Career Army Officer Sues Rumsfeld, Cheney, Saying No Evacuation Order Given on 9/11
December 18th, 2008Via: Raw Story:
A career Army officer who survived the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, claims that no evacuation was ordered inside the Pentagon, despite flight controllers calling in warnings of approaching hijacked aircraft nearly 20 minutes before the building was struck.
According to a time-line of the attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration notified NORAD that American Airlines Flight 77 had been hijacked at 9:24 a.m. The Pentagon was not struck until 9:43 a.m.
On behalf of retired Army officer April Gallop, California attorney William Veale has filed a civil suit against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and former US Air Force General Richard Myers, who was acting chairman of the joint chiefs on 9/11. It alleges they engaged in conspiracy to facilitate the terrorist attacks and purposefully failed to warn those inside the Pentagon, contributing to injuries she and her two-month-old son incurred.
“The ex-G.I. plaintiff alleges she has been denied government support since then, because she raised ‘painful questions’ about the inexplicable failure of military defenses at the Pentagon that day, and especially the failure of officials to warn and evacuate the occupants of the building when they knew the attack was imminent” said Veale in a media advisory.
Gallop also says she heard two loud explosions, and does not believe that a Boeing 757 hit the building. Her son sustained a serious brain injury, and Gallop herself was knocked unconscious after the roof collapsed onto her office.
The suit also named additional, unknown persons who had foreknowledge of the attacks.
“What they don’t want is for this to go into discovery,” said Gallop’s attorney, Mr. Veale, speaking to RAW STORY. “If we can make it past their initial motion to dismiss these claims, and we get the power of subpoena, then we’ve got a real shot at getting to the bottom of this. We’ve got the law on our side.”
The lawsuit’s full text follows.
Oh.My.God. This is an awesome Christmas present.
Nuff said.
I should have added “getting past discovery” on this one will be my Christmas present. Oh yeah. The timeline is great for the plaintiff (Gallop). The defendants will plead (I imagine) that we didn’t inform the occupants of the Pentagon for “national security reasons.” D’ya think?
But this will be no defense in this situation. Our long national (or world wide) nightmare didn’t begin until 9/11 occured, so can the defendant use the tactic that national security precluded them from informing those in the building of the ensuing danger in their defense? I don’t think so.
These cases take years to play out. The Dick in charge will probably be dead by the time the rulings on this come to pass but that doesn’t mean the marrow can’t be sucked out of his estate in retribution.
This gives a whole new meaning to the saying, “you can’t take it with you.”
I believe history will eventually show us that agents of the U.S. Government knew 9-11 was going to happen weeks, if not months, before the attack.