The 9/11 Conspiracy

The World Trade Center came down during your brother's reign. Remember that. ~Donald Trump to Jeb Bush (Presidential Debate-2/13/16)

Just about everyone knows where they were and what they were doing on the day our country was forever changed. I was at home with an infant and a toddler on September 11, 2001. Back then, emergency broadcasts didn’t interrupt every channel so when my husband called to ask if everything was okay at home, I explained that we had just figured out Blue’s Clues. When he said, “We are on lockdown,” I thought he was referring to his place of business. He finally told me to turn on the news and everything changed. I placed my infant in the crib and my toddler in her bedroom and sat dumbfounded staring at the television. I had never felt so alone and scared in my life.

Things were different from that moment on. Waking up the next day we found that someone had come through our neighborhood and placed small flags in every yard. For weeks after, the sky was clear of airplanes except for the one helicopter that flew up and down the river near our home. I remember wondering what kind of world my children would grow up in. I imagine many young mothers wondered the same thing during Covid.

By the time President Bush addressed the nation on September 20th, we had overcome most of the shock. We were pissed. We came together in our grief and anger. We were moved by stories of New Yorkers helping each other. Signs were posted all over the city of families in search of their missing loved ones. After air traffic was stopped, Canadians opened their doors to people stranded in airports. Rudy Guiliani became America’s Mayor. Young men and women around the country were showing up at the recruiter’s office signing over their lives to fight back against the terrorists who attacked us. We weren’t going to allow this act to go unpunished.

Some topics are more touchy than others. This is one of them. My family was lucky. We weren’t directly affected by what happened on that day. We didn’t lose anyone in any of the planes, or at any of the attack sites. We didn’t know any of the members of the police or fire who lost their lives on that day. No one in my family registered for the armed forces, putting their physical and mental health at jeopardy to fight for our country. The horror we felt that day must have been amplified greatly to those who were directly affected by it. That thought will remain in the forefront of my mind while I wade through this paper. Nothing that I write is meant as any disrespect or offense to anyone or any group of people. I’m just trying to make sense of a thought that I had.

The US Government and 9/11

The assassination of President Kennedy took place over 60 years ago. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and murdered soon afterward. I wonder how long it took for the American people to question the legitimacy of the story of a single shooter in the book depository. Did they question it that day? Or did it take ten or twenty years? According to a 2023 Gallup poll, 38% of Americans believe the United States government was the most likely co-conspirator in the assassination. I’m surprised it’s not higher. President Trump must believe it’s time for the American people to know the truth since he signed an executive order declassifying the records surrounding the assassination.

It's painful to go here but since it’s the thesis of this paper I’m going to dive right in. Like the Kennedy assassination, I wonder how many Americans believe our government played a role in the 9/11 attacks. I don’t mean ‘played a role’ as in our government has destabilized so many nations that terrorists think we’re infidels. I mean ‘played a role’ as in helped to orchestrate the attacks in one way or another.

This isn’t a new idea. There have been many polls conducted regarding the belief that the government had some involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Regardless of the result of any poll, I think there would be 100% agreement that it would be horrific, and unforgiveable, if our government played any role in those attacks.

This paper isn’t an attempt to convince myself or anyone else that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. As a matter of fact, I pray it isn’t true. But for the direction of where this paper is heading, I have to go with the assumption that it’s at least possible that our government played some type of role in the attacks. I’m not naïve to evil, but that level of evil will be hard to accept.

There are many theories about the attacks. Were there really planes or are we suffering from the Mandela effect? For the purpose of this paper, I’m going to stick with the official story that airplanes were hijacked and flown into the twin towers, the Pentagon, and an empty field in Pennsylvania. Many people believe that the towers came down due to explosions. In a television interview that day, Donald Trump said there were explosions coming from the buildings.

