M. Wright: Bungled Sting Article Updated

posted by ewing2001 on Monday October 13, @02:26PM

Independent 9/11 researcher MP Wright (Oklahoma) continued with his
Boren/Tenet/Edger Investigation.
Wright suggests, that this team was part of a "Bungled Sting Operation".
Probably it was much more- a "sabotaged" war game by another Inside Job team?

Flight 93 Widow Says Husband Expected Aircraft Would Be Landed

MPWright -October 13, 2003

Photos: George Tenet, David Boren, David Edger

The bungled sting explanation should be evaluated from the standpoint of scientific methodology. In science, one proposes a hypothesis and tests it with evidence. If the evidence does not contradict the hypothesis, then it is considered sustained. That doesn't mean it's confirmed; it means that there's no cause to dismiss it.

A hypothesis which is repeatedly sustained in tests with evidence which could potentially contradict it is worthy of more confidence, and is elevated to the status of theory. In scientific parlance, it's silly to dismiss something as "just a theory -- not a fact."

A theory has a high degree of confidence in the scientific community. Of course, if I am correct there are certain insiders who already know that my explanation is true, but due to the politics of the situation and their own culpability as actors in it they are not disclosing their knowledge.

One hallmark of a good theory is that events can be predicted from it with a high success rate.

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Although the book Let's Roll by Flight 93 widow Lisa Beamer existed before August 2003, when I formulated the bungled sting explanation I didn't know about it. I discovered the book on 10/12/03, and was quite interested to learn that events predictable by this explanation are actually reported by Beamer to have taken place.

I have suggested that the four large men who attempted to reclaim the aircraft, after it became known that a suicide crash instead of a hostage negotiation was the hijackers' plan, were actually CIA operatives involved in a sting operation.

The wives of contracted CIA operatives assigned to an aircraft in order to confront terrorists would not necessarily have to know about their husbands' involvement in covert operations. This is an especially necessary condition for the possibility that the mission would fail: the CIA would not want to be blamed.

It is plausible that the men involved in planning for the sting attempt would have to spend extra time preparing and training for it. In Chapter 11, Beamer reports that she and husband Todd argued frequently about the fact that he was spending too much time away from home, ostensibly on business related to his job at Oracle. The bungled sting explanation suggests that part of this time was actually accounted for by training activities for CIA operative duties.

Additionally one would expect CIA operatives prepared to confront airline hijackers to be large, calm, and willing to engage in physical combat. One would also expect them to be in anticipation of a hostage-taking operation -- not suicide crashes.

This is exactly what the August 6 CIA memo to Bush indicates that Tenet was predicting hijackers would do. I have argued that CIA insiders were relying upon this expectation while constructing their plan for a sting operation.

On pages 200-203, Lisa Beamer reports a conversation between Lisa Jefferson, a GTE Airfone representative, and her husband Todd, reported by the press to be one of the four Flight 93 heroes. Jefferson described him as "calm and soft-spoken." She said that he thought the terrorists were going back to the airport and the plane would land safely, and that he didn't seem desperate. Jefferson's most revealing statement about Todd Beamer was this: "Todd was so rational and methodical about what he was doing" (p. 211).

On page 204 the author reports that Jeremy Glick was seated somewhere near Todd. She describes him as a former NCAA judo champion and a "strong, athletic-looking guy at six feet, one inch, and 220 pounds" and "the type of guy with whom Todd would have struck up an instant friendship."

Talking on a cell phone with his wife, he calmed her down after she panicked. Beamer describes Mark Bingham as 6'5" and a former rugby player who had once faced down an armed mugger on the streets of San Francisco.

Lisa Jefferson reports that at one point in the encounter Todd Beamer became frightful and started praying. This evidence does not direct us to dismiss the sting explanation. Beamer was calm until he learned that the other hijacked aircraft were being crashed into buildings. This severely unsettled his expectation that the aircraft would be landed by the hijackers.

Lisa Beamer reports a rather unusual array of talent on board flight 93, which was carrying only 33 passengers (excluding hijackers). She describes Jeremy Glick, Tom Burnett, and Mark Bingham as "athletic colleagues" of husband Todd.
CeeCee Ross-Lyles, one of the flight attendants, was a former police officer.

