Andrew Card saying “So far, so good”?
by Mary Maxwell, LLB
I just phoned a buddy of mine. He is knowledgeable about many conspiracy theories. Since the “Silver Anniversary” of 9/11 is nearly upon us, I decided to ask for his comment on that vital subject.
I (Mary) started the call with “Have you got a minute?” Answer “Yes.”
Mary: Please pretend this call is coming to you from a reporter who asks you to tell us something quickly about 9/11. Please try to be precise.
Buddy: “Well, it would depend on the audience. If the reporter is dealing with a group of science-educated people, I would just say ‘Look at Newton’s Second Law of Motion. It’s impossible to violate that law’.”
Mary: Fine, thank you. Now pretend the audience members are not scientists. They are average people. What would you say to them?
Buddy: I’d say, “Come on, Folks, you all saw the explosions. 9/11 has been shown on TV many times. Yet you accept the official theory that there were no explosions? Why do you accept that story when you can see the explosions with your own eyes?”
Mary: Thanks. I like your “How can people be so stupid?” approach. Pretend it’s your own sister, and you want to show her (politely) that she’s being stupid about 9/11. What can you tell her?
Buddy: “I’d say: ‘Sis, look at how many times we have barbecued meat on the grill in our backyard. Did you ever see the fire causing the iron grill to fall apart?’ If she says “Of course not,’ then I will say ‘The government tells you that a 47-story building [Bldg7] fell down at 5pm from office fires that started at 10am. And the only source of that fire was from offshoots of the big fire in the Twin Towers. Sis, you have a right to say to the Government ‘Don’t insult me with this nonsense. I know how my barbecue works’.”
Mary: OK, that’s more than I expected. Speaking of Building Seven, Larry Silverstein openly admitted that he had told the firemen, around 5pm, to “pull it.” Surely that means he ordered the controlled demolition of Bldg 7, since it then fell straight into its footprint. Do you think Larry Silverstein should be prosecuted?
Buddy: “Silverstein was not the culprit. The Port Authority controlled the bidding process [for lease of the WTC in July 2001]. They did it in such a way as to eliminate all bidders except Silverstein [and partner Lowy]. Silverstein was just the stooge.”
Mary: Then who do you think did it?
Buddy: George H W Bush [father of the then-sitting president, “W” Bush].
Dear Reader, I will continue on a later date with more from Buddy, but today’s article is just a cross section of works that I find reliable. Next up is a 2026 book entitled “The Box Cutter Zone” by Mike Palecek. He is a creative writer who has done prison time for his Free Speech adventures but this one can hardly be faulted legally. He lists every name of the decedents of 9/11, whether they were in the airplanes (ahem) or killed at the Pentagon, or the Twin Towers. (Note: just the people whose last name begins with the letter “G” takes up 3 pages.)
The Box Cutter Zone is full of surprising quotes. Here is a sample:
Paul Craig Roberts:
“I’m absolutely confident from my time in Washington [he was an Under Sec’y of Treasury]…that if a few Arabs had achieved this devastating attack, there would have been every kind of demand for an investigation…..Congress didn’t say “How did this happen’?”
Osama bin Laden:
“I have already said that I am not involved in the 11September attacks in the United States. I had no knowledge of these attacks. Islam strictly forbids causing ham to innocent … people…even in the course of a battle.
Commenter on Fox News, in 2025:
“When my brother and I were sent home from school both my parents were home which was odd for a weekday. Watching the same footage on the TV 24 years later I get chills and feel so much emotion.”
Professor Kevin Barrett:
“I think that that ultimately 9/11 served only the interests of extremist right-wing Zionism. It didn’t really serve any other interests in the long term.”
John Lear, son of Learjet inventor Bill Lear, in a deposition, under oath:
“No Boeing 767’s airliners hit the Twin Towers as fraudulently alleged by the government, media, NIST and its contractors. Such crashes did npt occur because they are physically impossible.”
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Mike Palecek is also co-editor with James Fetzer (U. Wisconsin professor of the philosophy of science) of a 2016 book entitled “America Nuked on 9/11.” In Chapter 2, Fetzer introduced Susan Lindauer. Years ago, I read about her and thought she was not genuine but luckily, today, I’ve read her affidavit and that of a Canadian, Parke Godfrey who gave corroborating evidence. Her book has the unhelpful title “Extreme Prejudice.”
