack what else is taking place across north america this is not now some over the pole russian hijacked russian bombing attack we have false blips inserted in and into the northeast air defense sector and a norad spokesperson saying what's going on there masking the hijacks in with our drills but it gets better norad exercise had jet crashing into buildings you remember when pogo one of the project for college you know what it is project for project on government oversight just a month ago released this email from a guy who used to work at norad and said you know we proposed a drill about crashing hijacked airliners into buildings and then the press immediately jumped up and said oh we just air force jumped up and said it was unrealistic or yeah let's see washington c n n as a result of that story on pogo this is from c n n april nineteenth this is not too long ago this year sometime between hundred ninety one and two thousand and one a regional sector of the north american aerospace defense command simulate simulated a foreign hijacked airliner crashing into a building in the united states as part of a training exercise scenario norad spokesman said so obviously it wasn't too far fetched military officials said the exercise involved simulating a crash into a building that would be recognizable if identified but was not the world trade center or the pentagon the identity of the building nam the exercise is classified then catch this the sector exercise sector northeast air defense sector involved some flying of military aircraft as well as a command post exercise in which communications procedures were practiced in an office environment that's very important fighters were scrambled in the drill then it comes down further norad has the ongoing mission of the offensive u s airspace according to a statement from norad quote before september eleventh norad regularly conducted overriding of exercises that included hijack scenarios these exercises test attracted to action and identification scramble and interception hijack procedures my dad was in the air force you cannot practice interception unless you have an airplane to intercept it that tells you that someone was flying airplanes posing as hijacked airliners if i'm an air force interceptor pilot in an f sixteen and i have to go up and simulate an intercept the procedure is to fly above and to the left your rock your wings they rock their wings you leave you move but failing that they drill for shoot down so you have to practice in the f sixteen maneuvering behind the airliner achieving missile lock the airliner might try some moves and you have to stay on the airliners tail and get missile lock so now we have confirmation practice drills not only with planes crashing into buildings but with planes simulating hijacked airliners they're called live fly exercises now we come to vigilant guardian they very close attention the first thing that went through my mind after receiving the hijacking alert for flight eleven was quote is this part of the exercise is this some kind of a screw up that's from that's a quote from general arnold who was down at tyndall air force base so now ok this is this can't be then the over the pole soviet bomber drill it can't not if it's a hijacking in the northeast air defense sector then we come down the tech sergeant jeremy powell of the northeast air defense sector in rome new york took the first call from boston cent he notified needs commander colonel robert marr of a possible hijacked airliner a flight eleven quote part of the exercise the colonel warned wondered no this is a real world event he was told several days into a semi annual exercise known as vigilant guardian vigilant guardian then is not the north pole exercise originally guardian must be something else lieutenant colonel dan deskins figured it would be a long day september eleventh was day two of vigilant guardian an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to north american air defense outposts nationwide at eight forty deskins notice senior technician jeremy powell waving his hands boston center was on the line he said it had a hijacked airliner quote it must be part of the exercise deskins thought newhouse new service so vigilant guardian we now know was a hijack drill being conducted in the northeast air defense sector and we were lied to vigilant warrior also turns out to be a live fly hijack drill quote this is from richard clarke listened very very carefully order aircraft down we're going to have to clear this the airspace around washington d c in new york what we may have to do a lot more than that dick i already put a hold on all takeoffs and landings in new york and washington but we have reports of eleven aircraft off course or out of communications maybe hijacked isn't that convenient if you have a drill with false radar blips and you may have life fly planes now picture yourself being a fighter commander on the ground saying i've got to put my soul eight fighter aircraft because they actually it's only four you can respond to because they always fly in pairs pilot and wing man you've got four pairs of responses and eleven possible hijackings where do you send your fighters what if you sent him to the wrong place you can't send him to the wrong place because you can't afford to make that mistake eleven it gets better eleven off course or out of communications maybe hijacked i turn to the radar screen j c s j c yes this is richard clark talking to the j c s is joint chiefs of staff i assume norad to scramble fighters an awacs how many where quote not a pretty picture dick dick myers himself a fighter pilot knew that the days when we had scores of fighters on strip alert had ended with the cold war quote we are in the middle of vigilant warrior as another new exercise a norad exercise but otis has launched two birds toward new york langley is trying to get two up now it was now nine twenty eight so i checked at