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Pentagon NMCC director WINFIELD (CFR)asks substitute,9-10,to stand his watch 9-11,@8:30am

by tomflocco.com Sunday, Jun. 20, 2004 at 9:53 AM

9-11 PLANNER: Brigadier General Montague Winfield "It's just too dangerous, you know, to risk myself, after planning this state terror attack. Yes, it's tomorrorow. Can you stand in for me during the Pentagon hit? Besides you're a rookie, and we want as much confusion as possible when the Bush family's drug dealing military corporate financier mafia takes over the whole damn U.S.A. on 9-11. You will, thanks. What a pal!" "I agreed and relieved Brigadier General Winfield at 0830 on 11 September 2001." [just as first WTC1 hit terror strike going toward NYC.]

Pentagon NMCC direct...
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9-11 PLANNER: Brigadier General Montague Winfield
"...Brigadier General Winfield was nominated, competed for and earned a position as Senior Military Fellow at the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations..."





NMCC ops director asked substitute on 9-10 to stand his watch on 9-11


Rookie in the 9-11 Hot Seat?

National Military Command Center operations director asked newly-qualified substitute on Sept. 10 to stand his watch at 8:30 am on Sept. 11

by Tom Flocco

WASHINGTON -- June 17, 2004 Posted 11:45 pm -- Tom Flocco.com -- According to the personal written statement of Navy Captain Charles J. Leidig, Jr., entered into the record during today's hearings before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, Leidig revealed that on September 10 he was asked by Brigadier General Montague Winfield to stand a portion of his duty as Deputy Director for Operations for the National Military Command Center (NMCC), which would require supervision and operation of all necessary communications as watch commander.

Leidig said "On 10 September 2001, Brigadier General Winfield, U.S. Army, asked that I stand a portion of his duty as Deputy Director for Operations, NMCC, on the following day. [September 11] I agreed and relieved Brigadier General Winfield at 0830 on 11 September 2001."

Winfield had requested Leidig to assume his watch at what turned out to be the very outset of the September 11 attacks--but even after American Flight 11 had already been determined to be hijacked just minutes before Winfield handed over his watch to Leidig.

Captain Leidig's Commission statement was 1.25 typewritten pages, large font, and double-spaced--the shortest written statement provided by any 9-11 Commission deponent as observed by this writer since the commencement of the probe.

News reports today and into the evening commented upon the abysmal handling of communications, confusion and chaos during the attacks, which calls into question why Winfield handed over control of communications and supervision of the NMCC to Leidig during the attacks when he knew the Captain had just met the supervision qualifications to stand watch some 30 days earlier:

"Approximately two months prior to 11 September 2001, I assumed duties as the Deputy for Command Center Operations in the J3 Directorate of the Joint Staff. In this role, I was responsible for the maintenance, operation, and training of watch teams for the NMCC."

"Further, I qualified in August 2001 to stand watch as the Deputy Director for Operations in the NMCC....Shortly after assuming duty, I received the first report of a plane's striking the World Trade Center....In response to these events, I convened a Significant Event Conference, which was subsequently upgraded to an Air Threat Conference." [This statement may indicate that Leidig was assuming the critical NMCC military communications watch position for the very first time--a fact completely lost upon the Commission, as they never thought to broach the subject for verification.]

WHITE HOUSE CONNECTED TO NMCC

The National Transportation and Safety Board auditorium had been quiet until an individual stood up and repeatedly questioned why the Commission was not addressing the issue of 9-11 war games--specifically Operation Vigilant Guardian--wherein fighters were already in the air during the attacks, some just minutes away from New York City. The legitimate questions were ignored and the petitioner was removed by secret service and FBI agents.

Commissioner John Lehman offered that while Air Force Generals Richard Meyers, Ralph Eberhart and Larry Arnold (Ret.) had been questioned, no one had asked any questions of the "only sailor in the group," Captain Leidig.

Lehman asked Leidig about the controlled phone bridges or conferences held during the attacks, which the Captain confirmed were classified and secure phone lines while also indicating that "the President can be included" in such teleconferences.

After some discussion about certain difficulties reaching the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and compatibility issues in connections, Leidig confirmed that Vice President Cheney and the White House were connected to the phone bridges.

At that point Chairman Kean quickly cut off Lehman's line of questioning and proceeded to Commissioner Timothy Roemer who smartly decided to pick up on Lehman's phone bridge issue.

Whereupon Leidig again confirmed that "I was connected to the White House." [during the Significant Event Conference, which became an Air Threat Conference.]



In response to a pointed question, Leidig also confirmed that the NMCC had the capability to connect to Air Force One, but that it did not do so, at least not during Leidig's watch which was during most of the time period of the actual attacks when the President was still at the elementary school.