What would make our government want to commit such an evil act against the American people? I’ve heard people say that it was their way of stripping us of liberties with the Patriot Act. Was it used to destabilize the Middle East or weaken America? To give them an excuse to keep us in a war for decades? Was it a combination of all of these? If it was, it worked.

On January 23rd, Lara Logan posted the following to X:

GhostofBPH replied with the following:

At the time, I agreed with that post. I’ve since changed my mind. Would a 9/11 disclosure be the end of the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, or the Uniparty?

Even though I voted for George Bush, I’m no longer a fan and see things much differently. I’ve read Joe Lange’s series on the Bush family and wish I could take my votes back. Yes, George Bush was President on that day, but he had only been in office for nine months. Could the attacks have been planned and executed in that amount of time? Doubtful.

The hijackers attended flight school in the United States during the summer of 2000, when Bill Clinton was President. Bill Clinton was also President during the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, the USS Cole bombing in 2000, and many others. As a matter of fact, the Clinton Library claims that the 1990s were the period during which terrorism escalated. Is anyone surprised? The 9/11 attacks took place less than a year after Bill Clinton left office.

Thinking that the 9/11 attacks may have been committed by our own government is such a massive conspiracy and I’m just a person with an active imagination. Like many people, I have a lot of questions that will never be answered. I wonder who would have been involved in planning the attacks. Were the Clintons or Bushes involved? Was the CIA? Were other countries?

What if there were experienced investigators who uncovered proof of what happened that day? If regular American citizens suspect the government was involved, couldn’t members of law enforcement with access to information think the same thing? If they found evidence, what could they do with it? I can’t imagine the danger they would face. What if an honest investigator found evidence that members of the United States government attacked their own country?

The 9/11 Commission

There are probably warehouses full of evidence and testimony. After the dust cleared, I’m sure some people saw things differently than they did on that day. After 25 years, we now have the benefit of hindsight and things don’t add up.

The 9/11 Commission investigation took place between 2003-2004. Listening to the 9/11 Commission Report stirred up some of the same anxiety I felt on that day. Other than that, I didn’t learn much from the report. Obviously, there were gaps in procedures and in some cases one agency wasn’t aware of what the other agency was doing. Communication was not properly shared, and warning signs were ignored.

Richard Clarke was the chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council appointed by Bill Clinton. His testimony in front of the 9/11 Commission left me feeling that at least in some part 9/11 was a war between the CIA and the FBI. Mr. Clarke didn’t appear to have much respect for the FBI and was quick to point out their mistakes. On several occasions, he points directly to the FBI’s shortcomings in failing to stop the attacks. I don’t recall him criticizing the CIA. In my opinion, he believed the FBI failed to heed the warnings issued by the CIA. His disapproval is noticeable in his testimony.

In addition to the FBI’s failures, he also speaks of President Bush’s failure to take terrorism threats seriously. Mr. Clarke published a book and inconsistencies between his prior testimony and what was written in his book and published in media accounts was brought up during his testimony. His book was described as a “rounding, devastating attack on President Bush.” He seemed to place a lot of the blame for the attacks on failures by President Bush and the FBI. As I listened to Mr. Clarke’s testimony, I wondered how members of the FBI felt about it.

2001

After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush established the President’s Surveillance Program which allowed the National Security Agency (NSA) to surveil people within the United States without obtaining a warrant. The program was overseen by Vice President Dick Cheney and was code named Stellar Wind. It was originally designed to collect telephone and email data if one end of the communication was foreign or if there was a link to terrorism, even if they were within the United States. It has been referred to as ‘warrantless surveillance’ or ‘wiretapping.’ President Trump brought our attention to wiretapping when he Tweeted that he was being wiretapped.

The media fell into the trap set by President Trump when they started to ridicule him for using the term ‘wiretapping.’ They weren’t successful in ridiculing him, but they were successful in spreading the message that our government uses warrantless surveillance, wiretapping, on American citizens.