nine twenty eight dick donald rumsfeld according to the logs was sitting in his office with representative christopher cox flight eleven had been had already crashed into the world trade center and nobody had called donald rumsfeld according to that procedural order that took effect june first so somebody is lying now we have this new exercise it's given to us by the acting chairman of the joint chiefs of staff so somebody finally spilled the beans it took a while to find it on set on april eighteenth usa today wrote headlined norad had drills of jets as weapons offered never before reported details of nine eleven washington in the two years before the september eleventh attacks the north american aerospace defense command conducted exercises simulating what the white house says was unimaginable at the time hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties cause mass mass casualties well guess what we have just now proved connelly's arise a total liar again haven't we one of the imagine targets was the world trade center all no she said we had no idea the world trade center was going to be used as a target in another exercise jets performed a mock shoot down over the atlantic ocean of a jet supposedly laden with chemical poisons headed toward a target in the united states wait a minute that's confirmation of a lifeline exercise with an aircraft posing as a hostile aircraft and norad practicing to shoot it down in a third scenario the target was the pentagon but that drill was not run after defense officials said it was an realistic i'll take care of that one in a second thank you norad and defense officials say now see this is the moment like i have said from the start on nine eleven that a detective lives for i remember when i was young up and comer working narcotics and i was called up to help some some of the big narcotics officers and we serve a search warrant and we got into a room with four suspects who had six kilos of mexican brown heroin we knew we were going to have a good day one out of four suspects we had five explanations for how the mexican brown got there by the time we got the ten explanations out of four suspects for how the mexican brown heroin got there we got signed confessions that's one of the checked of lives or what the suspects start tripping up over each other and start lying that's the way we fought nine eleven successfully and there i would like every i'm from i mean sorry that's the inspector clouseau coming out spilled beans to numerous types of civilian and millet this is by the way from usa today on april eighteenth one of the most important stories ever to be written about nine eleven numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft whoa read that again numerous types of military and civilian aircraft were used as mock they got airliners flying around as mock hijacked airliners the the statement said these exercises tested track reception brought us scramble interception there we go interception again i love this a white house spokesman said sunday that the bush administration was unaware of the exercise i'm going to blow this one out of the water a minute you're going to love it but the exercises look at this using real aircraft show that at least one part of the government us thought the possibility of such attacks though unlikely merited scrutiny until september eleventh norad was expected to do to defend the united states and canada from aircraft based elsewhere that's bullshit after the attacks that got that responsibility broadened to include flights that originated in the two countries in the very next paragraph the same story contradicts itself it says but there were exceptions in early drills including one operation planned in july two thousand and one and conducted later that the drill that the pogo e mail talked about but the air force said we considered on realistic and we didn't conduct it but what does this story say planned in july two thousand and one and conducted later could it possibly have been being conducted on september the eleventh that involved planes from airports in utah and washington state that were hijacked those planes were escorted by u s and canadian aircraft aircrafts and british columbia and alaska all this is really getting these guys are really in trouble now now if you go back ok i love this in the same story the the the norad statement was quoted further in the same story in this is direct statement from norad it says norad did not plan and execute these types of exercises because we thought the scenarios were probable the except the exercises were artificial simulations that provided the opportunity to test and validate our process of rules of engagement with the appropriate coordination between norad's command headquarters it's subordinate regions and sectors and national command authority in canada and the united states and are there any military veterans in the room tonight tell me any military vet what is the national command authority the president of the united states and his absence the vice president of the united states the secretary of defense the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff now we just had that paragraph from the story below saying the white house had no knowledge about th statement says these exercises involved coordinating with the white house and when they conduct these drills they use the white house situation room and they use stand ins richard clarke talks about it in his book people filling in is the president in the white house situation room that somebody filling in for connally's arise and yet bush and rice are going to say they had no white it happened in their  office take the fifth amendment in a minute and are oh how convenient now i've interviewed one thing that i'm good i want to do the interviews because of my family background i was married before i got divorced i was married in the home of mrs francis gary powers the widow of