This is the text of a letter I sent to my Representative on Monday:
I am writing you today in the hopes that I can convince you to join other members of Congress to demand an full, unfettered investigation to the events leading up to the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center.
Although the White House has admitted to having some limited warnings about possile hijackings of US Airliners by al-Qaeda, reports in the foreign press would seem to indicate that the intelligence agencies of our allies provided fairly specific warnings about impending terrorist activity.
Contrary to the White House's claims that there was no indication that an airplane might be used as a weapon, almost all of the warnings included information that terrorists would hijack an airliner and use it against a US or Israeli target on national significance. One warning mentioned that the target would indeed be the world trade center, another claimed that 25 terrorists were training for the attack.
Some of the intelligence forwarded to American agencies were allegedly gathered using Echelon by the BND (German Intelligence). In effect, we were warned about the attacks by allies that were using our own resources, and the only information we didn't receive were the date and time of the attacks.
Even if these press claims can be ignored or proven false, we still have a situaion where the Bush Administration had information about possible hijackings and failed to warn the airlines or airport security departments. The reason for this failure must come to light. We owe that to the 3,000 Americans who died at the World Trade Center during the attacks. We owe that to all of those who have had their civil rights illegally abridged during the past eight months.
It is time to bring this issue into the light.
Respectfully,
Chris Levesque