Robert Bridge – Strategic Culture July 4, 2021
One question that many people ask with regards to the events of September 11 was why the U.S. Air Force went missing in action for over 90 minutes as four lumbering commercial jets traveled around American airspace at will. Now with the death of Donald Rumsfeld, 88, the world may never know.
Prior to the attacks of 9/11, a mosquito couldn’t penetrate U.S. airspace over Washington, D.C. without being intercepted or swatted down. So what went wrong that fateful Tuesday morning? For an answer to that question it is necessary to look at the actions and non-actions of then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, second in military command only behind President George W. Bush, who was out of the loop at the time, visiting a class of elementary school students down in Florida.
Rumsfeld, as Pentagon chief, was in charge of the National Military Command Center [NMCC], which was responsible for coordinating with the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] in the event of a hijacking. But when Rumsfeld’s presence was needed more than ever before in his career, he went missing in action. So what exactly was Donald Rumsfeld doing on the morning of September 11?
According to the 9/11 Commission Report, around 9 a.m., just after American Airlines Flight 11 had slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, “Secretary Rumsfeld was having breakfast at the Pentagon with a group of members of Congress. He then returned to his office for his daily intelligence briefing. The Secretary was informed of the second strike in New York [9:03 am] during the briefing; he resumed the briefing while awaiting more information.”
Various individuals pleaded with the Defense Secretary to cancel his morning appointments after news that a second plane had slammed into the World Trade Center. Yet Rumsfeld rejected their desperate appeals. The first person to meet with Rumsfeld after it was clear America was under attack was CIA agent, Denny Watson, who was responsible for giving Defense Secretary his intelligence briefing each morning. At 9:03 a.m., Watson was in the anteroom of Rumsfeld’s office where she witnessed the second plane hit the South Tower live on television. Moments later, she is called into the office and, clearly aware there are more pressing matters at hand, doesn’t bother to remove the President’s Daily Brief [PDB] from her briefcase. “Sir, you just need to cancel this,” she tells Rumsfeld upon entering the office, as cited in David Priess’s book, ‘The President’s Book of Secrets’. “You’ve got more important things to do.” Rumsfeld, however, insists on going ahead with the meeting. “No, no, we’re going to do this,” he tells her.
An incredulous Watson has a seat as the Secretary of Defense flips through the PDB.
Watson was not the only person who tried to impress upon Rumsfeld the urgency of the moment. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Victoria Clarke, wrote in her 2006 book Lipstick on a Pig that she went directly to Rumsfeld’s office after the second plane hit. “A couple of us had gone into… Secretary Rumsfeld’s office, to alert him to that, tell him that the crisis management process was starting up. He wanted to make a few phone calls.” Rumsfeld reportedly told Clarke to report to the Executive Support Center (ESC) and wait for him. Clarke would wait a long time. Yet that was not the only emergency meeting Rumsfeld failed to attend on the morning of September 11.
Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (L) listens to Dr. Dov Zakheim (R), comptroller for the Department of Defense, as he testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations 07 May 2002 on Capitol Hill. Zakheim is viewed by many as the prime architect behind the events of 9/11. Click to enlarge
The acting-Deputy Director of the National Military Command Center, Captain Charles Leidig, who was substituting for Brigadier General Montague Winfield on this very morning, called an emergency ‘significant event’ conference (SIEC). According to the Commission Report, the meeting “began at 9:29, with a brief recap: two aircraft had struck the World Trade Center…” Now if that summary failed to get Rumsfeld out of his office then clearly nothing would.
At 9:37 a.m., eight minutes after Captain Leidig had called the emergency response meeting, the Pentagon was rocked by what numerous witnesses said felt like a bomb detonating inside of the complex. The Commission Report briefly describes what action Rumsfeld took next: “After the Pentagon was struck, Secretary Rumsfeld went to the parking lot to assist with rescue efforts.” Now just try and rationalize that decision.
Rumsfeld, the highest ranking commander of the U.S. military aside from the President of the United States, has taken it upon himself to inspect the crash site and assist with the search and rescue efforts. A quaint, touching story that the media happily devoured, and the Commission Report completely ignored, but an altogether implausible one. That is not to deny the claim, however, that Rumsfeld was on the front lawn of the Pentagon assisting with the rescue efforts. Indeed, there are photographs showing the Defense Secretary, with a security detail at his side, doing exactly that.
Paul Wolfowitz, in an interview with Vanity Fair, spoke glowingly about how his boss responded to the emergency: “He went charging out and down to the site where the plane had hit, which is what I would have done if I’d had my wits about me, which may or may not have been a smart thing to do, but it was. Instead, the next thing we heard was that there’d been a bomb and the building had to be evacuated. Everyone started streaming out of the building in a quite orderly way.”
So Wolfowitz is somehow of the opinion that Rumsfeld abandoning his command post and dashing outside to the Pentagon blast site, where more attacks could have been forthcoming, was the best course of action. The media papering over Rumsfeld’s disastrous actions did not stop there.