Leidig was asked, in effect, why the NMCC did not connect directly to Air Force One, to which he answered "I don't recall," and he repeated his "I don't recall" assertion.

This was the one moment in Leidig's testimony where he seemed to lose facial control and composure on the television screen, indicating another reason why the Commission is unsuitable for a situation with criminal implications calling for a grand jury and experienced prosecutors involving a 3,000 death mass murder.

Observant individuals conversant with key issues regarding what many have termed an overt military stand-down on 9-11-- seemingly masked by feigned confusion, chaos, and screwed up communications--were treated to new ground having been broken as questions of shifted responsibility bubbled to the surface while whistleblowers wait in the wings.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE PHONE BRIDGES

Immediately at the close of testimony by Myers, Eberhart, Arnold and Leidig, this writer quickly walked to the head table to individually question Leidig before his aides could escort him from the auditorium. The Air Force generals had left quickly.

When asked "Can you tell me the approximate time when you commenced your supervision of the phone bridges," Leidig told TomFlocco.com, "You'll have to look in the records and Commission staff statements. I can't recall the time."

We then offered to Leidig, "it had to be prior to 8:30 am, because the President said 'I know what's going on in New York City, and I'll have more to say about it later in the day,' a statement which was confirmed at 8:30 and 8:35 am in two separate news reports just before Mr. Bush stepped into his limousine for the drive to the elementary school."

That fact alone should have raised the eyebrows of anyone realizing that the President was aware there was a hijacking--all related to his prior intelligence briefings, consistent with terrorists commandeering airplanes.

Yet Mr. Bush continued on to the school instead of canceling to assume immediate leadership in the defense of his nation.


"You'll have to check the records. I can't remember," said Leidig, gathering up his papers and briefcase and leaning toward the door.

Interestingly, Leidig had also told Lehman and Roemer that Winfield relieved him and reassumed his duties as Deputy Director for Operations for the NMCC just before United Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania and the attacks were over, which would have been around 10:00 am, during what had become an Air Threat phone conference.

All of which raises questions regarding why the experienced Winfield left his watch after the attacks had begun, what prompted Winfield to request Leidig to assume his watch the next morning, why Winfield chose 8:30 am to have Leidig relieve him, why the Commission never addressed these issues, and whether Winfield had access to intelligence from the CIA and FBI which foretold a "spectacular attack, designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning." (CIA Intelligence Report for White House, July 5, 2001--60+ days prior to 9-11, Newsweek, 5-1-2003 / The Hill, 5-1-2003)

President Bush is attended by a round-the-clock Secret Service detail which would have of necessity been connected to the secure phone bridge conference lines.

Most Americans think that President Bush first became aware of the attacks when his Chief of Staff Andrew Card whispered in his ear at 9:06 am at the elementary school while he was meeting with the first graders. Facts indicate otherwise.

Laura Brown, Public Affairs Director at the FAA, initially told this writer at the first 9-11 hearing in Washington that the phone bridges started around 8:20 or 8:25 am, which would be a reasonable assertion since American 11 was determined to be hijacked at 8:13, 8:20 or 8:24 am.

This, depending upon which news report, official, or air traffic controller is referenced--and to what extent one permits the government to shorten the official time-line of the actual attacks, thus reducing potential culpability should a grand jury ever be impaneled.

After returning to her office and conferring with superiors, Brown sent an email to this writer later that same evening after 7:00 pm, revising her initial assertions for the commencement of Leidig's phone bridges to around 8:45 am, thus shortening the official attack time-line to the government's advantage.

Brown had originally said that North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Council (NSC), Secret Service, and FAA were all connected to the NMCC. But Brown did not mention the White House at the time.


It should be noted that by including the NSC--which is in the White House--one could infer that Brown meant that the White House was connected to the phone bridges at the outset of the attacks, further raising serious questions about the lack of military response.

Any Washington insider would interpret "NSC" to be another way of saying "the White House," thus providing more confirmation that officials at the pinnacle of government knew about the first hijacking before 8:30 am on the morning of the attacks--well prior to any of the planes having crashed.

In May, 2003 the Commission was informed that the Pentagon had taped the Significant Event/Air Threat conference call during the attacks; and after repeated requests, the Pentagon created a classified transcript. (US News, 9-8-2003)

On August 6, the White House conducted what was termed an "executive privilege" review of the transcript for the phone bridge conference-call in order to censor the document, likely for "national security" reasons.

While the issue of the Air Force shooting down a civilian passenger jet was discussed thoroughly, an unanswered question remains as to why President Bush continued to read to the elementary children long after reporters had left the room to cover the attacks, while American citizens were simultaneously jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center towers--while America was under attack.

