Terrorism and 9/11

Daniel Ellsberg
Former American military analyst who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. Military's account of activities during the Vietnam War, to the New York Times:

... there’s no question in my mind that there’s enough evidence there to justify a very comprehensive and hard hitting investigation of a kind that we’ve not seen, with subpoenas, general questioning of people, and raising the release of a lot of documents, there’s no question that (D.E. chuckles) put it this way, very serious questions have been raised, about how much they knew beforehand and how much involvement there may been. Is the, is a administration capable, humanly and physiologically of engineering such a provocation.

"Yes, I would say that, I worked for such an administration myself, Johnson, ah, President Johnson put destroyers in harm’s way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had."

More Famous Quotes about Terrorism and 9/11

"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government."
-- President Harry Truman

"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
-- Adolpf Hitler

"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened".
-- Josef Stalin