Paul Wolfowitz

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

Paul D. Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense. He's one of Bush's national security campaign advisers and the dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. Wolfowitz served as Defense undersecretary in charge of national security strategy and policy when Dick Cheney ran the Pentagon. On December 7th, 2002, two activists, Saul Kanowitz and Anne Sadler, organizers with the International ANSER Coalition (->) unfurled a banner reading, "Stop the War on Iraq." They chanted, "Stop the war against Iraq, No Blood for Oil." Seven other people stood in silence, protesting Wolfowitz, wearing T-shirts with anti-war slogans.

From an original GROUND ZERO Forum article, originally released at Scoop: "You can't wait until you have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that somebody did something in the past" - Wolfowitz interview with the San Francisco Chron. Thursday, 28 February 2002, 1:38 pm http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0202/S00132.htm 

If anything needs no evidence, than it is the fact, that Wolfowitz wants to replace Donald Rumsfeld, he's even already in discussion. Without any discussion it's a fact, that Wolfowitz wants a war against Iraq. Wolfowitz is much louder than other supporters like Richard Perle or James Woolsey and was even in Turkey working on new allies for this plan. If this is so obvious, then when why not speculate about the possibility that he wanted a war against the Taliban before September 11th as well? Wolfowitz is currently Deputy Secretary of Defense, therefore the number two man at the Pentagon since 2000 . 

For the last eight years, Dr. Wolfowitz has served as Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. Paul Wolfowitz is a good friend of current NYC's mayor Bloomberg, who was his boss for a while when he was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hopkins. From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Wolfowitz served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in charge of the 700-person defense policy team that was responsible to Secretary Dick Cheney for matters concerning strategy, plans, and policy. During this period Secretary Wolfowitz and his staff had major responsibilities for the reshaping of strategy and force posture at the end of the Cold War. For four years (1973-77) he was in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, working on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and a number of nuclear nonproliferation issues. 

There is not much known about where Paul Wolfowitz was between September 10th and 11th, but he was in touch with Dick Cheney who gave the okay to shoot-down Flight 93. Wolfowitz: "in fact we were already tracking in on that plane that crashed in Pennsylvania" http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/wolfowitz-9-14.html 

The question is whether he was in touch with Donald Rumsfeld that day too. According to Veronica Clarke, spokesman of the Pentagon, Rumsfeld was "on the phone" with someone after they saw on TV how the second plane hit the World Trade Center. But no-one started the command to evacuate the Pentagon - why? It is still an open question if he was in contact with General Myers and/or the commanding officer of NORAD that day, General Ralph Eberhart. Army Gen. Henry Shelton, was "somewhere over the Atlantic" en route to Europe when the attacks occurred, and Myers wasn't in the Pentagon, too. "...Myers said he was on Capitol Hill that morning in the offices of Georgia Sen. Max Cleland to discuss his confirmation hearing to become chairman. 

While in an outer office, he said, he saw a television report that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. "They thought it was a small plane or something like that," Myers said. So the two men went ahead with the office call. Meanwhile, the second World Trade Center tower was hit by another jet. 

"Nobody informed us of that," Myers said. "But when we came out, that was obvious. Then, right at that time, somebody said the Pentagon had been hit." Somebody thrust a cell phone in Myers's hand. Gen. Ralph Eberhart, commander of U.S. Space Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, was on the other end of the line "talking about what was happening and the actions he was going to take." http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/n10232001_200110236.html 

What did Rumsfeld, Myers and Wolfowitz say to each other and at which time? On 9/13, General Richard Myers appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was asked some pointed questions regarding the military response (or lack there of) on 9/11. He contradicted himself several times, indicating that in two days time, he really couldn't account for the military's performance. Either this or he was stonewalling. The Senate Committee Chair (Carl Levin, D-MI) offered more than once to take Myers testimony during the closed-door portion of the hearing, evidently in an effort to keep the General from embarrassing himself any further. Myers appointment as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs breezed right on through. General Ralph Eberhart, NORAD's commanding officer on 9/11, testified before the same committee on 10/25/01.

By this time the military officials were all pretty much following the same line ­ the incompetence theory. They also, however, should have been able to answer one simple question: "At what time did the FAA notify you that there was a problem?" Eberhart said he didn't know and passed the buck to the FAA. What was Wolfowitz's role on September 11th? How much did he know on September 10th and how far did he plan the war in Afghanistan before September 11th, together with Shelton and Woolsey?" "...assumptions that went into military plans on September 10th just don't apply any more.." http://usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/peace/archives/2001/september/0918b.html 

As Newsweek found out, the Pentagon, was on high alert on September 10th and told their employees not to take the plane on the following day. But the Pentagon had enough time for the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, who gathered in Pentagon Conference Room 5C1042. This civilian advisory committee, whose members have the protocol status of three-star generals, monitors the concerns of women in uniform. And what was the topic of discussion on the eve of the worst attack in U. S. history? "After briefings from representatives of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, DACOWITS, as the committee is known, issued a formal request for more information on what they deemed a matter of paramount military significance: breast-feeding." http://www.iwf.org/pubs/twq/Winter2002b.shtml 

On the next day the first hijack was already known at around 8 AM. It's very strange, that this information didn't reach the Air Force in time. What did Wolfowitz do that time? Why was NORAD not activated? From the standard line about NORAD: "The mission of NORAD had been to look for enemies from without, assuming that any aircraft taking off from the U.S. is friendly in origin." Wolfowitz, a native of New York and a graduate of Cornell University, immediately said after the attack in a BBC Interview, to "end" states sponsoring or harbouring militants but was speaking about Iraq. "This is not an Islamic act that was conducted. If I'm not wrong, there are only two significant figures in the Muslim world who have praised this attack, Saddam Hussein being one and the leader of Hamas being the other" . Wolfowitz didn't care much about the official version, he created his own one, which still exists: that there are ties between bin Laden and Iraq. Wolfowitz manipulates official statements by Washington and in one case, Colin Powell was very angry about it. On October 7th, 2001, when the war against the Taliban started, Wolfowitz manipulated a letter of UN-Ambassador John Negroponte (who was involved in the Iran-Contra affair) and added, that other strikes against Iraq, Syria or Sudan might be possible. Did Wolfowitz let the attack happen on purpose?