Congresswoman
Eshoo's Reply to Carol's March
(see Carol's reply
below)
August 27,2004
Dear Ms. Brouillet,
Thank you for coming to the Palo Alto office
on August 25th to express your views on the 9-11 Commission
and its report. I always welcome the perspectives and
ideas of my constituents and I take them seriously.
I do take issue with your complaint that
I haven’t been responsive to you. For almost twelve
years I’m proud of the fact that I’ve responded
to each and every inquiry from my constituents throughout
the 14th Congressional District in a timely manner, and
never doing ‘canned’ mail.
What is particularly surprising to me about
your complaint is that this letter is the 119th correspondence
you have received from me over the years.
On the issue of what you believe about the
events of September 11th, 2001, I respectfully disagree.
I do not believe that the attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon were orchestrated by the U.S. government
or Congressman Porter Goss. I visited the wreckage at
the Pentagon myself within hours of the attack and I can
personally confirm that it was an aircraft, not a cruise
missile that hit the building, killing and wounding so
many.
On the issue of the 9-11 Commission, I think
the Commission provided an invaluable service to our nation.
Their bipartisan, unanimous report on the investigation
of the attack on our country is thorough, identifies failures
and recommends necessary reforms. The American people
have been served well by the Commission, which never have
happened were it not for the families of the victims of
September 11th.
I’m a co-sponsor of H.R. 4104 the
Intelligence Transformation Act of 2004, because the tragic
failures of 9-11 which the Commission exposed must be
the basis for concrete reforms to help ensure that such
disasters are averted in the future. A Director of National
Intelligence with real budget authority over the intelligence
community will bring accountability from one person to
the intelligence community. It’s a good bill and
I welcome other reform ideas as well.
I appreciate hearing from you and ask that
you continue to inform me on issues you care about.
Sincerely,
Anna G. Eshoo Member of Congress
Carol's Reply to Eshoo's Reponse to
the March
August 30, 2004
Dear Congresswoman Eshoo,
I appreciate your response to my August
25th Rally/March on your office, with the media at my
back, although I had hoped you would have responded sooner,
since your staff knew we would be visitng your office
that day.
I have visited your office with the press
and marches behind me on other occasions, since I have
been demonstrating, publicly, weekly, in Downtown Palo
Alto, for almost three years; I have made a point of visiting
your office regularly to bring you information, books,
videos, invitations to your staff to attend the educational
events we have organized over the years. I have also been
trying to meet with you for over two years without success.
There has been no acknowledgement of the materials, information,
I have given you during this time, nor have you responded
in a significant way to the questions we have raised nor
our demands.
I do acknowledge that I do get emails and
letters from you on a variety of issues, and it was an
email from you on the issue that most concerns me which
prompted me to organize the most recent rally and march
on your office.
You wrote: “I do not believe that
the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
were orchestrated by the U.S. government or Porter Goss.
I visited the wreckage myself within hours of the attack
and I can personally confirm that it was an aircraft,
not a missile that hit the building, killing and wounding
so many.”
But you did not answer these questions that
I have been trying to raise for three years-
Why was the “money man behind 9-11,”
(who had $100,000 sent to Mohammed Atta- identified by
the FBI as the lead pilot in the attacks), head of Pakistan’s
I.S.I (Inter-Services Intelligence Agency)., Lt. General
Mahmoud Ahmad, meeting with top U.S. officials from September
4th through September 13th? (Porter Goss and Bob Graham
met with Ahmad on the morning of September 11th and headed
the official 9-11 Inquiry)
Why did the Bush Administration seek Pakistan's
‘cooperation' in the "war on terrorism,"
despite the fact that the ISI was financing and abetting
the 9-11 terrorists? (It’s like "asking Al
Capone to help in going after organized crime.")
Why did the military fail to intercept the
hijacked planes on September 11th, in violation of the
most standard operating procedures?
Why did officials react in such a bizarre
manner to news of the attack, with Bush, Rumsfeld, and
Myers carrying on as if nothing unusual was occurring?
Why were the men most responsible for the
military failure on 9-11 rewarded with promotions and
increased budgets?
Who was in charge of coordinating the multiple
War Games on September 11th? Why did Brigadier General
Winfield, Deputy Director for Operations at the National
Military Command Center, ask a junior officer, Navy Captain
Charles J. Leidig, Jr., on September 10th, to stand his
watch on September 11th from 8:30- 10:30 AM, and where
did he go during that time, when by 8:30AM it was clear
that planes had been hijacked?
These are very specific questions neither
you nor the 9-11 Inquiry nor the 9-11 Commission addressed
fully. If you will recall, Bush and Cheney wanted to limit
the investigation and the parameters were very narrow-
they simply assume the official narrative is true, without
substantiating it with solid evidence; they conveniently
omit, mislead, manipulate the story to justify the abominable
PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security, the proposed changes in
the military/intelligence agencies which will increase
the secrecy, unaccountability of government, while allowing
them to spy on everyone and take drastic, deadly actions
against anyone they choose to label “a threat.”
I am not alone in my concerns. Today a Zogby
Poll revealed that “On the eve of the Republican
National Convention, half (50%) of New York City residents
and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some US
leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned
on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously
failed to act.". The poll of New York residents was
conducted from Tuesday August 24 through Thursday August
26, 2004. Overall results have a margin of sampling error
of +/-3.5.
The poll is the first of its kind conducted
in America that surveys attitudes regarding US government
complicity in the 9/11 tragedy. Despite the acute legal
and political implications of this accusation, nearly
30% of registered Republicans and over 38% of those who
described themselves as "very conservative"
supported the claim.