the two pilot who was shot down over russia and so when i call the n r o i got a lot of things that i can say that opened doors for me and i got a wonderful guy on the phone the cia guys are usually very charming and he was a loquacious and we had a long talk but n r o was running a plane into a building hijack exercise but it was only a c p s command post exercise meaning nowhere plans national reconnaissance office but that cia but how convenient that as that as the crashes were occurring the national reconnaissance office reconnaissance office just happened to be evacuating all of its people from the building already with the fairfax virginia fire department standing by that's kind of a clever coincidence  but i couldn't find any length but here's the key now hopefully some of you are already ahead of me on this if you've been in the military or you understand the military if you assume several different commands are conducting exercises on the same day let's say norad let's say the pacific command let's say the army's doing one there has to be somebody in the department of defense who coordinates all the exercise to make sure that we don't by mistake shoot down a canadian airliner i mean we have done so much to canada i wouldn't be surprised anyway blame it on the canadians it's their fault but there has to be somebody somewhere who knows all of the exercises and what's going on well now we have these five different exercises we have live i want to go back to this because i have to stop here and the reason why i have to stop here is that i'm still writing this it will be in my book but i have received official confirmation from a source who i will not name yet written confirmation because what this norad source did was he went into norad instruction manual that breaks down how the names are assigned to war games each name means something and he confirmed to me in writing that vigilant warrior was quote a joint exercise run by the joint chiefs of staff and norad on september the eleventh involving lifeline wayman a live fly hijack exercise september eleventh being run by the joint chiefs have you heard a word about that since nine eleven to anybody tell you about that  now if i'm dick cheney george tenet george bush well no he's not that smart if i'm one of the top level planners for nine eleven and i want to paralyze i have another quote that will show up i'm sorry it didn't show up in the slide show i just forgot to make it before i went to berlin that it one point they had as many as twenty one possible hijackings in progress and the reason why nobody has been able to explain is because these exercises are classified i went to norad and i went with a long list of questions based upon what you've just seen i said you got to tell me what's going on and norad said these operations are classified and in order to protect the integrity of the nine eleven investigation we cannot discuss any details then somebody else from norad gave me the stuff on vigilant warrior now what is very clear what happened to me on september the eleventh was that they didn't have to be a stand down order issue you put fake radar blips you put planes simulating hijacked airliners in the sky you only have eight of vailable fighter aircraft in the continental united states or as it's called and you're a commander on the ground in your f a a and you have to make a decision where to send them you don't do anything until you know and you keep your fighters on the ground because you don't dare send them four hundred miles in that direction when the real hi jacking might be four hundred miles in that direction otherwise all you're doing is burning up the sky and heating fuel but the air traffic controllers and f a a and norad can't talk about why because the exercises are classified you can't talk about classified material if i'm an air force officer and i talk about a classified document in public i lose my commission i go to jail without a trial my family loses its health insurance i mean military people are trying to do that so now we know how everything was paralyzed on nine eleven and dick cheney didn't have to issue a stand down order which nobody would have followed anyway they successfully confused everything now if you think about it and i know phil burgess here and i'll hear him grunt in a second but i'm sure he already way ahead of it if you think back to the nine eleven hearings and all the hubbub and this is where our strategy has really paid off because i took the strategy from the start that we start with documented lies on the part of the government we keep hammering until we get them into the mainstream press to where you have to keep the suspect talking because the rule in a criminal interrogation is your chances are are getting getting a confession are directly proportional to the amount of time you can keep the suspects lips moving it's true but there was an enormous amount of pressure put on that eventually for somebody to ask about the presidential daily brief of august sixth and some of the other briefings and what  she said there were threats of hijackings we know there were going to be hijackings that's what the president was briefed on oh yeah and john ashcroft said there were elevated threat warnings about hijackings and of course we know that john ashcroft stopped flying commercially and all kinds of that the threat levels were through the roof it doesn't have anything to do now with planes into buildings because who on god's green earth would sanction five different training exercises when the al qaeda threat level was higher than ever about hijacked airliners and you had these people moving all around the country how could you possibly sanction five separate training exercises that would leave you open vulnerable and helpless so the key now is to identify the one person at the pentagon or one unit at the pentagon who would have coordinated all five drills i'm not quite there