Bens

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

Business Executives for National Security (BENS) is a nationwide, non-partisan organization and primary channel through which senior business executives can affect national security policy. BENS is located in front of the White House. (1717 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20570) Chairman Stanley A. Weiss is a member of the Advisory Board of RAND's (->) Center for Middle East Public Policy and a member of the Cfr. In November 2002, Weiss released his pro-war article "Axis of Hope: Iraq, Turkey, Israel". http://www.bens.org/sw_ar110702.html 

President General Charles G. Boyd, formerly US Air Force, served before at the CFR, as a commander of Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base (->, Mohammad Atta ->), as strategy consultant to then Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. In July 1998, he became executive director of the Hart-Rudman National Security Commission (->), "which already foresaw the growing terrorist threat to the United States well before the September 11, 2001 attacks." http://www.bens.org/who_CharlesBoyd.html   http://www.bens.org/who_board.html

Larry K Smith, Chief Operating Officer is with BENS since 1992. He was Counselor to Secretaries of Defense Les Aspin and William Perry in 1993 and 1994 and served as Chief-of-Staff for Senator Gary Hart (->) from 1978 to 1982, who received an early warning (->) on an attack in September 2001 and informed Condoleeza Rice (->) on this info, who ignored it. >  early warnings

Members of BENS are Norman R. Augustine (Director Lockheed Martin ->), David S. Browning (Vice President of Schlumberger ->), Daniel H. Case, III (Chase), Rudy de Leon (Senior VP, Boeing), Victor Ganzi (The Hearst Corporation), Richard Grasso (New York Stock Exchange), Frank W. Jenkins (SAIC ->), Paul V. Lombardi (President and CEO of DynCorp ->), Stephen T. McClellan (Merryl Lynch), Philip A. Odeen (->, TRW ->), Peter G. Peterson (->) and Stephen A. Schwarzman (->Blackstone Group), Stanley A. Weiss (Chairman and Founder Business Executives for National Security, Washington DC) and Laurence F. Whittemore (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., which was Prescott Bush -> first company, established with the help the Dulles Brothers, Nazi company IG Farben and the Hamburg-Amerika-Line). http://www.bens.org/members.html

On February 28th, 2002, Josh S. Weston, Honorary Chairman of BENS, testified, that in early 2001, Warren Rudman and he delivered and discussed their "Tail-Tooth Call to Action with each of the incoming new service secretaries and their deputies. Starting with Donald Rumsfeld and Pete Aldridge (-> thermobarics), each of them enthusiastically endorsed our blueprints for action. Secretary Rumsfeld indicated so as recently as last September 10th." The Tail-Tooth Call to Action was a blueprint "to redirect unnecessary and wasteful overhead resources", which had been already used before September 11th. www.bens.org/highlights_testimony_weston.html 

Assistant President of the Tail-to-Tooth Commission Commission is Paul E. Taibl, a retired Air Force officer and former command pilot, airlift planner and senior fellow in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. Vice President of the TTT commission, which tried to "change Pentagon business practices" before September 11th is Kenneth D. Beeks, another retired Navy test pilot who joined the BENS staff in June 2000. 2 months earlier, BENS was joined by Michael W. Doubleday Vice President for Communications, former deputy spokesman for the Pentagon from 1995 to July 1999 and part of the military public affairs operation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. Eric Fanning from CBS National News joined in March 2001 as Vice President for Strategic Development. BENS currently partners with New Jersey Homeland Security.

Linda Millis from the NSA and CIA joined one month earlier, in February 2001 as Vice President for "New Threats". http://www.bens.org/who_staff.html From 1994-96, Millis was the Assistant Director on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Her expertise at the NSA was in intelligence programs management, arms control and Russian military and political affairs. During early 2001, Millis was working as the Deputy Chief of Cryptologic Services Group of the CIA, where she briefed the Deputy Director of Intelligence daily and contributed to Presidents Bush's Daily Brief. Millis holds a Master in Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (->). Millis resides in Vienna, Virginia, the same city, where official hijackers Saled Alghamdi and Waleed M. Alshehri lived.
ksg.harvard.edu/terrorism/experts/bios/millis_linda.html
newsday.com/ny-usprob152367589sep15,0,2383011.story
cjonline.com/stories/091501/ter_wtchijackers.shtml 

Vienna is furthermore home of CIA officers CIA agents Noel E. Firth and James H. Noren and FinCen (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) (-> James Fl. Sloan ->) In May 2002, Fin-Cen started "vehemently" to deny a U.N. report that "Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorists involved in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, received a transfer of funds into his U.S. account which was flagged by his bank", while it was already reported different in the official indictment against Habib Zacarias Moussaoui.

abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20020523_2026.html 
www.bens.org/ www.bens.org/about.html 

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