Less than two in four (36%) believe that
the 9/11 Commission had "answered all the important
questions about what actually happened on September 11th,"
and two in three (66%) New Yorkers (and 56.2% overall)
called for another full investigation of the "still
unanswered questions" by Congress or Elliot Spitzer,
New York's Attorney General. Self-identified "very
liberal" New Yorkers supported a new inquiry by a
margin of three to one, but so did half (53%) of "very
conservative" citizens across the state.
I am not a Zogby employee, but I have been
questioning the public about 9-11 in Downtown Palo Alto
for three years at my weekly "Listening Project,"
and I have found great support amongst the public for
my work, and the questions that we raised when we first
marched Demanding a Congressional Investigation of 9-11
in January 2002..
You wrote: “On the issue of the 9-11
Commission, I think the Commission provided an invaluable
service to our nation. Their bipartisan, unanimous report
on the investigation of the attacks on our country is
thorough, identifies failures and recommends necessary
reforms. The American people have been served well by
the Commission, which would never have happened were it
not for the families of the victims of September 11th.”
I and others disagree, and feel that this
is the worst whitewash/cover-up in American history. The
9-11 Omissions Dossier- A Compendium of Unanswered Questions,
Neglected Issues, Distortions and Discrepancies from the
Kean Commission Report will be presented at public hearings
in New York City on Sept. 9, 2004 and at a Town Hall Meeting
at the Manhattan Center Ballroom on Sept. 11, 2004 (see
http://www.911truth.org/dossier/dossier0.html for the
latest beta version). A copy of the rough draft was presented
to your office prior to our march.
You wrote: I’m a co-sponsor of H.R.
4104, the Intelligence Transformation Act of 2004, because
the tragic failures of 9-11 which the Commission exposed
must be the basis for concrete reforms to help ensure
that such disasters are averted in the future. A Director
of National Intelligence with real budgetary authority
over the intelligence community will bring accountability
from one person to the intelligence community. It’s
a good bill and I welcome other reform ideas as well."
I believe that the Project for a New American Century
was quite explicit in stating that, they believed that-
“America has a vital role in maintaining
peace and security in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
we need to increase defense spending significantly if
we are to carry out our global responsibilities today
and modernize our armed forces for the future; we need
to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge
regimes hostile to our interests and values; we need to
promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;
we need to accept responsibility for America's unique
role in preserving and extending an international order
friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.
…”Further, the process of transformation
is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and
catalyzing event – like a New Pearl Harbor.”
The military “transformation”
that PNAC called for required a “9-11,” in
order to pass the PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security, and
your Intelligence Transformation Act.
I ask you- Does this really serve the interests of the
American people? Or does this serve a corporate elite
that profit from wars, and securing the world’s
resources for the benefit of multinational corporations?
I truly believe that if the United States
wanted to stop terrorism, it could, overnight, and save
money, as well- just by stopping to fund terrorists, closing
the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
(School of the Americas) where, for decades, the worst
abusers of human rights have been taught how to torture
and terrorize people. The US is the world’s #1 bully
that uses force, terror, sanctions to force other nations
to concede to its will.
When I ask the public what they think/feel
about the attacks on September 11, 2004, and how we might
defuse terrorism, and how we can create a safer, better
world for our children, and all children; I get some excellent
responses. Most people believe that violence begets violence.
The simplest thing the US could do to achieve true security
for itself, and the world, would be to stop bullying and
threatening the world with violence, and begin treating
other countries with respect.
That means we should not bomb, invade, terrorize
other nations; we should not interfere with their governance
through covert or overt means. We should not aid and abet
multinational corporations to steal their resources, and
exploit their people. We should honor and respect the
rights of all people, and honor and respect the Constitution,
and the Bill of Rights, not trash them or allow them to
be trashed, as Hitler trashed democracy in Germany in
the wake of the Reichstag Fire- when he forced The Enabling
Act (a mirror to the PATRIOT Act) upon Germany. That is
the greatest historical parallel to our own time.
Do you realize that Prescott Bush, the current
President’s grandfather, was convicted under the
Trading with the Enemy’s Act, and was a major financier
of Hitler? The Nazis were not defeated; they moved to
the US and were absorbed into the CIA. Their dream/nightmare
of global domination is being carried forward by those
who seek to “transform” our “Republic”
into an “Empire.”
Goss has already introduced legislation
that expands the CIA’s ability to act within the
US, and Bush has via Executive Order (the day after our
march) increased the power of the CIA director. I am concerned
that in order to maintain power, another “9-11”
might be orchestrated; the “façade of democracy”
cast aside in favor of blunt military rule. I am concerned
out of my own love of life, for my children, for my family,
for my friends, for my country, for my world.
I believe our greatest hope lies in getting
out the truth about September 11th, holding the real culprits
responsible. I believe that means asking and answering
the hard questions; I believe that means impeachment.
You are my Congressional Representative; I would hope
that you would be our ally in the struggle for truth,
justice and peace.
I will do all I can to oppose H.R.4104 which
I term “the Global Police State” Legislation.
I know how the CIA has assisted dictatorships throughout
the world to assassinate, terrorize, crush dissent, and
I don’t want them to be unleashed upon those of
us in the US who challenge government or corporate policies.
The PATRIOT Act has already allowed anyone to be labeled
a "terrorist," and the "Counter-Terrorism"
task forces aren't after "Al-Qaeda;" they are
going after "Peace Fresno" and other non-violent
peace activists.
Sincerely, Carol Brouillet Organizer of the San Francisco
International Inquiry into 9-11, Phase One www.911inquiry.org
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