She was working for the CIA and came into possession of knowledge, before the actual 9/11 event, that an attack was being planned for New York City and it would involve airplanes and maybe a nuclear bomb. “Thousands would be killed.” Before late August 2001 she warned many friends to stay away from New York. She also made a determined effort to pas the word to several US officials.
The 9/11 Commission Report made no mention of her, but she was invited by a citizens’ group in Canada to give testimony at the unofficial “Vancouver Hearings” in 2012. I now quote her affidavit, abridged:
AFFIDAVIT BY SUSAN LINDAUER
My name is Susan Lindauer. I was one of the very few U.S. Intelligence Assets covering Iraq and Libya at the United Nations in New York from 1995 to 2003. As a back channel, I started talks for the Lockerbie Trial with Libya’s senior diplomats. I also conducted preliminary talks to resume weapons inspections with Iraq’s Ambassador Dr. Saeed Hasan, as part of a larger, comprehensive peace framework.
I submit this sworn affidavit as evidence of criminal actions by President George Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and National Security Adviser, Condoleeza Rice.
This affidavit will prove beyond any shadow of doubt that those officials in the Bush Administration knowingly and deliberately practiced “command failure” to thwart the 9/11 attack. [They caused an] intelligence team to lay explosives through the Towers to maximize damage….
After the attack, White House officials compounded the crime of mass murder with perjury and obstruction of justice in the Federal Courts and the 9/11 …. I also accuse Larry Silverstein of profiteering from government lies about 9/11 to a degree that qualified as insurance fraud. Together with government officials, Silverstein committed multiple acts of perjury in the Federal Court of Chief Justice Michael B. Mukasey, the Southern District of New York ….
To understand why 9/11 was an “inside job,” it’s critical to understand that its completion resulted from opposing forces colliding against each other — one side working aggressively to stop the attack, and the other undercutting every proactive move….
I first learned of the 9/11 Conspiracy from my CIA handler, Dr. Richard Fuisz, in mid-April, 2001. I received a summons to visit Dr. Fuisz at his office in Great Falls, Virginia. We met weekly anyway. On this occasion, he rang my home and asked me to come straight away. He inquired when I planned my next trip to the Iraqi Embassy at the United Nations in New York.
My back channel to Iraq and Libya existed to communicate messages back and forth from Washington, because those countries had no official ties with the United States. Most significantly, my team kept a special line open for intelligence on terrorist activities that Tripoli or Baghdad might need to share with the West. Even under sanctions and global isolation, the importance of intelligence to block terrorism was recognized as a necessary exemption to U.S. foreign policy isolating Iraq. [!!]
And so I visited Dr. Fuisz immediately. He instructed me to demand that Libya and Iraq must hand over any intelligence regarding conspiracies involving airplane hijackings and/or airplane bombings. He insisted that I must warn Iraqi diplomats Baghdad would suffer a major military offensive— worse than anything Iraq had suffered before— if the U.S. discovered Saddam’s government had possessed such intelligence on airplane hijackings and failed to notify us through my back channel.
Admittedly, I was reluctant to deliver such a harsh message….. I made no threats of violent reprisal against Iraq or Libya. When I got home to Washington, I met with Dr. Fuisz, who demanded to know how Iraqi diplomats (only) had responded to his threat. I admitted that I stopped short of delivering his full message. But I assured him that I had requested Iraq’s cooperation.
At that point, Dr. Fuisz became enraged. He demanded that I must return to New York immediately. I must not be polite. I must tell Iraqi diplomats exactly what he said.
“The United States would bomb Baghdad back into the Stone Age, worse than they’ve ever been bombed before, if they discovered a terrorist conspiracy involving airplane hijackings or airplane bombings and failed to notify us. …
As of that conversation, there was no doubt in my mind that the President’s Office and the CIA were fully cognizant of the existence of the conspiracy. Dr. Fuisz claimed the CIA lacked “actionable intelligence” to stop the attack. (That’s nuts and bolts—who, day, flight #, airport hub). But the conspiracy itself was known.
In early May, 2001, I returned to New York and delivered that message exactly as he [Fuisz] dictated….
By June, our focus turned to the World Trade Center…. and we fully expected that airplanes would be seized by hijackers and used as trajectory weapons to strike the Towers.