John Ashcroft was sworn in as Attorney General in February 2001. President Bush described him as "a man of great integrity, a man of great judgment and a man who knows the law.” In 2004 the Justice Department discovered that the Stellar Wind program was collecting domestic communications from within the United States. The program was set to be renewed on March 11, 2004, however, John Ashcroft and other DOJ lawyers concluded that the domestic surveillance program was illegal. Around this time, John Ashcroft was admitted to the intensive care unit at a local hospital suffering from a serious illness. Unable to conduct his duties, his Deputy Attorney General became Acting Attorney General. As Acting Attorney General, James Comey informed the White House that authorization for the surveillance program would not be renewed. It was under Comey’s supervision that the Justice Department began reevaluating Stellar Wind.

On his way home one evening, James Comey received a call from his Chief of Staff informing him that Mrs. Ashcroft had contacted him expressing concern that members of the President’s staff were on their way to the hospital to see John Ashcroft. With lights and sirens activated, Comey headed toward the hospital, calling FBI Director Robert Mueller on the way. The Secret Service was ordered to guard Mr. Ashcroft’s door. Comey raced to the hospital and ran up the stairs to Ashcroft’s room. “I was concerned that, given how ill I knew the attorney general was, that there might be an effort to ask him to overrule me when he was in no condition to do that,” Comey later testified.

Although Comey was successful in stopping the President’s staff from seeking approval from John Ashcroft, the next day President Bush signed an executive order to continue the program without the Justice Department’s authorization. Comey drafted his letter of resignation effective the next day, but held off until he could be joined in a mass resignation by John Ashcroft, Robert Mueller, Christopher Wray, and others.

After President Bush met with James Comey and Robert Mueller, he agreed to make changes to the program, although those changes were not disclosed. When George Bush won reelection in 2004, John Ashcroft delivered his resignation letter. Christopher Wray resigned from the FBI the following May, and James Comey left the Department of Justice the following August.

Kayfabe

The term ‘kayfabe’ has become a common term to describe the illusion of a conflict between President Trump and members of his inner circle. The first instance of kayfabe that I remember was between President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. I’ve never believed that President Trump was surprised by Jeff Sessions’s recusal in the Russia collusion investigation. I’m convinced that just about everything that has played out has been done with intention. Nothing was left to chance. Including Sessions recusal. Jeff Sessions is a Patriot, and it is my belief that he completed his role under President Trump and was ‘fired’ for the sake of optics. This allowed him to work on other issues while taking the focus off of him. He seemed to fade into the background for many years. Stephen Miller had been Jeff Sessions policy adviser since 2009 and is now President Trump’s current Deputy Chief of Staff. Jeff Sessions was the first sitting senator to endorse President Trump in 2015, and was very involved in President Trump’s campaign and his first Administration. Their public feud over the Russia collusion investigation, while believable at the time, now seems like the perfect illustration of kayfabe. It was only the beginning.

The FBI

Some of the most memorable FBI blunders of our lifetime happened under FBI Director Louis Freeh who was fired by President Bush on June 1, 2001. On September 4th, one week before the September 11th attacks, President Bush appointed Robert Mueller to serve as FBI Director and he was unanimously confirmed in the Senate. During his career, Robert Mueller served under George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Mueller was the only FBI Director since Hoover to serve more than the 10-year limit. In 2011, Barack Obama asked Robert Mueller to remain as FBI Director for a special two-year extension. Congress unanimously granted the request. This special term ended in 2013 and James Comey was nominated and confirmed as FBI Director. Comey served as FBI Director from 2013 until President Trump fired him in 2017.

After Comey’s firing, President Trump met with Robert Mueller. It was reported that Robert Mueller was hoping to serve as FBI Director again, but President Trump declined his offer. Robert Mueller was 73 years old and had retired as FBI Director in 2013. Hindsight has made me more skeptical of this story than I was at the time.

