Fourteen years after the 9/11 catastrophe, the Bush administration cover-up of why the terrorist attacks were carried out despite the White House, CIA and FBI being repeatedly warned of them still holds. Not only has the final word not come out about this malfeasance of enormous and arguably criminal proportions, hardly any word about it has.
The mainstream media has been complicitous in ignoring this cover-up and ancillary efforts to hide the truth, which is not to be confused with the rantings of so-called 9/11 Truthers but rather an effort to hide the serial negligence and incompetence that characterized the government response before, during and after the attacks. The Obama administration has shown no interest in trying to penetrate this veil of silence.
Fourteen years after 19 suicidal hijackers “pulled off a geopolitical magic trick of the first order,” as one pundit astutely put it, America is less vulnerable, but only if you take a narrow view.
Osama bin Laden had been denied his caliphate long before his assassination in May 2011, but Al Qaeda remains a dangerous if diminished force, and then there is ISIS. In the years since the attacks, the American national security state has grown immense and out of all proportion to what is realistically needed. Hundreds of thousands of innocents have died and nations have been destroyed. Then there was the Bush Torture Regime.
Pundits declared that Bin Laden’s death finally brought closure to the families of the 3,000 9/11 victims and the U.S. as a whole, but because of the continuing government cover-up and the news media’s complicity in it, that is a convenient if tragic fiction.
Go to Kiko’s House (kikoshouse.blogspot.com) for an analysis of the 9/11 cover-up and its implications.
