A Smoking Gun, Disinformation, or Just a Prank?

For starters, read this article from American Free Press on Rense: http://www.rense.com/general63/TWIN.HTM.

The article alleges that a Timothy McNiven has claimed the U.S. Army devised a plan in 1976 to take down the World Trade Center using passenger jets and even goes so far as to say box cutters were mentioned in the plan. He is supposedly a "a 29-year U.S. Defense Department operative still under contract with the government."

Well, I tried to find some information on this Timothy McNiven. First off, he is apparently involved in the Mariani vs. Bush lawsuit. Okay, I found Ellen Mariani's complaint (full text) with mention of McNiven:

51. Plaintiff’s basis for alleging Defendants had prior knowledge “terrorists” could highjack commercial aircraft and attack the United States is not only due to Defendant GWB’s continued withholding of facts and public records necessary for the “911 Commission” to perform its public duty, but, supported by the sworn affidavit of Timothy Stuart McNiven, former United States Army participant in a 1975 Congressional funded military study which purpose was to “identify security lapses and submit corrective actions” to Congress. (See Exhibit “B”).24

52. Based upon review of Affiant McNiven’s sworn statement Plaintiff asserts Defendant USA, et al., charged with defending America had prior knowledge before “911” that the events of this infamous day in American history could take place and did. Hence, Defendant USA’s failure to implement the findings of the study was grossly/criminally negligent and Defendant’s “failing to prevent” the attacks of “911” raises other serious national security and public trust matters important for Plaintiff to obtain justice in this case. Affiant McNiven’s testimony and the chilling similarities of the study’s scenarios to the actual events of “911,” support a basis Defendants were grossly/criminally negligent in failing to prevent “911.” Affiant McNiven’s testimony also provides the “nexus” to include Defendant George H. Bush, Sr., (hereinafter “Defendant GHB”) as a critical party to this litigation as Defendant GHB as CIA Director at the time of the study and reasons for its not being implemented are very relevant for Plaintiff to find the answers as to why her husband was murdered on “911.” Plaintiff believes, Defendants’ GWB and his father, GHB, hold the answers for the entire nation to be informed of the truth as to “911” and why it occurred and was not prevented.25

53. Plaintiff asserts the facts and circumstances as set forth in Affiant McNiven’s statement provide the foundation to call into question all Defendant GWB’s official and private national security advisors’ apparent ill-willed “advice” which once full discovery is achieved, will prove not only that Defendants were grossly negligent in failing to prevent the “911” attacks, they were also criminally negligent wherein this Court, for the good of the nation, must grant any and all declaratory and injunctive relief to hold Defendants’ accountable for all crimes proven in this civil action. For these reasons, Defendant GWB cannot and must not be afforded “Executive Privilege” or any other governmental immunity from defending this lawsuit as the “national security” interests of Plaintiff and the American People outweigh the “national security” interests of “individual Defendants” in this matter.26

Now I'm making some progress. I found McNiven's website: www.codenamegrillfire.com. Here's the first paragraph of the introduction:

I am United States Defense Department Intelligence Operative "Grillfire" aka US Government Federal Agent Timothy S. McNiven; in 1976 I took part in a Democratic - Republican Political Party US Congressional Commissioned Military Study to Improve US Air Travel Security while stationed on Strassberg Kasern in Idar-Oberstein,W.Germany assigned to C-Battery 2/81st FA, US Army 1975-76. The purpose of the Study was to Identify Security Lapses and Submit Corrective Actions to the US Congress; on September 11,2001 the Security Lapses that were used to carry out the Attacks were the same ones that were submitted to the US Congress for Correcting "25 Years" before.

For those who don't know, this isn't the first smoking gun of an actual plan for such an attack. On March 13, 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent a document to Secretary of Defense with plans on how to provoke a war with Cuba. One of the ideas set forth was to crash a passenger plane over Cuba and blame it on Castro to create enough fervor for an invasion. The Bay of Pigs invasion had taken place less than a year before in April of 1961.

That's all I have time for right now. I'll get back to this when I get out of class.