Lou Nacke was a 200-pound weight-lifter with a Superman tatoo on his shoulder. Lou Guadagno was a California Fish and Wildlife officer trained in hand-to-hand combat, Linda Gronlund had a brown belt in karate, William Cashman, although 60 years old, was a former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne reported as "still in good shape," and Alan Beaven was over 6' and a former Scotland Yard prosecutor who enjoyed rock climbing.

She adds that "the small number of passengers had a surprising amount of aeronautical acumen." Don Greene had flown single-engine aircraft and operated a company which produced safety devices for airlines. Andrew Garcia was an air-traffic controller.

More than a third of the passengers appeared to have some degreee of preparation for confronting a challenge from hijackers. Should this be dismissed as just another coincidence? Beamer concludes Chapter 19: "Working together, they could have probably brought the plane down safely...if..."

I'll finish the sentence for her: if only CIA insiders had not recklessly allowed the 9/11 plot to advance so they could implement their bungled sting operation in reliance on a false expectation, all of these people would be alive today.

How Did Larry Ellison Know About Beamer's Heroics?

One more fact from Beamer's book deserves our scrutiny. In chapter 17 she reports that Larry Ellison, leader of the Oracle Corporation which employed her husband, sent out an email to all employers two days after the attack. He told them of Todd Beamer's death. Then he praised him for "courageous actions" in attempting to recover the aircraft from the terrorists.

Lisa Beamer was perplexed by this. She wrote: "How did Larry know that?" She observed that the FBI had not made any announcement to that effect. His name had not shown up on any reports which would justify these statements. She resolved the paradox with the conclusion that Ellison "couldn't imagine Todd Beamer's sitting idly by while terrorists threatened to hurt others."

Did Larry Ellison accidentally slip a hint of advanced knowledge of Todd Beamer's planned assignment to help obstruct the terrorist hijacking?
Lisa Beamer's explanation for Ellison's apparent clairvoyance would perhaps be plausible if Ellison had already read published reports of a passenger revolt on Flight 93.

Perhaps with knowledge of Todd Beamer's character he could have reasonably expected Beamer to have participated. There is a big problem here: a review of the AP story available at The Daily Oklahoman archive does not provide much support for this view.

As of September 13, there had been no firm published report of a passenger revolt. AP writer Sharon Cohen reported only "hints of resistance" and did not mention Todd Beamer. She described a phone call by Tom Burnett, who told his wife that he and other passengers would try to take action. That is not sufficient to justify Ellison's September 13 announcement that Beamer had participated in courageous actions to rescue the aircraft.

No Allegation of Super-Conspiracy -- Just Bumbling Incompetence and Blind Ambition

There is no claim here that the 9/11 attack was totally a plot of the U.S. government or its agents. The Al Qaeda terrorists were sincere fanatics devoted to their cause. They weren't sponsored by the U.S. On the other hand, the blundering fools attempting to conduct a sting operation made themselves the attackers' silent partners by obstructing efforts to discover and disrupt the plot before it matured. These traitors must all be identified, brought forward, and severely punished now . Americans should not have to wait 40 years for the official apology for this abominable treachery.

Sting Explanation Looks at Evidence in Light Most Favorable to Schemers

One of the most important pieces of evidence for the sting explanation is one I uncovered myself -- the fact that an airline ticket for a 9/11 hijacker was bought at the OU library. Later the FBI, while confirming the event, refused to identify the purchaser. The explanation for their secrecy is most likely that the purchaser was actually working for intelligence to infiltrate Al Qaeda.

I have direct experience to confirm the fact that using infiltrators to participate in crime and then letting them escape prosecution is a common practice. For that experience, go here and see the court documents about FBI informant and agent provocateur William Lemmer.

The next question is: what was the larger nature of the infiltration plan? From there I progress to the sting explanation. This actually gives the benefit of the doubt to the suspected schemers Boren, Tenet, and Edger. The "dark" conspiracy theories hold that the whole 9/11 catastrophe was a government plan undertaken to have an excuse to make war in Afghanistan and Iraq and to implement a program of repression at home. I am not making that argument.

Still, the schemers were trying to infiltrate Al Qaeda for some purpose. By having an infiltrator buy the ticket they were advancing the 9/11 plot. For what? The bungled sting explanation allows that they were trying to be heroic but stumbled on their own incompetence while pursuing glory. If I'm wrong, then they were up to something far worse...

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