Wilkerson: Saudi 9/11 Role Was ‘Verboten’ to U.S. Intelligence
In an interview with 28Pages.org, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell in the Cheney-Bush Administration, described how the Congressional intelligence on Saudi Arabia’s role in the 9/11 attacks was not just classified away from the public. It was made a “verboten” subject in the CIA and broader intelligence community as well, Colonel Wilkerson said. This was enforced from Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff, on down.
Wilkerson stressed that the Iraq War was launched by suppression of the indicated Saudi involvement in the attacks which killed 3,000 Americans.
“Wilkerson says the topic was taboo even within the Bush Administration. ‘It was verboten. It really was. You talked about it at your peril. You understood that the White House was going to close down anything associated with that sort of talk, so to what avail were you going to do it? I think one of the byproducts of Cheney’s unprecedented eleven visits to CIA was to impress upon the most prominent of the intelligence agencies — and of course the Director of Central Intelligence himself — that you don’t want to go there,’ says Wilkerson.”
Wilkerson told 28Pages.org that regardless of how strong the evidence pointing toward Saudi Arabia was, Cheney effectively dampened discussion of it — even within the intelligence community that was charged with solving the immense crime.
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