In the New York Times, journalist Andrew Cockburn provided a breathless account of Rumsfeld, the military man of impetuous action, as he inexplicably traversed about two miles around the Pentagon – each side of the Pentagon complex is around the length of three football fields – to inspect the damage site and help the wounded instead of leading the nation at its most critical hour. Brace yourself because this is classic.
“There were the flames, and bits of metal all around,” Cockburn writes, quoting Officer Aubrey Davis of the Pentagon police, who served as Rumsfeld’s personal bodyguard during this mindless morning jog. “The secretary picked up one of the pieces of metal. I was telling him he shouldn’t be interfering with a crime scene when he looked at some inscription on it and said, ‘American Airlines.’ Then someone shouted, ‘Help, over here,’ and we ran over and helped push an injured person on a gurney over to the road.”
Cockburn proceeds to pin media laurels on Rumsfeld’s chest when what the Pentagon chief really deserved was a military tribunal: “[T]hose few minutes made Rumsfeld famous, changed him from a half-forgotten twentieth-century political figure to America’s twenty-first-century warlord. On a day when the president was intermittently visible, only Rumsfeld, along with New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, gave the country an image of decisive, courageous leadership… Over time, the legend grew. One of the staffers in the office later assured me that Rumsfeld torn his shirt into strips to make bandages for the wounded …”
Keep in mind, Rumsfeld was paid to serve as chief of the military, not as a nurse.
Rumsfeld returned to the Pentagon building by 10 o’clock and despite desperate pleas from staff members, he continued to avoid the command center as if it were a leper colony. Instead, he went back to his office where he had a phone conversation with President Bush, though, as Cockburn reported, “neither man could recall what they discussed.”
Rumsfeld did not make it to the command center until 10:30 a.m., which, by that time, was too late to do anything of consequence, except to have a phone conversation with Dick Cheney, who was holed up in the basement of the White House.
As the authors of the Commission Report noted, “Secretary Rumsfeld told us he was just gaining situational awareness when he spoke with the Vice President at 10:39. His primary concern was ensuring that the pilots had a clear understanding of their rules of engagement.” Well, that concern arose about two hours too late. Rumsfeld’s presence at this point was no longer even symbolic. The emergency, for all intent and purposes, was already over. Now it was up to the media to twist this unforgivable dereliction of duty into some sort of act of heroism. And it was only too happy to comply.
He’s dead at 88 and whatever he profited is now gone for him, but history will remember him as a nasty piece of work for many times longer than he actually lived. With what those savages in the Bush and Blair regimes did to the Middle East they could write an epilogue to the bible in 1,000 years or so, long after Israel is run out of the area, the oil age is over and the troubles caused there calm down.
We all like to think we will leave a legacy when we die
Donald Rumsfeld has given his name to ” Rumsfelding”
which the cockney dictionary says quote
” is bare faced lies, or to lie continually or to lie in the face of controversy”
As I remember, there was a story about some military type repeatedly reporting to rump-felt to the effect that “the MISSILE is x miles out” and asking “does the order still stand?”, only to receive abusive replies confirming that he (the military type) had his orders and was not authorised to deviate from them.
Every member of the Bush administration knew what was planned for that day, and were willing accomplices at the very least, if not the actual planners behind the Mossad attack.
Why were the “confiscated” (=stolen) security videos from nearby sites never released if they had nothing to hide?
Rumsfeld had the day off. Dick Cheney was runing the ‘show’.
Fancy, Rumsfeld picked up a piece of metal from the Pentagon lawn and it had American Airlines written on it
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“There were the flames, and bits of metal all around,” Cockburn writes, quoting Officer Aubrey Davis of the Pentagon police, who served as Rumsfeld’s personal bodyguard during this mindless morning jog. “The secretary picked up one of the pieces of metal. I was telling him he shouldn’t be interfering with a crime scene when he looked at some inscription on it and said, ‘American Airlines.’ Then someone shouted, ‘Help, over here,’ and we ran over and helped push an injured person on a gurney over to the road.”
No, he was guilty of treason sedition, murder, crimes against humanity, genocide, conspiracy, collusion, theft, obstruction of justice, lying to authorities, lying under oath….
You know….a typical politician on a typical day who lived a long and happy, healthy life on the stupid tax-payer’s dime.
Had a talk with a client who wears a mask. I asked; ‘So….who do you ‘think’ (was told to think) did 9/11 now, after 20 years?’
“Oh. The Saudis did it”.
“We know our program is complete when EVERYTHING the America public……….”
The truth will never come out, regarding 9/11, well certainly not with the current system.
People do speak of it coming out, after the last individual involved in the deception has died, but again, this is incorrect. For the truth to get out, that the government worked with other world governments, armed forces and security personnel, to bring about a terrorist act, on home soil, upon their own people, would completely destroy all confidence in the public for any form of government. It would be an own goal and one that would lose them the match.
What came about with the USS Liberty? Nothing. And nothing will come about of it either. It won’t be long before the last survivor dies off and this is buried, forgotten, like the Holodomor of 1932, while crimes against jews will be, ever more, promoted by academia and the msm.