We also discussed the possibility that a miniature thermo-nuclear device might raze the buildings. … That’s why Dr. Fuisz warned me to stay out of New York in August. Nobody worried that I might get hurt if the Towers collapsed. The CIA worried about exposure to military grade contaminants in the dust or air, including possible radiation. [!!]
Over and over again, Dr. Fuisz demanded that I threaten Baghdad — not Libya — if the strike occurred.
I know from direct conversations with Dr. Fuisz that six (6) months before 9/11, a cabal of pro-War neo-Conservatives at the top of the government was already prepping the Intelligence Community to accept War with Iraq as the inevitable consequence of the strike. That created “motive” and plenty of advance opportunity for any pro-War intelligence team to do the unthinkable — wire the Towers with explosives, … That’s what I’m convinced happened.
As of May, 2001, Iraqi diplomats proposed an immediate solution to the 9/11 conspiracy. As of February, 2001, Baghdad agreed to allow an FBI Task Force into Iraq — to monitor radical Jihadis who might attempt to exploit Baghdad’s weakened central authority to launch terrorist strikes on its neighbors. The CIA made this demand through my back channel following the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, in October, 2000. From the opening days of the Bush Administration, Iraq agreed to show good will towards Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. [!!] …
Republican Policy on anti-terrorism before 9/11…. Our problem was the CIA had to… block terrorist threats against the U.S, regardless of whether the White House was responsive to warnings about those threats— or not….
Throughout June and July, Dr. Fuisz … begged me to hold nothing back. He appeared to be frantically searching for anything to pre-empt the strike. In fairness, a significant faction of CIA and Defense Intelligence urgently tried to stop 9/11. Tensions accelerated to a head on August 2nd, the day of the Senate hearings on Robert Mueller’s nomination to head the FBI….
In our opinion, Robert Mueller was such a political animal that we argued he would throw the FBI investigation into this future attack on airplane hijackings used to strike the World Trade Center! He’d do whatever was most helpful to politicians!
“You want me to crash the nomination hearings this afternoon? Lay a little truth on Congress?” I said to Dr. Fuisz. No. As it happens, there were extraordinary reasons for Dr. Fuisz’s concern. The “chatter” between terrorist cells monitored by the National Security Agency reached unprecedented levels by May 2001, which accelerated until September 11, 2001.
The U.S. Intelligence Community buzzed with warnings. On July 10, 2001, CIA Director, George Tenet, was so alarmed by a classified debriefing on the threat from Al Qaeda that he marched straight to the White House.
A top CIA analyst suggested a major attack was coming in the next few weeks. Apparently Tenet wasted no time alerting Condoleezza Rice in writing. He also brought along one of the CIA officers tracking Bin Laden, who gave Rice an oral debriefing. Former Anti-Terrorism Czar, Richard Clarke strongly endorsed the importance of the report. The CIA officer who gave the briefing said the nation had to “go on a war footing now.”
On Friday, Sept. 7, the State Department issued a worldwide alert— “American citizens may be the target of a terrorist threat from extremist groups with links to [Osama bin Laden’s] al Qaeda organization.” That report cited intelligence from May, 2001 as suggesting an attack was imminent. The State Department bulletin warned “Al Qaeda does not distinguish between official and civilian targets.”…
What was missing was actionable intelligence to stop the conspiracy — who were the terrorists, how many, which airport, what airlines, what flight numbers. I was looking for a name. A number. A fragment. All summer Dr. Fuisz pleaded with me exhaustively to bring him anything at all. He swore that if I could get it, the NSA and CIA would bust overtime to flesh it out, and make sense of it, so that we could stop the attack.
… 9/11 was not the result of mistakes. It was a deliberate execution. Though 90 percent of U.S. Intelligence tried to stop the attack, the compartmentalized structure of the intelligence community made it possible for a minority 10 percent to undercut all the good work and proactive planning of the others….
9/11 was an Inside Job that played a magician’s trick on the American people. All eyes were on the left hand — that would be airplanes crashing into the Towers — But the real action was done by the right hand. The controlled demolition of the Towers using a combination of military grade explosives…. Throughout the summer, we discussed the use of a miniature thermo-nuclear device. It could have been a combination….
I recall conversations where and how somebody could locate the necessary explosives inside the United States—even a nuke. How those explosives could be stolen from a military base in driving range to New York City. We always forecast the total destruction of the Towers in the attack, and predicted “mass human casualties.”
