The Pentagon

The Pentagon
Headquarters of US Department of Defence, the Pentagon

September 11th, 2001

Full article: 9-11/Pentagon

The Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defence was attacked, allegedly by a hijacked jetliner on 9/11. The attackers targeted the recently strengthened wing where accountants from the ONI were investigating corruption.

"Waste"

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work ordered a study into "defense spending". When it revealed $125 billion in wasteful spending, it was suppressed amid fear that it might lead US Congress to reduce the Pentagon's budget.

Secrecy

In March 2019, Donald Trump removed a requirement for the Pentagon (and US intelligence agencies) to report on civilian casualties that occurred during their operations.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"National security"	“Human nature being what it is, the MICC comprises avaricious individuals who seek to gain private benefit at public cost. But the idea that all the players knowingly conspire to mastermind so intricate a system is difficult to prove, and unnecessary. Instead corruption among defence contractors, Representatives in Congress and the military brass is standard operating procedure camouflaged by an incestuous labyrinthine system and the primacy of 'national security'. Not only do the corrupt actors need to be held to account but, as importantly, the system needs to be untangled.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> To further understand this entanglement. I met Chuck Spinney, a life-long Pentagon insider who experienced this labyrinth on a daily basis for over two decades. He produced a vast body of work explaining how the Pentagon really operates. His efforts culminated in the wrath of all the participants in the MICC but saw him featured on the cover of Time magazine.”	Andrew Feinstein	2011
2023	“Dozens of versions of the above war-game scenario have been enacted over the last few years, most recently in April by the House Select Committee on competition with China. And while the ultimate outcome in these exercises is not always clear — the U.S. does better in some than others — the cost is. In every exercise the U.S. uses up all its long-range air-to-surface missiles in a few days, with a substantial portion of its planes destroyed on the ground. In every exercise the U.S. is not engaged in an abstract push-button war from 30,000 feet up like the ones Americans have come to expect since the end of the Cold War, but a horrifically bloody one. Soldiers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army hold up shotguns. And that’s assuming the U.S.-China war doesn’t go nuclear.”	Michael Hirsh	September 2023
George W. Bush	“I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.”	George W. Bush	2009
George Carlin	“Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?”	George Carlin
Manuel Noriega	“He was a pawn in an international game that was way bigger than him and he certainly paid dearly," said Barbara Trent, a filmmaker who directed "The Panama Deception," a 1992 documentary about the U.S. invasion. "He was a small-time player catapulted to international fame by the U.S. government and the media to drum up support for a ruthless invasion," Trent added. Working with the CIA Noriega ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989. Before and during that time, he worked with multiple U.S. intelligence agencies who agreed to ignore allegations that he was a drug trafficker in exchange for a staunch anti-communist ally in Central America during the height of the Cold War. Noriega was paid handsomely for his help, about $10,000 per month at one point, according to John Dinges, author of "Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms (1990)." "The relationship with the CIA and the Pentagon was quite intense in the early '80s," Dinges told ABC News. "He was considered an important asset, and everyone in the documents I've read spoke very highly of him. He was trusted to the extent that you trust someone who is a paid intelligence asset.”	Manuel Noriega ABC News Kaelyn Forde	2017
Plutocracy	“The United States is not a democracy, it is a plutocracy. The people don’t rule in the United States. Wealth rules, the corporations rule. They rule the Congress, they elect the president, they run the Pentagon. They own the media, which are the voices of the plutocracy.”	Ramsey Clark

 

Event

Event	Description
9-11/E-4B	An E-4B was spotted over the White house and the Pentagon on 9/11. The official narrative for more than a decade was not to talk about it, although it was reported on CNN and video, photos and eye witnesses do exist. Later declassification did prove the basic fact that the plane was present.

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	End	Description
Counterintelligence Corps	13 December 1941	1961	U.S. intelligence service active from 1941 to 1961. It became noticeable for recruiting and protecting former German and other Axis operatives; including by operating "ratlines" to South America. Conducted large-scale surveillance in the United States itself.
DIA	1 October 1961
Joint Chiefs of Staff	1942		The most senior military leaders in the United States
Office of Net Assessment	1973		Deep State Pentagon long term planning unit.
Office of the Secretary of Defense
US/Air Force
US/Department/Defense	10 August 1949		The action arm of the Military-industrial-congressional complex, whose functionaries are rewarded in rough proportion to their ability to stifle dissent and channel funds to arms manufacturers.
US/Department/The Army			A department within the United States Department of Defense.
US/Department/The Navy			One of the three military departments within the Department of Defense
US/Marine Corps
US/Military
US/Navy	13 October 1775
United States Army Intelligence and Security Command	1977

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Julian Assange Tortured with Psychotropic Drug	Article	8 May 2019	Kurt Nimmo	The FBI, Pentagon, and CIA are “interviewing” Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison. The CIA Director Gina Haspel (aka Chemical Gina) has her hands in this one, and we are being told that Assange is being “treated” with BZ (a powerful drug that produces hallucinations).
Document:The Shadow Factory	Book	2008	James Bamford	The workings and scope of the US Military-Intelligence complex focussing particularly on the NSA. Introduction.
Document:US charged with war crimes in Syria prison siege	Article	27 January 2022	Bill Van Auken	Syria’s state media agency Sana quoted the country’s Foreign Ministry as denouncing the actions of the US and its puppet Kurdish-led militia as tantamount to “war crimes”. It demanded the immediate withdrawal of both US troops from northeastern Syria and the Turkish military from the northwest of the country.

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