DoD

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

During the mid- and late 90s, a paradigm change began at the US Department of Defense (DoD). The Pentagon increased their business with private military contractors (PMCs) and became fresh advise by analysts like Rand, Bens or Anser, especially by Jay C. Davis (->) and Dr. Ruth David. From an older GROUND ZERO Forum (->) article at Scoop: "...As learned in the Washington Post, only 8 days after the attack on America, Ronald M. Sega, who directs research and engineering at the Pentagon, called a dozen defense technology officials together to work on a schedule in Afghanistan. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16892-2002Mar25?language=printer

Then, during a couple of weeks dozens of government scientists and engineers at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) "finished" their work of years and okayed the official first use of a new microwave weapon system, thermobarics. Sega was nominated for the staff of Bush only a few weeks before the Sept 11th attack, on June 7, 2001 He was already appointed on August 3, 2001 and started to refine his skills. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/863.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/863.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/863.html 

Sega was the perfect man for thermobarics. He's a former astronaut, who had a master of science degree in Physics. From 1979 to 1982 he was on the faculty of the U.S. Air Force Academy in the Department of Physics where he designed and constructed a laboratory facility to investigate microwave fields using infrared techniques while pursuing a doctorate in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Sega has logged over 420 hours in space. He left NASA on July 1, 1996 to become Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/sega.html 

On the same day, when Sega was nominated for the US government, John Paul Stenbit was nominated for the Department of Defense, too. Confirmed by the Senate on August 3rd, 2001, he is a supporter of airspace and microwave weapons. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/nominations/900.html 

Already from 1973-77, he served in the Department of Defense for four years, two of which were spent as principal deputy director of telecommunications and command and control systems. In 1968, Mr. Stenbit joined TRW (->) and was responsible for the planning and analysis of advanced satellite surveillance systems. He retired as an executive vice president of TRW on 1 May 2001. TRW, led by Phillip A. Odeen (->) as executive vice president and general manager, just merged in June 2001 with NorthropGrumman, a principal member of the Lockheed Martin JSF (->) team. 

Stenbit served as chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Panel to the director of the CIA and was a member of the Science Advisory Group to the directors of Naval Intelligence and the Defense Communications Agency. A perfect combination for future weapons, pushed by the "Big 4": Sandia National Laboratories (->Missiles and Fire Control/Dallas, TX , Orlando/FL) , Boeing, Raytheon and TRW. 

These four corporations, which have been receiving 60 percent of government missile defense contract basically control this country and profited from the attack. "Our government is being bribed by these corporations pushing for Star Wars" - Alice Slater, president of the New York-based Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE). Just days before Rumsfeld was named Pentagon chief, the Space Commission issued a report championing Star Wars. 

The Bush administration is intimately linked with the corporate interests behind the missile defense program. Vice President Cheney is a former member of the board of TRW. His wife, Lynn Cheney, was a longtime member of the Lockheed Martin board, stepping down only as her husband prepared to take office. Bush's appointee as deputy director of the National Security Council -- whom he has also assigned to travel the world to promote the U.S. missile defense program - is Stephen J. Hadley, previously a partner in Shea & Gardner (->), the Washington law firm of Lockheed Martin. 

Another Partner of Shea &Gardner is Woolsey, James, ex CIA director. They all had been former supporters of the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) program, aka Reagan's Star Wars. Other Bush administration officials drawn from the aerospace industry include Albert Smith, a Lockheed Martin vice president, appointed undersecretary of the Air Force; Gordon England, vice president of General Dynamics, named Navy secretary; and James G. Roche, retired president of a Northrop-Grumman division, appointed as Air Force secretary. The question is, who of the real executives of the US Administration had a special interest to let this attack happen to enable a war "against terrorism"? And who else is working in the Department of Defense and might have had some interest to start finally the use of future weapons and the relaunch of a SDI-program? Some information about the DoD staff: Stephen A. Cambone, Thomas P. Christie, Jack Dyer Crouch, Douglas Jay Feith, Diane K. Morales, Peter W. Rodman, Joseph E. Schmitz and Michael W. Wynne. Source: http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/fmfyb6.htm

Stephen A. Cambone was Fellow in Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 1993 to 1998 and a Staff Member in the Office of the Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1982 to 1986. Since July 2002 he is director of the Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation

Thomas P. Christie erved for nine years as director of the Operational Evaluation Division (OED) at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a federally funded research and development center. Christie was responsible for independent analyses of more than 200 major DoD test and evaluation programs. http://www.weaponeeronline.com/archives/2001-2002001_03_15/news/NChswin15177.html 

Jack Dyer Crouch, II was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy from 1990 to 1992. From 1985 to 1986, he served at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency as an advisor for the U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010417-5.html

Douglas Jay Feith was Special Counsel to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle 1982-1984. Feith is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR->). Before Mr. Feith transferred to the Pentagon from the National Security Council at the White House, where he worked from 1981 to 1982 as a Middle East specialist. Like Paul Wolfowitz he is a pro-Israel advisor and founded the law firm Feith and Zell (->). Feith and Zell is part of FANDZ international law group with headquarter in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Washington, D.C. and Moscow http://www.fandz.com/html/fandz.html 

Wolfowitz is one of the strongest supporters for a war against Iraq. Diane K. Morales was the president of DMS, a management services firm that focuses on defense and commercial logistics. She was already Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Secretary of Defense for Logistics, 1990-93 and served in this capacity during Operation Desert Storm Morales was vice president of the S.A.F.E. (Safeguarding America For Everyone) Foundation, Inc. SAFE is a pro cyber-warfare supporter including Congressman Curt Weldon, former Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff Baxter, who acted in an advisory capacity for Congressmen Curt Weldon and Dana Rohrabacher (-> R-CA), both members of the House Science Committee, and has participated in numerous war games for the Pentagon.

Mr. Baxter was invited to serve on the Laser Advisory Board at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and has lectured at the University of Manitoba School of Political Science on the topic of regional conflict and missile defense. Peter W. Rodman served already During the Reagan and first Bush administration. During the Nixon and Ford administration, Mr. Rodman was a member of the NSC staff and Special Assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger (1969-1977). Mr. Rodman was a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS ->) and at the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute. http://www.defenselink.mil/policy/isa/bios/peter_w_rodman.html

Joseph E Schmitz, Inspector General Department of Defense worked as a partner at the law firm at PATTON BOGGS LLP. As we learn from their website, they are specialised in Middle Eastern governments "to recover assets removed by a former head of state" http://www.pattonboggs.com/aboutus/index.html Between 1995 and 2001, he served in senior leadership positions in the Naval Reserve, culminating in service as the Deputy Senior Inspector for the Naval Reserve Intelligence Program, responsible for Command Inspections/Audits, Investigations, and Intelligence Oversight of more than 4,000 Naval Reservists nationwide. http://www.dodig.osd.mil/fo/schmitz_bio.htm

Finally Michael W. Wynne. He retired as senior vice president from General Dynamics, where his role was in international development and strategy. He spent 23 years with General Dynamics in various senior positions with aircraft (F-16), main battle tanks (M1A2), and space launch vehicles (Atlas and Centaur). Wynne spent three years with Lockheed Martin and became the general manager of the Space Launch Systems segment. Wynne served in the Air Force for seven years.

In December 2001 the Pentagon confirmed, that they dropped thermobarics on Tora Bora. The term thermobaric is derived from the effects of temperature -- the Greek word for heat is "therme" -- and air pressure -- the Greek word for pressure is "baros" -- on the target..."