• A wide variety of standard defense mechanisms designed to prevent such an attack systematically failed on 9/11. Especially
notable are the atypical failures which occurred simultaneously within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the
National Military Command Center (NMCC), and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), all charged with
protecting US airspace.
• Interceptor jets were not scrambled for more than thirty minutes after it was obvious that four airliners had gone off
course and were presumably hijacked. In the case of Flight 77, which reportedly slammed into the Pentagon, an hour and
forty-five minutes elapsed with no interception.
• Missile batteries designed to protect Washington, DC, failed to stop the strike on the Pentagon, one of the world's most
protected structures, and fighter jets on constant alert at Andrews Air Force Base just twelve miles away were never
scrambled.
• By a "bizarre coincidence," two government homeland defense agencies (NORAD and the NRO) were practicing war games on the
morning of 9/11. The games simulated responses to a scenario in which hijacked planes were crashed into buildings. This fact
could explain the government's lack of rapid response to the real hijackings, yet this plausible alibi has never been
brought to public attention. One also wonders: How did the hijackers know the time and date of these war games in order to
time their attacks to coincide with them?
• President Bush proceeded with a photo op at a Florida elementary school even after he and his aides knew that three planes
had been hijacked. He lingered in the classroom for nearly twenty minutes after being informed that a second plane had struck
the World Trade Center (WTC).
• Not one steel-framed high-rise building in history has collapsed solely due to fire. The free-fall speed collapse of the
Trade Center towers, with attendant melted steel and powdery dust, exhibited all the characteristics of a controlled
demolition.
• Just such a controlled demolition apparently occurred about 5 p.m. that same day when, according to the leaseholder of the
WTC complex, the 47-story Building 7 was "pulled," i.e., intentionally demolished.
• Vital evidence, including the buildings' structural steel, was destroyed through rapid removal and destruction by US
government officials with no investigation. This is only one of the many reasons why Fire Engineering magazine called the
official investigation "a half-baked farce."
• An eight-mile-long debris trail indicated that Flight 93 was destroyed in the air rather than in the Pennsylvania crash
reportedly caused by an onboard struggle between the hijackers and passengers.
• More than a dozen countries firmly warned US authorities that an attack on American soil was imminent, some only days
before the events.
• Strong evidence points to complicity in the attacks by senior intelligence operatives from Israel and Pakistan who are
closely aligned with American intelligence agencies.
• A classified Congressional report incriminates senior officials in the Saudi Arabian government, showing that they had
close ties to the hijackers. The Saudis enjoy long-term business and social ties to the Bush family and close political ties
to the US government.
• The US government expedited the swift departure of over 100 Saudis from the country, even as the American public had been
denied the right to fly. Two dozen members of bin Laden's own family, presumably potential witnesses, were allowed to leave
the country without interrogation.
• Insiders with foreknowledge of the events to come engaged in massive and highly profitable short-selling of shares in
American Airlines and United Airlines, as well as other stocks readily affected by the disaster. The public has still not
been presented with the final results of official investigations into these transactions-if there are any.
• A growing number of whistleblowers from within the federal government have pointed to evidence that various agencies were
well aware of the possibility of attack, and were prevented by seniors officials from mounting full investigations.
• Far from being a mere reaction to 9/11, evidence now proves that the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were the
culmination of long-standing plans which only awaited a provocation such as 9/11.
• The official explanations for the invasion of Iraq, such as the need to capture weapons of mass destruction, and to "bring
democracy" to the country, have proven false.
• Within a few hours, the FBI released names and photos of the suspected hijackers although later many of those named turned
up alive in the Middle East.
• Also within hours of the attacks, FBI agents were scouring the houses, restaurants, and flight schools they frequented. If
no one had foreknowledge of the hijackers or their activities, how did they know where to look?
• Far from ordering a full and objective investigation to determine who was responsible for the 9/11 tragedies, the Bush
administration dragged its feet and actually took actions to impede a swift and truthful probe into the events of that day.
It was nearly two years after the events that mounting pressure from the public, led by families of 9/11 victims, finally
forced the creation of an "independent" investigatory commission.
• No one in government has been reprimanded or even scolded for what we are told was the greatest intelligence and
homeland-defense failure in US history. In fact, the very agencies which failed the nation watched their budgets increase
dramatically, and some of the officials ostensibly at fault were actually promoted.
• No person in government, other than former National Security Council counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke, has felt the
need to apologize to the American people for the 9/11 security failure.
• President Bush himself declined to apologize for the 9/11 tragedy to either the American public or to victims' families
during an April 2004 press conference, despite being presented with the opportunity to do so at least three times.
A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Marrs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of North Texas
in 1966 and attended Graduate School at Texas Tech in Lubbock for two years more. He has worked for several Texas
newspapers, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where beginning in 1968 he served as police reporter and general
assignments reporter covering stories locally, in Europe and the Middle East. After a leave of absence to serve with a
Fourth Army intelligence unit during the Vietnam War, he became military and aerospace writer for the newspaper and an
investigative reporter. Since 1980, Mr. Marrs has been a free-lance writer, author and public relations consultant. He also
published a rural weekly newspaper along with a monthly tourism tabloid, a cable television show and several videos.
Since 1976, Mr. Marrs has taught a course on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy at the University of Texas at
Arlington. In 1989, his book, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, was published to critical acclaim and reached the
New York Times Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller list in mid-February 1992. It became a basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK.
Mr. Marrs served as a chief consultant for both the film's screenplay and production.
Beginning in 1992, Mr. Marrs spent three years researching and completing a non-fiction book on a top-secret government
program involving the psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing only to have it mysteriously canceled as it was going to
press in the summer of 1995. Within two months, the story of military-developed remote viewing broke nationally in the
Washington Post after the CIA held a press conference revealing the program but putting their own spin on psychic studies.
"Psi Spies" is now available from JimMarrs.com.
In May, 1997, Marrs' in-depth investigation of UFOs, Alien Agenda, was published by HarperCollins Publishers. Mr. Marrs has
been a featured speaker at a number of national conferences including the Annual International UFO Congress and the Annual
Gulf Breeze UFO Conference. Publisher's Weekly described Alien Agenda as "the most entertaining and complete overview of
flying saucers and their crew in years." The paperback edition was released in mid-1998 and has since become the
best-selling UFO book ever in the United States. Beginning in 2000, he began teaching a course on UFOs at the University of
Texas at Arlington.
In early 2000, HarperCollins published Rule by Secrecy, which traced the hidden history that connects modern secret
societies to the Ancient Mysteries. In 2003, his book The War on Freedom probed the conspiracies of the 9/11 attacks and
their aftermath.
An award-winning journalist, Mr. Marrs is listed both in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America. Mr. Marrs has won
several writing and photography awards including the Aviation/Aerospace Writer's Association's National Writing Award and
Newsmaker of the Year Award from the Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. In 1993, Mr. Marrs
received Freedom Magazine's Human Rights Leadership Award.
Mr. Marrs has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CSPAN, the Discovery, Learning and History Channels, This Morning America,
Geraldo, Montell Williams, Today, Tech TV and The Larry King and Art Bell radio programs along with numerous national and
regional radio and TV shows. He is a former president of the Press Club of Fort Worth and a current member of the Society of
Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors.
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