I’ve read so much about 9/11, watched so many videos to get me to the point that I no longer watch or read any more to do with it. It’s not that I’m not interested; I just haven’t anything else to really learn on it. All one really needs to know is that it was a crime, against the world’s people (war in the middle east aftermath and deaths of many foreign nationals in New York), carried out by the US, UK and Israeli governments, with multiple other governments and security services involved, covered up by those governments, academia and the msm. It was the event that set the agenda of the world communist state in motion and subsequent depopulation agenda that is currently on going.
No one will ever be brought to justice over this. Those responsible will die, knowing that nothing will ever happen to them.
That evil man is dead. What is important is to get the truth out on 9-11. Thousands of citizens of various countries have died directly and indirectly due to the official (lie) narrative, thousands more affected via displacement from their homes and lands and millions are affected with the changes to the flight rules. Where Donald Rumsfeld is heading now should be of no interest to any of us living, as we cannot do anything about his trip down there. I just hope the truth of what happened is published as soon as possible, to give peace to those still living and mourning their loss and to punish those “bstads” that committed these crimes.
I strongly believe it was because of 9/11 in the pipeline that the Republicans impeached Bill Clinton in the hope the smut-show would finish the Democrat chances of winning the election in November 2000. Then when Gore still won it they had to go in and actually steal it from him in Florida – not just to keep 9/11 on track and keep the fighter jets away from New York (they couldn’t do that if Gore was President), but also because it’s likely the many US security services would have uncovered their treasonous plot. In America treason is still a capital offence, and if the totalitarian nature of the neo-cons had been stopped before they could turn America into a military-police state they may well have been tried and executed.
The fact remains someone gave the order for the American military to stand down moments after those planes entered forbidden airspace and the American military stood down. I think he might be the man you need to be questioning don’t you?
Clearly, Rumsfeld was in on the 911 plot. Not all in the Shrub Bush administrations were criminal filth……….but, Rumsfeld was criminal filth, along with Cheney, Shrub, Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle and
many others. The success of the 911 HOAX is the reason the USA is now under attack by Communist Satanists. Israel did 911. Shrub and his criminals helped the 911 attacks happen, and then covered it up.
Rumsfeld and Cheney came into power under Nixon in the late sixties, working as a team on setting up American inner cities to be incubators of the neo-bolshevism now sweeping America. The world stage recycles their cheesiest actors whenever branded and proven people are needed to play sensitive trustee roles.
The Pentagon probably got rigged with explosives during its makeover in the accounting section that was damaged. The whole accounting department connection with the missing trillions on Sept. 10, was a rich screenplay right out of Hollywood. The passenger list of Flt 77 with some of the accounting department and “Mary Olson” supposedly on board was also “rich” imagination. What’s more rich fiction, Mr. Olson’s new wife, same as the old wife.
You can’t make this stuff up, but SOMEONE can.
When you consider who is paying the piper around the world then “rich” certainly fits the description.
One last rich ‘Don Felder’ tidbit from the Pentagon drama of 9/11 was a story I read somewhere of Rummie surveying an airliner nose cone in the inner sanctum of the Pentagon structure after it had supposedly pierced through several super thick rings of reinforced concrete and hardfaced limestone. Rummie gazed upon it meaningfully.
Yes friends, you ridicule America but think about this, that airliner nose section was ordinary fragile plastic and aluminum crap and it held together without a scratch. The outside of the building got slammed with two big engines-not a scratch. America’s kind of like a miracle.
To this question? Was Donald Rumsfeld Guilty of ‘Dereliction of Duty’ as Pentagon Chief on 9/11?
I have another question ?? Do Bears crap in the Forest ?
the truth is out by hundret investigatives
in internet from Bollyn to Kalezow . one
can still find it in spite of growing censorship.
same with FD Roosevelts Pearl Harbour fraud,
Marilyn Monroe death, Bob + JF Kennedy murder
and Tonkin incident and there are shurely many
more US tricks in history , we dont need any
government manipulated stories .
Rumsfeld was a traitor as was Bush and his merry administration.
Rumsfeld dereliction of duty? What a laugh, he is one of the main protagonists in the false flag attack, he is a damn deep state Jew agent doing the dirty work for the Wrathschilds, a mole. He orchestrated the attack with Dick Cheney and the Mossad bomb crew.
Not dereliction of duty, he is guilty of treason, and should be tried in absentia as such.
Remember he was at the Bush ranch in Texas when they told Tim Osama and the Taliban crew that they could move the United States to bomb Afghanistan BEFORE 9-11-2001.
The day before 911 he gave a speech about missing 2.3 trillion at the Pentacon. Uh huh. every penny is accounted for in government spending, and I know as I used to have to fill out the damn forms to get a damn pencil.
They were not missing one penny, the monies were diverted to black antigrav triangles, drug running, covert operations, Israel nuclear weapons. Then the next day the investigation into the missing monies was the target of the AGM-86 drone that smashed into the building. Rumsfeld was part of this coverup, on his orders that missile flew from a Naval ship or sub in the alantic just off the coast.
RUMSFELD IS GUILTY OF TREASON
The 5 dancing israelis should be extradited from Israel and put on trial
the whole show leads back to nutenyahu
nutty is the man we want