Reading through media stories from that time is almost embarrassing. The Washington Post reported that President Trump referred to Mueller as a “true never-Trumper,” who had a conflict because of a business dispute. What was the business dispute? Mueller resigned his membership at the Trump Golf Club and requested a refund of his membership fee, and the club told him his name would be put on a list for a potential refund. We’re supposed to believe that Donald Trump sat at his desk going through refund requests at his golf club? Was Robert Mueller mad that he didn’t get the refund, or was Donald Trump mad that Mueller left his club? Are we supposed to believe that Mueller’s withdrawal from the golf club caused a hardship for the Trump organization? Like I said, it’s embarrassing. It was all kayfabe.

The day after their meeting, Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel to investigate President Trump’s role in the involvement of Russia in the Trump campaign. Robert Mueller was respected in Washington DC and was seen as a bipartisan law enforcement official. His appointment was met with approval, and countless people on both sides cited Mueller as the best candidate to lead the investigation. A member of Mueller’s law class said he was the perfect choice. “Most important is his integrity...He is incapable of dishonesty or dissembling...His appointment has been universally applauded, as it should be.”

A journalist who has interviewed Mueller many times said, “Because of the deep respect and reputation Bob Mueller has in Washington, the good news for President Trump is if there is no ‘there’ there…Bob might be the only person in America who could come out, declare Donald Trump and his associates innocent, and be believed by both parties.” Senator Chuck Schumer said, “Former Director Mueller is exactly the right kind of individual for this job. I now have significantly greater confidence that the investigation will follow the facts wherever they lead."

Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation lasted from May 2017 to March 2019. For two years we were distracted by the pending doom that was expected to come from the Mueller investigation. The media was filled with stories of compromised investigators, Mueller’s reported dementia, and President Trump’s supposed threats to fire him. When the report was finally released, it was a dud.

Newt Gingrich told Fox News, “The biggest conclusion I reached after watching Robert Mueller in front of Congress was that he clearly did not have a detailed knowledge of the report issued in his name.” Just as with his report, Robert Mueller’s testimony was a dud. He failed to answer nearly 200 questions, wasn’t familiar with many details in the report, and after hours of testimony didn’t produce anything other than a waste of time. It was all a distraction. In his testimony, Robert Mueller wasn’t dishonest, and he didn’t dissemble. He also didn’t provide any substance to the investigation.

With the benefit of hindsight, we can look back on the entire Mueller investigation as a giant waste of time and energy. What was really happening during that time? FBI agents were uncovered for their corruption and lack of impartiality, President Trump was pretty much exonerated, but was there more?

We were supposed to hate Mueller when he was appointed as Special Counsel. We were supposed to think he was compromised and partisan. Prior to 2017, there is nothing to substantiate that. On the contrary, Robert Mueller was a professional, by-the-book, law-abiding public servant. The doddering old fool story is bullshit. He did exactly what he was tasked to do while maintaining his integrity throughout.

Prior to his time as Special Counsel and FBI Director, Robert Mueller was employed at the Justice Department. During the 1990s, Robert Mueller served with William Barr under the George H.W. Bush administration. The same William Barr who served as President Trump’s Attorney General. Mueller and Barr have a high level of respect for each other and have maintained a friendship ever since. Their wives are close friends who attend Bible study together, and Mueller attended the weddings of two of Barr’s daughters.

The law enforcement men at the heart of just about every investigation involving President Trump were respected for their roles prior to 2017. None of the investigations amounted to anything of substance. They were all good friends with reputations for their integrity and commitment to the law. But we’re supposed to hate them. The more they want us to believe a story, the more we should doubt that story.

James Comey

Of all the people we were supposed to hate, James Comey has gotten the worst of it. He’s the man everyone loves to hate, but it wasn’t always that way. For most of his career, James Comey had the respect from members of both parties.

He joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he worked from 1987 to 1993. While there, he earned a reputation as a tough litigator prosecuting the Gambino crime family, along with Rudy Guiliani. Although a great deal of animosity has been reported between Comey and Guiliani it wasn’t always that way. The two used to have a great admiration for each other. Guiliani was reported as saying that Comey was like a choir boy who turned into a devil.

The Democrats hate Comey because they blame him for Hillary’s loss in 2016. Republicans hate him because they’ve been led to believe he was a Clinton supporter working against President Trump. When Comey announced that there was evidence of potential violations regarding Hillary’s handling of classified information, but he felt that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case, Republicans freaked out. Rightfully so. We’ve watched both Bill and Hillary Clinton avoid justice that would never be afforded to any of us. Democrats high-fived each other. In hindsight, it’s a relief that she wasn’t prosecuted at that time. Of all the crimes Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted for, using a personal email server is at the bottom of the list.

On October 28, 2016 – just over a week before the 2016 election – Comey sent a letter to Congress advising them that Hillary Clinton’s emails appeared in an unrelated investigation (the Anthony Weiner laptop). The FBI would review the new emails. After this news broke, Donald Trump said at a rally, “Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”

On November 6th – two days before the election – Comey again announced that no charges would be filed against Clinton. Once again, Republicans were angry, Democrats were relieved.

Comey’s press statement in referring to Hillary’s use of a personal email server seems like the beginning of the chaos of the first Trump term. Since the Trump chaos was a new thing in American politics and I had no background on James Comey, I assumed he was an incompetent fool. Looking back, that whole ordeal gave the Democrats an excuse for why Hillary lost the election. With the Democrat cheat in place, and the irrational belief Democrats had that she was unstoppable, Comey’s announcement to the press provided an excuse for her loss. It was necessary. She wasn’t supposed to lose.

James Comey had prior experience with the Clintons and their suspected corruption. In 1996, he served on the Special Committee to investigate Whitewater, an investigation into allegations that the Clintons took part in a fraudulent real estate deal. Comey was the prosecutor in the case against Marc Rich and later took over the investigation into Clinton's pardon of Rich in 2002. Comey later wrote that he was "stunned" by the pardon. The FBI released the files surrounding the pardon just one week before the 2016 election. It’s almost like they were warning the witch to drop out. Since she was supposed to win, she didn’t.

We’re supposed to hate Comey. We’ve been led to believe that he is the enemy, however, everything I’ve seen from prior to President Trump, James Comey was an honest, law abiding, respected member of the law enforcement community. Did he suddenly become a protector of the Bushes and Clintons? We know that neither Clinton has ever been prosecuted for their scandals, but we don’t know why. I don’t think it’s because James Comey is a Clinton supporter. As much as Mueller and Comey tried to be apolitical, Comey was surrounded by compromised, liberal FBI agents like Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page. Unfortunately, justice takes time, and the Clintons had decades to master their corruption. Maybe the FBI needed decades to prosecute it.

The 9/11 Suspected Terrorists

While researching the three papers I’ve written surrounding Guantanamo Bay, something was stuck in the back of my mind. Why has it taken so long to prosecute the suspected terrorists of the 9/11 and USS Cole bombings? The delays surrounding the trials are hard to understand. When Lloyd Austin rescinded the plea deal last year for the remaining suspects, alarm bells sounded. Someone does not want the plea deals to proceed as scheduled. A plea deal, without answers to important questions surrounding the 9/11 and USS Cole attacks, is apparently not the way this story is supposed to end. To increase the alarm bells, after it was determined that Austin didn’t have the authority to rescind the plea deals and the military commission hearings could proceed, they were delayed by power outages. It was at that moment that a thought flooded my mind.

Has this all been about disclosing who was behind the 9/11 attacks?

What if the FBI discovered that the CIA and members of our government were behind all of the past terror attacks – including the USS Cole bombing and 9/11 attacks? Has everything – the 2016/2020 elections, Russiagate, Covid, the Biden term, everything – been a distraction while a prosecution of those responsible for the terror attacks has been built? What if John Ashcroft, Robert Mueller, James Comey, and many others have been building a case against the CIA and the government for decades? Do the suspected 9/11 terrorists at Guantanamo Bay have evidence that our government was behind the attacks?