Moreover, all facts indicate that President Bush was well aware of summer-long threats consistent with hijacking planes via Presidential Daily Briefs and terrorist threat assessment reports, but also anti-aircraft batteries and closed Italian airspace at his G-8 summit in Genoa (just six weeks prior to 9-11) to protect against hijacked Arab suicide planes, according to Russian intelligence.

With these prior warnings in his mind, President Bush still drove to the school, then sat and read to the children while his American constituents jumped and died at the exact same time.

Facts indicate Mr. Bush knew about the first hijacking before 8:30 am--more that 15 minutes before any of the four planes crashed, and well over one and a half hours before the last plane impacted in Pennsylvania. Yet there was no military response.

An impaneled grand jury would have the latitude to delve into why General Montague Winfield chose 8:30 am on the morning of the attacks to turn over his watch duty to Captain Leidig--a point which Leidig almost reminds Americans in his statement, if only to give himself some cover in the eyes of future historians who continue to analyze the "bungled communications" and "confusion and chaos" and "lack of preparedness" during the attacks.

Apparently however, President Bush was quite satisfied with the job that Winfield and Leidig accomplished before, during and after the attacks regarding their exchange of military command center watch duties.

In May, 2003 Bush nominated Brigadier General Matague Winfield for promotion to the two-star rank of Major General and Captain Charles Leidig has recently been nominated by the President to the two-star rank of Navy Admiral.

Incredibly, neither the 9-11 Commission nor the Congressional Joint Intelligence Committee has ever addressed the inconsistent issues and actions surrounding the time-line during the actual two-hour period of the attacks with regard to key government players .

And therein lies the dirty secret of 9/11, covered up by a commission with multiple documented political conflicts of interest--conducting 95% of its investigation in secret--and a Congress seemingly powerless to reopen the case and investigate its own oversight lapses regarding the worst mass murder in United States history.

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WANTED FOR TREASON: DEAD OR ALIVE $1,000,000 AWARD



Brigadier General
W. Montague "Que" Winfield
Commander, JPAC

Brigadier General (P) W. Montague Winfield graduated from Virginia State University in 1977 with Baccalaureate and Masters Degrees in Education. He earned a second Master's in Corporate Management and Technology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the U.S. Army War College.

Brigadier General Winfield has held numerous command and staff positions throughout his career. In November 1992, he assumed command of, 1st Battalion, 10th Cavalry, 194th SAB, XVIII Airborne Corps, a combined arms task force consisting of armor, infantry and field artillery units - the only one of it's kind in the Army. The 10th Cavalry is widely known by its nickname, the "Buffalo Soldiers." He also commanded a logistics heavy task force tasked to equip and train the world's first Caribbean Community Combined (CARICOM) Battalion and later served as trainer and advisor to the CARICOM Battalion during Operation Restore Democracy in Haiti.

He assumed command of 3d Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Vilseck, Germany in July 1996. In October 1996, he and the Brigade Headquarters deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of the Covering Force for Operation Joint Endeavor (IFOR). In March 1997, Brigadier General Winfield deployed the 3d Brigade Combat Team to Bosnia-Herzegovina for Operation Joint Guard (SFOR). He relinquished command and departed Germany in July 1998. Brigadier General Winfield served as the Deputy Director for Operations, J3, in the National Military Command Center. He was present as the General Officer in Charge during the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Brigadier General Winfield was nominated, competed for and earned a position as Senior Military Fellow at the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, a national membership organization and "think tank" headquartered in New York City.

Brigadier General Winfield served as the Assistant Division Commander (Support), 25th Infantry Division (Light) and United States Army, Hawaii, and Deputy Commanding General for Multi-National Division (North) in Bosnia-Herzegovina for SFOR 11 during his last assignment.

Brigadier General Winfield's personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (three awards), and the Meritorious Service Medal (six awards). He is also Ranger, Airborne and Air Assault qualified.

http://www.jpac.pacom.mil/CommandStaff.htm
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affirmative action: democrat house negroes only, please

by Bush knew....D's are tards Sunday, Jun. 20, 2004 at 11:57 AM

affirmative action: ...
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Brigadier General Montague Winfield's picture is titled "affirmative action." Since when does the left, which thrives on keeping the black man down, care about which blacks are selected or rejected for jobs? I thought the mantra was, "Put a minority--anyone as long as they're not white--in high-paying jobs even if they're clueless."

Naw, we have to be more specific: only democrap "house Negros" are allowed to take jobs they're not qualified for.

Winfield has 2 strikes against him. He was qualified for the job and he is probably not a liberal.

As for the rest of the above post's blithering nonsense, it's just that.


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