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The Dark Side

the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
May 22, 2015StarGladiator rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
When I first read this book, I thought the basic premise was both specious and highly erratic, the author upholding the status quo, everything very TV-like or movie-like! Ms. Mayer's very own subsequent reporting [specifically, on the torture queen, Alfreda Bikowsky Silverstein, after the release of the Senate's summary on the CIA torture report] does much to refute her 2008 premise. Let's just examine the facts, not the suppositions. FACT: Several months after 9/11/01, offshore hedge funds doubled from $2 trillion to over $4 trillion in valuation. FACT: On the morning of 9/11/01, Flight 77 crashed dead center into the Pentagon's reinforced west wall [which in of itself was most strange, since that was the most difficult approach, and the greatest destruction would have been from crashing into the roof?] killing almost all of the auditing team which had uncovered the unaccounted for $2.3 trillion in DoD funds. FACT: America was attacked on 9/11 by 15 Saudis [the Flight 77 was an all-Saudi hijacking, BTW], 2 Yemenis, 1 Egyptian and 1 hijacker of unknown origin on a stolen Kuwaiti passport. FACT: On that very same morning, the NRO's operations center had been evacuated during an exercise, where multiple planes simulated flying into their facility. The evacuation meant that Eastern Seaboard satellites could not be manually tasked to observe the airspace above Washington, D.C., and NYC. Time to follow the money, not the suppositions at the political theater level.