Why has John Brennan been more quiet than usual? Where is James Clapper? Why was John Ratcliffe confirmed as CIA Director without any controversy or argument, unlike the confirmations of Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and others? Why don’t we hear news about John Ratcliffe or the CIA?

The shocked expressions on the faces of Jeb and Laura Bush at George H.W.’s funeral make me wonder if “the envelopes” contained information concerning the exposure of past Presidents in the terror attacks.

More Comey Kayfabe

The kayfabe didn’t end with James Comey. It’s now spread to his daughter, Maurene. Maurene Comey is an attorney at the Southern District of New York. The same SDNY that employed her father and Rudy Giuliani. She’s been attacked on social media, and we’re supposed to believe that she, like her father, is trying to destroy President Trump and his goal of making America great again. The disinformation campaign is real and it’s important we use discernment.

Maurene Comey is one of the lead prosecutors in the Ghislaine Maxwell case. She also worked on the Jeffrey Epstein case. While everyone is distracting us with the delay in the release of the Epstein files, we should remember that Maurene Comey was not and has not been removed from the Epstein or Maxwell case, even after President Trump was elected and Pam Bondi became Attorney General. On the contrary, in December, Maurene filed a notice with the United States District Court that she had joined the prosecutors’ team in the ongoing case against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Not only was she not fired, she was added to what can probably be considered as the music industry’s version of the Epstein honeypot case.

James Comey’s daughter is one of the lead prosecutors in the Epstein/Maxwell/Diddy cases. We’re supposed to hate her too. It’s not working for me.

It’s long been suspected that the Clintons were connected to Epstein and Maxwell. Who were they working for? How would they be connected to the 9/11 attacks? This portrait reportedly found at Epstein’s home may provide a clue:

There is something else about James Comey that makes me skeptical of the push to hate him. As I’ve written in my other papers, I’m expecting exposure on a massive scale. The American people need to know what they’ve done to us so that we never allow it to happen again. There has to be a monumental, historical record so that “We Will Never Forget.”

In a 2015 speech at the Holocaust Museum, James Comey gave a speech in which he said, “I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history.” He went on to speak of the horrific display of inhumanity. Wouldn’t the involvement of the United States government in the 9/11 attacks also be a horrific display of humanity? In college, James Comey majored in chemistry and religion and was born into an Irish Catholic family. When describing the Holocaust he said, “How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God? ... How could there possibly be meaning in life, when so many lives were snuffed out in such a fashion?” He goes on to say that he has asked those questions his entire life including while he was standing in the pit at Ground Zero in early 2002.

Comey said that he requires every new FBI agent to go to the Holocaust Museum. In explaining why he does so, he said:

“I want them to learn about abuse of authority on a breathtaking scale. But I want them to confront something more painful and more dangerous: I want them to see humanity and what we are capable of.

I want them to see that, although this slaughter was led by sick and evil people, those sick and evil leaders were joined by, and followed by, people who loved their families, took soup to a sick neighbor, went to church and gave to charity.

Good people helped murder millions. And that’s the most frightening lesson of all — that our very humanity made us capable of, even susceptible to, surrendering our individual moral authority to the group, where it can be hijacked by evil. Of being so cowed by those in power. Of convincing ourselves of nearly anything.”

James Comey felt it was important to require his agents to confront the atrocities of the Holocaust, just as the Allied governments required of the Germans after World War II. Just as I believe Americans will be required to confront the atrocities of our own government.

When this war is over, it is my sincere hope that the people who sacrificed their reputations – their lives – to save our country are recognized and rewarded for that. History is written by the victors. Those who were attacked and smeared as they saved our country must be celebrated for their patriotism in bringing down the treasonous bastards in our government.