yet i think i'll be able to get there but it's the joint chiefs of staff acting chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general richard m so i think i've answered the question on the fighters i hope you agree with me  applause just money plays we'll split it with now and i will do it i just need to close with this i don't know how long i've been talking i'm assume all be allowed a couple more minutes what i got was is that five hours i get off the stage or i'm shooting you five ok i just returned from berlin where i attended the third annual conference on this o c a sion on the study of peak oil and i have been writing for two years plus it from the wilderness i hope almost all of you are subscribers i have a wonderful energy editor dale allen pfeiffer who has just been a says he has not gotten anything wrong in all this time and now we look at what i said before about motive method and opportunity on september the eleventh and who had the motive meant means an opportunity give me motive means an opportunity clearly osama bin laden and al qaeda did not the united states government did and i want to reemphasize the motive for september eleventh because it's hitting home very very hard it's going to hit home very hard much much sooner and you need to be aware of this the world is beginning to run out of hydrocarbon energy the day will come when north americans look back on the day a three dollar a gallon gasoline and say those were the good old days cheap gas is not coming back cheap natural gas is never coming back north american cotton is virtually out of natural gas i predicted last years august fourteenth blackout six weeks ahead of time i'll tell you this summer if the weather gets hot we will have three blackouts of the same size as last year at least because there's no natural gas to power the generating stations most of you probably do not know the christian science monitor reported recently as we said would be inevitable i wrote this more than a year and a half ago more than ninety new coal fired electrical generating plants are on the drawing boards and haven't approved coal or greenhouse gas and global warming and all that stuff i just returned from berlin and clearly the stories that broke about four months ago about saudi arabia most likely having passed its peak of production in my opinion are clearly true representatives from exxon mobil b p were at this conference and they lied other representatives they're  very well respected scientists were there the world's largest energy investment banker matthew simmons whose clients include the world bank kerr magee halliburton was there he had said that saudi arabia had peaked we got more confirmation of that in berlin which means that a saudi arabia has peaked planet earth has peaked and we will look forward to nothing more no matter how much money is thrown at the problem at diminishing hydrocarbon energy supplies even as the population and global demand keep increasing i and many other experts including my dear friend richard heinberg wrote a great book the party's over where they're calling campbell others we were clearly of the position that we don't know how the u s economy can be held together even until the election and certainly next year is going to be an extremely difficult year for all of us so in that motive understand that what we're dealing with now is for the equivalent of a hunter a wounded tiger was extremely dangerous the scramble for diminishing energy supplies is on and the u s government made a choice that it would take energy supplies wherever it had to however it had to it has failed miserably obviously in iraq yes iraq is pumping two million barrels a day but the plan was to have it pumping four and a half million barrels a day by now and you can't do that with a sniper behind every oil well the law of unintended consequences on the stage this is a wounded beast that is extremely dangerous i would submit to you here and the reason why i say this is that we have a choice in this movement to how we view what we're doing and it is a shame that this hall is not packed we will make take whatever steps are necessar to see that the hall is packed in washington and we'll address that tomorrow at the strategy session but the question is are we historians or reactive historians and activists behave differently with different sets of priorities time is short our window are short we have at most perhaps until the november election really to force nine eleven into an action issue rather than one that will be being debated forty years from now with what remains of the world's economy by a few iconoclast a guy smoking a joint in southern oregon over a website trying to figure out what happened and we don't want to be there ok we want to change something so we have to think clearly and my suggestion in the position i've advocated from day one is nothing there is no measure of success i am a failure when it comes to nine eleven because the only measure of success that i will ever accept for any of my work no matter how long i work is real change on the political landscape and we have no change yeah so i would encourage all of you and all of your waking hours and all of your thinking about what we do what we do next not to think about what's a good argument or what makes you feel better i got twenty six years on a political battlefield and i've lived it politically i got thirty five members of congress read m committed we're all pigs now and i would also offer you one warming thought from my dear and wonderful friend the former and the next representative of the fourth district of georgia the honorable cynthia mckinney to remind you that she has not forgotten you her primary is in the first week in august and once she wins are primary and she will because denise majette who was a partner who stole her seat from her with republican money and a pac money last year has abandoned the seat so when cynthia