Cover Up

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"THIS ISN'T JUST OUR FIGHT. IT'S AMERICA'S FIGHT."
—Lorle Van Auken, 9/11 Family Steering Committee
Ever since 9/11, investigative reporter Peter l^nce has been leading the fight to expose the intelligence gaps that led to 9/11. Now, in the follow-up to his bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge, he returns with devastating new evidence that the government has been covering up its own counterterror failures since the mid-1990s—and continues today.
In Cover Up, Lance shows how the government chose again and again to sacrifice America's national security for personal motives and political convenience. In its first half, he unveils shattering new evidence that terror mastermind Ramzi Yousef ordered the bombing of TWA 800 from his prison cell In Older to effect a mistrial in his own terror bombing case. Astonishingly, the FBI was alerted to Yousef's plans in advance by a prison informant who even passed along his detailed sitetch of a bomb-trigger device—a document seen here for the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"THIS ISN'T JUST OUR FIGHT. IT'S AMERICA'S FIGHT."
—Lorle Van Auken, 9/11 Family Steering Committee
Ever since 9/11, investigative reporter Peter l^nce has been leading the fight to expose the intelligence gaps that led to 9/11. Now, in the follow-up to his bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge, he returns with devastating new evidence that the government has been covering up its own counterterror failures since the mid-1990s—and continues today.
In Cover Up, Lance shows how the government chose again and again to sacrifice America's national security for personal motives and political convenience. In its first half, he unveils shattering new evidence that terror mastermind Ramzi Yousef ordered the bombing of TWA 800 from his prison cell In Older to effect a mistrial in his own terror bombing case. Astonishingly, the FBI was alerted to Yousef's plans in advance by a prison informant who even passed along his detailed sitetch of a bomb-trigger device—a document seen here for the first time. And Lance reveals the shoclcing reason the Justice Department suddenly ruled the crash an accident despite overwhelming evidence of the bombing-throwing away its best chance to penetrate the cell that was already planning 9/11.
And the outrage doesn't stop there. In Part II, Lance offers an unofficial "minority report" on the 9/11 Commission, critiquing it as the incomplete, highly politicized "Warren Commission of our time." He explores potential conflicts of interest among Its members, from the staff director who wrote a book with Condoleezza Rice, to the former Clinton deputy attorney general who participated In a critical meeting that upended the TWA probe. He
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exposes the report's false contention that the 9/11 plan was conceived In 1996, when the FBI had knowledge that the plot was In motion as early as 1994. And, In a heart-stopping, minute-by-minute chronicle of the attacks, he asks dozens of unanswered questions about the defense failures of that day^from why fighter Jets weren't scrambled for almost an hour after the hijackings, to why the president and several of his top mllitaiy advisers remained virtually incommunicado for more than half an hour after It was clear that America was under attack.
At a time when America feels no safer than ever. Cover Up wili lend new eyes to readers who want the fuii stoiy behind the 9/11 attacks-and Inspire us all to keep demanding the truth.

PETER LANCE Is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter and author of the bestseiiing 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI—The Untold Story. A former correspondent for ABC News, he has covered hundreds of stories worldwide for 20/20, NIghtline, and World News Tonight Also a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Prize, Lance iives on the West Coast.
www.peterlance.com
Jacket design by P.R. Brown @ Bau Da Design Lab Auttior piiotograpit by Donna l^nce
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THINK THE 9/11 COMMISSION ANSWERED ALL QUESTIONS ABOUT ^
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• WHY DID THE GOVERNMENT REFUSE TO ACT IN TIME TO PREVENT THE BIGGEST AL QAEDA AHACK ON AMERICA BEFORE 9/11-k MASS MURDER IT '
WAS WARNED ABOUT WEEKS IN ADVANCE? . ^
• WHY DID THE FBI KEEP THE HUNT FOR 9/11 PLOHER KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED SECRET FOR YEARS, AND MISS DOZENS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO CATCH HIM-WHILE TIME MAGAZINE GOT AN INTERVIEW WITH HIM IN 1995?
• WHY WASN'T NORAD ALERTED TO THE HIJACKINGS UNTIL EIGHTEEN MINUTES AFTER AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS REALIZED A HUACKING WAS IN PROGRESS?
• WHY DIDN'T THE 9/11 COMMISSION'S FINAL REPORT ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT SEVERAL U.S. FIGHTERS WERE CONDUCTING WAR GAMES EIGHT MINUTES FROM MANHAHAN ON THE MORNING OF 9/11-YET NONE WERE
SCRAMBLED TO DEFEND THE CITf?
FOR THREE YEARS, THE 9/11 FAIWILIES-ANO THE REST OF Ti COUNTRY-HAVE BEEN FIGHTE FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT 9/11
COVER UP, AT LAST, WE HAVE SOME OF THE AN
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