Mckinney,Cynthia

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It was around March 20th, 2002, when an email circulated on the internet on afro-american Rep. McKinney, describing her "as a hero in the demand for inquiry into 9-11". Congresswoman Cynthia Ann McKinney from Georgia demanded, that the Bush/Bin Laden connection and "the bizarre fabrications making up the official story around the 9-11", should be fully investigated. Ground Zero Forum NYC (->) immediately started to promote her case worldwide , including a background coverage on her on democraticunderground.com and provided her with the so called Top 500 FAQ (->), already compiled in January 2002. Within days McKinney received various support from many other investigative 911-websites or progressive web projects and was provided with additional new information by Ruppert,Mike. McKinney released a written essay. Her commentary on the "war against terrorism" and September 11th attack had been broadcasted in the famous interview with Dennis Bernstein on Flashpoints, Pacifica Radio on 3/25/02, but her demand continued being ignored by US Mainstream Media. http://www.flashpoints.net/realaudio/fp20020325.ram (Minute 30)

In McKinney's essay she mentioned "the fact that Henry Kissinger (->) and the current new US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad (->), both once lobbied Washington, DC on behalf of a US oil company, Unocal (->), and a softer policy toward the Taliban". McKinney mentioned the "phony" felony list of the US President election to "scrub" from the state's voter roles and the proven fact, that "most of the people on that list were innocent of crimes". "We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, delivered one such warning. Those engaged in unusual stock trades immediately before September 11 knew enough to make millions of dollars from United and American airlines, certain insurance and brokerage firms' stocks. What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11? "

In the following interview McKinney mentioned, that the Pentagon "has lost 2.3 trillion dollars" and noone knows where to find that money: Once again she mentioned other early warnings as "from people in Germany to people in the Cayman Islands to people even, now we learn about the owners of the pilot school". "...But instead of requesting that Congress investigate what went wrong and why, we had president Bush (painful for me to say that, but) we had president Bush placing a call to Majority Leader Senator Tom Daschle asking him NOT to investigate the events of September 11. My question is, What do they have to hide? And then the other issue that saddens me is the fact that the former President, president Bush's daddy, sits on the board of the CarlyleGroup." In some media reports, Carlyle Group spokesman Chris Ullman and White House press secretary Ari Fleischer dismissed McKinneys allegation as a "baseless conspiracy theory". "All I can tell you is the congresswoman must be running for the Hall of Fame of the Grassy Knoll Society," Fleischer said.

But McKinney became a hero among the 911Skeptics. In just five years, Cynthia Ann McKinney, Georgia's first African-American Congresswoman was the only woman serving in the state's congressional delegation, who has emerged as an internationally renowned advocate for voting rights, human rights and the strengthening of business ties between Africa and the United States. She was known as a passionate, intelligent, charismatic and effective member of the House of Representatives. On April 12th, 2002, the Washington Post finally reported, that McKinney wants to have a full investigation of 911 regarding possible advanced knowledge of President George Bush, but attacked McKinney together with AP and the NY Times. On April 14th, 2002, a Poll at Atlanta Journal, which showed that at least 50% believed that US officials knew of 911-attacks in advance, was mysteriously withdrawn. DU-members (->) noticed another manipulation: Apr-13-02, 05:10 PM (ET) : "...the poll is being freeped, +600 votes in just minutes I had just looked at the poll results a few minutes ago, but since those few minutes have passed the "YES" votes have suddenly added about 600 votes, while the "NO" votes have added about 100. But prior to this it was 49% to 49% now its 55% to 44%..." But Newsmax reported on the results of the online poll of Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the "underground"-success of McKinney continued.

Various supportive articles on her circulated on indepedent media portals like Buzzflash, Bartcop, democrats.com, finalcall.com, truthout.org or Commondreams. Her hate mail started getting overruled by positive support mail, but the Democratic Party including former House Minority leader Dick Gephardy disagreed with her and failed to support McKinney until George Bush finally had to confirm prior knowledge in May 2002 (See BushKnew). During these 4 weeks, false accusations against McKinney had been made, including requests of sanctions against her. But as listed on Opensecrets.org, some random (and not rejected!) donations of $1000 by someone named Abdurahman Alamoudi (founder and former executive director of the American Muslim Council) to McKinney, paid similar amounts to George Bush on September 11th, 2001. While McKinney profited among progressive fans of her since the "Bush-knew"-confirmation in May 2002, her own party continued to dump her. McKinney claimed she has been vindicated for accusing the Bush administration of not warning "the innocent people of New York, who were needlessly murdered" in order to benefit the Carlyle Group and other defense-oriented companies.

Later McKinney lost to represent Georgia for the US Election. A few weeks before the US Election, the Green Party asked her if she might leave her party and become a candidate for the Greens as a US President in 2004. McKinney started to support some public green party events and was speaker on various anti-war protests, including the Washington Protest in October 2002. She still wonders, why noone insists to investigate Bush and ask on Pnac: "President Bush was warned that terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft and crash them into buildings in the US... in the weeks prior to September 11, 24-hour fighter cover was placed over the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas" Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/mckinney0918.html