9/11 fit our scenario in all detail. And so, I insist, 9/11 was not an intelligence failure. There was active concern. Despite those efforts, it succeeded because a minority decided to smash any progress by the majority to thwart the attack. They were incited to act by wild leadership pronouncements that maximum destruction would provoke War with Iraq. Threats of war created motive for a second team to do the unthinkable.
… There are so many fail-safes and trip wires in place to trigger pre-emptive responses that it required a leadership decision to subvert the process.
DELIBERATE COMMAND FAILURES IN AUGUST
On my last trip to New York on August 4, 2001, Iraqi diplomats threw up their hands. They’d been warned of the consequences for months if something awful happened. Retribution would be swift and severe. Nevertheless, even with his ear to the ground, Saddam and his vast network of Iraqi Mukhabarat could locate no actionable intelligence to give us. Saddam could not find it!
Instead, diplomats insisted the U.S. was the only source chattering about this airplane hijacking conspiracy. All intelligence reports originated from us, they claimed!
… My next face meeting with Dr. Fuisz took place on August 6, 2001. At the same hour of the same day, down at Crawford Ranch in Texas, President Bush was handed a memo from the CIA outlining the severe threat of a terrorist attack by Osama bin Laden’s network on the United States. I’m told President Bush tossed aside the CIA’s Presidential Briefing Memo: “Now you’ve covered your ass. Let’s go shoot some golf balls.”
…Dr. Fuisz and I decided to request emergency assistance from the Justice Department.
I telephoned the private office of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, consisting of about 20 senior staff. (Having worked in anti-terrorism for almost a decade, our team had all the correct phone numbers to raise the alarms in any terrorist crisis.)
Quickly I identified myself as the chief U.S. Asset covering Libya and Iraq at the United Nations. … Once I had the staffer’s attention, I made a formal request for Attorney General Ashcroft’s office to “broadcast an emergency alert through all agencies, seeking any fragment of intelligence pertaining to possible airplane hijackings or airplane bombings.”
… Immediately Attorney General Ashcroft’s private staff gave me a phone number at the Office of Counter-Terrorism at the Justice Department, and urged me to repeat my message. I did so without delay. I repeated the warning in full detail, and requested that any possible information should be submitted immediately to all agencies.
With those phone calls to the Attorney General’s private staff and the Office of Counter-Terrorism, the U.S. government lost its cover of deniability. … I visited my second cousin, Andy Card, Chief of Staff to President Bush, requesting his intervention at the Justice Department, too. [But he was not home.]
What I could not know, is that another intelligence faction was working aggressively opposite us—anticipating all of the protocols to stop the strike, and sabotaging our best efforts to activate the warning system.
SECURITY CAMERAS CAPTURE MYSTERIOUS VANS
Late on the night of August 23, 2001, at about 3 a.m. security cameras in the parking garage of the World Trade Center captured the arrival of three or four truck vans. Visual examination determined the vans were separate and unique from trucks used by janitorial services, including different colors and markings. More curious, all the janitorial trucks had pulled out of the Towers by about 2:30 a.m — half an hour before the second set of vans arrived.
According to my source, who saw the tapes, no vans matching that description entered the parking garage at that extraordinary hour in any of the weeks or months prior to August 23. … Security cameras caught the vans leaving the Towers at approximately 5 a.m — before the first wave of Wall Street tycoons arrived to track the Asian markets. For the next 10 to 12 nights, the same mysterious vans arrived at the World Trade Center at the same mysterious hour. The vans clocked into the parking garage from approximately August 23, 2001 until September 2 or 3, 2001.
After that last night, they never appeared at the Towers again.,,, The 9/11 Commission was never informed of their surprising presence on 10 consecutive nights up to the week before the 9/11 strike. Video from those security cameras in the parking garage could be the most significant missing evidence of the 9/11 puzzle. My source was convinced those mysterious trucks transported explosives into the Towers [to] finish wiring the World Trade Center for a controlled demolition. – end of Lindauer quote
For her trouble, Susan Lindauer was thrown into prison for a year at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas for a year, without a hearing. Her book, “Extreme Prejudice,” will tell you the rest.
I have gone over the usual 2200 word limit, to 3300, so must quit here. But let me say that Franklin O’Kanu has a new article today about 9/11, that I have not had a chance to read. He is brilliant, so I will link it, sight unseen:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/25-years-later-why-do-so-many-americans?